Sofia Diaz - Purifying Your Mind Through Steadying the Body

In the sinew and weave of the joints of our bodies are matrixes of consciousness, open or bound depending on the held-ness or release of life experiences and breath into this moment. In the activation of feeling awareness of these nadis is an explosion of purifying force that has the capacity to liberate long-standing habits that limit the inherently expansive awareness of our minds.

In the other extreme of vinyasa or flow of asanas, this weekend will focus on steady presencing of breath and feeling in what are considered some of the most potent postures of the yogic wisdom lineages. Enhancing the purification into the patterns of our modern minds, we will spend some time identifying the rhythmical patterns of anxiety, insidious hopelessness and unlove that personally riddle our minds in ways unique to us and then shine the light of deep yogic practice on the un-thought potential of our inherently awake and radiant bodies of life.

February is a great time of year for housecleaning of the psyche, the winter’s dark allows for stagnation in the patterns of our thoughts and lives to be felt more easily.

Sofia Ophelia Diaz is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement, and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her form of teaching and body philosophy from the South Indian Temple Arts and their accompanying scriptures. Along with 27 years of intensive study and daily practice of several traditions of Yoga, she has apprenticed with dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of Devadasi sadir. Sofia has published writings on yoga and sacred movement and travels frequently, teaching yoga intensives throughout the world.