Join special guest teacher (and Ginny’s teacher) Paul Wooden for the embodied breath workshop which is an intimate exploration of the whole field of yoga practice where we learn to harness the subtle energetic dynamics of our body, our feeling, our mind and beyond.

We access prana, or our subtle life energy, by feeling it. Pranayama and breath work helps us expand and refine our capacity for feeling. It helps bring a more responsive intelligence to feeling and this felt response intelligence is precisely what guide us in practice. This is where our practice becomes truly our own. A more intimate relationship to the breath and subtle energy can help bring more clarity to the deeper dimensions of practice.

You can expect a physically gentle yet internally nourishing weekend as we explore through both theory and practice, the intimate fields of energy in yoga practice.

Some of the themes we will cover are:
* Prana as essential nourishment
* Safety and belonging
* The role of gravity in breathing
* Trauma and the breath
* Befriending and refining feeling
* Boundaries, containment and openness
* Understanding the interplay of energy and mind
* Trusting the natural intelligence of life.

SATURDAY
9:30am – 12pm
GROUNDING: Embodied movement and energetic grounding

1:30pm – 4pm
BREATHING: Preparing for the subtle fields

SUNDAY
9:30am – 12pm
BANDHAS: Habitual and natural boundaries

1:30pm – 4pm
ENERGY AND MIND: Meditation and the intimate road home.

PRICE
Full weekend: $285
1-Day only: $145

Facilitator: Paul Wooden has been studying and teaching yoga for 40 years with a keen interest in the deeper dimensions of practice and how transformation actually happens. he was found and director of Gertrude Street Yoga studio in Melbourne for many years, before moving to the Philippines to open Wild Dharma Eco Retreat, a centre for spiritual practice. he continues to study the wisdom traditions and the in-exhaustable revelations of yoga.