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Larissa Haramis - Personalised Yoga & Meditation

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Larissa Haramis - Personalised Yoga & Meditation

I have a great love and respect for the deeply enriching benefits that Yoga and Meditation can bring into your life.

A yearlong journey for women, thirsty to prioritise their holistic wellbeing, and live the life they sense is possible, using therapeutic Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurvedic Health Coaching. Yoga extends well beyond the mat, and can positively influence every aspect of your life. I have a special interest in using Yoga and Meditation to help women build resilience and ease in the face of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. This approach will support you to imbed self care rituals, that will nurture optimal health and wellbeing, no matter the stage of your life. I hope to share these precious practices with you, so that you can flourish.

07/08/2019

PERMISSION TO REST

Rest... sweet, soft and dreamy, replenishing rest.

Why do we so often resist what our bodies and mind's yearn for?

Are there messages you grew up with, that keep you running on the hamster wheel of busyness and simply 'managing your life'?

I was handed down the message that I can only rest, once everything is done.

Now, you can see the flaw in this. When is 'everything' ever 'done'?

It's been a work in progess to come to a place where I can now discern my body and mind's call to slow down, to release the relentless demands of the outer world, and the incessant doing.

More importantly, I now know that I am in fact worthy of heeding my inner call to stop, and give myself over to rest.

I have found the quickest, and easiest way to cleanse and clear the debris of my internal landscape, and dissolve into the bliss of my own Being, is through a guided Yoga Nidra practice.

Yoga Nidra is a form of meditation that's done lying down. It's brilliant in that it utilises the stages of sleep, to go beyond 'deep sleep' into a highly regenerative state, that is not only profoundly healing, but can transform long-held harmful and tenacious habits. All this, while simply resting. That's my kind of meditation!

If you are exhausted, overwhelmed, or just want to learn how to PRIORITISE YOU, I will be offering a series of opportunites to come alive again with Yoga Nidra in the coming months. Watch this space.

For now, you may find solace in the words of Yogini and Poet Dana Faulds.

"Settle in the here and now. Reach down into the center, where the world is not spinning and drink this holy peace.

Feel relief flood into every cell. Nothing to do. Nothing to be but what you are already. Nothing to receive but what flows effortlessly from the mystery into form.

Nothing to run from or toward. Just this breath. Awareness knowing itself as embodiment. Just this breath. Awareness waking up to truth".

24/01/2017

NOURISHING IREST MEDITATION:

What is Integrative Restoration – iRest ?

iRest is a transformative practice derived from the ancient teachings of ta***ic yoga that leads to psychological, physical, and spiritual health and well-being. iRest is integrative, in that it heals the various unresolved issues, traumas, and wounds that are present in the body and mind. It is restorative in that it aids its practitioners in recognizing their underlying peace of mind that is always present amidst all changing circumstances of life. iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation is a research-based meditation, relaxation and healing protocol. The practice of iRest enables you to deeply calm your nervous system, integrate difficult emotions and thoughts, and offers you a portal for awakening to your essential nature, timeless Being. iRest meditation is both an excellent personal practice, as well as an adjunctive practice for healthcare and healing professionals.

I will be offering iRest as part of a monthly mini-retreat from March.

20/12/2016

GREETING THE SUN:
For thousands of years, yogis have ritualised their relationship with the sun; taking it's light, warmth, and clarity into their lives.

Create an intention, as to what quality of the sun you'd most like to have radiating within and around you.
Or perhaps you simply want to be grateful for another day.

As you open your arms up to the morning sun, imagine gathering that quality into your arms, then guide your hands to a central place on your body (between your eyebrows, your sternum, or your belly) drawing it deep within.
Try repeating this movement rhythmically several times with your breath; inhaling as you sweep your arms towards the sun, and exhaling as you bring your hands back to your body, to focus and deepen your attention, and increase the energetic effect.

You may like to end your ritual by opening your hands out, visualising the sun's rays spreading out to all beings. Remembering that the sun shines it's light upon us all.

May all beings receive the many blessings of this light.

19/10/2016

DEEPENING YOUR ROOTS TO BLOSSOM

With all the wild winds we've had in Melbourne recently, there have been so many enormously tall trees that have fallen, with their far too short roots exposed and upended.
It keeps making me reflect on how personally, as I (like many people I know) take on more within my work, relationships, stretching my capacities, I feel the need to dig deeper down with my roots (that which nourishes my body, mind and soul).
I'm having to prioritise yoga, meditation, walks in the bush, dance, time with friends, and rest, in order to live into the potential I am unfolding into.
I am curious if any of you have feel this same need, as I know how many of you are contributing in so many ways in your families, work, etc. I'd love to know what you do to grow your roots deeper, to stay grounded, to be soulfully fed, in order to reach out and blossom.

As promised in class this week, the poem from Danna Faulds.

JUST FOR NOW
Just for Now, without
asking how, let yourself
sink into stillness. Just
for now, lay down the
weight you so patiently
bear upon your shoulders.
Feel the earth receive
you, and the infinite
expanse of the sky grow even
wider as your awareness
reaches up to meet it.

Just for now, allow a wave
of breath to enliven your
experience. Breathe out
whatever blocks you from
the truth. Just for now, be
boundless, free, awakened
energy tingling in your
hands and feet. Drink in
the possibility of being
who and what you really are -
so fully alive that when you
open your eyes the world
looks different, newly born
and vibrant, just for now.

-- Danna Faulds

15/09/2016

FINDING PERSPECTIVE

Last weekend I attended an arts therapy workshop, and one of the themes that arose within the group was about gaining perspective.

I had created an installation that had a lot going on within it, and as I became enmeshed in describing it to a fellow participant I could feel my emotions stirring, my mind caught in the mire of my creation (which was just a representation of a particular experience that I was reflecting upon). My partner asked me what would happen if I looked at the creation from above?

In yoga we have a similar process. It's called de-fusing, and is a moment of stepping back from a thought/belief, emotion, sensation, to know ourselves as more than that. When we can step back, and gain perspective, there is more space for new insights to arise, for a fresh, creative response.

16/08/2016

WHAT DOES YOUR BODY/MIND NEED TO THRIVE?

As women, we can find ourselves caught up in taking care of everyone else, sometimes being outside of our own experience and cut off from the needs and desires of our bodies and minds.

If you slow down...way down, and tune in, ask within what it is you need not only to survive, but to thrive.

How do you long to be nourished in the areas of rest and sleep, movement and exercise, stillness and silence, connection and intimacy, what food would really enliven you, etc...?

As you hear the inner call, the voice that urges you to pay attention, perhaps you can find a way to let it call you forward into action, not from guilt, but to build love and trust with yourself, and to receive the kind of care that only you can give to yourself.

(photo of me being nourished from time spent with my precious mom)

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293 Dorset Road
Croydon, VIC
3136

Opening Hours

Wednesday	9am - 12:30pm
	5pm - 7pm
Thursday	9:30am - 12:30am
Saturday	8:30am - 1pm

Website

http://www.larissaharamis.com.au/

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