Shift your State Series:

Reclaim Joy

A 4-session self led practice series for anyone ready to meet these heavy days with radiance instead of resignation.

To reclaim joy is a radical act now. It's a refusal to be diminished. It's how we stay powerful, expanded, connected and free.

We are drowning in worry, anxiety and dread in the weight of this crucible moment.

This series is not asking you to bypass any of that but an invitation to intentionally expand your capacity to wildly flourish in these times.

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"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation." — André Gide

In this series we will move through practices focused primarily on breathwork which are designed to gently, powerfully and intentionally move heavy energy in the body/ mind.

We will shift our attention and chemistry from hormones of fear, anxiety and anger to the endorphins of Joy agus Glionar ar Croí ( Joy/ delight / gladness of the heart)

Weaving conscious breathwork, embodiment, great tunes and some teachings from Celtic wisdom, psychology, Buddhism, Taoism and neuroscience.

IMPORTANT NOTE : some of the practices in the series are not suitable if you are pregnant. You are still welcome to attend and choose other practices.

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Each session includes...

🔴 1 Embodiment

🔴 3 Breaths

🔴 1 short guided meditation

🔴 1 journal prompt

SESSION 1 — The Killjoy: What's Killing Your Joy?

Consciously making space for joy in your body, breath, and mind. You have sovereignty. You have agency over your feeling states. Boldly sit at the centre of your circumstance, mediate and manipulate your chemistry — shift from the hormones of stress (adrenaline, cortisol) to the hormones of joy (serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin).

SESSION 2 — Rewiring the Negativity Bias

The negativity bias is our human tendency to pay more attention to — and store more deeply — negative experiences over positive ones. As a result, it takes a full 30 seconds to truly "let in" joy and register it in the body. But our systems are malleable. We can choose to rewire in every moment.

SESSION 3 — Ten Thousand Joys and Ten Thousand Sorrows

Play with the great Taoist teaching of "ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows." Joy and sorrow are transient, and they co-arise — always in a dance with each other, the cycles of ups and downs in a life. If we deny the sorrow, we will never fully experience the joy. This is reclaiming joy without bypassing the sadness, anger, anxiety, and overwhelm of being alive right now. Instead of resisting pain or clinging to pleasure, the aim is to accept all of existence as a natural, interconnected flow — opening to the full range, which is the consciousness of wild flourishing.

SESSION 4 — Three Cauldrons Coherence

Play with the three cauldrons of the body from Celtic tradition. Breath and awareness move through the three energetic centres in the body, bringing coherence and connection to the earth beneath us, the sky above us, and our sacred centre.

“Mari is unfraid to hold the light and dark”

"Mari is one of the greatest teachers I have had the great fortune to spend time with. She is unafraid to hold both the light and dark. In these times we are living in, to me Mari embodies the energy that is so needed to elevate and live truly authentically."

— Carrie Anne Moss, USA