BodySensing Yoga

Unlocking Tandava

The true purpose of yoga revealed

Saturday 17 February 2018 2 to 6pm

Are you looking for ways to deepen your own yoga practice, or your teaching, and to experience (or lead your students to experience) a whole new level of mind-body integration?

BodySensing Yoga, or movement, offers a profound way to nourish mind and body and awaken to your innate sense of well-being.

Attuning to the sensations in your body during your yoga, or other movement practices offers a powerful gateway to connecting with the junction point between mind and body.

If we can let go of over-thinking and dive into a level of pure, experienced sensation, we begin to experience the world as it truly is and ourselves as we truly are.

Tandava

In Indian cosmology, Tandava is the great cosmic dance that creates, sustains and dissolves the manifest universe as it arises from one divine source.

In the non-dual teachings of Kashmir Shaivism yoga is non-postural form of movement that develops the ability to sense into one’s essential vibratory nature. Body sensing in this system develops more refined levels of kinesthetic perception and the practitioner can sense more subtle levels of their being. Finally, the practice develops into ecstatic Tandava.

In BodySensing Yoga we may, or may not, utilise form, and sometimes this may move us to the free form, and perhaps into ecstatic dance.

This workshop will include

• Meditation
• Two sessions of experiential BodySensing yoga
• Refreshment and networking breaks
• Information
• A deliciously long iRest® Yoga Nidra meditation to conclude the day

Price

$89 (Early Bird $79 book and pay by 31 January)

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About the workshop leader

Tina Shettigara is Director of Yoga Spirit Studios, Level 2 Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia, Level 2 Hanna Somatics Exercise Coach and IRI Certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher®. She has completed Adavnced Teacher Training with acclaimed yoga teacher Donna Farhi and assists her at yoga intensives. Tina regards Donna Farhi as her yogasana teacher and iRest creator, Richard Miller, as her meditation teacher.

Tina has a long and deep knowledge of yoga and the ancient philosophical thought that underpins it which she has been studying for over forty years.

In addition to teaching weekly classes in yoga, somatics and iRest® at Yoga Spirit Studios she also teaches Yogic Physiology, Pranayama and Level 2 Philosophy components of the Yoga Spirit Studios teacher training course. She has also co-taught yoga and somatics with her husband in India. She has expertise in the therapeutic setting of supporting people to find their own inner peace through private iRest dyad consultations, a co-meditation in which, as a facilitator, she holds the student deep in their meditation, making it a very powerful integrative practice.

Tina felt a genuine coming home when she encountered the iRest teachings of Richard Miller and has been teaching iRest since 2013. She has since shared the precious practice with hundreds of people, helping them to find their own equanimity and peace. She also assists in training new teachers at official iRest training programs.

In teaching the practice of iRest meditation in all its forms, Tina is alight with passion and conviction and has a power to bring the student with her into deeper states of integration. She has a sound intellectual grasp of the philosophy that underpins the teachings but more importantly she has walked the path and has embodied the process.