Befriending Your Inner Critic, Yin Yoga and IFS for Self Acceptance
A four-class series combining Yin Yoga with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed self-inquiry to investigate and heal the inner critic.
It is said that all of us, every human being, is whole and complete, that within each of us is Buddha nature, vast and luminous, loving and worthy of love. This Buddha nature is always present, though sometimes we can feel so far from this sense of wholeness - rather we can feel that deep down there is something wrong with us. We might have negative self-talk in the form of an Inner Critic that can be very convincing and ultimately self-limiting in that it keeps us feeling small and insecure. What if we could accept ourselves exactly as we are?
In this four-class series Yoga teacher and IFS practitioner Mercy B will share with you a model for understanding and transforming our limiting beliefs about ourselves. Through Yin Yoga and Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed self-inquiry practices, we will learn to be compassionately mindful of this Inner Critic, open and curious towards this part so that we can listen and hear what is beneath its harsh criticism. Through compassionate listening healing is possible. What we resist persists. This is a transformational practice of learning to love ALL parts of ourselves.
It is said that all of us, every human being, is whole and complete, that within each of us is Buddha nature, vast and luminous, loving and worthy of love. This Buddha nature is always present, though sometimes we can feel so far from this sense of wholeness - rather we can feel that deep down there is something wrong with us. We might have negative self-talk in the form of an Inner Critic that can be very convincing and ultimately self-limiting in that it keeps us feeling small and insecure. What if we could accept ourselves exactly as we are?
In this four-class series Yoga teacher and IFS practitioner Mercy B will share with you a model for understanding and transforming our limiting beliefs about ourselves. Through Yin Yoga and Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed self-inquiry practices, we will learn to be compassionately mindful of this Inner Critic, open and curious towards this part so that we can listen and hear what is beneath its harsh criticism. Through compassionate listening healing is possible. What we resist persists. This is a transformational practice of learning to love ALL parts of ourselves.
Tuesdays: 10/1,10/8, 10/15, &10/22
7:30-9pm
Facilitated by,
Mercy B
Mercy (RYT200) found yoga in 2000, and soon thereafter met her teacher Sarah Powers, who introduced her to Yin Yoga and Buddhist meditation. She completed her first teacher training with Powers and Paul Grilley in 2004, and soon after began teaching Yin Yoga at Eight Limbs Yoga on Capitol Hill. Since then, she has birthed and homeschooled two daughters, moved back and forth across the country, worked in non-profit Community Outreach, all the while maintaining her commitment to Awakening through breath, mind, and body practices, including Ecstatic Dance which she fell in love with along the way. Mercy recently completed her second teacher training with Sarah Powers in 2021, and is excited to share the gifts of Yin Yoga and meditation with the Limber community. In addition to yoga and meditation, Mercy practices Internal Family Systems (IFS), a psycho-spiritual therapeutic modality.
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