Wednesday May 26, 2021 is the full flower moon and a lunar eclipse. This happens when the Earth aligns between the Moon and the Sun, casting a shadow on the moon giving it a reddish hue. This will only be visible for those in western North America, western South America, eastern Asia, and Oceania. The energy of this full moon is all about abundance. We can see this in the bloom of the plants, flowers, and trees that surround us. In December 2020, I started sharing movement, breath work, and meditation virtually. At the time I was nervous and unsure, but now I can see what has grown and flourished within this community of presence and support. Poppies are for remembrance and looking back over this past year, I remain devoted to the practices that promote our capacity to be of service to others. I'm so grateful for what we have experienced together.
June is a busy month that leads us into summer. With school ending, work schedules changing, vacations being planned, and the weather warming up, outside is the place to be! This Wednesday will be our last virtual Slow Flow Yoga class for a while.
Currently, I am taking a year long, online class in strength, mindful movement, and inclusion. This has been an exciting opportunity to be a student again, reinvigorate my practice, and explore different ideas for how I want to continue teaching. I am looking into various options for the fall, and I do think there is still a place for sharing practice online. I remain open to suggestions, day/time changes, and any feedback for the future, so please reach out if you enjoyed sharing practice with me, and want to connect again.
A few of our past community classes have been uploaded to a new YouTube channel called Slow Flow. I hope these 90 minutes of moving, breathing, and meditating will carry you through the summer. Shorter practices and reiki meditations can still be found on my Heron Yoga YouTube channel. I encourage you to "subscribe" to both channels for alerts on new videos I'll share over the summer.
I hope you will join me for a free full moon practice this Wednesday,
where we will focus on uplifting the spine and opening the heart.
"We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only." Geeta Iyengar
Free Virtual Community Class
Slow Flow Yoga
Wednesday 5/26/21
730p-845p
email: heronyoga@gmail.com for link
In addition to offering a free class, every month I highlight an organization that supports the needs of others, and make a donation to their efforts. This past year has been difficult for many of us, in addition to the devastation of the pandemic, we continue to see more violence in the world towards marginalized groups of people in society. My goal is to continue to speak out and show up for racial, social, and systemic injustice. My hope is that others will donate $ that would be spent on a yoga class to a cause that needs support.
This month, I am highlighting World Central Kitchen and BEAM.
World Central Kitchen (WCK) uses the power of food to nourish communities and strengthen economies through times of crisis and beyond, within the last few weeks they have been to India and are now in Gaza.
BEAM is committed to the emotional/mental health and healing of Black communities.
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