MOVEMENT SESSION WITH EVE MILYTE

Are you ready to transform your life?

This movement session will be your guide to

• Tuning into your body

• Removing emotional blocks

• Cultivating the intelligence of your body and your mind

• Experiencing enduring health and happiness

• Achieving your highest potential

• Attaining complete self-realization

WHAT IS MOVEMENT?

The body provides much more than just physical attributes such as strength and endurance, it plays a key role in our cognitive and digestive functions, our mental and immune systems, it determines our mood, emotions, feelings, and even steer our relationships with ourselves, others and the environment around us. The mind and body are inseparable and are considered to be an extension of each other. 

"Blood cells that don't move cannot transport oxygen, lungs that don't move can't breathe, hearts that don't move can't pump blood, and spines that don't move can't create the motion required for proper joint nutrition, for the activities of daily living, or for the stimulation of the joint-brain pathways required for proper brain and body function." ~ James Chestnut. In short, the delicate complexity of the physical body requires movement to be able to operate fully to enable a better quality of life.

A sedentary lifestyle became a "norm" for so many people, which creates a disconnect between the mind and body. A modern human has the luxury to access everything without the need to move. We spend days in the offices without moving our bodies, simply sitting at the desks exercising our fingertips by tapping keyboards and screens, we use the wheeled vehicles to commute and when we get home we comfortably place our ‘exhausted’ body on the couch to entertain it with the illusionary world as a reward for a very hard day. 

The narrative and relationship between our bodies and our movement are forgotten and ignored. We only notice our bodies when the feeling of pain starts revealing itself. Our bodies became purely as a “station of pleasure,'' which we use to indulge in delicious food, consume entertainment and decorate it with stylish attires.

Our bodies are meant to move. The movement is essential, the movement like hunting and gathering, dancing, walking, climbing, running, jumping, crawling, lifting, swimming, fighting, intimate flow...Our bodies are designed for these movements and crave them to remain healthy.

It’s time to use movement to reconnect with your body and bring the body back into your experience. Infuse your life, your job, your commute, your leisure with movement, move wherever and whenever you can, make movement your lifestyle, be a movement creator and facilitator. Move, move, move. 

• Move with your heart

• Move with each other

• Move with Nature

• Move with the Universe… 

YOGA

”To perform every action artfully is yoga.” ~ Swami Kripalu

YOGA is a scientific system of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual practices that originated in India more than three thousand years ago. Initially there were only two main yoga poses: Lotus and Sukhasana (seated postures). The physical practice was developed as a way to help yogis sit for a long period of time in meditation without being distracted by the tension and pain in the body. 

The literal meaning of the Sanskrit word Yoga is ’Yoke’, to connect, to unite the individual self with the universal power of Divine. The goal of Yoga is to suspend our perpetual flow of thoughts, help us to get out of the way in the process of experiencing enduring health and happiness, improving the quality of our lives, achieving our highest potential and attaining complete self-realization.

Yoga is a lifestyle. When we practice yoga we get connected with everything and everybody around us, we start relating to the environment, we become more compassionate. Yoga opens our awareness to a larger universal field of conscious, where we become One with the Universe while expressing our unique individuality.

Yoga targets most of the human functions, on the physical level, it increases mobility and flexibility, strengthens muscles and connective tissue and aligns the vertebrae; it tones and rejuvenates the internal organs and our immune system; purifies the lymphatic, digestive and circulatory systems; balances the nervous and endocrine systems; nourishes and stimulates the brain cells and enhances the cognitive function; increases mental clarity, emotional stability, and a greater sense of overall well-being.

I love to incorporate the multidimensional creative movements into my practice and my classes to gracefully challenge the body and the mind. We all love to conduct familiar actions, movements and thoughts. There is certainly a benefit in doing the same movements every day, it lets us just flow through the yoga sequence without thinking about what's coming next, it boosts our confidence and enhances the level of fulfillment. However, when we do something unfamiliar, new to our body, to our muscles, to our mind, when we go outside of our comfort zone, we enter a completely different state, state of exploration, state of new sensations, state where we've never been before. I believe that the experience of this novelty is crucial for cultivating playfulness in our lives, for contributing to our self-development, for enhancing our overall well-being and longevity.

Yoga is not about being able to fold into a pretzel and go beyond your physical capabilities. It’s about challenging ourselves to listen to our body’s desires, to accept our limitations, to relax into the present moment with ease, peace, gratitude and acceptance. Eventually, all this work we do on our mats will be transmitted into our lives off the mat, where we will enable ourselves to stay fully present and calm in any challenging situation and respond to external circumstances with more ease, patience and compassion.

ACRO YOGA

“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” ~ Rumi

ACROYOGA (ACRO) is a partner practice, where participants literally and figuratively uplift each other.  This communication-based practice allows you to exhibit your creativity, self-expression and ability to work together in a group to shape original effortless and sophisticated collective structures. This practice teaches us the most valuable attributes of any relationship either with ourselves or others – connection, trust, patience, cooperation and communication, which are the main elements of AcroYoga.

My first exposure to AcroYoga was during my yoga teacher training at Veda Yoga Center in 2015. My playful and always curious personality immediately spotted this creative practice, which day by day started to transform my yoga practice, my self-awareness, authenticity, creative intuition and communication skills, as well as opened a door to the community of amazing yogis, movers, dancers and acrobats (known as “monkeys” in the community), who are phenomenal creative thinkers and active problem-solvers.

I spent the next 4 years expanding my understanding of AcroYoga, practicing every single day, exploring the potential of this unified movement, stepping outside of my comfort zone and experiencing personal transformation. 

AcroYoga helps to break through numerous barriers, such as personal obstacles, human interaction and touch, fear of being upside down, trust issues, inability to be a great team player. Acro brings people together who cooperate and adjust to each other's movements no matter what shape or size, it pushes us outside of our comfort zone, it builds up genuine trust and human connection, it makes us smile when we fail and continue practicing over and over until a trick is completed and eventually celebrate our collective achievements.

Acro has been shared worldwide and continues to grow rapidly with thriving communities in over 83 countries with over 650 teachers who share this creative mysterious movement with enthusiastic yogis willing to play, connect, create and support one another.