In closing out the year, we often review our year, see where we have grown and review the pieces of ourselves or pieces in our lives that we’ve lost. Many cultures celebrate this through Day of the Dead, All Souls Day, All Saints Day. Something about this time of year invites us to lean in to that essence of grief so we can move forward in gratitude in November. This month will be a very special offering from Amanda to experience the heaviness of the losses of the year, to let them move through you, so you can remember how it feels to experience the light.

From Amanda: I had three big, heart crippling losses in 3 years and it wasn’t even 2020. As soon as I started to crawl out, the next one hit. I became so heavy, cried constantly, and withdrew from everything. I can’t pinpoint the day, week, or month that I started to feel myself again, but I know what it felt like. Our practice is going to focus on the feeling of lightness. In this class we are going to work on cultivating that levity and letting the heaviness fall, even if it’s only for the moment. We all have a well of energy to draw from. I want us to find our wells and draw our energy and strength from there.

All of us have experienced some form of loss, whether it be the loss of a beloved pet, friend, or family member. The loss may be a relationship that has changed or ended. Our society doesn’t like looking at these parts of life, so we often push ourselves to suppress these feelings. We may be telling ourselves that it is time to move on when it is not. 

My intention for this gathering is to encourage you to honor the feelings of loss. All of them: despair, sadness, anger, and finally… ease. When we try to force ourselves to “move on”, ease and recovery are moved further from our grasp. 

The movement element of this practice will pose as a metaphor for the different physical stages of grief and loss. We feel our heaviness, we will feel our burning energy, we will feel our lightness as we let go.

Cost: sliding scale donation of $15-$50 (If you have more to share, it will offset costs for others who cannot afford healing at this time. Donations are split between your teacher and the yoga studio.)