This beautiful moment in the year is when energy hangs in the balance, trees are heavy with fruit, kitchens filled with the scents of jams and chutneys as you gather in your harvest on every level.
After the exuberance of summertime, taking your time to savour each day grounded, brings good things. Outdoors, you can see leaves starting to yellow, crisp up and fall, tinges of Autumn waiting in the wings. Skies blue, ribbons of shadows over the green parks and fields from the lowering sun.
Walking barefoot on the bare earth reconnects you with your birthright, your own incredible architecture of your feet and the dance of your body and gravity from the years of your learned proprioception. As yogis we value what supple responsive feet bring us - longevity!
Perfect time of year to swim. The sea has had all year to warm so long sunny afternoons on the beach are a real tonic, connecting you to the Earth, the element of Late Summer or Harvest time.
Earth is the central element for all others (wood, fire, earth, metal, water): just as gravity draws us home, you draw energy into your centre, focusing on a good sense of self and boundaries from that.
If we liken the seasons to a day then Late Summer is the afternoon. Often you can find yourself needing downtime mid afternoon. Lucie says:
“I recall pitching for a £100k public art project in the graveyard shift and one of the interview team was snoozing at the back of a warm windowless room, anyhow maybe my dulcet tones wove their magic into their dreams because we got awarded the contract, my first unintentional nidra!”
Taking time to eke out space to slow down and connect is one important way you honour yourself, your vitality and energy reserves. Rest is one simple and deeply effective way to nourish yourself and in nidra, you experience deep healing states effortlessly.
Nidra in Late Summer is a pranam to Mother Earth. In gratitude of all the plenty of the harvest, you can lie on your front for a deeper connection (“…trust me, it's a game changer for effortless relaxation!” - Lucie).
This gathering will celebrate the Maha Devi and Shakti with simple movement and prostrations, followed by two nidra practices with a break for spiced tea and tasty earthy snacks between:
- One woven from the silk of Late Summer, a soft shawl of care wrapped around you to draw you home to yourself;
- One with sansula, chimes and singing bowls to lull you to sweet rest, so you can drink deeply from the well of Late Summer.
Expect to emerge nourished, in your centre and grounded.
Session Cost
£20 / £14 concession
All nidras shared will be recorded & available as mp3s to download afterwards for continuing practice.
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About Lucie
Lucie is a Senior Teacher in Seasonal Yoga & Associate Facilitator of Total Yoga Nidra. She first encountered this incredible healing practice in 2011. However, it was her experience of Total Yoga Nidra with Uma, Nirlipta Dinsmore-Tuli and Ben Wolff in 2016 and subsequent training & work with them, that radically shifted the landscape of what yoga nidra can be. From something read from a book to a strong, informed, flexible practice of deep healing and connection, focused on the individual with safety and support at its heart.
Lucie co-facilitated the first Total Yoga Nidra Immersion with Nirlipta Tuli in Glasgow in February 2020 and continues her training with him in nidra & neuroscience. 2023 will see the first Wildsong Nidra immersions and training here in Scotland and she’s published on Insight Timer too.
Lucie's training and practice respects and draws on all traditions of yoga nidra. She shares nidra live, created in the moment, tailored for the group/individual, entwined in nature and the seasons. Nidra offers us the chance to come home to ourselves, to truly unite with our Self in beautifully simple and easy ways. ‘There is nothing to do and nowhere to be. It is time to come home.’