Into the Quiet: Autumnal Herbal Medicine & Yoga

Name: Into the Quiet: Autumnal Herbal Medicine & Yoga
Start: 2024-11-17T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-17T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Beechwood Road,Fishponds,BS16 3TP,GB

Schedule

Sun Nov 17 2024 at 02:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Beechwood Road,Fishponds,BS16 3TP,GB | Bristol, EN

Come and connect with late autumn by learning about the elements, herbalism skills, yoga and deeply restful yoga nidra.

Into the Quiet: Autumnal Herbal Medicine, Yoga & Nidra
Sunday 17 November | 1-5pm | Beechwood Club, Fishponds BS16 3TP

The final workshop in our seasonal cycle, come and connect with late autumn by learning about the elements, herbalism skills, yoga and deeply restful yoga nidra (meaning “sleep”).

Late autumn is the air element, the shifting winds as the energies change; the drawing in, rooting down, the coming of the quiet period.

Qualified medical herbalist Helen White will guide us through preparations for autumn. In this season, we look mainly to berries and roots for their medicinal benefits. We will explore ways to harvest, prepare and use some of these herbal treasures, discussing the reasons we may choose to use them, and Helen will demonstrate a nourishing, delicious autumn cordial with recipes for you to take home.

Helen will also touch on different ways that the air element can be understood within the body. For example, in Greco-Roman medicine , air is connected with the “sanguine humour”, and can feel like a calm breeze or a raging storm within. In traditional Chinese Medicine, its imbalance is connected with “sudden spasm". Together, we will explore these interpretations as well as their remedies.

Putting your learning into practice, we'll enjoy herbal tasters and make our own incense using autumn plants, for you to enjoy at home or gift to a loved one.

We continue to recognise the environment within the body with a yoga practice for all levels, facilitated by 550+ hour trained teacher Hannah Embleton-Smith . In movement, we begin to explore harnessing the winds ("vayus" in Sanskrit) of the body, empowering us to come into relationship with the movement of our vital energy. We'll play with elemental mantra and balance steady and restorative asana to experience the vayus, before calming the winds and softening into the stillness of yoga nidra. A chance to restore deeply and go nourished into the dark evening.

Join us on Sunday 17 November to:
- Learn tangible autumn herbalism skills, working with roots and berries
- Connect with the air element and understand its movement in the body
- Make your own incense to take home
- Enjoy herbal treats and tasters
- Nourish with steady, restorative asana
- Rest deeply with autumnal yoga nidra

We hope to celebrate the turning wheel into winter with you!

--About us--
Helen has been practising as a community herbalist for the past 8 years, with a firm belief in herbal medicine as “people’s medicine”. She has held a lifelong interest in the healing power of plants, and after years of using herbal remedies for herself and her family, she followed her dream of training as a medical herbalist. Through sharing her knowledge, Helen aims to demystify the preparation and use of herbal medicines and bring them back into everyday use and on our kitchen shelves, where they belong.
Hannah is a 550+ hour trained yoga facilitator, with a practice rooted in non-dual Śaiva tantra. Among her teachers, past and present, are Sam Burkey, Sarah Harlow, Christopher Gladwell, Christopher Wallis, Prem Sadasivananda, Atiya Khan, Becky Szwandt and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, as well as being guided by the teachings of ancient sages including Vasugupta and Abhinavagupta through the texts.
For more information: visit www.spacewithhannah.yoga

--Booking & cancellations--
Tickets are on a sliding scale, paying what you can afford: £30-40.
If the cost is a barrier to you joining, please reach out so that we can try and find a way for you to join.
If you need to cancel, please do so at least 48 hours before the workshop to receive a refund. After this time, tickets are non-refundable, but may be gifted to a friend.