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Jul
30
11:00 AM11:00

The Art of Slowing Down: Breathwork & the Nervous System

A powerful 1-hr breathwork + nervous system workshop that breaks all the myths around slowing down. You’ll learn about the benefits of breathwork, how to move out of your stress + anxiety body response to calm + healing mode, a simple yet effective breathing technique AND a 1-minute breathing exercise to do daily.

Feel like you’re constantly running on a treadmill? A treadmill that only makes you run faster, and faster, and faster? And you keep running because you feel like if you choose to stop, you’ll land flat on your face?

You’re not alone.

Slowing down is an art and a practice.

But with how much we've got on our plates, slowing down might feel absolutely impossible.

Maybe even anxiety reducing.

The world around you has been set up to make you feel constantly behind.

So no wonder you're always rushing for an imaginary finish line.

Capitalism tell you that your worth is based on your productivity and output.

So when you want to slow down and like just LIVE versus being productive all the time, you feel like you can't.

The system of pedal to metal, of living life fast, of always running and rushing and being busy is driving humans into the ground. Literally.

We've become a society of high strung, highly stressed and highly anxious individuals.

f you're ready to shake sh*t up and disrupt this constant fast moving, busy mind way of living, you're invited to my next online mindfulness workshop:

The Art of Slowing Down: Breathwork & the Nervous System

For me, slowing down now feels like a whole full body EXHALE.

A softening of my tight fist around trying to keep up.

Slowing down now feels like giving myself a big, healing, loving HUG.

And I want this for you too!!!!

In this fun, interactive 60-min workshop you will learn how to embrace slowing down.

What you’ll learn:

  • The benefits of breathwork and why it’s so powerful

  • A deeper understanding of your nervous system’s survival response vs resting + healing response

  • A simple breathing technique called 3-part deep breathing aka diaphragmatic breathing

  • A 1-minute breathing exercise you can fit into any busy schedule

  • How to take more satisfying, nourishing, fuller breaths and activate your body’s natural ability to heal, rest and feel calm

You’ll leave the workshop with both knowledge and practical tools you’ll use for the rest of your life to help you when you feel rushed, stressed and anxious.

This workshop is for you if:

  • You always feel like you’re rushing in life, work and relationships

  • You feel like your life’s speedometer is turned to MAX and you’re exhausted

  • You want to take you foot off the pedal but you’re scared and not sure how to start

  • You’re ready to slow the f down but don’t know how

  • You have issues winding down and sleeping because your mind’s too busy

  • You want to learn how to slow down in a way that doesn’t require you to do a million different things all at once

  • You want to live more in the present moment

  • You want to connect more deeply to your body and intuition

Workshop Details

When: Saturday July 30th at 11am ET

(8am PT / 10am CT / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST) Check your local timezone here.

Where: Online via Zoom (Zoom details will be sent out 24 hrs before we start)

Investment

$25 USD + get the recording forever

This workshop is open to all levels, whether you’re new to breathwork and mindfulness or a regular practitioner, come learn something new or re-ignite your well-being :)


About your facilitator: Victoria

Hi! I’m Victoria, your guide for this workshop. Slowing down was always something I avoided when I lived in the big city and worked my M-F office job. Slowing down was simply something I could. not. do. It was hella uncomfortable.

It wasn’t until I discovered mindfulness and became a regular mindfulness practitioner did I learn WHY slowing down was important for my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

As someone who often found herself stressed and anxious and unable to sleep through the night, slowing down was the key to not just calming my mind but calming my body.

After years of practice, study and training others in mindfulness and meditation, making the practice of slowing down accessible and not as daunting as it seems is a deep passion of mine. I see slowing down as a tool for disrupting the system that constantly tells us to do, do, do instead of BE. I see it as turning sh*t upside down in a society that is constantly telling us that our worth is directly linked to our performance, AS IF WE’RE MACHINES.

Slowing down is RECLAIMING your brith right of joy, ease, freedom.

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Community Check In Meditation
Mar
19
12:00 PM12:00

Community Check In Meditation

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER + DONATE

“Someone asked me: Aren’t you worried about the state of the world?

I allowed myself to breathe and then I said:

What is most important is to not allow your anxiety about what happens in the world to fill your heart. If your heart is filled with anxiety, you will get sick and you will not be able to help.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

We can probably all agree that there is so much happening in the world, in the midst of already navigating so much.

When we feel like a lot is going on we can easily get sucked into feeling lost. Lost in social media, lost in the news, lost in the fear and anxiety, and ultimately lost in our connection to ourselves and our humanity.

This offering is an opportunity for you to check in with yourself, with the support and energy of a like-minded community.

What we’ll do:

  • A grounding, arrival meditation to become present with what is

  • Deep breathing to calm our nervous systems

  • Mindful meditation to compassionately check in on all levels of our being (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual)

  • Find guidance and clarity on our next steps from WITHIN (versus what the world is telling us)

  • Journaling to move deeper into our healing, growth and process

  • Opportunity to reflect and share in a community of like-minded fellow human beings

This event will not be recorded.

