Freestyle Flow: Tea and the Axis Mundi

🙂 Accessible, balanced, engaging // 60 min. // YuMee

A class honouring the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, author, poet, and peace activist. We bring his special brand of embodied spirituality onto the mat by remembering his advice to “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” Here, the spinal axis stands in for the Axis Mundi and the gyrations of the body are a proxy for the turning of the earth. You can expect a slow, deep, introspective practice with some moments of pleasurable challenge.