Deep Listening: Book Study and Rest Series
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30 PM
February 26 - April 2
Sign up for the full series or choose the class/es you can attend.
Class Description
This unique take on book club is a 6-week series devoted to remembering how to relax, and learning to reshape our lives around that pause. Each week, we will open our time with guided meditation and discussion followed by gentle stretching. Every practice will close with long, supported rest in a different Restorative yoga shape featured in Jillian's book, Deep Listening.
*Mats, bolsters, and blankets will be provided.*
Attendees are encouraged but not required to read two chapters each week to enjoy a slow pace through the text. Series participants (those registered for all 6 weeks) receive a FREE copy of Deep Listening by Jillian Pransky and printed discussion guide. Drop-in participants can bring their own copy of the text, and will be granted access to a digital copy of the discussion guide questions.
Registration
Equity Pricing
At Empowered Spaces we value community care, we are committed to making our offerings accessible, and we believe in leveraging our privilege and resources when we can in order to support one another. This Equity Pricing Scale acknowledges that as a result of systemic injustice our ability to pay for services, and access those services, varies. Choosing a rate that is accessible and meaningful is a justice-oriented practice that honors our interconnectedness.
Series Pricing:
Series Package Sustainer [includes free book, discussion guide, and attendance to all 6 sessions]: $150
Series Package Supporter [includes above, and pays for a book to be gifted to another participant]: $210
Series Package Community Rate [includes all Sustainer level items]: $100
Drop-In Pricing:
Drop-In Sustainer: $25
Drop-In Supporter: $35
Drop-In Community Rate: $15
Empowered Spaces is committed to doing everything possible to make offerings accessible to everyone. To inquire about the Empowered Spaces Equity Scholarship please contact Kelly at kkcaul@yahoo.com.
Health Precautions and Community Care
We value community care and showing up for one another. Currently: Masks are optional. Please stay home if you have symptoms, test positive, or were exposed to someone with COVID-19. We use a HEPA air purifier in the studio. If anyone would like to participate and would only feel comfortable if everyone is masked, please email Kelly kkcaul@yahoo.com.
Questions?
Email Alicia at slowandsteadyyoga@gmail.com
Meet Alicia
Alicia Delaney (E-RYT 200, YACEP) is passionate about co-creating community spaces devoted to deep rest. A natural nurturer and teacher, she is steeped in the work of helping others sustain more pause in their busy lives and make their lives less busy in the process. Alicia’s nervous system-informed understanding of yoga and body-based mindfulness lend her offerings a consistent quality of gentleness. Her class atmosphere matches her spirit: open, affirming, and easy-going, holding space for students to tenderly meet themselves with compassion and grace again and again and again.
Alicia’s mission is to guide students toward ease and delight in their bodies through relaxed pacing, open-choice sequencing, and invitational language. When practicing together, you can expect room for contemplation, curiosity, and movement with very little sweat. Her classes are an exploration of all things slow and simple, an opportunity to step out of our habits of rushing and performance so we can really hear what our bodies have to teach us. By cultivating this reverence toward and trust in the self, we become equipped to connect with the wisdom and power that resides in us all.
Always seeking out the medicine of rest and ways to share it with the world, Alicia has studied with internationally-renowned yoga therapist, Jillian Pransky, is attuned as an Usui Reiki practitioner, holds certification as a yoga nidra guide from the Shiva Shakti School of Yoga & Healing Arts, and is trained in the modality of Hot Stone Restorative Yoga and its applications for deeper states of ease.