Experience is not required. All beings are welcome to attend.

To participate, you are invited to make a min. donation of $11 USD / 8 GBP / 10 EUR. Donations collected will be forwarded to support the resettlement efforts of refugees around the world.

Donations will be split equally to the Canadian Council of Refugees and the International Rescue Committee.

If you cannot make a donation at this time and feel like this practice would benefit your well-being, please email me to get access. No one will be turned away.

REGISTER + DONATE HERE

Community Check In Meditation

New date: Saturday March 19th, 2022
Time: 12pm EDT (Toronto / New York)
via Zoom

  • PDT: 9 - 10:15am

  • MDT: 10am - 11:15am

  • UK + Portugal (GMT): 4 - 5:15pm

  • France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden (CET): 5 - 6:15pm

REGISTER + DONATE HERE

Zoom link will be sent to you the day before our meditation. Donations can also be made via PayPal to paypal.me/victorianhan.

For questions, please email me at hello@victorianhan.com or DM me on Instagram @victorianhan.


About your Facilitator, Victoria

I’m a spiritual life coach, mindfulness facilitator, meditation guide, and intuitive practitioner who works with her clients to restore their connection to their breath and body.

I invite my clients to expand their way of being in the world. Beyond just “doing” life, my work and practice is to let you experience a different (maybe new, maybe familiar) way of being in this world that allows you to move through life with more curiosity, trust, courage and authenticity.

My work is rooted in the belief that we have the answers we are often searching externally for… and they’re within us. What we don’t learn in school or through are parents is how to trust ourselves to listen to these answers, intuitions, signals, next steps.

Through this offering, I extend to you a compassionate hand: let me be your guide and support you to find calm, clarity and peace as you journey from your brain to body using your breath.

I am trained in multiple healing modalities including mindfulness (in the Thich Nhat Hanh Plum Village tradition), meditation, breath work, Usui Reiki Master, Shamballa Reiki Level 1 & 2, yoga, movement and somatic healing with an active trauma-informed, oppressive lens.

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Virtual Tea Drinking Meditation
Nov
17
12:00 PM12:00

Virtual Tea Drinking Meditation

Drinking tea (or coffee) is so much more than how we often experience it.

It’s not something you need to rush. Or do while doing 100 other things.

In this 30-min session, you are invited to stop rushing and allow yourself to slow down and be present with you drink. You will learn how to turn this regular daily activity into a mindful EXPERIENCE that is deeply nourishing on all levels of your being - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

When: Wednesday November 17th

Time: 7am EST / 12pm UK / 1pm CEST / 7pm Vietnam

Where: Live on Zoom. A replay is available for monthly members.

Investment: $10 USD for a drop in live experience, or become a monthly member for $51 USD for unlimited live sessions and recordings to do at your own time

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Open your Heart: Yoga & Meditation for the Heart Chakra Class
Nov
30
10:45 AM10:45

Open your Heart: Yoga & Meditation for the Heart Chakra Class

This Heart Chakra Workshop will focus on cultivating loving energy and opening up our hearts with dynamic yoga movements to start and ease into Yin poses to integrate this loving energy into our bodies and minds. Throughout the class, students will be guided with mindfulness and a heart chakra meditation to further cultivate our ability to give and receive love freely. 

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One-Day Mindfulness Retreat, Hoi An
Sep
23
10:00 AM10:00

One-Day Mindfulness Retreat, Hoi An

Step on the mat for a nourishing day of goodness! 🧘‍♀️

Learn mindfulness tools and practices to take into our daily life and activities to live life with more calmness, peacefulness and joy. Research shows that living a mindful life can help reduce anxiety and stress.

**Book in advance: PM Victoria Nhan Yoga, Mindfulness & Reiki or email hello@victorianhan.com**

Sunday 23 September, 2018
10am - 3pm
at Nomad Yoga Hoi An

🙏 Retreat Schedule 🙏
10am - Welcome
10:15am - Introduction to Mindfulness
11:15am - Walking & Seated Meditation
12pm - Mindful Lunch (delicious, healthy vegetarian lunch and kombucha included)
1pm - Deep Relaxation
2:15pm - Sharing Circle & Mindful Songs
3pm - Finish

What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is a continuous practice that we can bring into our lives at home, at work, at school and in our communities to live life with more awareness, love, peace and joy.

By bringing mindfulness into our daily activities - such as walking, sitting, eating, studying, drinking, waiting to check out at the shops, talking to a friend and hugging a loved one - we can nourish peace, calm, and joy in ourselves and therefore, share it with others.

Investment: $45usd or 1,050,000vnd per person (includes healthy lunch)

Open to all levels from beginners to advanced practitioners welcome. No prior mindfulness or meditation experience required. Young adults aged 12+ are also welcomed to join.

Space is limited. Register in advance to save your space. PM Victoria Nhan Yoga, Mindfulness & Reiki or email hello@victorianhan.com

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