Winter Solstice Somatic Yoga Sound Bath: Surrendering to Subtler Shades of Stillness
With Cozmic Water
December 21, 2022. 7:00-9:00pm. $30. Limited reservations.
Join Cozmic Water Yoga (Tara & Bill) for this special Winter Solstice Practice – an evening of soothing sounds and complete relaxation for the body, mind & spirit - setting the foundations for gratitude, inner listening and deeper surrender to stillness.
We will begin this practice with our “Cultural Conflation Christmas Kirtan” -call/response Holiday songs- to help us begin our journey to the grounded, centered and fully integrated state of bliss known as Yoga. Tara will then orchestrate blissful live tones while Bill guides you through gentle somatic movement and meditation intended to nourish our awareness of our connection to the whole: body, breath, heart-mind & spirit, culminating with an extended Gong & Sound Bath. Imagine yourself reposing and immersing into a “bath” of soothing shamanic sounds that take you on an inner journey of relaxation and transformation. By using frequency “entrainment,” a gong & sound bath facilitates a shift in brainwaves from our waking consciousness to more yoganidrā meditative alpha and theta states facilitating deep somatic healing.
This practice is accessible for all body types. $30. Bring an open heart/mind, a desire for a full-body smile and any personal pillows, blankets or bolsters that may make your experience even more rest-full.
The year's longest night begins the ascent of the lengthening daylight and offers us an opportunity to go inwards for deep re-newing, re-storeing, re-connecting, re-balancing, while re-flecting on the previous year and re-imagining the coming year. In this practice, we can tune into listening to that quiet voice within by first softening into slow, gentle movement and longer-held yin postures, then affirming and setting our intentions through the sound yoganidrā practice, and finally allowing the mind, body and spirit to come into alignment through the healing gong relaxation.
The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year; and the official start of winter. The darkest night invites us to fully turn our awareness inwards, to dive deep into the depths of our beings and shed light on the places we have perhaps forgotten or neglected. Like a tree that sheds its leaves, showing the bare bones of its being, we too have the opportunity to shed what no longer serves us and fully stand within the core of our being. It is a wonderful time to reflect back on the year; acknowledging how far we have come, how we have grown and evolved and what still needs nurturing and tending to.
By honoring the shadow within us, just as this longest night heralds the lengthening light, we bring light to our soul's innermost desires; that which we wish to see manifested into our world. The darkness within and without is a time then to nurture the soil, the earth of our being, so we can prepare to plant the seeds of our dreams in the Spring Time. It is a wonderful time to slow down, rest and gently fall into a greater state of being rather than doing.