I am hosting a 6 week Yoga Nidra series starting at the end of February (Monday or Thursday evening group call, 7-8pm, starting February 24).
An opportunity to connect online for one hour per week, move through a simple workbook, and practice this art of relaxation, retraining, and integration. Mental health struggles and afflictions are continually increasing, and it has become clear that healing and thriving is achieved in the realm of the emotional inner work, and is not achieved through surgery or simply talking it through.
"Positive and negative experiences register a memory in cell tissue as well as in the energy field. As neurobiologist Dr. Candace Pert has proven, neuropeptides--the chemicals triggered by emotions--are thoughts converted into matter. Our emotions reside physically in our bodies and interact with our cells and tissues. If a person is able to sense intuitively that he or she is losing energy because of a stressful situation--and then acts to correct that loss of energy--then the likelihood of that stress developing into a physical crisis is reduced, if not eliminated completely.... my indicator of an accurate intuition is a lack of emotion" - Carolyn Myss
This Yoga Nidra series is an opportunity to get to know each layer of the practice intimately, so that you can understand the process, do simple and practical practices of inquiry, and get a deeper and more transformative result each time you lay back to receive your unique medicine. We live in a hustle culture, overstimulated, and a constant run, hide and avoid the darker or heavier aspects of being alive. Yet it is through opening up, embracing our complexity, and learning how to meet our discomfort with love so that we can re-integrate the past traumas into our wholeness.
Just as sound arises, moves and releases, so too can the sensation of charged emotions. Your endocrine system reacts before your intellect or conscious thought (bottom-up processing). It regulates your learning and growth (mind and body), metabolism, digestion, elimination, menstruation, and sleep. We have a constant internal orchestra of affect, majority being subconscious while some can be in the conscious field - in the form of: arousal or calm, and pleasure or aversion.
Based on history and your current environment, affect leads to sensation, which is felt, first subconsciously, and second, consciously. This is followed by emotional reactions that often lead to supposing meaning into our subjective reality. The sequence of events follows prediction and prediction-error more so than simple reaction to objective stimuli. I.e. We see what we believe and expect. We don't see with our eyes, we perceive with our mind.
Emotion leads to charged memories and a map of survival and experience is created to support the continued navigation through life. We literally are the architects of our own reality. Our fight or flight system is triggered on average 50-300x per day (70% of waking day), and the resulting neurochemical soup your mind steeps in all day naturally has a huge effect on energy, mood, perspective, and ability to adapt, learn and grow.
The quality of hormones, glandular secretions, or inner pharmacy, shifts profoundly through relaxation. A retraining process for your mind and body to find the healthy balance between fight or flight, and rest & digest. We need both, just as we need the inhale and the exhale.
Join me to learn and grow as you open up to the art of slowing down to speed up.
More details here for the 6 week series
If you would like to register, please email me at marinmccue@gmail.com