Wheel Of The Year: Celebrating The Winter Solstice

At the Winter Solstice, we experience the shortest day and the longest night of the year. In this first session, after an introduction to the course, you'll be guided through a meditation to experience the Solstice through the eyes of your ancestors. Long ago, before there were any modern technologies, the focus for the winter would have been on survivial, and the Solstice would have been an important time of acknowledgement that the longer days would be returning. You'll be guided through a Solstice visualisation as if you were living in those times and experiencing the darkening nights... and the promise of the sun's returning light.

During the winter, we celebrate light and fire, evergreen plants and animals which remain active as they remind us that life does continue to thrive, even when it may not seem like it, and that lighter days will return. In this session, we'll look at some ways to celebrate the season and some of the things that are often connected with this time.

In this session we'll explore some Ayurvedic principles to support our health and immunity in the winter, including some of the best types of food to eat and a spiced milk recipe to support the immune system.

Yoga Nidra is a great practice for the Winter Solstice because we don't have to do anything or be stimulated in any way - we simply rest, receive the practice, and allow healing and rejuvenation to naturally happen. In this session, you'll practice a restful Yoga Nidra to turn inwards, rest and just 'be.'

In our final session, we'll spend some time exploring how some of the themes of the Winter Solstice are arising in our own lives, with a guided meditation to spend a dark night in a cave with a symbolic rebirth at sunrise. We'll look at this time of the year as a time of infinite possibility and open ourselves to receive inspiration for the new cycle to come.