Yoga Nature Sheffield

Come celebrate our neighbourhood with us and volunteer with the Nether Edge Festival.

We are seeking volunteers for Party In the Park (September 20th) and other festival events.

www.netheredgefestival.co.uk/volunteering

Our latest article dropped on Substack 😊
https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/the-body-between-the-muscles-what

Our latest essay on Substack forms the fourth thread in an ongoing exploration of trauma-informed practice, embodiment and movement.

We began by exploring how life experiences can shape our nervous systems and our relationship with the body. We then turned towards embodiment (the practice of inhabiting our lived experience more fully) and functional movement, the ways awareness and adaptation reveal themselves through daily life.

Here we explore a deeper question: Why are movement, emotion, thought, breath and awareness so profoundly interconnected?

https://whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/beyond-muscles-and-bones-the-tantrik

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Beyond Muscles and Bones: The Tantrik Ecology of Experience Trauma, embodiment and functional movement as expressions of a living whole

This essay forms the third thread in an ongoing exploration of trauma-informed practice, embodiment and movement.

We began by exploring how life experiences can shape our nervous systems and our relationship with the body. We then turned towards embodiment, the practice of inhabiting our lived experience more fully.

Here we explore functional movement and how awareness, adaptation and nervous system regulation reveal themselves through the everyday acts of moving, reaching, balancing and living.

Functional Movement: Reclaiming the Intelligence of the Body Movement, trauma and embodiment as a living conversation

In our previous Substack essay we explored embodiment through the lens of non-dual Śaiva Ta**ra.

For some readers, the ideas no doubt felt intuitive.

For others, terms such as Śiva, Śakti, spanda, and pratyabhijñā may have seemed beautiful but difficult to grasp.

This is completely understandable. The Tantrikas were attempting to describe something that ultimately resists language: the nature of consciousness itself.

No metaphor is perfect. Every comparison breaks down eventually. Yet metaphors can help us approach ideas that are difficult to understand conceptually by pointing towards something we already know through experience.

What follows in this next essay are several different ways of approaching the same insight.

Not different truths.

Different windows looking into the same room:

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/when-philosophy-becomes-experience

When Philosophy Becomes Experience Five Ways of Understanding Śiva, Śakti, Spanda and Recognition in Everyday Life

Our latest Yoga Nidra podcast, for Litha. Summer solstice blessings to you all ☀️

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/aum-beneath-the-mountain-a-litha

Aum Beneath The Mountain: A Litha Yoga Nidra The name Litha comes from the 8th-century writings of the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede, who described midsummer as Ærra Līða — before Līða — and Æfterra Līða — after Līða.

Our latest Substack article: What embodied yoga really means, and how we hold it within Yoga Nature classes:

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/embodied-yoga-is-not-modern-wellness

Our latest article on Substack. "Trauma-Informed Yoga Is Not a Trend. It Is a Different Relationship to Power"

Read in full and subscribe for more at:

whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/trauma-informed-yoga-is-not-a-trend