Love♡Shine♡Play Festival 2024

By the time (or even before) we reach mid-life, most of us will have some physical issues that can feel like real limitations. This can cause us to feel disheartened or discouraged about our bodies and pull back from our yoga practice or other exercise programs.

Now 65 years of age, Desirée has been refining her practice and teaching since the late 1980’s. She has learned from both her own and her students' experiences how to dynamically practice yoga in a way that respects limitations while continuing to explore potential.

What we need are equal parts of willingness and curiosity. Desirée continues her studies with Physical Therapists and other movement professionals in order to stay informed so she can help students work skillfully with whatever they have going on at the moment.

Growing older gracefully is definitely not for sissies as the body and mind are deeply interconnected. Come and find out how Wisdom Warriors play the Game of Life. Bring a yoga strap and a block.

This immersion is for those that want an intimate experience with the aerial hammock as well as those that have an interest in meeting their next best friend (Hammock and/or Human). If you want to learn about yourself and how you move in the world this is the place for you. If aerial yoga is the movement practice you want to know more about, join me.

What if your life and all Earth life depends on the way you move physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually? What if choosing to become Somatically and Soul aware is the greatest gift you can give yourself and our planet? What if your life matters more than you can imagine, in these uncertain times?

At this moment within our ecological and cultural time, finding beauty and joy can be elusive. What type of practice, and in this case movement, will make a difference during times of challenge and times of peace? Join me for some play and some reflection.

This immersion into Radical Movement (your unique authentic movement) and Radical Joy (your enduring radiance) begins to explore these questions and more as we move together. When you move we move. When you move we may begin to discover together, what type of movement is possible in and out of the aerial yoga hammock.

The aerial hammock primes your awareness through somatic movement in play, heart openness, twisting, inverting perception, and cocoon-like holding. Guided aerial yoga postures and other prompts will bring awareness to the ways your unique authentic movement informs the choices you make at a personal level, within your community, and in the world at large.

Pairing the aerial hammock with your unique and authentic movement is sure to reveal the gifts we all need in uncertain times. Pairing hammock movement with reflection and imagination exercises we will write, draw, and express the gifts we all need in uncertain times. While we may walk away from this immersion with more questions than answers, consider becoming a seed that renews and rejoices in a life that matters and in lives that matter. Come ready to move, to explore, to be in community.

Are you the one that will attend?
Building partnership happens as we move together.
Join me in building personal awareness.
Join me in building community.
If community regenerates you, find yourself here.

I can’t wait to meet you!

Style: Aerial Yoga that is Hatha Informed w/ Guided Imagination & Dialogue

A note about Class Space and Configuration:

Because this practice is unique in its approach and set up, I’m inviting you to participate within an individual and partnered setting. With one anchor as a common rigging framework, I’ll be adding a second anchor point to accommodate another person. Each rig will support two participants. The mobile aerial rigs are designed to accommodate up to 1,000 lbs of dynamic weight load which means you and your fellow yogi/yogini will feel supported in this two anchor configuration. Each person will have their own aerial hammock. For inversions and other suspended postures each person will take turns in their hammock to ensure safety.

No aerial yoga or yoga experience is necessary to participate in this immersion.

If you enroll in this immersion additional information will be provided prior to our gathering about the way of the aerial yoga hammock, what to wear, what to prepare for and what to expect.

Have questions?? Reach out to me personally at tanya@blueplanetlivininginsitute.org.

This integrative workshop beautifully weaves the practice of Kundalini Yoga with the soul-soothing arts of guided meditation and Reiki healing.
Designed to enhance your inner and outer glow, this session draws upon the Magnificent Nine—a series that invigorates and balances your feminine energy while massaging your glands to alleviate stress. Alongside this dynamic practice, you will drift into a serene, guided meditation, allowing your mind to enter a state of profound peace and clarity.
To further enhance your journey towards wellness, Faith will share her years of energetic healing and the channeling universal energy to support emotional and physical healing while also aiding you in aligning your chakras and elevating your spirit.

Immerse yourself in the fluid movements and mesmerizing rhythms of bellydance in this uplifting workshop focused on presence and grace. Through a fusion of bellydance techniques and mindfulness practices, participants will learn to cultivate a sense of presence, mindfulness, and inner peace as they flow through elegant movements and sensual rhythms.

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to connect with the body, quiet the mind, and experience a deeper sense of embodiment and grace.

Did you know that our achilles tendon is more like that tendon on a gazelle than anything else?
What? Yep. When it’s working well, you can jump REALLY far and high because of that thick strip of powerful fascia. Fascia comes in many forms throughout the body and needs certain kinds of attention to allow for the greatest mobility, stability, and ease in your body.

In this workshop, anatomy and pain expert, Cat Matlock of FreeBody, will teach you a little bit about fascia and how to keep it from getting bound and sticky in your body. We’ll use soft balls for rolling and hydrating the fascia in the lower body and buttocks, then go through a series of simple but profound yoga asana flows to keep your fascia nourished. Come play in your fascial bodysuit! Let’s free up the feet, calves, hamstrings, and hips!

