Spring Shiatsu Yin Immersion

WHEN:Sunday, 13th September 11:30am-1:30pm

Guided by Jana Higgs (Yoga Teacher and Shiatsu Practitioner),
with Shiatsu touch provided by professional Shiatsu Practitioners

Investment : $80 or

$64 for Unlimited Members (this includes direct-debit memberships and upfront memberships 3 months and more)

This immersion involves touch.

No yoga or fitness levels required – all welcome

Limited to 18 participants.

Spring Shiatsu Yin Immersion 

In Chinese medicine, each season carries its own element, organ system and energetic quality. These seasonal rhythms are reflected in the natural world around us, and can also be felt within us physically, emotionally and energetically.

As the shorter nights begin to give way to warmer days, and the wattle and other buds begin to bloom, we can feel that Spring is arriving.

After the deep Yin of Winter, Spring invites us into a more upward-rising energy as we begin transitioning towards the Yang phase of the year. It is a season of movement, transformation and renewal. Around us, new life begins to emerge with an effortless sense of direction, freshness and possibility.

In Chinese medicine, Spring is associated with the Element of Wood.

The nature of Wood is to grow upward and outward while remaining flexible enough to move with its environment. It holds both strength and adaptability, reminding us that growth does not need to be forced. There can be direction without rigidity, movement without rushing, and change without losing our sense of centre.

Spring offers us an opportunity to reconnect with the ideas, intentions and possibilities that may have quietly taken shape during Winter.

Where Winter invites us to pause, listen and gather our resources, Spring asks how we might begin to move those resources into the world.

It can be a time to notice what is beginning to stir within us.
What feels ready to move?
What would we like to create space for?
What might we be ready to release so there is room for something new?

The Wood Element can invite us to become the pioneer of our own lives, to reconnect with a sense of direction while remaining open to how that path may unfold.

Just as a new shoot moves towards the light while bending with changing conditions, we can explore how to move towards what matters to us with greater flexibility, curiosity and flow.

This 2-hour Spring immersion is thoughtfully designed to support this seasonal transition through breathwork, gentle flow, Shiatsu Yin and Yoga Nidra.

Through movement and breath, we begin by gently awakening the body after the stillness of Winter, creating space for energy to move upward and outward. Shiatsu Yin then offers an opportunity to slow down and receive.

Combining longer-held Yin shapes with supportive Shiatsu touch can encourage a sense of ease through the body while creating space for emotional balancing and deeper listening. Rather than pushing towards flexibility, we explore what it feels like to soften into movement and allow space to emerge.

By encouraging movement and flow within the body, we can also begin to notice where we might invite more flexibility and flow into our lives.

The practice becomes an opportunity to listen.
To notice where we may be holding tightly.
To recognise what feels ready to shift.
And to reconnect with the intentions that have been quietly growing beneath the surface.

We will close with Yoga Nidra, allowing the body time to settle and integrate the experience.

Together, these practices create an embodied journey through the qualities of Spring – movement, renewal, direction, flexibility and possibility.

This is not about becoming a new version of yourself overnight. It is an invitation to notice what is already beginning to emerge.

To create space for what feels alive. To gently release what no longer serves you. And to welcome the renewed energy of Spring with curiosity and intention.

Let this be your invitation to move out of the stillness of Winter and into the freshness of Spring – to breathe, soften, receive and reconnect with the direction you would like your energy to take.

Hosted and Guided by Jana Higgs Shiatsu Therapist and Yoga Facilitator, accompanied by professional Shiatsu Therapists.

All levels of fitness and flexibility are welcome and anyone that loves to receive a little bit of touch.

(We recommend eating a light meal 2 hours before the event)

WHEN:Sunday 13th September 11:30am-1:30pm

Guided by Jana Higgs (Yoga Teacher and Shiatsu Practitioner),
with Shiatsu touch provided by professional Shiatsu Practitioners

Investment : $80

20% discount for Unlimited Members (this includes direct-debit memberships and upfront memberships 3 months and more)

No yoga experience required, all welcome.
Limited to 18 participants