Visceral Listening: Call from the Dead and Seed Potential

minimum duration: 10 hours

What are my tight hips safegarding me from? What is my liver enraging about? Why is my inhale reaching a dead end? Why does my exhale feel incomplete? What calls am I hearing from those whose bodies are no longer witth us? What calls am I emitting myself?

Generation after generation, we inherit from our ancestors not only their creative forces and transformative potential, but also the unresolved imprints that they didn't have the opportunity to heal during their lifespans - be they skeletal, physiological or emotional. These inherited patterns carry genetic mutations passed down from their ancestors, creating a dynamic DNA that comprises both what they themselves inherited from their forebears and their interactions with it, alongside new imprints acquired through their own experiences and reactions accumulated during their lifespans.

Seen from this perspective, healing becomes an act of repair and acknowlegement, never a betrayal of the past, despite of the the pain and injustice we hold within our collective memories. In chapter II, Sutra 16 of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, a pivotal sutra encapsulates the entire process of yoga: 'heyam duhkham anagatam,' which can be translated as 'what is to be prevented is the suffering that is yet to come.' Far fetched from the toxic positivity culture that today’s “health and wellness” (aka “wealth and hellness”) industry is embedded in, this sutra establishes the recognition of the existence of suffering as the starting point for self-enquiry and transformation, emphasizing that the only realm of action is the present. Linked to both the past and the future, the present is not an act of dismissiveness or oblivion, instead it is only the present that can grant us the capacity to mend some residues of the past, and liberate some future. 
 
In contribution to all of the global initiatives, across disciplines, working towards breaking the cycle of collective and generational trauma, Yalda Younes proposes to set back into movement the deep emotions clogging our organs. She facilitates this release by the improvement of the skeletal alignmenent, toning of the nervous responses, strengthening of the respiratory system and enhancement of the lymphatic circulation. All of which is assisted by the vivid use of imagination and power of transformative visualisation, in their potential of shaping healthier legacies.