Spring Equinox | Yin, Nidra & Sound
Around 21st March, the Spring Equinox marks a moment of balance. Day and night stand equal, before the light begins its gentle return. Mornings grow brighter, evenings stretch a little longer, and something quietly shifts beneath the surface.
John O’Donohue writes in To Bless the Space Between Us:
“The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed… the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares.”
This Spring Equinox gathering is an invitation to slow down and meet that subtle turning of the season.
Through three complementary practices, we’ll create space for rest, reflection, and renewal. Yin yoga, led by Susan, offers a steady, grounding start, inviting the body to soften and open at its own pace. From there, Nidra, guided by Eimear, allows the nervous system to settle more deeply, creating a bridge between rest and awareness. The practice closes with Sound, held by Ciara, supporting integration and resonance, allowing what has been stirred to settle and find its own rhythm.
Together, these practices work in quiet conversation, supporting the body, breath, and mind as they adjust to the changing season. There is no effort to become anything, only space to notice what is already emerging.
For some, this may feel like a time of planting seeds. For others, it may simply be a pause, a moment to listen and realign. All of it is welcome.
This event is open to everyone, and no prior experience of yoga is needed. Come as you are, and allow the season to meet you where you are.
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation and translates to 'yogic sleep'.
It is a practice for everyone and is usually practiced lying down in any comfortable position with props and blankets.
Yoga Nidra draws our awarness inwards, to explore that liminial space between wakefulness and sleep.
Taking this time out of your day to simply rest into a deeper state of blissful awareness.
Into Coherence is a 2-hour guided reset led by California based teachers, Dan Ward and McKenna Roice.
This journey is intentionally curated to settle the mind, unwind the body, and return you to the aliveness within.
Expect a steady, grounding flow that creates space through movement, uses breath to calm and regulate the nervous system, and gently opens the door for the body to receive. As the system softens into coherence, we’ll move into a somatic energy release journey - working with the body’s innate healing intelligence to help stuck energy unwind through attunement, light touch, and sound. The wisdom of this energy works directly with the nervous system meeting each person where they are on their journey.
All that’s needed from you in the final portion is a willingness to let go, soften, and receive the medicine of your own life force.
No effort required.
The Art of Adjustments is a practical, hands-on workshop for yoga teachers, trainees, bodyworkers, and facilitators who want to develop clarity, confidence, and discernment in offering hands-on support.
This workshop centres appropriate, consensual touch. Participants will explore how to offer touch that is clearly communicated, responsive, and respectful of individual boundaries. The focus is on supporting students in a way that feels steady and supportive, helping them release unnecessary tension, explore clearer alignment, and move out of habitual patterns, without overriding choice or agency.
With over 17 years of experience, Dan brings an approach to adjustments that prioritises listening over correcting. The workshop looks not only at how to offer adjustments, but when and whether to offer them at all. You will learn to work with breath, observe nervous system responses, and read subtle cues from the body, allowing adjustments to emerge as an invitation rather than an imposition.
This is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of hands-on work as a collaborative process, one that is grounded in consent, awareness, and trust, and that supports meaningful change without force.
After a long winter of rest and
contemplation, nature starts to show signs of life again and we can
finally hear the call to peek out of our
hibernation.
Spring has a dual nature : a new
energy is slowly rising after the harshness of winter and yet we
can also still hear a call to stay close to the ground, to root
ourselves deeply so that our foundations can support us as we grow
through the next cycle of the seasons.
This is a time of transition, of
pondering on what we have learned and gathered during the winter
months. A time to ask ourselves and each other, where will this new
cycle take us? Where do we want to go?
To embody the dual nature of this season, Genie and Lucie are
offering their first workshop together.
Genie is a physiotherapist, a full time athlete and a Pilates
teacher who lives life at the fullest and loves to share her
passion of movement with others. She will lead a slow mat Pilates
session accessible to all to start the afternoon and get our bodies
and breath to move mindfully.
After a short refreshing break, a cup of tea and some time to
reflect and connect to each other, Lucie will guide you through a
more grounded practice. Lucie is an experienced full-time yoga
teacher and specialises in slow, meditative practices. She will
lead a yin yoga practice followed by a restorative guided
relaxation and meditation to leave you feeling replenished and
calm.
Variations will be given throughout the whole workshop to make the practice accessible to everyone. Beginners welcome.