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About Shin Yoga
SHIN YOGA was born out of the need for a different type of Yoga. One that respects the body as profound wisdom, one that encourages embodiment, breath as spirit and living as being!
Shin Yoga is "sensing your body, breath and movement. It is a practice of bringing consciousness to each moment of moving" through yoga postures, pranayama and meditation. (Amy Matthews)
Shin Yoga is becoming the fluid, following the waves forms, recognising the blocks and releasing them.
"The universe consists entirely of waves of motion which spring from stillness and return to stillness" Walter Russel (American Polymath)Shin Yoga is DOING LESS TO FEEL MORE
Shin Yoga is UNION WITH THE SELF
Discover the anatomical, kinesthetic and energetic relationships within the body, and between the body and breath, that are at the heart of a somatic practice.
Yoga connects us to our centre, helping us find softness and fluidity in the places we are rigid. As we gain flexibility on our mats, we are also reminded to create space for more fluidity—and less rigidity—in our daily lives.
As we grow stronger in our ability to simultaneously open and support ourselves, we develop an ability to align instead of a determination to reach a finished alignment.
The Practice:
Drawing on the developmental postures of Shin Somatics, Skinner Releasing principles, Body Mind Centering, Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy and somatic practice Shin Yoga focuses on opening and lengthening the body and quietening the mind. Based on the founding principle of Yoga – to create balance - we begin with balancing the nervous system and endocrine system, using asanas and pranayama inspired for healing and inner reflection.
Help manage stress, learn to wind down and create a space to just BE in your body. This is a transformative practice.
Suitable for those new to yoga, or for long-time yogis needing a more embodied gentle practice. Fabulous for those recovering from illness or injury, those in the later stages of the life cycle, pregnancy or post-natal mums or those in relax mode. Shin Yoga moves gently through the postures with a focus on healing, restoration and revitalisation.
Shin Yoga moves towards deep and profound relaxation in body, mind and spirit.
Experience the quiet mind of DIVINE NEUTRALITY
"No one part of the body compresses or congeals against any other part - so we have maximum freedom to move" Joan Skinner
Shin yoga classes are currently being held at the SOUL CENTRE, Titirangi, Auckland and in Ponsonby at the Leys Institite in New Zealand
WEDNESDAYS 6-7.15pm - SOUL CENTRE, Titirangi
THURSDAYS 6-7.15pm - LEYS INSTITUTE, Ponsonby
FRIDAYS 6-7.15pm - SOUL CENTRE, Titirangi
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About Willa
Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe BPSA, Dip CST, Cert SRT, Cert BIB, Cert Shin Somatics, Dip TMHST, RMT
Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe is the founder and director of the SOUL CENTRE, and the founder of SHIN YOGA. She has been working in dance and holistic health and wellbeing for over 15 years. She is an established choreographer, director, filmmaker and dancer and has performed all over the world. She is also one of NZ’s top somatic practitioners and has a current practice at SOUL CENTRE combining, cranio-sacral therapy, massage, movement therapy, dance, yoga and meditation. She is one of NZ’s 2 SRT certified facilitators, a Shin Somatics movement therapist and trainer and is a certified Birth into Being instructor - she has taught somatics in many institutions, universities, training programs and communities. Willa teaches regular classes at the SOUL CENTRE in Titirangi and in Ponsonby in Auckland, New Zealand and teaches workshops around the globe. She is also a corporate wellness consultant and facilitates yoga and massage for selected businesses in the Auckland area.
"As we prepare for stillness we acknowledge the very fluid nature of ourselves and that our physical bodies exist as a series of waves and fluctuations, of fluids and spaces" Wilhemeena Monroe
Willa's teaching is grounded, heart-full and alive with spirit. Her subtle, yet profound approach to yoga teaching, informed by her work as a somatic therapist, works on levels deeper than the physical. Being guided by her I felt held within a sphere of kindness and peace, attuned to the universal rhythms present within the bodily system. I greatly admire Willa's ability to reconnect her students with this powerful doorway into silence, presence and healing in the body and mind. Peter Fernando
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Classes and Workshops
WEEKLY CLASSES:
Shin yoga classes are currently held at the SOUL CENTRE, Titirangi, and in Ponsonby at the Leys Institute Gymnasium Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
WEDNESDAYS 6-7.15pm, SOUL CENTRE, Titirangi
THURSDAYS 6-7.15pm, LEYS INSTITUTE, Ponsonby
FRIDAYS 6-7.15pm, SOUL CENTRE, Titirangi
Bookings essential.To book email info@soulcentre.co.nz or call/text 027.6616618(Release Me class is right after at 7.30pm, so feel free to stay for the evening) For more info see www.soulcentre.co.nzWORKSHOPS:
Opening to Presence
Foundations of MindfulnessInsight Meditation, Chi Kung and SHIN YOGA day retreat with Wilhemeena Monroe and Erin Taylor19 May, 10-5.30pm$120When we are awake to the present moment we can fully experience reality, know truth and feel whole. Yet, we tend to waste our lives in painful cycles of craving, aversion and confusion, preoccupied with trying to think our way out.Erin Taylor teaches Insight Meditation in Wellington with the Original Nature Insight Meditation group, including Peter Fernando, Stephen Archer and Hugh Tennent. She explored different meditation traditions from her late teens in the 1970s and has practised in the Insight Meditation tradition for more than 25 years. She studied Zhineng Chi Gong in NZ and in China and taught it for ten years before deciding to focus on teaching meditation. Chi Gong had a powerful effect on her own meditation practice and she has recently been teaching the two practices together.The practices of meditation and chi gong offer us a way to ground ourselves through sensing and feeling, opening to an awareness that is vital, profound and intrinsically free.
Chi gong and SHIN YOGA are a powerful support for mindfulness meditation: relaxing the body, quietening the mind and helping to maintain awareness in the here and now.
This day-long workshop will include meditation, dharma talks and simple chi gong and SHIN yoga practices to balance and harmonise body and mind. It is suitable for all levels of health and fitness.
SHIN YOGA and INSIGHT MEDITATION DAY RETREAT with Peter Fernando and Wilhemeena Monroe
13th October 2013
More info coming soon!!
Bookings ESSENTIAL!!!!
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Retreats
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RETREATS
SAMOA BLISS RETREAT
with Wilhemeena Monroe, Katherine Tate, Peter Fernando and Seonaid Lyons.
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2014
SHIN YOGA Nepal Adventure with Wilhemeena MonroeOctober/November 2014
