Saturday 3rd February, 2-4pm
Do you ever find yourself at the start of yoga class, invited to make an intention and find your mind spiralling into “oooh… errr… quick! Think of an intention!” And then as the tumbleweed blows on through you get a whole bunch of thoughts piping up: “What should it be? ‘Stay present’? ‘Breathe’? ‘Get through that almighty to-do list… – No! Agh! We’re at yoga, stop thinking about the to-do list!’ …And then suddenly you’re into the practice, the intention window has passed, and you’re not quite sure you made a good one. If this is familiar, you are not alone!
It might seem like a small detail within an hour long class or practice, but Intention (Sankalpa) is extremely powerful, and without clarity in it, we are only accessing a fraction of the deeper power of yoga. Or it may be that you’re brilliant at makinggood intentions… like many of us, you just struggle to keep the momentum going with the actions they demand. February is a classic time for the wheels to come off of some of January’s ‘best laid plans’. This workshop is here to offer you a whole different approach to Intention that will deepen your relationship with yoga, with yourself, your inner knowing and your wellbeing.
Camilla Walker has been practising yoga nidra for ten years and studying it in depth and teaching it for the last four, incorporating it into her work as a psychology coach and hypnotherapist. Join her for a nuanced exploration of how to access your true, most meaningful, authentic and self-supportive intentions, and their roots in your most heartfelt inner belief structures. This is the highway to self-care that actually works. It is a pathway to a more loving relationship with self, and the key to kindling the flame of a life-force that burns more brightly than motivation or ‘pushing through’ ever can.
We’ll spend two hours together – enjoying a mix of reflective, enquiry-led exploration designed to help you discover your inner world more richly, and a fully immersive, deeply restful yoga nidra practice. You will get to rest experientially into insights gained and benefit physiologically and psychologically from deeply resting and regulating your nervous system. There will be time for questions as we explore the unfolding of intention in the psyche and how that can feed and nourish our yoga practice, so that our yoga can best support our lives.
Making good intentions is like watering your garden well, so that you can harvest delicious fruits and vegetables. It’s all about tending to the soil of the subconscious: the realm yoga nidra can so elegantly allow us to navigate. Join us and be held compassionately in its gorgeously restful ‘in-between’ hypnagogic state. The blooms of 2024 will thank you!
£30 per person in-studio at BAYoga, Berkhamsted