SEED INTO LIGHT

:::::Dieser Workshop findet in der Burggasse 31, 1070 Wien statt::::

For women who feel the call to tend to the dark and the deep – especially amidst the rush of December – to slow down, to move with presence, to listen inward, and to meet the returning light from a place of sensuality, presence, and community.

As we arrive at the threshold of the Solstice – the longest night of the year – we gather in community and attunement. In this turning point between endings and beginnings, the light of the new cycle stirs, quiet and unseen. Like seeds lying in the belly of the earth, we rest in darkness that is not empty but full of potential – holding the whisper of what is yet to come.

This gathering is an embodied passage – from darkness into glimmering light, from movement into stillness, from sound into silence, from expression into deep listening. Through gentle movement and sensual dance, we attune to the rhythms of the body as to the turning of the earth, allowing what has been held to soften and what wishes to emerge to take shape.

“Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quietly getting ready to be spring.” - Rumi

The Ritual

To honour this turning of the year, we will share my Persian tradition for the winter solstice (Persian: Shabe Yalda) – offering and eating pomegranate seeds and nuts, symbols of life, sweetness, and the light that lives within the dark. In that same spirit, we too will share poems – as openings into the vastness of our inner worlds, as invitations to let language become light.Together we remember that what we tend within us nourishes the whole – that the warmth of community, like the seed beneath the soil, carries the promise of renewal.Each seed we taste becomes an offering – for what will be nourished, for what is waiting to awaken.

What to expect

• Somatic awareness practices
• Gentle embodied movement & yoga asana
• Sensual somatic dancing
• Embodied Yin Yoga & Somatic Yoga Nidra
• Reading and sharing poems
• Eating and “planting” seeds

Woven through it all is an immersive soundscape

What to bring

• Comfortable clothing
• A notebook/journal and pen
• You’re welcome to bring and share your favourite poem(s)

Bring a woman you love — she joins for 30% off.

::::The workshop will be held in English.::::

About Shima

Shima is a yoga facilitator, energyworker and a speaker with a passion to hold space - using her voice, presence, touch and the tools of asana + somatics.

In her sessions you are invited to move from a place of curiosity, playfulness, inquiry, deep listening and sensing, opening towards a different way of knowing and experiencing – an embodied and authentic way of being.

Education

Shima offers 15 years of yoga teaching experience and mindfully integrates her in-depth studies of various yoga traditions such as Hatha, Ashtanga, Yin, pre- and postnatal and Body Mind Centering. She has studied with teachers such as Richard Freeman, Angela Farmer, Tara Judelle, Satu Tuomela and many more.  



:::::Dieser Workshop findet in der Burggasse 31, 1070 Wien statt::::