There’s only a day left to join our yoga caravan this year.
We are welcoming a few friends into Immersion 2 before we set off more deeply on this journey.
You’d be joining an incredible group of people who have been traveling together for a few weeks…all of us wondering if the real magic of yoga is not the shapes themselves but the spaces between the shapes.
Those pauses and small, slow moves between the shapes are essentially developmental moves, moves most humans make in their efforts to walk on this gravity-rich planet.
One of the geniuses of the 20th century — Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais — wondered deeply about these early developmental moves like sliding a foot into standing and pushing that foot into the ground and rolling and creeping and crawling and finding all kinds of ways to come to sitting and standing and walking. Seems strange that a guy who helped invent radium and SONAR would have such interest in baby moves, right?
Well, he wanted to learn to walk again after serious injuries to his knee. His doctor told him he’d never walk again, at least not without surgery.
But Moshe walked — all by gently engaging those early moves that babies play with to get to the toy or friend they love. Through play! Through curiosity!
One of the participants in Immersion 1 recently said, “I’ve never thought of yoga in this way. And I’m feeling a lot better and enjoying life more.”
Is this calling your name? https://vitalitycincinnati.org/immersions/yoga/
After tomorrow night, the next yoga immersions with Tonia Smith and me won’t open until next Spring. Join the yoga caravan on this wild journey for your health & curiosity or to become a yoga teacher!
Brian Shircliff
program director
513.300.5174
PS…a reminder about the upcoming parties…
tomorrow/Sat, July 17…poet Evan Underbrink shares his poems and stories at Jesuit Spiritual Center at Milford’s Rock House at 4pm…BYOD, some snacks provided, and pre-order his new book so we can get it to press and out into the world
Sat, July 24…VITALITY picnic at Gorman Heritage Farm from 2-5pm…rain or shine as we’re under a big Pavilion…come tell us how you’re doing and celebrate Mike Eck & Claire Long’s new reading & coloring book With You in Our Dreams…bring an appetizer or dessert to share
Gratitude to incredible artist Parrish Monk for his inspiring painting pictured here, “Universal Traveler.” This painting is on the cover of VITALITY’s yoga book which includes the stories of so many people, including Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.
