Kundalini Workshop Saturday September 25th, GOZO | Detoxing the Mind

After a lovely summer break I’m looking forward to welcoming you all back for our Kundalini Workshops which happen once/month here in Gozo.
In September we will be working with a Kriya Set to Detoxify the Mind so we can find more spaces of ease and calm in there ?
The morning will consist of breathwork, meditation, inquiry and intention setting, asana warmup and then the kriya set to detoxify the mind.
We will break for a healthy vegetarian lunch in our garden before the afternoon session which will be sound healing through chanting & meditation.
When:
Saturday September 25th
11 – 15.30
Where:
Gharb, Gozo
Invest:
60 euros
Booking is required
Limited to 11 people
Looking forward to reuniting then!
SatNamNamaste
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Guts to Heart – Living the Dream Life | June’s Newsletter

Hope you are enjoying a level of freedom again as restrictions lift and we can all breathe easier again. I find it incredibly beautiful to notice how many of us are so happy to be doing the things we always took for granted before this pandemic hit.

I remind myself and my students regularly that there is always two sides to everything. The positives and the not so much so…I find it a much easier way to navigate life and at the end of the day we will all believe what works for us and from our level of perception.

There is no right or wrong. Just different lenses.

If we live from the truth of our heart we will always be filled with love.
I came across this bit of writing last week which I found inspiring

‘I think we became too rational of a society. At some point we starting ‘trusting science’ more than our intuition. Don’t get me wrong, I’m big on reading and educating ourselves, learning from others with insight. But anytime I’ve gotten myself into a big mess in life was because I wasn’t living inside out – from guts to heart – people can bash people who feel alot , but I promise you, those people are the ones living that dream life you can’t seem to figure out.’ – Michaela Reneej

May we all listen to our hearts more.
May we all feel more.
Use the heart as your charger – plug in to your LOVE charger
Cheesy as it may sound – it works 😉

Some more great news….
If you want more kriya practices subscribe to my YOUTUBE channel. There are plenty of 30 minute practices which you can do from a chair. These practices were all created for We Connect Malta, a holistic wellbeing project by the FIDEM Charity Organisation

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA3aAZfCCrRNpkYSxa-d2VQ

 

SatNamNamaste

Michelle x

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Summer Solstice & International Yoga Day | June 21st

Happy Summer Solstice and International Yoga Day!

We started the morning off with a class of 108 Sun Salutations to create more light in the body on the lightest day of the year.

As today is our longest day of light we will honour that lightness inside of us – we will visit what we have accomplished so far this year. It’s the time of year to AWAKEN, to feel and revive oneself and to celebrate our ABUNDANCE.
The Summer Solstice is a powerful planetary moment when the Earth’s tilt brings us closest to the Sun making it the longest day of the year. A time to honour and spend time in the sun, the great power of light & nourishment it provides.
Here’s a great article by The Daily Om on the Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice

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Summer solstice represents a time to reflect upon the blessings we have received in seasons past and look toward new growth.

On the longest day of the year, the sun, which has on the days preceding seemed to rise higher and higher into the sky, reaches its zenith and rises no more. This day, which in the Northern Hemisphere can occur between the 20th and 23rd of June, marks the start of summer and is known as the summer solstice. From time immemorial, the coming of summer’s light and warmth has been a time of gladness and celebration. In June, the snows had long since melted, the ground had thawed, the first fruits were ripening on their vines, and Mother Nature had once again renewed herself. Though most of us have turned away from our agricultural heritage, the summer solstice remains a time of new beginnings and life-enriching endings. It is the day the sun reaches the peak of its power as well as the day that heralds the shorter days that eventually bring with them autumn’s chills.

For ancient peoples of the Americas and Europe, the summer solstice was a particularly joyous day — and one auspicious for those seeking year-long luck, fertility, abundance, and prosperity. Men and women on two continents would gather to pay tribute to the sun’s magnificence, to pray for a bountiful harvest, and to bolster the sun’s energy with bonfires and fireworks. Today, the summer solstice represents an optimal time to reflect upon the blessings we have received in seasons past and visualize the new bounties we hope to receive in the season just beginning to flourish. At noon, when the sun is at its highest point, we can pay reverence to its incredible strength and its ability to create life while also musing on the impermanence of life as represented by the impermanence of the season. You can reestablish your innate connection to nature on the summer solstice by spending time outdoors; following the sun’s procession as the day passes; burning sun oils such as orange, benzion, or juniper; or decorating an altar with solar images, summer greens, or colorful blossoms.

