Gifted Trainings and the Potentials of an Emerging Sacred Economy
I am excited to announce that I will be offering the upcoming October Partner Yoga training as a gift. It has been a few years since presenting a training, and it is my hope that this gift will help bring authentic connection through Partner Yoga practices back into the larger community.
This is the third time I have presented a training in this way. The past gifted training experiences stay deeply embedded in my heart and mind because of the atmosphere of joy, gratitude, and generosity they evoke in everyone attending.
We are, by nature, I believe, very generous beings. We experience great joy through, in Marshall Rosenberg’s words, “making life more wonderful for each other.” This joy that comes from making life more wonderful is not transactional. It arises from our true heart of generosity.
One of my own greatest joys is witnessing people expanding their minds, hearts, and bodies in ways that have a life-changing impact. It is through our direct experience that we grow as humans, and a skillfully facilitated Principle-Based Partner Yoga experience can touch us on a deep soulful level.
There are many challenging changes happening right now, on both personal and collective levels. There is more political divisiveness than many of us have ever experienced. I am noticing that many people seem more withdrawn, concerned about basic survival needs, and less inclined to spend money, especially on something that can be viewed as nonessential, or even frivolous, such as training in Partner Yoga.
And yet, it is at times like these that practices such as Partner Yoga are needed more than ever. Practices that calm our nervous systems, slow us down, and remind us how we are essentially the same—wanting to feel safe, held, and connected to something larger than ourselves.
Charles Eisenstein, an ecological writer and mystic, wrote a book entitled Sacred Economics. In this book he speaks of “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
Some of the main ideas he addresses include how we are moving from a sense of separation toward one of interconnectedness; how money and economic institutions could become vehicles for connection and reciprocity, rather than mechanisms for extracting value.
The transformation of our financial systems (or any of our current structures) ultimately requires the transformation of our consciousness—from one of separation, scarcity, and control toward one of connection, sufficiency, and participation. And perhaps this is part of what practices like Partner Yoga can teach us—not as an intellectual ideal, but through our direct experience.
Although these changes in consciousness seem slow in the making, I believe we all sense that deep changes are occurring. For me, one of the most important changes we can bring about is the willingness to illuminate and integrate our own shadow around money, seeing the ways we may be out of balance with the flow of giving and receiving our gifts and resources.
Many of the patterns we hold around money and survival are handed down through our families and across generations. I have also noticed that survival fear is not dependent on how little or how much money one has—it has much more to do with whether we essentially feel held, by others and by that which is greater than ourselves.
Although I have lived an abundant and creative life, I have also suffered greatly from my own survival fears. From this vantage point of my life, I see that life is always supporting life to grow and expand. Like the natural world, we are an integral part of this generous and abundant unfolding. Becoming more honest and compassionate toward my own fears and challenges supports me in living with greater trust and grace.
Gifting this training inspires me greatly. I know it will be an experience of shared beauty, abundance and nourishment, as well as a space to release outmoded ways of being.
As a reminder, training in Partner Yoga is not just for lovers or Yoga teachers, it is for anyone interested in expanding and deepening their relationship with themselves, others and with life. This is an invitation to experience what becomes possible when we step outside of transaction and into relationship—where giving and receiving are both acts of trust.
The Now Haus, located in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, is the special venue for hosting this event. Space is limited. Feel free to email with questions or concerns, or register now to reserve your space.
With love,
Elysabeth