Mona's has been teaching her signature Restorative / Yoga Nidra/ Workshops for the past ten years. She has combined her knowledge of Yoga Nidra, which she started practicing at fourteen in India, with her love for Restorative which she credits with helping manage her asthma symptoms to create her own unique Restorative/ Yoga Nidra Workshops. She teaches two different series, one to balance the chakras and the other to balance the doshas.
Each practice begins with gentle guided vinyasa to release stress in the breath and tension from the muscles and joints. Participants then recline on bolsters to the sound of soothing music, the aroma of essential oils and gentle hands on adjustments. Restorative poses are held for about ten to fifteen minutes. Her workshops end with a thirty to forty minute long yoga nidra.
Yoga Nidra is a guided guided auditory meditation technique practiced lying down in savasana. It is based on an ancient tantric technique called nyasa in which practitioners through brought awareness to different parts of the body. Through the practice of yoga nidra practitioners are able to enter the hypnogogic state, between being asleep and being awake, a state that induces a deep state of relaxation, releases past memories trapped in the unconscious and enables one to experience an expanded state of consciousness.
Restorative / Yoga Nidra Workshop for Pitta Condition
September 10 | 12:00–2:00pm Live Stream
A practice designed to help cool us down and surrender when we’re feeling overheated, easily aggravated and on overdrive
In the Ayurvedic system we are made up of five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space. We each have our unique mix of these elements that make up our physical and mental constitution. Disease is caused when there is an imbalance in the mix of these elements from our unique mix of these elements at birth.
The seasons, as well as our lifestyles and stresses, affect the mix of these elements. In the summer the fire element tends to increase – we call this a pitta condition. When our pitta is in excess we feel overheated, we tend to get irritable more easily and we tend to continuously push ourselves. We have trouble surrendering and can be harsh critics of ourselves and others.
In this workshop the asanas, pranayama, restorative poses and yoga nidra are all selected to release excess heat from the body, breath, and mind. The practice will begin with gentle asana to release tension from the abdomen where excess fire accumulates. The focus in the restorative postures will be on cooling down and releasing any holding patterns in the body, breath, and mind. The practice will end with a forty minute long yoga nidra designed to release excess pitta.calming and cooling us on a physical. mental and emotional level.
$30 / $40 Day of / ISHTA Member pricing $20, email Rumika@ishtayoga.com
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