Just as the summer solstice is symbolic of agricultural growth, so is it symbolic of personal growth. It is a wonderful time to nurture your potential as you would nurture a tiny seedling and let your creative energy express itself fully. On the summer solstice, you may feel compelled to emulate the noontime sun and be at one with the world around you or to let your inner brilliance shine forth at full strength, if only for a single day. Your life, like the seasons, follows a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, and summers, whether literal or figurative, can always be celebrated.

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Inspiration

According to an ancient shamanic blessing translated from Nahuatl:
??I release my partner from the obligation to complete me.
I release my parents from the feeling they failed with me.
I release my children from the need to bring me pride, so they can write their own paths to the rhythm of their hearts, as it whispers in their ear.
I don’t lack anything, I learn from all beings, all the time.
Thanking my grandparents and ancestors who came together to allow me to be alive and follow my path today.
I release them from past failures and unfulfilled desires, knowing they have done their best to travel their way of living with their standard of consciousness.
I strip my soul before their eyes that’s why they know I don’t hide or owe anything.
I must be faithful to myself more than ever by walking with heart wisdom, I know that I am fulfilling my life project, free from family loyalties that can disrupt my peace and happiness, this detachment is my responsibility.
I surrender the role of the saviour, to be the one who unites or meets the expectations of others.
I cherish my essence, my way of expressing it, even if not everyone can understand me.
I honour you, I love you and recognise you innocent.
I honour the divinity in me and you…
We are free.??~
Photograph: Thinloth Photography
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Kundalini Workshop – Awakening the 10 Bodies | June 26th | GOZO

MBY Kundalini Workshops take you through an introduction to the practice of Kundalini Yoga followed by a Kriya Set of practices, this months set will focus on Awakening the 10 Bodies.
As yoga practitioners, we learn that in addition to the Western way of looking at anatomy, there is also a more subtle, energetic anatomy to awaken to. One of the ways we can understand our existence and enhance our potential is to learn about and work with our Ten Bodies.
In Kundalini Yoga, we each have three mental bodies and six energy bodies, in addition to our physical body.
“If you understand that you are Ten Bodies, and you are aware of those Ten Bodies, and you keep them in balance, the whole universe will be in balance with you.”
The 10 Bodies Are:
*Positve Mind
*Negative Mind
*Neutral Mind
*Pranic Body
*Soul Body
*Physical Body
*Arcline
*Aura
*Subtle Body
*Radiant Body
Workshop Details:
When:
Saturday June 26th
11.00 – 15.30
Where:
Gharb, Gozo
Invest:
60 euros
Includes:
*morning kriya set to awaken the 10 bodies and intention setting
*healthy vegetarian lunch in our lush garden
*afternoon of chanting & a live soundbath
*tea and healthy dessert
Space is limited to 10 people
Full Payment secures booking
Space is limited to 10
email: info@michellebartoloyoga.com to book
SatNamNamaste
Michelle x
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Kundalini Workshop | Become a Magnet for Miracles | May 22nd | GOZO

Can you feel your heart? Can you express how it feels? Can you feel the infinite love you are capable of?
This workshop will work with a set of movements that energise our hearts capacity for love inside & out.
It will strengthen the energy we carry so more love vibrations come our way ?
When:
Saturday May 22nd
11.00-15.30
Where:
Gharb, Gozo
Invest:
60 euros
*full payment secures space
*no refunds available
*limited spaces
*payments accepted through Revolut, Paypal, or direct BOV bank transfer
Includes:
*morning writing exercises, meditation & movement practices on our rooftop with sea views
*healthy vegetarian lunch in our lush garden
*afternoon of chanting, meditation & sound bathing
*tea and healthy treat
*a supportive community 😉
Become a magnet for miracles. A soul who is light. A heart that is calm.
SatNamaNamaste
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Inspiration

“No matter the state of the world, or how dark the shadow that has fallen on our city, I find it curiously comforting to know that if you plant a seed and give it sunlight and water, it will grow.”
Sarah Jio – All the Flowers in Paris

