Deeper Still - Somatic Yoga, Mantra & Meditation with Jill

A lot of us crave more freedom in our movement, breath and body, more expression and deeper insight, leading towards an attuned and loving inner presence. We want to properly know and accept ourselves, at our most clumsy and most elegant, at our most calm and most wild. This is life energy wanting to taste more of itself through us - pure prana!

This impulse can get a little masked amidst swathes of yoga styles, techniques, sequences, comparison, habits, and thinking there is a right or better "way" we must adhere to.

Working somatically (which means of the body, from the inside out) we open ourselves up to not-knowing, and enter an exploration to meet ourselves as we are - physically, energetically and emotionally. The key principles are enquiry (svadyaya), gravity, breath, and sensing the difference between effort & yielding.
This way of moving and enquiring is inspired by the intuitive legacy of Vanda Scaravelli, who herself was massively inspired by nature.

Jill was lucky enough at the outset of her yoga journey to meet teachers who were steeped in these types of enquires – Florence Krol, Diane Long, John Stirk and Catherine Annis. When we work in this way, the Asana or posture practice becomes fuel and insight for your inner-revelations, not something that is imposed on the body from the outside.

It’s usually fun, deep and revealing! And you're welcome to suggest Asanas you'd like to include for particular exploration.

As well as a nourishing movement practice, we will work with the breath
throughout, and offer an opening and closing Mantra and Meditation, as well as a generous space for rest.

This workshop is suitable for all bodies and all levels of experience.