Earthing: A Day of Clay, Yoga, and Meditation, Sunday, August 11, 10am-5pm
We are pleased to once again offer a day of touching down and getting grounded through yoga, clay, and meditation. This is the second year for this collaboration between our own Jess Thompson and her beloved mentor of 23 years, renowned yoga teacher, Buddhist meditator, and eco-activist Mary Paffard.
Touching clay is like walking barefoot; we experience a feeling of groundedness from contact with something soft, natural, and powerful. When we practice yoga, we have a reassuring feeling of being held by the stable immensity of the earth. Our body responds to the quiet tactility of the material and it responds to us.
This day long workshop will give you a few delicious hours to focus your attention on these fundamental experiences, exploring these connections through simple, meditative practices. All are welcome: from total beginner to advanced, non-yogis, yogis, non-artists, artists, everyone!
There will be no emphasis on making completed objects - we’ll let go of the “fruits of our actions” as the Bhagavad Gita says, and let the earth return to earth. We’ll consider how we effect the shape of our world when we place our handmade objects back into the landscape.
Mary: “I have always delighted in bringing the creative voice more fully into yoga, and also seeing how yoga and meditation bring an authenticity and embodied quality into artistic expression and into the creative options we become open to in our day to day lives. Jess, as a young artist, came to apprentice at a local pottery studio, and attended classes and trained to become a teacher. I’ve enjoyed watching her evolution as an extraordinary artist and teacher, and have had the pleasure of being in her clay classes - which are phenomenal and totally accessible to all, whatever level you may be.”
Mary is a force in the yoga world, “the teacher’s teacher”. She has lived off-grid on the collective apple farm Pomo Tierra in Anderson Valley for over 30 years. Mary co-founded the non profit Yoga Mendocino in Ukiah, and was Director of Teacher Training there from 2000-2010, and has been creating teachers’ programs for training and “un-training” since the mid 90s. She continues to be part of the Teacher Training faculty at Piedmont Yoga, Oakland and has brought trainings to Mexico, Cuba and Europe through her Yoga Alliance certified school, Yoga for All.
This will be an outdoor event and if weather is inclement your fees will be refunded. We will have a maximum of 12 students, so register early! We’re offering the workshop for $110 if you register by July 1st, and $100 thereafter.
Please bring
Yoga mat, blanket and towel, water bottle, and comfortable layered clothing in case of coastal fog ;).
Your own lunch! (snacks, tea, and juice will be available)
We are pleased to once again offer a day of touching down and getting grounded through yoga, clay, and meditation. This is the second year for this collaboration between our own Jess Thompson and her beloved mentor of 23 years, renowned yoga teacher, Buddhist meditator, and eco-activist Mary Paffard.
Touching clay is like walking barefoot; we experience a feeling of groundedness from contact with something soft, natural, and powerful. When we practice yoga, we have a reassuring feeling of being held by the stable immensity of the earth. Our body responds to the quiet tactility of the material and it responds to us.
This day long workshop will give you a few delicious hours to focus your attention on these fundamental experiences, exploring these connections through simple, meditative practices. All are welcome: from total beginner to advanced, non-yogis, yogis, non-artists, artists, everyone!
There will be no emphasis on making completed objects - we’ll let go of the “fruits of our actions” as the Bhagavad Gita says, and let the earth return to earth. We’ll consider how we effect the shape of our world when we place our handmade objects back into the landscape.
Mary: “I have always delighted in bringing the creative voice more fully into yoga, and also seeing how yoga and meditation bring an authenticity and embodied quality into artistic expression and into the creative options we become open to in our day to day lives. Jess, as a young artist, came to apprentice at a local pottery studio, and attended classes and trained to become a teacher. I’ve enjoyed watching her evolution as an extraordinary artist and teacher, and have had the pleasure of being in her clay classes - which are phenomenal and totally accessible to all, whatever level you may be.”
Mary is a force in the yoga world, “the teacher’s teacher”. She has lived off-grid on the collective apple farm Pomo Tierra in Anderson Valley for over 30 years. Mary co-founded the non profit Yoga Mendocino in Ukiah, and was Director of Teacher Training there from 2000-2010, and has been creating teachers’ programs for training and “un-training” since the mid 90s. She continues to be part of the Teacher Training faculty at Piedmont Yoga, Oakland and has brought trainings to Mexico, Cuba and Europe through her Yoga Alliance certified school, Yoga for All.
This will be an outdoor event and if weather is inclement your fees will be refunded. We will have a maximum of 12 students, so register early! We’re offering the workshop for $110 if you register by July 1st, and $100 thereafter.
Please bring
Yoga mat, blanket and towel, water bottle, and comfortable layered clothing in case of coastal fog ;).
Your own lunch! (snacks, tea, and juice will be available)
We are pleased to once again offer a day of touching down and getting grounded through yoga, clay, and meditation. This is the second year for this collaboration between our own Jess Thompson and her beloved mentor of 23 years, renowned yoga teacher, Buddhist meditator, and eco-activist Mary Paffard.
Touching clay is like walking barefoot; we experience a feeling of groundedness from contact with something soft, natural, and powerful. When we practice yoga, we have a reassuring feeling of being held by the stable immensity of the earth. Our body responds to the quiet tactility of the material and it responds to us.
This day long workshop will give you a few delicious hours to focus your attention on these fundamental experiences, exploring these connections through simple, meditative practices. All are welcome: from total beginner to advanced, non-yogis, yogis, non-artists, artists, everyone!
There will be no emphasis on making completed objects - we’ll let go of the “fruits of our actions” as the Bhagavad Gita says, and let the earth return to earth. We’ll consider how we effect the shape of our world when we place our handmade objects back into the landscape.
Mary: “I have always delighted in bringing the creative voice more fully into yoga, and also seeing how yoga and meditation bring an authenticity and embodied quality into artistic expression and into the creative options we become open to in our day to day lives. Jess, as a young artist, came to apprentice at a local pottery studio, and attended classes and trained to become a teacher. I’ve enjoyed watching her evolution as an extraordinary artist and teacher, and have had the pleasure of being in her clay classes - which are phenomenal and totally accessible to all, whatever level you may be.”
Mary is a force in the yoga world, “the teacher’s teacher”. She has lived off-grid on the collective apple farm Pomo Tierra in Anderson Valley for over 30 years. Mary co-founded the non profit Yoga Mendocino in Ukiah, and was Director of Teacher Training there from 2000-2010, and has been creating teachers’ programs for training and “un-training” since the mid 90s. She continues to be part of the Teacher Training faculty at Piedmont Yoga, Oakland and has brought trainings to Mexico, Cuba and Europe through her Yoga Alliance certified school, Yoga for All.
This will be an outdoor event and if weather is inclement your fees will be refunded. We will have a maximum of 12 students, so register early! We’re offering the workshop for $110 if you register by July 1st, and $100 thereafter.
Please bring
Yoga mat, blanket and towel, water bottle, and comfortable layered clothing in case of coastal fog ;).
Your own lunch! (snacks, tea, and juice will be available)