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Today's Live Session Agenda:

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Welcome, Agenda Review - Mindfulness Share- Attachments & Responses

Demonstration - Trauma-Informed Practice Page 78

Discussion: Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender)

Break (5 Minutes)

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Group Workshop: Creating a Full Sequence

Break (5 Minutes)

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Breakout Group Workshop - Sharing a Full Sequence

Session Closing & Weekly Assignment Offering

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*Optional Afterclass meet-ups

Since we are not sharing space in person and we do not have the option to chat in the parking lot after class, each week I will leave the Zoom space open for individuals who may want to continue conversations.

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Guiding a Class- Strength & Surrender

Class Introduction:

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Share thoughts/embodied reactions to Strength & Surrender.

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What do these words mean to you?

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What is your current relationship with strength &/or surrender?

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Guiding a Class- Strength & Surrender

Sustainability & Self Care

Truth

Reliability & Resourcing

Evolution

Nurture/Nourish

Gratitude

Trust

Health/Healing

Invitation to Connect with “Today’s”:

  • Embodied Energy & Range of Motion
  • Synonyms- Steadiness & Ease

Encourage Additional Pauses

  • Rest
  • Noticing
  • Focus/Refocus

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Practice: Page 78

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Ishvara Pranidhana

Defining Surrender on the Healing Path

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Thoughts of Surrender

  • How do you define Surrender?
  • What thoughts or embodied sensations arise as you consider Surrender?
  • What emotions connect to ideas of Surrender?
  • What experiences might influence your perspective?

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Supporting Continued Self-Study

  • What might “surrender to self” look like?
  • What connections can be made from the Bhagavad Gita? Have you experienced a personal battlefield?
  • Can I accept Me exactly as I am?
    • What is aligned?
    • What causes discomfort/disconnection?
    • What can I observe to guide me to myself/continue to build relationship?
      • A Day in the Life
        • What Stirs? What Sticks? What Shuts Down?
    • What can Asana & Pranayama teach me?
      • How much of my practice is about me? What am I learning/unlearning?

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Acceptance, Trust, & Gratitude… a consideration for Surrender

  • Relationship with Self
    • Non-Harm, Truth, Non-Stealing, Non-Excess, Letting Go
    • Clarity, Contentment, Discipline, Self-Study
    • Breath (natural & connected), Pause
    • Range of Motion (physical & mental)
    • Consider, Prepare, Reflect
    • Connect with the Present
  • Relationship with Others
    • Non-Harm, Truth, Non-Stealing, Non-Excess, Letting Go
    • Purity, Contentment, Discipline, Self-Study
    • Breath (notice natural & supported), Pause
    • Range of Motion - Boundaries & Barriers (physical & mental)
    • Consider, Prepare, Reflect
    • Connect with the Present

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Steadiness & Ease

  • How 8 Limbs of Yoga Support
    • Yamas
    • Niyamas
    • Pranayama
    • Asana
    • Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana
  • Yoga = Steadiness & Ease on the Mat
    • Safety & Foundation – Where do I feel secure?
    • Openness & Awakening – What am/do I curious/have space to explore?

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Embodied Awareness

  • Memories, Experiences, & Activations
    • What is there to notice & learn?
  • Connecting to the Senses
    • See, Touch, Taste, Hear, Smell
  • Steadiness & Ease
    • Safety & Foundation – How we Respond to the World
    • Openness & Awakening – Occurs after Safety Established

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