Getting to the Heart of Yin and Yang with Dr Tamara Russell

In this presentation Dr Tamara Russell will draw on perspectives including Daoism, martial arts, neuroscience and psychology to try to make sense of where we are in the world today as men and women. She will start with the heart to help contextualise this discussion within the broader expansive energies of our universe beyond our earthly experience of men and women and introduce the energetic concepts of Yin and Yang. She will then drill down into the nitty gritty of the ‘Yin/Yang’ rotation, this moment in time when we need more than ever the caring and compassion skills of yin alongside the firmness and protection of yang. We will discuss what this means practically for each of us, as well as collectively, in these times. The need for balance is more pressing than ever, but what can we expect at this tipping point where Yin comes more into prominence? How does this appear in our meditation practice and what does this mean for the emergence of embodied ‘real world’ spirituality? Tamara will share frameworks from different disciplines to help hold and guide our group investigation of this topic.