About this Event
The Rooted Practice Collective is the first of a monthly series that will offer a place and community to learn and cultivate practices that can become the bedrock of a mindful way of living.
Whether you are new to these practices or a long-time practitioner, this space will offer opportunities for self-discovery and the evolution of your practice.
In this 2.5 hour offering, you'll experience guided yoga flows, meditation, and a short mindfulness talk on how practice becomes medicine for living. Monthly, we come together in community to practice and explore how to work skillfully with our shared human experience to help ground and heal. What you cultivate here becomes your evolving personal foundation: a collection of practices uniquely yours to carry into your daily life to transform, embody, and connect with Self.
Agenda
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Arrive and Settle
Info: Please arrive any time between 10 and 10:30 am. Use this time to settle into the space, grab props, and ask questions prior to beginning.
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Welcome and Tune In
Host: Jules Rickner
Info: We'll begin with a short practice that includes the breath, movement, and awareness to help us all arrive in the space and in our bodies. Chris and Jules will share our intentions for this community and how it might support us in our daily lifestyle.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Guided Yoga Flow
Host: Jules Rickner
Info: Together we will flow through a sequence of poses that is designed connect with the physical body through breath and dynamic movement. You will be gently challenged and playfully inspired, while building the foundation for your practice.
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Meditation on the Breath and Body
Host: Chris Voirin
Info: Chris will guide us through a 15-minute meditation that helps us remain present in the moment by attuning our attention to the immediacy of the breath.
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Take Rest
Info: A built-in break to rest. You may choose to go for a walk, close your eyes, journal, drink some tea, or visit with each other.
🕑: 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
The Benefits (and Difficulties) of Cultivating a Daily Practice
Host: Jules Rickner
Info: Jules and Chris share their own experiences, both the benefits and the difficulties, of cultivating a daily practice of yoga and meditation. We’re all human, and life moves fast. Rather than trying to slow the world down, a daily practice helps us stay grounded and present in the life we’re already living.
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:15 PM
Restorative Yoga Flow with Meditation
Host: Jules Rickner
Info: Experience a slower flow with deeper stretches paired with the centered awareness that mindfulness meditation offers. This practice will help us understand what "moving meditation" really means as we remain steadily aware of what's arising in us as we rest in each pose.
🕑: 01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Reflect
Info: An opportunity to reflect on what resonated and what you want to take with you in the upcoming month.
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Unhurried Departure
Info: Take your time and return to the marketplace of daily life.
Event venue & nearby stays
Hot Yoga Oak Park & Yoga Loft Studios, 115 North Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, United States
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