Vagus Nerve Yoga: The Wilderness Within

Within this practice, you have an opportunity to discover yoga postures through a sequence of instinctual shapes that will help you connect to your intuition and facilitate an integrated felt sense of yourself. Quotes and poems from today: “We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again – and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before.” Joanna Macy World as Lover, World as Self “Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.” ― Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. ***Waiver: I understand that I am participating in a therapeutic yoga class which includes instruction in physical movements, breath work, and natural vagus nerve stimulation. I recognize that this practice has inherent risks that include bodily injury. I understand that this class is not a substitute for medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. I hereby accept and take full responsibility for any and all risks associated with participation in this class. Full Terms & Conditions available here: https://resilienceinformedtherapy.com...