Dancing with the Stars: The Mind-Body-Zodiac Connection
Saturday, September 23, 2023
3:30 - 5:15 PM
$40 | with Mary Beth Clancy & Cate Broughton
Celebrate the Fall Equinox as we experience the cosmic dance between our physical bodies and the Fall Star Partners of the Zodiac — Libra-Aries, Scorpio-Taurus, and Sagittarius-Gemini!
We will explore how the astrology of the heavens is reflected in the body’s energy systems (chakras and meridians) through the sensations of breath, yin yoga asanas, guided meditation and Reiki.
What to Expect: To begin, you will be guided through the cosmic orbital breathing meditation that has the power to calm the mind and highlight the elliptical pathway that energy travels as it dances inside the body as well as throughout the cosmos. Following this meditation, you will be invited to practice energy meridian tapping — lightly percussing the arms and legs, particularly to move stagnant energy blockages and promote the smooth flow of energy. Practicing Yin asanas, we will then explore and experience how the energy of the Fall Star Partners of the Zodiac are reflected throughout our Body's energy systems. Experience your personal energy dance and relationship with the Fall Zodiac Stars.
Our workshop will conclude with an extended Savasana and individual Reiki experience. Leave feeling greater calm and connection to your star power within and throughout the cosmos.
About Mary Beth:
Mary Beth has been practicing, learning, and teaching Yin Yoga-Meditation for 15 years. One of her favorite mottos “arrive curious, leave Yin-spired.” She experiences her yin and vinyasa yoga-meditation practices, energy work, dancing, and sound meditation practices as Labyrinth - like, devotional pathways that invite us to walk inward together to our shared center still point - the Love-Mystery - in service to one another. For her, Yoga-Meditation is a real love story that we write and rewrite every moment, every practice as we choose to befriend ourselves and each other, and free our mind-body-spirit from conditioning and patterns that keep Rumi’s “field of limitless possibilities” hidden from us.
With gentle encouragement, she invites you to “smile, laugh, cry, stumble and walk along the path with me as we excavate our lives with awe, humor, resilience, gratitude, compassion, and commitment through various mind-body practices. Mary Beth’s students often comment that she genuinely “sees” each person, offers rejuvenating classes, and aspires to create a Yin Yoga Meditation Sangha - a community of Yin - curious and Yin - regulars to Yin-spire each other.
Mary Beth is an E-RYT 200++ Yin, Vinyasa and Restorative yoga, certified Yin Yoga Meditation Teacher through Sagel Urlacher, Reiki II practitioner thru Jean Davis, Sound Healing Artist training with Adrian DiMatteo, and conscious breathing meditation student/mentor for practicing the Art of Zen Breathing with the San Francisco Zen Center. She completed inter-spiritual ministry and Mantra studies with spiritual teacher-author Dr. Stephanie Rutt. Mary Beth is also an inter-spiritual minister and counselor, M.A., Education and Crisis Management; she has worked with individuals and families facing addiction and learning challenges.
True to her Irish roots, she enjoys a great story (The Moth was a favorite radio show) offering hospitality, sharing a deep laugh, dancing, poetry, easeful hikes, a simmering stew and a well brewed cup of tea!
About Cate:
Cate has been in love with and practicing yoga for as long as she can remember. As she began to advance in her yoga practice & career, yoga ended up providing a spiritual gateway for her life. In addition to holding her RYT 200 Yoga Teacher Certification, Cate is also a dedicated astrology scholar, a Reiki Master Teacher Practitioner, and a Munay Ki Shamanic Rites Recipient. By bringing all these modalities together, she loves to help others understand, connect, and learn about their relationship to their own energy within their body, as well as that within the world and the cosmos! Off the mat, she is a fitness coach, and mom to twin boys. She also is a crystal enthusiast that loves to relax in her garden with her plants or go on hikes with her dog Petunia!
Workshop Refund Policy:
Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Due to limited space and high demand for some workshops we have a 24 hour cancelation policy. Cancelations made more than 24 hours in advance will be issued studio credit. No credit will be given for cancelations made less than 24 hours.