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MELBOURNE WORKSHOP

THE EMBODIED BREATH

Opening the Intimate Fields of Pranayama and Yoga Psychology

with PAUL WOODEN

October 26, 2024, 9am - 4pm
Gertrude Street Yoga, Fitzroy

This workshop will be an intimate and soul nourishing exploration of the inner dimensions of yoga practice. We will be opening the delicate and ever unfolding fields of energy, feeling and mind. Pranayama is often describes as breathing techniques but it is far more than this. It is an intimate exploration of the subtle energetic dynamics of the body and mind.

 

We are not simply breathing with Pranayama practice, we are cultivating an exquisite sensitivity to the responsive intelligence of life. Cultivating a relationship with pranayama is cultivating a relationship with the living current of life itself. Pranayama expands and refines our capacity for feeling. It is a profoundly intimate affair and the deeper we go the more we learn to trust the instinctive intelligence of our own embodied lives.

 

Supporting you in finding, clarity, inspiration and confidence

in the subtle processes of a grounded spiritual life.

Some of the themes we will cover are:

  • The 5 Pillars of Grounding

  • Prana as Nourishment

  • Safety and Belonging

  • The Role of Gravity in Breathing

  • Trauma and the Breath

  • Befriending and Refining Feeling

  • Containment and Openness

  • Psychology: East and West

THE WORKSHOP

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09:30 am - 12:00 pm
Gravity, Ground and Space

We begin by opening ourselves to the natural self-organising dynamics of energy in the body. Finding ground as foundation for releasing the spine and breath from habitual self contraction

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​We will do this through embodied movement and pranayama.

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OPENING THE SUBTLE FIELDS

Part One

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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
The Intimate Road Home: Integrating Clarity and Flow

Pranayama is not only about what we do with the breath but more essentially about how it helps us refine our perceptual capacities in subtler and subtler fields. The inner practices help the cultivation of an ever refined capacity for intimacy.


This session will include Pranayama, meditation and shared inquiry into prana, feeling, mind and the 5 foundations of embodiment

INTEGRATION

Part Two

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND BOOKING
 

Contact GSY

+61 3 8375 9731
hello@gsyoga.com.au www.gertrudestreetyoga.com.au

" Paul is an unassuming, wise and practical yogi whose teachings changed my own practice and also how I teach. He taught me how to really "feel" my practice on all levels of my being. He taught me to be more authentic as a person and a teacher. He taught me a depth of yoga which I had neglected or didn't think was important. He didn't teach me alignment cues or fancy poses. He taught me how to be a yogi, by being a yogi himself. I highly recommend that all yogis should experience his teachings.

"It is always a joy when Paul Wooden runs a workshop at my yoga studio. He offers something unique that is not being shared in the yoga community, that of a deep presence, acceptance and awareness of our body, our movements, our energy and how we relate to the world around us. A workshop with Paul is like a full retreat. The participants feel rested, invigorated and enlightened, knowing more about themselves and more about yoga. I will welcome Paul back to teach any time he is in Australia."

GINNY CLARKE, LIVING PEACE YOGA, AUSTRALIA

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ABOUT PAUL WOODEN

Paul Wooden has been practicing and studying yoga and meditation for 40 years and teaching for 35 years.

 

He draws from his experience in many different styles and traditions and, through a practical understanding of their underlying unifying principles, weaves together a cohesive and integrated approach to yoga.

 

Working with Paul is an invitation to the deeper dimensions of practice. His particular way of working opens us to the sensitivity and receptivity necessary for the subtler inner practices.

 

Paul’s approach offers rich learning possibilities, whether students are beginners or highly experienced practitioners.

 

He complements studies of the wisdom traditions with a more contemporary understanding of the human condition including developmental psychology and integral theory and trauma work (somatic experiencing) which seeks to help uncover and release the binding patterns of trauma in the body.

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