into the dark: nourishing the kidneys in the heart of winter
Date: Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
Time: 11am - 1 pm PST
session fee: $65
location: ma yoga sky room (victoria, BC)
DESCRIPTION:
As the season turns inward and the days grow darker, our bodies know something our minds often forget:
We are not meant to push through winter.
We are meant to slow down. To root. To rest together.
Winter is a time for incubating and gathering. Dreaming, sleeping, and reflecting. Letting ambition disappear for a time. There is, in Mary Oliver’s words, a “dazzling darkness” inside of Winter that offers us deep nourishment and resource.
The health of our wholeness depends on this dark and rich passage.
Into the Dark is a 2 hr workshop designed to help us do just that —not alone, but in community. It is an opportunity to pause amidst a season of contraction, offering space for your nervous system to metabolize what it’s been holding.
We’ll gather in a warm, low-lit space to move gently through somatic practices, guided rest, acupuncture, and collective reflection —all grounded in the wisdom of Winter and the Water Element.
This space is not about fixing or striving. It's an invitation to slow down so we can expand our capacities to be with what is real —in your system, in the season, and in the field between us.
What we’ll move through together:
An introduction to the Water Element and the Kidney/Adrenal system through the lens of Tao of Trauma + Five Element theory
A slow, somatic attunement practice and guided inner inquiry
Restorative acupuncture offered in a group setting
Moments of collective reflection rooted in the Water Element
What you might carry with you:
A felt sense of what winter is asking of your body
A somatic map of the Kidney/Adrenal system as a source of restoration
Subtle shifts in how you relate to rest, relationship, and the unknown
A personal seed, intention, or image to tend through the winter months
To register: email and send payment to self.other.land@gmail.com
✨ Space is limited to 8–12 participants.
✨ Optional: bring a small item to be placed on the Winter Altar (a stone, a plant ally, something that
grounds you into the dark/unknown/winter/mystery)