APRIL 6TH 2019 10.30am – 4.30pm
LOCATION: 11:11 Yoga Studio, 277 Peel St, Tamworth NSW 2340
A workshop for yoga students and teachers, to learn about and experience the connection between gut and brain. Learn how specific yoga practices can be powerful keys to regulating your nervous system, self-soothing and relaxation. Discover which breathing techniques, postures and other practices help improve your ability to deal with stress, improve your gut health and sense of well-being.
The Vagus Nerve is often referred to as the ‘Wanderer Nerve’. It is like a communication superhighway between our gut and brain, and powers up our involuntary nervous system. As far as keeping all systems firing in our body, this nerve is a major player.
Chronic stress, modern day life, illness and unresolved traumas impact the functioning of our nervous system. This can leave many of us feeling worn-out, anxious, down and literally sick in our gut.
This is why many of us turn to yoga to help us feel better. And it can!
Together we will learn specific practices that focus on regulating the vagus nerve which will help you and your students regain balance. We’ll learn about the connection between stress, immune function and inflammation, and how we can use the tools of yoga to come back to well-being.
We are going to:
* Learn how to befriend our nervous system by understanding its responses, and learn and experience how yoga practices are a powerful key to regulating our mind and emotions.
* Look at the nervous system and its different roles
* Discover the function of the vagus nerve
* Learn how to counter over-stimulation and to rise up out of exhaustion with specific yoga postures, breathing techniques and visualisations that we will practice on the day
* Look at the microbiome-gut-brain axis and how we can influence it with our yoga tools
* Learn how to improve vagus nerve ‘tone’ with yoga
* Determine how to best use yoga tools to have more flexibility with our nervous system
* Learn pranayama, asana, mindfulness and visualization practices that are specific to toning the vagus nerve and regulating mind and emotions
* Experience and learn a short class sequence that has a powerful calming effect on our nervous system
This is a practical workshop full of doing and practicing skills that you will be able to take home and use, and pass on to your students if you are a teacher.
INVESTMENT: $170 which includes experiential workshop and notes
Early Bird Rate: $150 if booked and paid before the 24th of March
BYO: Mat and props: block, bolster, cushion or towel – notebook and pen – water, lunch and snacks, or grab something at the local cafes
Teachers: Earn 6 CPD POINTS with Yoga Australia
Rebel was introduced to yoga by her mum when she was of 12 years old. It sparked a passion for learning about spirituality and well-being.
Rebel spent a decade as a group fitness instructor in Sydney. She also studied and qualified in Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Remedial Therapies, Aromatherapy, Counseling and NLP, and had successful practices in both Sydney and then Melbourne.
Along the way she has practiced different styles of Yoga; Ashtanga, Iyengar, Hatha and 2 years of Bikram. Whilst living in Darwin she undertook formal training in Yoga with Byron Yoga, in Byron Bay and Bali. She is a Level 2 Yoga Teacher with Yoga Australia.
Married and am a mum to 3 kids, step-mum to two more, and Nanna to two little ones, she currently lives in the beautiful Port Macquarie Hastings Area and brings all her skills in NATUROPATHY and YOGA from the past 25 years of professional study and practice to the local area and travels to share the wonderful tools she has learnt over the years.
She appreciates both the ancient wisdom of yoga and the field of science and is skilled at teaching and sharing all she has learned with others.
Join us at Francis Retreat, Bonny Hills on 15 & 16 September 2018 for a fantastic yoga experience.
Ekam brings together yoga teachers, musicians and alternative health professionals from across NSW and beyond for a weekend that aims to provide opportunity for yoga practitioners of all levels of experience to come together to learn, be inspired, connect, relax, and deepen your experience of yoga.
This year the festival program also includes some sessions that are specifically designed as professional development opportunities for yoga teachers.
Choose from a great range ticketing options and accommodation packages.
Saturday, 15 September will be a family-friendly day, on which we invite the broader community to enjoy free activities in the grounds. Bring your kids, family & friends to participate in free taster yoga classes, talks and activities. Come and have a chat to natural health professionals, browse through the products and services of the Natural Health & Living Expo or enjoy a massage and some fantastic food in the grounds of the Retreat,
Ekam is a word from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit. It is a beautiful language, which carries meaning not only through words but also the vibration of sound.
Ekam means “one”.
It is a fitting name for a festival that brings teachers and students of different traditions together to learn and share with respect for each other’s experience and knowledge.
We may practice different postures or the same postures differently. We may focus on meditation, pranayama (breathing) or asana (postures). We may be a beginner or an accomplished practitioner. We may understand yoga to be something that makes our bodies feel good or see it as a deep spiritual practice. At Ekam we come together as one.
Ekam Yoga Festival is organized by Random Acts of Yoga, a not-for-profit organisation based in Port Macquarie, which aims to improve the local community’s wellbeing through yoga. This is a not-for-profit event.
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