… A Winter Series to Deepen your Yoga Practice with Plants …
Join Suzanne for an immersion into the alchemy of plants, and how the distillation of their wisdom - in the form of essential oils - can be woven into your life and spiritual practice to strengthen it on all levels.
This online yoga series will center around the flow of Prana- the vital currency of life in the body through the five Vayus or channels, and Suzanne’s experience using essential oils to assist with the connection of these channels.
“That we take plant words in through our nose or our skin or our eyes or our tongue instead of our ears does not make their language less subtle, or sophisticated, or less filled with meaning..."
- Stephen Harrod Buhner
Plants have accumulated intelligence for longer than human time- and their wisdom lives encoded in their essential oils.
We will dive into devotional practice spending one week with vetiver, frankincense, cardamon, rosemary, and lavender. And centering our practice with each Vayu- or current- of Prana.
You will gain applicable knowledge about the body, the Vayus and the plants that is protective and strengthening.
Following Prana’s map through the system of the Vayus we will explore five key plants that synergize and assist the movement of Prana. These plants function as anchors of awareness to the body- giving us assistance in harnessing our attention and deepening practice.
Each week we will study a singular plant - exploring webs of connection that affect all aspects of its character- from environment, cultivation and harvest, to the psycho-somatic affects.
Our time will begin with a meditation with the plant- a way of directly learning from and communicating with the plant. Even if you’ve worked with these plants for decades- a relationship can always deepen.
We will then weave the plant with us into breath-based asana practice. The yoga will be modifiable to suit your needs but will be strength and attention based.
After practice, we will move into visual storytelling and materia medica of each plant. Our learning will be historical, scientific, visual, olfactory, meditative, and intuitive. You will be building or deepening a personal relationship with each of these plants and allowing them to connect you more deeply to your yoga practice.
Suzanne will guide you in how to choose and care for essential oils; how to navigate the many companies selling oils and begin building your own apothecary.
This program will be live, online from 9-11:30 am PST on Thursdays. It will be recorded for those who wish to absorb the material for up to a month after.
Six Thursday Mornings
9:00 am - 11:30 am
$145/ $120 before November 23rd
About your guide:
Suzanne has been enamored with essential oils since she was a young girl. She got her first book on the science and blending of essential oils as an eight-year old.
A life of personal exploration and devotion of the plants lead to various formal contexts of study: the therapeutic applications as a professional herbalist through the Northwest School of Botanical studies, the science and ethnobotany through classes at UC Berkeley, and the spiritual applications with her primary teacher David Crow LAc.
All these years later, she is just as enamored with the generosity of these plants, and grateful for how they can be supportive of our spiritual maturation.