Another year passed
Three years on
One more candle lit

Life has kept all of us moving
Pushing us forward and onwards
At times against the grain

In my attempt for redemption
I learn about forgiveness
And how to extend it to myself

In my search for vindication
I learn that Rage
Burns on both ends

In my promise to start over
I learn that beginnings
Exist in every moment

In my strife to trust again
I found faith in the spinning
World of uncertainty

In my vow to not abandon myself
I found strength
In my solitude

Sometimes I still get sad
And lonely and angry

Sometimes I feel my heart
So broken it will never be whole

Sometimes the earth cracks open
The shadows of the depths cold and dark

I light another candle
Offer another prayer

I look for the Moon
Or a star

I find your whisperings
In every glimmer

To bear witness
As I lay
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Haven and harbour
In your shelter

Navel Radiation Workshop 3/3
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The final class of the navel radiation series. Click the link to watch the full class on youtube https://youtu.be/o3oauRNkn6Y

For this final class, we tap into more movement sequences (expansion, contraction, spiral movements) to help guide us towards a deeper sensing of our navel space. The navel space, which as mentioned in the previous 2 classes, lies at the centre of intrinsic and extrinsic movement. We also explore how this navel centre, on a macro level, can be extended to the idea of a bigger source - the earth’s centre. The class ends with exploratory movement and a short restorative exercise.
When we are able to move in an embodied manner from our navel centre, we will find greater grounding, ease, connectedness and a sense of being.
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Props required:
- 1 yoga mat
- 1 pair of socks
- 1 weighted ball (or water bottle)
- 1 cushion (or bolster)
- 1 blanket

Navel Radiation Workshop 2/3

The second class of the navel radiation series. Click the link to watch the full class on youtube https://youtu.be/GKTokdJALho

This session starts off with a developmental explanation of how we come to become who we are - from the meeting of the sperm and egg, implantation, development of fetus, vital organs, and intricate features. We hear how the navel is our centre, and the seed by which intrinsic movement gives rise to extrinsic movement - and bi-directionally, from extrinsic movement to intrinsic movement.
The session starts off with the use of touch, to bring greater felt sense to the different parts of our body and their relationship to the navel centre. We then engage in different movement sequences to engage the entire body (all our 6 limbs), with the focus on initiating movement from the navel centre.
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Props required:
- 1 yoga mat
- 1 pair of socks
- 1 weighted ball (or water bottle)
- 1 cushion (or bolster)
- 1 blanket

Navel Radiation Workshop 1/3

The first class of the navel radiation series.
Click https://youtu.be/f32o5sOzvwk to join the full class on youtube.

In today’s session, we learn about the core of our body. In the fitness realm, there's so much emphasis on the core. Most of the time, the core was associated with the much desired AB(S)dominal muscles. Many modalities also explore pelvic lumbar stability, and the iliopsoas complex.

Through the years of teaching and exploration into Body Mind Centering (BMC), I've began to explore the concept of the core as the centre of our "being-ness", located behind the navel space. It is the space in which the umbilical chord connects each of us to our mother during in-utero fetus days. From a developmental perspective, this very core is also the seed in which all the other limbs of our body (arms, legs, head and tail) develops from. It is the centre between the front and back, the top and bottom half, and the 2 sides of our body. It is the centre in our 3-dimensional body moving through 3-dimensional space.

We start off the session with a navel radiation meditation, followed by sensing how the quality of conventional vinyasa movement changes when we initiate such movement from the core, and end off the session with exploratory movement with the weighted ball.

Props required:
- 1 pair of socks
- 1 weighted ball (or water bottle)

Creating Safety Workshop 3/3

The final class of the creating safety workshop. Click https://youtu.be/mGuibTfZ4KA to join the full class on youtube.

Our sub-occipital muscles tends to hold a lot of stress because of the function it plays in keeping our heads upright as bipeds, and its association with our eyes. In this session, we explore an exercise to release tension in the sub-occipital muscles as we lean into the support of gravity, and find full body integration. In the session, we also explore movement across 3-dimensional planes, bringing awareness to our body’s mid-line and our anatomical structures.
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Props required:
- 1 yoga mat
- 1 strap (or scarf)
- 1 blanket
- 1 yoga block
- 1 weighted ball (or water bottle)