Sound Bath - Wisdom Flow Yoga

On Summer Solstice, the sun rises and sets farthest north on our horizon, and is closest to being overhead at noon. Solstice isn’t a whole day. Instead, it’s a moment, when the sun is farthest north in our sky. In 2024, the solstice moment will fall at 11:51 a.m. HST on Thursday, June 20. On this solstice, the sun will be directly overhead at noon as viewed from the Tropic of Cancer. For the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice marks the shortest nights and longest days of the year. For the Southern Hemisphere, it marks the longest nights and shortest days. After this solstice, the sun will begin moving southward in our sky again. And the length of our days will diminish until Winter Solstice.

Nature-based cultures know the sun’s path across the sky, the shift in daylight, and the location of the sunrise and sunset throughout the year. The way they move, live, work, and celebrate all changes in harmony with the cycles of earth, sun, moon, and stars. Most built monuments such as the ones at Stonehenge in England and at Machu Picchu in Peru to follow the sun’s yearly progress and celebrate the light, warmth and energy it brings to our planet.
We can continue these rituals with ceremonies like this Solstice Sound Bath. We honor the fullness of light and take it inside to nourish our cells, our dreams, and our collective healing and evolution. Join us.

Of all the dreams I've pursued this in this life, the one theme in common is an appetite for mystery. Since childhood there has been a nagging feeling that something bigger is just beyond the obviousness of reality. I believe there are endless ways to dance in these liminal spaces, and that one of the most accessible to all people is the non-doingness of sound bath. One of my favorite parts of these gatherings is the potential for collective healing as community, through wordless connection and no expectations.

All that is required is a willingness to relax and explore.

Sound healing goes back thousands of years. Greek physicians used musical instruments to heal patients; tapping into the power of vibration to calm discord in the body and return it to deep coherence. Most indigenous cultures use singing, chanting, and drums as part of the sound healing process as well as a gateway to connection with the spirit world. Westerners are just catching up as studies show clearly the healing effects of intentional sound vibration, finding that it can lower blood pressure and assist the work of the parasympathetic nervous system, which helps our body calm down and recover from stress. All of this sets us up for new growth! Please wear something comfortable and bring your yoga mat. If you do not have a mat, we have extras at the studio.

Wisdom Flow Yoga was founded in 2007 by Jennifer Lynn. With an engineering background, Jennifer appreciated the inner engineering outlined in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. The Wisdom Flow style blends precise physical and mental alignment with free and joyful flow of spirit through the asanas. Structure must align with the divine laws of nature in order to be strong and sustainable, yet too much dogma can pinch off the organic flow of joyful growth. Wisdom Flow Yoga embodies a balance of precise alignments and core-centered movement with a playful dynamic flow that keeps the pathways clean, clear and strong, and the song of the heart coming through. Our classes and trainings offer a set of elegant alignment principles based on the sacred geometry of the human body. We learn to balance these principles in all poses. We learn to ride the flow of breath as the vehicle of awareness to keep us revealing and sharing deeper layers of our true nature. Wisdom Flow Yoga embraces all expressions of love that rise from inclusion, compassion and unity.

Sunday June 23rd, 2024

6:00 - 7:30 pm

with Sarah Gray

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