YOUR GUIDE TO MANDALA YOGA

Balance + Glo Yoga Teacher Livy will be guiding you through a Mandala workshop on Saturday 27th March at 9.30am. Below she shares with us a little more about this awesome practise , the benefits and what she loves most about it too.

The roots of mandala yoga

“Mandala” in Sanskrit means “circle”. A mandala is a concentric chart or geometric pattern that, in Hinduism and Buddhism, represents the cosmos or universe.

In many spiritual practices drawing mandalas are used as a meditation practice to absorb the mind and stop it from wandering. Similar to your yoga practice no mandala will be the same as the other. It is these historic qualities of connection to natural world and meditation that inform mandala yoga today.

So what’s involved?

In our practice we move through 6 full rotations, 360 degrees around the mat. Sequenced according to the elements and their corresponding chakras the practice begins and end with yin to “open” and “close” the specific area of the body.

Why I love mandala?

• Lose yourself in the rotations promoting a moving meditation

• It’s accessible. The flow builds with each mandala but it is yogis choice whether to stay with the previous mandala or build.

• Fun & creative. It gives you the opportunity to explore fun transitions from front to back and back to front

• Good for the brain! A heightened reliance on verbal cues challenges you to take autonomy of your own practice (and your left and rights...)

Mandala workshop details:

On Saturday 27th March at 9.30am the gorgeous Livy will be running a 75 minute Air Mandala Workshop where we will be activating the heart chakra (anahata). Working into the the chest, arms and hands we will flow through a back end flow that adds with each mandala.

As we welcome in Spring a soft focus on this chakra enables us to progress with compassion, love and self-expression. You’ll find the ZOOM details below to join us!!