Embracing Embodied Awakening 12noon -4.30pm, 4th Saturday of the month, Tiddington
Awaken Vitality, Clarity, Courage and Inner Steadiness
These afternoons are designed to offer you a space for slowing down, turning inward, and reconnecting with what is most alive within you. Through a carefully held sequence of transformational breathwork, guided reflection, meditation, and structured sharing, we explore a chosen theme as a lived experience rather than an idea.
Each day centres around a specific inquiry such as self-compassion, trust, boundaries, or inner connection.
We begin with a guided enquiry into the theme of the afternoon, exploring within ouselves how it shows up in our lives, where it feels easeful, and where it feels challenging.
From there, we move into subtle practices that support grounding, openness, and inner sensitivity, leading to a guided practice of transformative acceptance of all that has been seen and softly awakened.
After a soothing tea break, there is space for reflection in pairs or small groups, allowing insights to deepen through speaking and listening.
A light lunch break provides time for rest, connection, and open conversation.
In the afternoon, we move into a profound guided inner journey process in order to access cellular memories driving thoughts, beliefs and reactions. The process brings deeper layers of awareness through connection with hidden parts within, and emotional integration.
This is followed by partner sharing and group reflection, allowing the day’s experience to settle and become embodied understanding.
We close with a guided tantric meditation to help the afternoon’s insights fully integrate.
This is a space for sincere inner exploration, held with care and simplicity. It is suitable for those who feel drawn to personal growth, embodied practice, and reflective inquiry in a group setting. And for those new to this kind of inner work, who have been touched by the Heart of Ayurveda approach to Yoga and would like to move deeper into this approach.
It is ideal for those with a committed meditation practice, as enquiry and meditation fit so beautifully together.
Daily Itinerary
12 noon – Introduction to the Day’s Theme & Welcome Tea
12.20pm Guided Somatic Awareness Practice
12.30pm First guided enquiry with journaling.
1.00pm Integrating Breath and Sound Practices
1.15pm Lunch break
2.15pm Guided Inner Journey – Accessing Cellular Memory
3.00pm Partner sharing and group reflection
3.30pm Afternoon Ayurveda Tea
4.00pm Guided Tantric Meditation to help anchor and integrate new insights.
4.30pm Closing prayers and dedication of the light
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
You will experience:.
The power of breath and sound to shift mind and heart.
The true vastness and wisdom of your inner being, as you enter deep contempative states.
The power of guided inner enquiry to support inner transformation and healing.
The memories that your body holds, how they have impacted you, and how to release and transform them.
That your natural state is one of ease, wisdom and compassion
- The healing power of journeying through body, breath, energy, mind and emotions towards the still quiet cenre within..
“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Who Are These Afternoons For?
These afternoons are for those who feel drawn to slow down, turn inward, and explore their inner experience with honesty and care.
They are suited to those who are curious about the relationship between body, breath, mind, and awareness, and who would like to connect with something deeper within.
They are for those who are ready to take the courage to look honestly inside and who are ready to let go of old familiar ways that are no longer supportive.
This is a space for noticing, feeling, and allowing—at a pace that feels safe and easeful.
The day includes guided reflection and opportunities for sharing in pairs or small groups, so it is most supportive for those who understand the benefit and potency of sharing their experience, insights and awakenings, whilst offering others the space to do the same – all within the comfort clearly held boundaries.
Above all, these afternoons are for those who are interested in personal and spiritual growth in a grounded, embodied way within a small, supportive group setting.
What You’ll Need
- Comfortable clothes
- Notebook and pen
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Upcoming Dates:
Saturday May 23rd – Embodying The Inner Fire
Saturday June 27th – Embodying The Open Heart
Saturday July 25th – Embodying Trust
Saturday September 26th – Embodying Inner Ground
Saturday November 28th – Embodying Deep Rest
Your Teacher
My name is Sara Palmer (Shama) and I am the founder of Heart of Ayurveda.
Inner enquiry, a transformational approach to Hatha Yoga practice, and meditation have long formed the basis of my spiritual practice.
I have studied and practiced various enquiry techniques over the past 25 years, and have been a dedicated practitioner of the classical approach to Hatha Yoga and Tantra Yoga for many years.
A meditation practice that puts me in touch with the depths of my own being, and the oneness of life becomes the flowering of all these practices.
As time moves on, and the awareness of life’s brevity becomes all too apparent in our increasingly precarious world, these practices and this transformation approach call to me ever more deeply.
As I was taught to always share or teach what I am practicing, because “there lies the shakti (the transformational potency)” , I want to offer these days to you.
INVESTMENT:
£45.00 including light Ayurveda lunch and teas throughout the day.
“Awareness is the greatest alchemy.” Osho