Lizzie Riches – Growing With the Garden

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Roots to Rise | Yoga Art & Sound Workshop – Saturday November 12th | GOZO

We have created a trilogy of practices designed to root your energy in and rise up to your radiance. Yoga will stabilise your foundation and ground your energy as we work on our internal and external balance. We will ignite the light that’s already in you to shine long, far & wide.
We will explore our creativity through the medium of art and energetic mark making to release the unexpressed, to bring RISE to your truest expression through the textures of creative arts, sound therapy and experience the flow of what arises.
We move in fluid flow to express our bodies language and find the freedom through dance . Rise we will – like a phoenix from the flame as we submerge ourselves into a soundbath and invite in these universal soundscapes…
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Location: Gharb, Gozo (address given once booking is confirmed)
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Date: Saturday November 12th (vegetarian lunch included)
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Time: 10.00 – 17.00
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Invest: 90 euros
*Full payment secures your space
*Space is limited to 8
*Payments can be made via Revolut or direct bank transfer, contact Michelle
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About Us:
Michelle Bartolo / Yoga
Hola – I’ve been guiding yoga for 18 years through classes, privates, retreats and trainings. I now specialise in combining the practices of Vinyasa & Kundalini. My practice has sent me all over this wonderful world and more importantly has transformed the lives of many. I can keep going on about me but that’s not going to give you the experience – come join us for a day of practices that will leave you feeling RADIANT, light and creative. We will practice Kriyas that heat up the navel so the heart can receive the energy it needs to spread your RADIANCE.
www.michellebartoloyoga.com
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Eden Orfanos / Expressive Arts Therapy
After many years of working within international aid and humanitarian missions, Eden has witnessed the healing potential of visual and expressive arts combined with energy arts practices.
Eden enjoys integrative modalities within her private practice and active workshops merging Embodied Art Psychotherapy, Trauma Sensitive Yoga and Trauma informed Expressive Art
Therapy.
Art(s) can be a panacea for social justice and personal insight allowing for narrative and connectivity, it is a universal language holistic for healing body and mind, and connecting to spirit.
https://www.edenarttherapist.com/…/A-creative-approach…
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Szilvia Bajada-Gardian / Sound
After teaching various movement disciplines for almost a decade, I received a special gift on my 30th birthday. It was a singing bowl, the first one of the many instruments I work with today.
This gift shifted something within me. I became interested in exploring the mindful aspect of movement. Moving in a way that makes us feel recharged rather than depleted.
Teaching Yoga and Pilates became the main focus of my work, alongside using singing bowls and gongs as tools for facilitating relaxation, meditation and the enhancement of general wellbeing of my clients.
During this workshop I will bring the sound of singing bowls, gongs, chimes to accompany us on our journey of INTEGRATION. We will explore some of the many ways their unique sounds and vibrations can move us. To create, to connect, and to realign.
https://www.szilviagardian.com/szilviagardian-bio
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We look forward to welcoming you all as we strengthen our roots so we can RISE
Namaste
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NAMASCLAY – Yoga & Pottery Workshop| Sunday March 13th | GOZO

In both Yoga & Pottery you must have a solid centred base to start, learn to stay attentive, do not let yourself be pulled, stay strong but soft, be still, gentle but very precise, stay slow and patient.
MBY KriyaAsana Yoga by Michelle Bartolo will focus on Waking Up the heart centre – our hands are directly linked to the heart and the fingers to the brain, we will circulate the energy in mind & body so you can transmit that through your hands into your clay creations. Michelle Bartolo has been instructing Yoga for 17 years and blends the practices of Kundalini & Vinyasa Flow to bring you a holistic practice.
Mark Ciavola aka Potters Thumb will be introducing you to the Art of Pottery.
Clay runs through Mark’s veins thanks to his mother Anna who has been a major influence and inspiration through out engaging Mark in the mesmerising art and crafts of ceramics since an early age starting in Malta.
What’s Included:
* Morning full of yogic practices with MBY
* Healthy Vegetarian Lunch
*  3 hour Pottery Workshop with Potters Thumb
When:
Saturday May 30th
11 – 5pm
Where:
Gharb, Gozo
Invest:
* 80 euros
*Full payment secures space
*Workshop is limited to 6 persons
For further information please contact Michelle Bartolo info@michellebartoloyoga.com
SatNamNamaste ?
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