Yoga Flow + Acupuncture with Albee and Tiana

Welcome the unfurling of spring with a unique practice that harmonizes yoga flow with acupuncture. Focusing on the Gallbladder meridian (energy channel) —a yang meridian in Chinese Medicine associated with the Wood element and the season of spring.

This practice evokes the energy of ripening, blooming, and bursting forward, mirroring the natural unfolding of the season.

The session, led by Albee Barton, director of Green Monday Studios, begins with a 90min slow yoga yoga sequence designed to stimulate the Gallbladder meridian. We’ll focus on movements that stretch the neck, waist, outer hips, and legs, incorporating spiraling, swirling intuitive motions to cultivate a sense of expansion and flow, promoting strength and flexibility - much like bamboo - both in the mind and body.

Following the yoga practice, Tiana Demetriou, a Chinese Medicine practitioner, will guide you through an acupuncture session. Needles will be gently inserted at specific points along the Gallbladder meridian to enhance its function of promoting adaptability and vision. This meridian helps relax the body’s musculature, allowing us to pivot with ease and see life from fresh angles. When balanced, the Gallbladder teaches us that calm often emerges from a shift in perspective, enabling us to embrace life’s unexpected turns with courage and clarity.

As we transition into the new season- we allow our bodies to embrace change, guide us into new directions, and let creativity bloom.

Join us to explore these themes and welcome spring with renewed energy and intention.

CLASS FORMAT

6pm arrival for pulse reading with Tiana

Class begins at 6:15pm

-Opening discussion about the theme with Tiana And Albee

-Moving to a seated or reclined meditation and some somatic practices.

-Begin warming exercises/seaed asana

-Moving into a slow low yoga sequence, building in warmth and energy

-Options to repeat the slow flow sequence again, with some asana added on.

-Standing balance shapes

-Cool down stretching

-Poetry/relfection while resting

-Longer shavasana (15mins), in which Tiana will offer accupunucture

Class finishes 7:45pm

ABOUT THE YOGA STYLE:
The class style is an embodied breath-based slow flow yoga & meditation class, balancing softer and stronger elements at a meditative pace.
The class will have layerings of creative visualisations, somatic practices, interoceptive language, guided free/non-linear movement, poetry, metaphor and approachable philosophy.
Albee teaches with an invitational, trauma-informed approach, with prompts to rest or tweak the movements given throughout the session.

PRICING GUIDE:
Pricing is sliding scale and based on an honour system.
$42 Under waged (You are living week-to-week and have minimal budget for well-being practices)
$52 Waged (You have enough money to eat out. Paying your rent comfortably with some income left over for well-being practices)
$62 Comfortably waged (You are a car and/or home owner, you have excess budget to go on holidays and buy new things and treat yourself to well-being practices regularly)

ACCESS NEEDS:
-Students are invited to skip any parts of the pracitce and stay reclined or seated whenever needed.
-Music is at medium volume and the music style is often classical, neo-classical, ambient with some slightly beat-driven songs.
-The Room is lit by standing lamps (no overhead lights)
-Stimming toys available.
-Bathrooms are gender neutral
-The room is up 2 flights of stairs
-Classes are capped at 14 people
-PLEASE NOTE: the class is designed for people who have some pre-exisiting movement experience.
-If you are a complete beginner and would like to join for a yoga foundation class OR looking for a chair yoga class, please get in touch on: [email protected]
-If you have any other access needs, please contact me on the email above

Host or Publisher Albee Barton