A twisting and hip opening practice to help cultivate Samana and Apana Vayu, the pranic (energetic) forces that govern digestion, assimilation and elimination of food as well as of experience.
Samana is the energy of assimilation, extraction and digestion of your food nutrients, the world around you, ideas and inspiration. By keeping our samana vayu strong, we have good physical digestion, but are also able to feed and nurture the rest of ourselves.
Whilst it’s important to digest, it’s important to eliminate the waste of our food, but also of emotions and thoughts. This is where Apana vayu comes in. This energy makes us feel grounded, clear and also relaxed as practices that cultivate apana also trigger the parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system. We will look at the physical aspects of the poses (principles of alignment) as well the subtle aspects (the above mentioned energy forces).
Expect a juicy creative hip opening practice, great for detoxifying and grounding as well as a deep twist practice offering us the perfect energy for some much needed internal winter “spring” cleaning and centering at this time of year. A deep savasana and meditation to end the class will help us truly move into the holiday time smoothly!
Last updated Nov. 3, 2017, 3:49 p.m. UTC
Margherita Dal Pra approaches her classes with intelligence and humour. Her 20 years of practices and teachings, are based on hatha and trantra yoga tradition. She adapts her classes to all levels of ability, balancing strength and flexibility. Each class is revolved around a theme or a particular physical alignment principle giving students a connection to themselves on and off the mat. She teaches public classes as well as privately. Loves nature hence her passion in taking her students in exotic retreat places to deepen their practice.
