Full Moon Yoga Class! The Worm Moon
Celebrate the Worm Moon with a flowing, grounding yoga practice to welcome the energies of spring
Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm Eastern | Online Class
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Join me for a Full Moon yoga class to welcome the energies of spring!
Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm Eastern | Online Class
Online
$15 | Free for paid subscribers (get the discount code below)
Recording available to paid subscribers if you can’t make it live
The Full Moon Yoga Class Series
This year I’m offering a yoga class for every Full Moon. The lunar cycle offers a natural monthly reminder to check in, contemplate, and align your personal energy with Mother Nature. The Full Moon offers a regular opportunity to celebrate your strengths and the power of feminine energy in supportive community and to connect to and harness your prana-shakti—the vitality that makes you who you are.
These Full Moon yoga classes will energize and relax you, soothe your soul, and connect you more deeply to your Self. You’ll move, rest, laugh, share, listen, and learn. This is a time for you, for women, for the feminine spirit, for your body, for your mind, for your soul. No yoga experience necessary! The movement portion will always be gentle and simple.
The Worm Moon
According to Almanac.com, March’s Full Moon is known as the Worm Moon based on the beetle larvae that emerge from thawing tree bark in the spring. The name is credited to the Naudowessie tribe in records dating back to the 1760s. Other Native American tribes named the March Full Moon after their own seasonal observations based on the land they inhabited.
Goose Moon from the Algonquin and Cree tribes
Crow Comes Back Moon from the Northern Ojibwe
Sugar Moon from the Ojibwe
Wind Strong Moon from the Pueblo
Sore Eyes Moon from the Dakota, Lakota, and Assiniboine tribes
What would you call the March Full Moon based on your own observations in your backyard?
Welcome to Spring
Spring has arrived and with it comes mud. I picked up my son from preschool last week and his orange rain suit had transformed into a brown ombré ensemble. It was on his face and in his hair but it was also the highlight of his day. Mud, and along with it Spring, is a beautiful combination of earth and water. These two essential elements are the nourishment, along with returning sunlight, that plants need to grow and that humans need to thrive.
In Uma Dinsmore Tuli’s Yoni Shakti, she references a long forgotten chakra that exists between the first and second energy centers and encompasses these combined qualities of earth—typically associated with the first chakra—and water—typically associated with the second. This yonisthāna chakra is located in the womb and representative of the powerful womb energies. Traditionally, sexual organs are relegated to the second chakra and its watery qualities but womb energy contains both water and earth, fluidity and stability. It is the combination of the two elements together that creates a nourishing, unique feminine power. Several more obscure ancient yoga texts reference this special vortex of energy—I like to think of it as chakra 1.5. Dinsmore-Tuli says, “Earth, and also water. The two elements are seen here in the tradition of śākta tantra to be mixed in the first cakra, and this intimate combination of earth and water within the location of a single cakra is not only extraordinary in the literature of the cakras, but also very pertinent when understanding the elemental qualities and properties of the womb…” (Tuli, 2020, 162-163).
In celebration of the emergence of spring and the mud that comes with it we will practice a different kind of flow in this month’s Full Moon yoga class inspired by Dinsmore-Tuli’s womb yoga practices. We will find flow in our breath, body, and mind, and connect with our internal power in the womb space (you don’t have to have a womb to connect to this energy). There is no worm pose in yoga that I’m aware of but we will create the conditions necessary within to slide into spring with ease, love, reverence, gratitude, and joy.
I hope you’ll join us!
What we’ll do in this yoga class
In this class we will start with some breath work combined with mudra.
I’ll introduce you to some new flowing sequences of movement that will help you direct energy intentionally.
I’ll share some of Elise Loehnen’s recent series on women supporting one another.
I’ll offer some journaling prompts, space to share your experiences, and the opportunity to connect with others at the end.
I hope you can join us!
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