Join IVY RAY 26-Year Interdisciplinary Educator/ Senior Katonah Yoga Teacher for a unique synthesis of ancient/modern wisdom,/techniques, and natural and neuro sciences, all through unifying verifiable Truths.. THE BIG CHILL is a 90-minute up to 3 hour multidisciplinary powerful Full Body Movement and Deep Meditative Experience.
IT IS comprised of 3 components. 1. A POTENT PREP IN THE BODY INTO 2. FORMAL BREATH WORK INTO 3. SPECIFICALLY LED NSDR (Non Sleep Deep Rest) into an extraordinary, unique and surprisingly simple meditation often Culminating in a Q and A.
ON BREATHWORK. How you breathe is how you live your life. The quality of your lungs greatly determines your OverAll Wellbeing. Breathing is your Primal and first relationship and will be your last. Western SCIENCE has gotten deeply engaged giving this practice much more access and credence, proving the Incredible effects of manipulating your breath on a regular basis. We will work From multiple perspectives and many traditions and cover the effects on currently common conditions such as Stress, Relaxation, Depression, Anxiety and Enhanced Performance, Breath Manipulation is scientifically proven to greatly affect the heart, the brain, digestion, the immune and nervous systems,sleep and therefore your life is the best prep i know of for meditation and it prepares us Beautifully for the final segment of NSDR.
MUCH on this experience and NSDR: This work is specifically developed for Profound Deep Relaxation while Simultaneously Heightening Consciousness. This unique combination ensues in a palpable sense of Over All Well Being. This provides a releasing, expanding, and feeding of the entirety of you, inside and out, while shifting the Autonomic Nervous System from Sympathetic (fight or flight) to Parasympathetic (Restoration and Digestion) and delivering you into an actual state change between Waking and Sleeping. Non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, is an evolving science based version of the original same and different) known as Yoga Nidra on the Hindu side and Body Scan on the Buddhist, all are a type of rest you achieve while a portion of your mind is awake, but your body is increasingly relaxed or Expanded as i term it, I would NEVER tell someone to Relax LOL This enables you to consistently reduce stress and trains you to be able to not only witness your state of mind but have influence over it.
It is a “deliberate decompression”. NSDR is very similar to sleep, though you hover consciously on the edge, as the aim is not to, Sleep That Is, though it involves slowing down your brain waves, much like sleep, except a sliver of your mind remains awake and operable, it begins with an outside or self-induced series of prompts physical and subtle suggestions that produce a state of calmness, followed by a period of directed focus. repeated.
During NSDR, your gut releases serotonin which enables a brain “reset” and refueling of the prefrontal cortex.
MUCH OF THE ABOVE AND THE FOLLOWING effects are all noted and proven on the Science Side
A recent study finds an up to 65% dump of dopamine in 20 mins of NSDR, this amount of Dopamine release is unprecedented.
A WELL LED NSDR enhances memory retention, promotes neuroplasticity which enhances learning, improves the quality of your sleep, enhances relaxation, improves cognitive function, enhances mental clarity and focus slows heart rate embeds you in your parasympathetic Nervous System which also aids in digestion and more
You Will Be Articulately Guided throughout this entire experience
This work is highly informative, fortuitous, heaven like and a game-changer.
“Until the formed learns from the unformed, there is no understanding." Tao Te Ching
EVERYONE IS WELCOME. NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY
I USE WHATEVER SEASON WE ARE IN AS THE BLUEPRINT, Below is Spring
WE ARE IN SPRING,. spring gets grand quick. though it begins subtly as a seed, in a long-hidden process, volatile; vulnerable, like all things in the beginning, an embryo, a tree, a hope, just like us. that which is largely hidden, our subtle self, is often greatly misunderstood as not as important even as weakness, quite the contrary the YIN of you is powerful beyond measure, provides substance to us and to all of what we create, it gives it depth and roots so it and we we will sustain, it’s half of what we are, and is essential to our evolution, our even development, sustainability and overall well being. Just a spec of springs medicine intelligence and power on the subtle side, As always i reference the intelligence power, magic and purpose of the current season throughout my work. THIS and everything.
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THIS PROTOCAL IS NOW AVAILABLE PRIVATELY, AS A WORKSHOP OR SMALL GROUP. for inquires you can txt me 914-393-6896