Join us for a relaxing flow led by Francesca Valarezo and Dr. William Berk, combining sound meditation with Yin yoga to lull you into your deepest states of presence and peacefulness. Transport your mind. Melt your bod.
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The Practices :
Sound meditation is a deeply-immersive meditative practice where sound becomes your sole focus. Using a series of carefully selected instruments, we focus the attention and allow the mind to rest as the subconscious and the body comes to a state of loving and connected harmony.
This Yin practice will inspire you to reconnect to the practice of “doing less to get more.” Yin yoga is a form of passive stretching that applies gentle, healthy stress to the joints and connective tissues. We could say that Yin yoga is an embodiment practice because great care is given to observing the sensations one experiences, emphasizing the mild end of the sensation spectrum—not pushing, pulling, or striving to go deeper, rather just being in the shape.
Bios:
Dr. William Berk is an emergency medicine physician and assistant professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He was raised as a buddhist and has a longstanding meditation practice. Over time, meditation and mindfulness centered his medical practice in empathy, joy and presence, but the need to connect and heal more deeply has led him to guiding group meditations. He runs burnout prevention and wellness programs for front line health care workers as well as a few private sessions per month. His meditations involve numerous modalities including harmonic sound, breathwork, metta, vocalization and movement to create a journey that’s easy for all levels of meditators to drop into.
Francesca Valarezo is the founder and creator of SHAMANEK. She is a New York City based yoga, breathwork and meditation teacher and a master Shamanic Reiki guide. Originally from Ecuador, Francesca battled severe depression and panic attacks during her formidable years. Her desire to heal led her to train in yoga therapeutics, yin yoga, meditation, Reiki and Shamanism. In 2010, as her life began to transform, she realized that she had a calling to guide others in their healing journeys as well.