Lineup :: Workshops :: Movement. Savasana. Acupuncture. RESET!
Movement. Savasana. Acupuncture. RESET!
Rez, Jess Jones, Gump, and Lina Luv
Friday 6:30 pm @ The Sanctuary
Join us on a journey of relaxation through gentle yoga + movement, guided meditation, acoustic sound healing, acupuncture, and aromatherapy. Transition from the default world into the festival celebration with a relaxed body and an open heart + mind.
After you arrive at the festival, join us in attuning body, mind, and spirit.
First, Jess will lead a short series of gentle, restorative stretches and creative yoga-based movement to release the tension of the default world and prepare your body to receive the healing of the Acupuncture. As you lay in savasana, Rez and Lina Luv will administer one of the most calming and powerful Acupuncture points on the body: the Acupuncture "chill pill". This beautiful point, Yintang, takes the edge off of emotional restlessness and anxiety caused by the ongoing mind-emotion treadmill that modern life can engender.
As you drift off, Jess will lead you in a guided meditation and simple breath exploration to encourage deep relaxation and receptivity in the body. Meanwhile, Rez and Lina Luv will permeate the air with cooling aromatherapy as live musician, Gump, transports you with calming, acoustic sounds.
Combining sensory experiences with the power of Acupuncture & Embodied Movement, we will re-set your mind, body, and spirit into a state of bliss + clarity, ready to indulge in your weekend.
Please bring layers, a blanket and a yoga mat.
Biography
Rez is a general acupuncture practitioner, treating a wide range of health issues, from pain to psycho-emotional wellbeing. Her professional interests include sports medicine, pain management, digestion, pediatrics, fertility, pregnancy, and post-partum care. Rez is a big fan of acupuncture both as a practitioner and patient. Rez is also an artist, performer and producer.
Iron Gump is a sound traveler that follows the wind/breath and listens to its teachings. Allowing the instruments to guide him through the spaces he roots his spirit in, he fully connects with the intentions of those beings or creatures that may be occupying it with him. With this awareness and connection of the environment he creates an optimal spaces for people to experience their own breath and feel their own wind blowing through the trees of life.
Jess Jones has immersed herself in the practice of yoga for 5 years. In 2011, she completed her 200-hour training with Three Sisters Yoga in NYC. She's also completed trainings with AcroYoga, OmSchooled, Street Yoga, and The Lineage Project, In her classes, Jess weaves mindfulness meditation and authentic movement exploration with classic asanas and pranayama. She encourages students to embrace the full spectrum of human experience through the cultivation of a curious and playful awareness of the present moment. Jess's classes often flow to eclectic playlists culled from several years of working in A&R at a leading world music record label, and when she's not teaching yoga, she's DJing as MAMBISA, playing Afro-Latin percussion, or doing cartwheels. She's also honored to sing kirtan with NYC-based Bhakti Dojo and occasionally throws family yoga dance parties with Wild Smile Family.
Caroline Grace Ashurst (Lina Luv), Dipl.Ac., founder of Restorative Harmony Acupuncture (www.restorativeharmony.com), is dedicated to your health, helping to facilitate support, empowerment, and transformation. She received her Master’s Degree in Acupuncture at the Tai Sophia Institute and currently practices in Philadelphia. Caroline’s personalized attention, passion, presence, and deep compassion make her treatments unique. In addition to Caroline’s private practice in and around Philadelphia, she is also a Certified Acu-Detox Specialist (NADA). Caroline co-facilitates “Yoga-Puncture” at yoga studios throughout Philadelphia and offers Acupuncture on Transformative Detox Yoga retreats offered in relaxing, hidden abodes on the East Coast. Caroline adores the group dynamic and the magic that occurs in workshop facilitation: this is now her sixth year gifting workshops to PEX Summer Fest. Her other passion is music, and she has been blessed with many opportunities to spread Love through sound at many PEX events!