Womb Yoga & Moon Basking + Mantra & Fire
Practices from Yoga and Ayurveda
Bask in the light of the moon to:
- Connect with the silence within and access your intuition and deeper knowing
- Be inspired and cultivate clarity
- Honour the Divine Mother and your cyclical nature
- Recharge your Shakti energy
- Begin the process of aligning your ovulation with the full moon (In Ayurveda this is a marker of reproductive health)
The event will include:
- Womb Yoga. Gentle asana, Mantra (sacred chanting in sanskrit) and Mudra (gesture to direct energy in the body
- Moon Basking beside the sacred fire
- Sanskrit chanting, singing the names of the Divine Mother
- Sharing of tea
This event will be both inside and outside. Womb yoga inside and moon basking, fire and chanting outside.
All the practical details:
When: August date yet to be announced
Where: 36 West Street, Katoomba.
Parking Instructions: As you're driving down West Street you will come to number 36 on your left. Take the next left onto a dirt road and then the next left again which will take you onto the property. Park behind the other vehicles or on the dirt road if the driveway is full. There is the main house on your left and the Moon Lodge (where we will be practicing) straight ahead. Please come on in.
What is provided: Yoga mats, cushions and tea.
What is involved: The first 45 minutes - 1 hr of the class will be a gentle womb yoga practice to strengthen prana shakti (vital feminine life force energy). This will be held inside the moon lodge. After the yoga session we will head outside to bask under the light of the moon beside the fire. Here we will share warming herbal tea chant mantra, and connect with one another. After which you can float off home to have a sublime and restful sleep.
What to bring: Wear comfortable warm clothes, preferably layers that you can take on and off. Also, please bring a drum if you have one. You are invited to drum along as we chant together.
Exchange: $32.00
If you need a concession price please contact me directly and I will be happy to give you a discount.
Capacity: 6 women
*Event will go ahead even in rain
*If you book in but are unable to attend please let me know asap. If you cancel your spot within 24hrs or don't show up you will forfeit your payment.
Why moon basking?
“The moon is the most intoxicating symbol of a woman’s innate rhythms. The native women of yore faithfully observed the lunar rhythms to ensure their womanly wellness, recognising that the rhythms of the womb emulate the lunar cycles, which are sourced in the mother consciousness. Every month the moon courses through 16 phases in its waxing cycle from new moon to full moon, each phase bearing significant impact on your shakti energy. Your health and well-being are invariably linked to the turn of the lunar wheel since the lunation cycle sets the cadence for your life force, biorhythms, and desires. The rising moon stands for the Goddess Lalia’s resurrection – symbolic of a women’s menstrual cycle. When you live by the lunar wheel, her waning cycle relieves you of emotional, physical, and psychic excesses. As the waxing cycle matures, you may replenish your immunity, sensuality, and strength as the moon swells into roundness. Recharge your shakti energy from the regenerative power source of the lunar cycles by learning to live in harmony with the movement of the goddess Lalita and her lunar deities. In doing so, you feel perennially revived in body, mind and spirit...
In Vedic practice, women convene on the second or third evening of every full moon to bathe, walk in the moonlight, or sit together in meditation beneath the full moon. In the villages of india, women today still gather during this auspicious time to anoint one another with fragrant oils and sing songs to the Great Mother."
Maya Tiwari - Master teacher in Ayurveda and Yoga
