CHAKRA YOGA

We welcome Orla Wallace, experienced yoga teacher and long time friend of Maitri Studio to continue our Deepening Your Practice series of workshops in collaboration with the Yoga Fellowship of Northern Ireland. For more about the complete series, read here. 

We are so much more than muscle and bone, and our Yoga practice can be so much more than asana and movement.

The Chakra system comes out of the tantra tradition. Tantra translates as ‘expansion device’.

If we were to consider the Chakra system as a mind body map, and each Chakra a lens directed inwards, allowing us to see more clearly how we can explore connections between the physiological, mental, spiritual and more. The chakras invite us to explore these connections using sound, colour, image and movement. This expands and brings our inner world to life. Then, from this new perspective as we develop a deeper connection to ourselves we can integrate our inner and outer world.

In this creative workshop we will learn to tune into the subtler sensations as we explore the body through colour, sound, and movement learning to expand sensation and lean into our sense of aliveness in a playful way.

BOOKING

Purchase a Deepening Practice Series pass via our booking page - each workshop is £40 or £30 for Yoga Fellowship members (see here for details of this collaboration and how to join the Fellowship). Remember to register onto Orla's workshop via the calendar or once you've logged into the student portal on booking. 

ABOUT ORLA

Orla has been teaching yoga and mindfulness in Belfast and abroad for almost two decades. Over that time she has created courses and workshops for Queens University Belfast and Stranmillis University College Belfast among others. 

Orla started out with a BA in fine art in 2001. Since taking her first yoga teacher training in 2006, she has done thousands of hours training in various yoga and mindfulness traditions, studying with traditional schools in India and more predominantly with teachers from the Scaravelli tradition. For the past 10 years, Angela Farmer has been her main yoga teacher.

Orla is a firm believer in learning through play and learning from nature. She is passionate about how consistent practice can help us live happier, more embodied, fully engaged lives. Her yoga classes are student centred and incorporate elements of yoga philosophy. Her classes have been described as playful, mindful and creative. All ages and abilities are welcome.

Read more about Orla on her website