OUR DEEPEST WATERS: NOURISHING KIDNEY ENERGY IN THE HEART OF WINTER
A collaboration with Sarah Byrden and Liz Koch
Saturday December 13
9:00-11:30 am MDT
*recording available for 72 hours
$65
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Our Kidney energy is quite literally the root of our entire life force, and an expression of the Water Element in Chinese Medicine. From this well flows our sexual energy, the deep dreams we were born to bring to bear, the marrow of our very bones, and the waters from which we come and one day will return to. Our Kidneys become depleted when we are stressed, manifesting fear, lack of energy, and a loss of faith in life itself.
As we enter into the last weeks of the year, nearer to the Winter Solstice, this nourishment and replenishment is natural and essential. These weeks often contain the paradox of the bustle and demand of the holidays, with the pull toward this slow gathering phase or Yin energy. The disparity here can often bring a harsh dissonance that drains and frazzles our Kidneys even more acutely if we don’t take the time and heed the call of this richness, darkness and gestation.
Winter is a time for incubating and gathering. Dreaming, sleeping, reflecting, reverie, composting. Letting ambition disappear for a time. It is a time for stillness, reflection, surrender, and soul-nourishing time in the origin point of all of life. There is, in Mary Oliver’s words, a “dazzling darkness” inside of Winter that offers us deep nourishment and resource. Though instead of drinking in these gifts, many of us slip into depression, and fear of isolation as the darkness settles in. We often crash in exhaustion, rather than resource in this stillness because we drive ourselves to burnout during the rest of the year.
This workshop will offer teachings and physical practice (archetypal qigong and primal movement) to help tend to Kidneys in this key moment of Winter, just before the holidays and New Year- it will offer deep nature-supported nourishment in this season, as we near the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The health of our wholeness depends on this dark and rich passage. You will be amazed at the ground, peace and support you find in this workshop, dedicated to the mother of us all…the Water Element.
You will be amazed at the ground you will find in these 2.5 hours of practice…a palpable sense that life has your back and that you have a reservoir to draw from.
All bodies are welcome. No Qigong Experience required.