RING IN THE NEW YEAR, 2025 with Luna Ray| Yamas & Niyamas Somatic Training | Friday, January 10 – Sunday, January 12
RING IN THE NEW YEAR, 2025 with Luna Ray
Friday, January 10 from 5:30-8:30 pm
“Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.” ~Deepak Chopra
Ignite your dreams of 2025 with the ancient medicine of cacao*, yoga, pranayama, meditation and more. Join Luna Ray and the Indigo Community to anchor in this New Beginning of 2025 with a cacao ceremony followed by yoga, live music and community. The evening will begin with a gentle and grounding Yoga flow, followed by meditation, sankalpa (intention) work and community support. You will leave with an open mind, an inspired heart and a seed of clarity as the foundation for your year ahead.
Investment: $59 General Public; $53.10 Indigo Members
Satya: Yin Yoga class with Live Music
Saturday, January 11 from 4 – 5:30 pm
Join Luna Ray for a unique yin class with live music. Luna will guide a Somatic informed yin yoga class with a gentle focus on Satya (truth) that will leave you feeling grounded and settled in body and mind, and open in the heart. During this class, she will share a variety of original songs and songs from different traditions to lullaby you to stillness.*
Investment: $35 General Public; $31.50 Indigo Members
YAMAS & NIYAMAS SOMATIC INFORMED YOGA TRAINING
Saturday, January 10 – Sunday, January 12
Yamas and Niyamas Teacher Training Module
Yamas (restraint) and niyamas (observances) are the first two limbs of Patanjali’s eightfold path to yoga, and are considered to be the foundation of yoga practice. Now more than ever we must live our yoga, on and off the mat, and we can only do this with intention and study. We will use a somatic lens to explore these limbs.
The Yamas and Niyamas are foundational to all yogic thought and can be cultivated in everyday life to align us with our higher calling of knowing peace, abundance, good relations with others, compassion, and connection. Understanding these principles with mind and body can support more freedom and joy in everyday life and enhance the yoga practices we know.
This training will be an opportunity to dive gently and deeply into the 10 ancient guideposts that the yogis have discovered to be divinely and practically useful. These include Ahimsa (Nonviolence), Satya (Truthfulness), Asteya (Nonstealing), Bramacharya (Nonexceess), Aparigraha (Nonpossessiveness), Saucha (Purity), Santosha (Contentment), Tapas (Self- Discipline), Svadyaya (Self-Study), Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender).
We will look at how our modern lives and our unique paths can benefit from each Yama and Niyama, using somatics and embodiment as a guiding principle.
This training will include:
-Philosophy lectures
-Yoga practices including asana, pranayama, meditation and mantra
-Live Music
-Journaling prompts
-Q & A and Satsang (Being in the company of good people and good conversation)
-A training manual
-A safe and brave space to heal and thrive
Approximate Yamas and Niyamas Somatic Informed Weekend Schedule:
Saturday, January 11 – 10 am – 1 pm – Private YTT Content
1:00-2:15- LUNCH
2:15- 4 pm – Private YTT Content
4 – 5:30 pm – Open to the public Yin class with live music
Sunday, January 12 – 10 am – 1 pm – Private YTT Content
1 – 2:15 pm – Lunch
2:15 – 5 pm – Private YTT Content
Investment for the entire weekend training (15 hours) including Friday evening Ring in the New Year with Cacao ceremony and Saturday afternoon Yin class: $289 General Public; $260.10 Indigo members
Register here: Purchase
This offering will be in-studio only.
Somatic Experiencing TM (SE) was developed by Peter Levine, Ph.D. to help people heal and thrive. It is a gentle, and effective approach to healing trauma, and finding more freedom. SE uses the “felt sense” (learning to feel body sensations) to explore where energy may be constricted, and even “stuck” in the body. This can be acute trauma, (i.e. car accident), chronic trauma (i.e. body pain), developmental trauma (i.e. childhood challenges), or intergenerational trauma ( i.e. trauma carried through your ancestral lineage). Trauma here is defined as an emotional state where the nervous system is too overwhelmed to complete a healthy flight, flight or freeze cycle. Instead of the energy dispersing from the body, it gets stored in the body, and can affect the brain, organs, and emotions. This constricted energy in the body shapes the way one experiences themselves, and the world. Over time, this can cause chronic pain, anxiety, depression, challenges in relationships, digestion, hormonal, or immune system weaknesses, and more.
*Cacao has been used for thousands of years in the Mayan culture of South America for medicinal, spiritual and ceremonial purposes. The Mayans believe that cacao opens the emotional center of our body – our heart chakra. They believe the medicine works specifically by bringing us back to the feelings of love and interconnectedness. The Mayans believe that cacao helps us tune into our true and authentic selves and supports our ability to listen deep within to the callings of our heart where the truth of our power and wisdom are stored.
Cacao beans are the seeds of the cacao tree. The beans are a source of many antioxidants called flavonoids. It’s not clear how these might work in the body, but they appear to relax the blood vessels. This could lead to lower blood pressure, and reduce inflammation and blockage of blood vessels.
Cacao is a mild stimulant. We drink it during the first part of the day to avoid sleep disturbances at night. The cacao usually affects people in a similar way as coffee might. Again, you do not need to consume the cacao to have a transformation experience during this gathering.
