calming the flow of experience

Hi everyone, June is flying by! I hope you are enjoying wherever you are.

While the weather might not feel like it (yet), we are nearing toward the Solstice, and the official start of summer, just a few weeks away. I can’t wait!

There’s been a slight time change to the remaining Summer Soma Sessions: Awakening the Senses; the last two sessions take place on Mondays 17 and 24 June from 8-9pm.

Feel free to join, these are donation-based classes that help to support a good cause, and are a way for us to share in a virtual yoga practice.

Here are some more details for calming the flow of experience:

/\/\ SUMMER SOMA SESSIONS / AWAKENING THE SENSES /\/\

When: Mondays, 8-9pm (BST British Summer Time)

Session 1 - June 3: Sight + Smell

Session 2 - June 10: Touch + Taste

Session 3 - June 17: Hearing + Listening

Session 4 - June 24: Summer Solstice Soma / heightening all five senses in our shared practice, prepare for a multi-sensory experience!

Description: In these open level, virtual livestream yoga classes we will be exploring sensory awareness, compassionate self-adjustments, and intuitive guidance, as the seasons shift from Spring to Summer. Each class features a special sensory focus and theme to compliment our exploration of yoga asanas and intuitive, somatic movement(s). In these classes you can expect to:

• Explore and experience your yoga practice from within (somatics)

• Coordinate breath with movement (elements of vinyasa flow yoga)

• Slow down and calm the breath through rest and relaxation techniques

• Stimulate your sensory awareness through yoga asana practice, mindful movements and breath work

• Have fun and learn more about yourself through your yoga practice

To Join: set up a free account with your name and email on FreeConference.com - this is an easy to use online video conferencing platform similar to Zoom but it does not share your data and offers users more personal privacy. You are welcome to have your camera off for the session.

Once your donation is made (see below), I’ll send the virtual class link to your email address each Monday in good time before the session. This email will also provide you with some suggestions and instructions for how to set up your practice space for an enhanced sensory experience.

Suggested donation: between £5 - £10 per class [*sliding scale, pwyc]

To make your donation, please select ‘Friends and Family’ through this PayPal link, to <[email protected]>. If you would prefer to make a bank transfer to me directly, please let me know via email.

I’m so pleased to share that a portion of proceeds raised from these classes will be donated to The Rescue Ranch Animal Sanctuary, a not-for-profit sanctuary and hospice for animals in need that has been operating since 1996.

By taking part in the Summer Soma Sessions, you’ll be helping to purchase food and contribute towards vet bills for animals who live at the sanctuary (these are some of the happiest and well-loved goats, sheep, lambs, and dogs you will ever see).

In case you missed it, for previous yoga / soma / space newsletters: here is Newsletter 1 (May 2024) and Newsletter 2 (June 2024).

Any questions, feel free to reach out <[email protected]>

Welcome to the journey out of your mind and into your body,

Marlie x

“One thousand people sitting down some place, not letting anybody by, not [letting] anything happen, can stop any machine, including this machine. And it will stop.” 

-Mario Savio, sit-in address on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, the birth of the Free Speech Movement, 2 December 1964.