Coming into stillness within, accompanied by our breath of life, our bodies journey through energetic pathways that open up the flow of prana. The sticks and branches are cleared in this inner river of blessings while we lie on the earth that holds us. Here we steep for a time in each pose bringing fresh new energy and a deep calm touching upon the breath of life.

Experience how sound and healing music can be used to unlock many of our blocks and challenges we experience daily. Using Sound Off Experience headphones, DJ Taz Rashid shares his wisdom and path in sound healing as we meditate, tune inward, gain clarity and listen to the language of our spirit. We will open up the four directions and expect to hear healing deep relaxation sounds from all over the world such as singing bowls, didgeridoos, over-tone singing, percussion, Native American flutes, guitar and atmospheric soundscapes to guide the journey. This is the inner revolution your body has been looking for.

There’s a wealth of therapeutic potential in Thai massage’s moments of rocking and rhythm. A subtle and continuous rocking, soft jiggling, and slow shaking can greatly advance us in softening, and surrendering resistance. We’ll focus on the neck, shoulder, and spine to build our capacity to share healing touch that is fluid with pleasant pockets of tender intuition. No experience in Thai massage necessary, please come with a partner you want to give and receive with.

In this class you will learn how to make the mind-body connection more conscious and therefore helpful in your backbend poses. Any type of pain we feel during our practice is meant to be a guide to help us strengthen our weak parts and soften the tight ones. Gradually we can feel less limited and more empowered. Let’s explore these poses with curiosity and discover possibilities together.

Awaken the Lakshmi Codes and activate your heart fire in this uplifting practice of backbends, mantra, mudra, and pranayama.

Sianna will weave the alchemical practices of yoga with the Lakshmi Codes through her signature storytelling and anchor it into the body and psyche with symbols, codes, teachings, asana flow, and powerful breath work. Backbends untie the knots of the heart and free up stuck energy to enhance the whole bioenergetic system. This intelligent sequence pulses with symmetrical and asymmetrical backbends to build healthy alignment for practice and everyday posture. This sequence increases vitality, strengthens the posterior chain of muscles, cultivates a growth mindset, and grounds the codes of abundance, dharma and liberation into your life and practice.

The key practices of Rasa Yoga include: asana (physical postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), mantra (healing sound vibration), mudra (energy seals created by the hands), meditation (expanded states of awareness), and vichara (self-inquiry). When you activate the Lakshmi Codes in a balanced way, your whole life shines! You become an agent of dharma, peace, abundance, and liberation for All Beings. Rasa Yoga is a bhakti fusion of asana, mantra, mudra, myth, pranayama, meditation, functional anatomy, Tantric yoga philosophy, shadow work, social justice advocacy and soul alchemy.

Expressing our creativity is both relaxing and fun. During this session, Amanda will first share what she learned on her journey of making art as a spiritual practice with her 10,000 Buddhas project. Then you will be guided through a visual meditation to discover your own inspiration and mystical nature. Afterward, we will take time to draw, color, and journal what we experienced. No experience is necessary.

Learn about the basic principles of Ayurvedic nutrition and how it applies to your health and wellness. In this class, we'll explore what it means to eat with an Ayurvedic diet, along with basic tools for you to go home with and apply to your own life. We'll also be showcasing a food demo of some nutritious Ayurvedic foods along with DIYing your own Spice Blend! Join Nishita as she brings the science of Ayurveda to align with your perfect state of health!

When you know, you know. The sacred trine of Sun, Moon, Earth create our experience of time and space. Each of us have been uniquely etched in relationship to these cycles. Aligning our practice to the great and universal cycles of the sacred trine allows us the ability to cultivate a meaningful relationship with divinity as embodied in nature. Through this alignment, we can experience a deep and sustaining vitality ~ we become radiant. Lecture, movement and meditation coalesce around the path of the moon and the wisdom and harmony of the lunar.

After a few years of lower back instability I found an inner strength and some self empowerment with the Foundation Training movements. These unique postures combined with ‘Connection to Creation’ prana focus and ‘Breakthrough Shadow Work’ to illuminate the potential inner wisdom of the body bring us on a path of repair and healing.

Practicing self-control without attachment to outcomes is the method described in Patańjali's Yogasūtra (1.12). It is a way to not only find the flow state (where we are completely focused in the present, creative, productive, happy and in control), it is a way to abide in it day and night. Come for a gentle all-levels practice that integrates Patañjali’s Yoga Philosophy and the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

This session is designed to explore pathways that build more authenticity and creativity in your yoga practice, yoga teaching and in all aspects of your life. Our voice is a powerful tool, and a direct expression of our intimate self. It changes significantly with different nervous system states. Due to life’s circumstances, many of us lose the ability to authentically utilize one of the greatest tools we have been given, our voice. We will utilize skillful asana sequencing, bhakti yoga, somatic practices, and sangha to guide our time together. You will leave inspired, informed, and aware of how to find more authentic ways of practicing and/or teaching and being in life.