INTERACTIVE KUNDALINI YOGA
( CALENDAR For ALL COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES has moved to www.whimsyum.org#calendar !!! )
FREE (& by donation no one turned away) Community Gathering-Workshops
Center For New Directions In Kundalini Yoga & Local/Global Kundalini Yoga Community (SCROLL DOWN For Description)
To be invited to gatherings join low volume, email list for The WHIMSYUM,
we often don't get all gatherings posted on the site!: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/the-whimsyum/info
( you don't need a yahoo email to join this list, you can send an email w/the word
subscribe in the subject & body of the email to: the-whimsyum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com )
For Next Gathering! See Activities CALENDAR PAGE!
WHAT Is INTERACTIVE Kundalini Yoga?:
Step Off Your Mat & Try the Social Yoga!: Usually Yoga class is a ‘solo’ journey:
Instead, this class is a chance for the Kundalini Yoga community to come together & support
each other practicing interactively, -- in pairs on the same mat, or in physically connected
poses as a circle. While breathing & sharing movements or stillness often while looking into
each other's eyes holding hands or touching fingertips, using each other’s weight to help us stretch, chanting/ singing, & sometimes laughing, -- the teacher shares a guided journey of words, music, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Gong & *positive affirmations*.
Interactive Kundalini Yoga is not gender-focused & facilitates a space of being comfortable
& able to celebrate just *being* with another human being, & *just being* with oneself, --
without needing words: being present to one's breath, & the needs of one’s body
--*while
truly being present & connecting with another human being & enjoying it! It’s a
Yoga that focuses deeper on the vast gift of community, truly receiving each moment, &
bringing one
to mind-body-spirit epiphany. This is about community, connecting with human
beings: Participants need to be comfortable participating with both genders.
~*Join others in cocreating & Living the future ~*NOW*~ in these community gatherings of people consciously choosing to live by their own rhythms & make their decisions from their heart & spirit rather than letting their lives be limited by mainstream thinking*~
We periodically host Women-only & Men-only gathering workshop-classes too, --contact us if you'd like to attend!
LA ACROYOGA Community Gatherings & Classes Free & By Donation sponsored by The WHIMSYUM Center & Community Network for New Directions & Resources to support the AcroYoga Community Locally & Globally: Acro Yoga is a heart-opening, social/interactive yoga which increases bone density & provides massage/accupressure release as 2 or more people's bodies are poised & leaned, intertwined against each other to create great release of tension. Combination of Partner/Social Yoga, Thai Massage ( social/interactive, takes no effort,not a strain on hands as uses leaning/manipulating weight of each other's body), & Acrobatics made safe by always having 2 human beings on each side 'spotting' --capable of carrying person being lifted so no risk of falling: Our gatherings are different than other Acro Yoga gatherings & classes: Most Acro Yoga classes tell you to expect to fall & that falling is part of AcroYoga: Not so, at our gatherings you can be of any experience, fitness level, or shape, --& experience all benefits of AcroYoga, while still being safe: Most Acro Yoga groups don't make sure there are 2 spotters (they use 1 or none) & don't make sure spotters can really carry the person they're spotting). Because of this they may not practice w/you unless you have clothing snug to your body; but since we only practice w/sturdy spotters, you can wear whatever comfortable flexible clothing you want. Also, other Acro yoga groups generally consist of only young or very fit people... & can be somewhat focused on appearance, & like most communities, more mainstream than this community & interested in practicing w/people like themselves. And Acroyoga classes are seldom available free like they are thru our community -- so mainstream teachers are not always focused solely on friendship, like they are in our community :) Like all our gatherings --we joyfully welcome & enjoy people of all ages, sizes, styles, financial situations, & perspectives on life; our gatherings are a celebration of diverse, outside-the-box community; hosted outdoors in non-institutional environments like public parks & nature areas.
Years ago The WHIMSYUM AcroYoga Center & Community Network regularly hosted free 8-HANDED MASSAGE (see description at this link: www.whimsyum.net/affirmassage.html ) gatherings for the AcroYoga community --bringing this wonderful practice into the community & making it a tradition now often referred to as Divine Play! Currently we're supporting the creation of AcroKundaliniYoga
(a combination of Interactive Kundalini Yoga & AcroYoga). Please join us at gatherings in brainstorming & cocreating new directions; all ideas are welcome!
