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Embody Your Life: An Introduction to the Inner Shadow

  • Yoga Shala Sacramento 2030 H Street Sacramento, CA, 95811 United States (map)

with Catherine La O'

There are beliefs that you don’t know you have (i.e. Shadows) that are interfering with your life and keeping you stuck in situations or patterns of behavior that aren’t serving you.

Your defense mechanisms prevent you from seeing your Shadows because when you were a child it was too painful or unsafe to see them, but not seeing them is costing you by showing up in how you treat yourself and your relationships.

To create real change in your life, you must learn to face the parts of yourself that you have avoided until now.

If you’ve practiced yoga for a consistent period of time, you’ve already begun the process of uncovering your Shadows.

  • Yoga reveals what you’ve numbed yourself to.

  • Yoga helps you regain access to truth-telling body signals.

  • Yoga invites you back into a physical, felt experience of your body.

  • Yoga illuminates Shadows.

WHAT IS A SHADOW?

  • Shadows are hidden mindsets that limit how you see yourself.

  • Shadows make you doubt yourself and feel like a fraud.

  • Shadows make communication in relationships hard.

  • Shadows allow others to push your buttons.

  • Shadows make you reactive.

  • You have Shadows. Everybody has Shadows. Living in a Shadow mindset limits you.

  • Integrating your Shadows EVOLVES you.

  • Practicing yoga and exploring your hidden mindsets will FREE you from your Shadows and allow you to fully EMBODY YOUR LIFE.

DESCRIPTION:

Through experiential exercises, this workshop will introduce you to the concept of the Shadow and show you a pathway to uncovering your personal Shadows that cause tension and discomfort in your life.

WORKSHOP INCLUDES:

  • - Group discussion

  • - Journaling

  • - Yoga practice.

Please bring a notebook, pen, and your yoga mat.

Course Facilitator:

Catherine la O’ is a Shadow Alchemist, Somatic Integrator, and Navigator of Liminal Spaces. Her interest in what’s-just-below-the-surface of thoughts, feelings and personal stories motivated her 10-years of formal study in social psychology, yoga, and Integral Mindset Coaching.

Unlike many Shadow teachers, Catherine sees body practice as a vital component of Shadow exploration and necessary for embracing and celebrating the whole-Self.

She leads the transformational Shadow Alchemy Program where she guides people through the process of unpacking hidden mindsets that block emotional intimacy in their relationships.

$40

Course Facilitator:

Catherine la O’ is a Shadow Alchemist, Somatic Integrator, and Navigator of Liminal Spaces. Her interest in what’s-just-below-the-surface of thoughts, feelings and personal stories motivated her 10-years of formal study in social psychology, yoga, and Integral Mindset Coaching.

Unlike many Shadow teachers, Catherine sees body practice as a vital component of Shadow exploration and necessary for embracing and celebrating the whole-Self.

She leads the transformational Shadow Alchemy Program where she guides people through the process of unpacking hidden mindsets that block emotional intimacy in their relationships.

Earlier Event: July 29
Intro to Acro Yoga
Later Event: August 13
Healing Vibrations Soundbath