Embodied Living

Meditation

Life is as it is, and it consists of constant shifts. The only actual constant is the change.

Meditation involves, among other things, looking at and accepting what is.

It is a big misconception that meditation is about emptying one's head of thoughts.

It is about becoming aware of where to place your attention and energy, and to do this without judging what you happen to encounter. It is To become aware of how you think, and how this affects you -whether the thought gives you energy or if it takes energy away from you.

When we meditate, the body's negative reactions to stress decrease, and this can, among other things, relieve headaches and chronic pain.

There are many different ways to meditate, and those are basically different paths towards the same goal. You might have heard about techniques or styles such as concentration, breathing, sound and mantra, visualization and movement meditations.

Breathwork 

Your breathing is the path to a sustainable body. To create an awareness of out breathing is of great importance to us and to our ability to feel our bodies and our inner emotional life. Breathing is the gate to our emotions and the connection between body and mind that connects the conscious and the unconscious within us.

Study after study shows what inorganic breathing does to us, and how much we can actually increase our well-being through breathing. 

Your breathing affects i.a. your sleep, your posture, your digestion, your memory, your pelvis, your adrenal glands and parts of the body that you have not even thought about being affected. Breathing affects stress and anxiety and can be your best friend, or your worst enemy.

-Once you own your breath, no-one can steal your peace - Unknown

Yoga

Yoga is a great tool if you want to reduce stress in the body and want to promote recovery and healing.

The yoga in Embodied Living - The Club is a calm, empathetic and easily accessible yoga form where we work both physically and mentally with the body.

The yoga sessions will strengthen your body and reduce stress so that your body and mind can function in its best way. The goal of the yoga sessions is to create balance in depth, and thereby make room for the strong vitality that lives within us.

Movement supplies our emotions with and creates life and flow through our entire system from the inside and out. 

Embodied Movement / Free dance 

Embodied movement is about exploring, sensing and listening. It is an embodied and explorative improvisation based practice, bringing in elements from free dance, authentic movement, Breath work and the felt experience of being a human body. 

You are invited to a journey where you explore the rhythm of your own body. Allow yourself to curiously explore and play, and allow the practice to become a call to come home to yourself.

Movement nourishes our emotions, and helps what is stagnant to move. 

Movement creates life, flow and joy. From our toes to our heart, from our nervous system to the soul and to the brain, and all the way back.

Give yourself permission to go on a curious journey within your own body. A journey where there is flow and lightness in places it might feel closed or a little stagnant.