December 6 at the Waldorfschool

45, rue de l’Avenir
L-1147 Luxembourg-Limpertsberg

10.00pm-11.30pm
(come a few minutes earlier to chang without hurry and bring your yoga mat please)

The Gifts We Carry…
The Gifts We Welcome…

“To be generous is simply to give what is true.
To receive is to allow the world to touch you“.
Marc Nepo

It’s the season of gifts. We spend time imagining what to offer, hoping to find something meaningful, sometimes even wondering what we ourselves might like to receive. It can be joyful, tender, and at the same time a little overwhelming. We are surrounded by so many things, so many choices, so many expectations.

Somewhere in the middle of all this, a quieter question appeared for me: What do I have to give — truly, today? Not as an obligation or a performance, but as something that lives inside the body — a movement that is honest and available right now.

Where does my giving come from? What makes me open? What makes me hold back? And just as important: can I allow myself to receive with the same simplicity — without guilt, without shrinking, without feeling I should immediately offer something in return?

Giving and receiving are not opposites. They shape a single rhythm, a natural expansion and contraction, like breath, like tides, like relationship. Sometimes we offer; sometimes we gather. Sometimes we have a lot to give; sometimes very little. All of it is part of the dance.

These reflections are simply what arises in me today, here and now, as I think about this season of offering and receiving. In class, we will take a gentle embodied path — sensing how these movements live inside us, and how they shift, soften, or surprise us when we let the body lead.

We will explore the impulses to open or to close, to offer or to hold, to welcome or to step back. Not to fix anything, not to define how giving “should” be, but to notice how generosity and receptivity move through us — in their fullness, their hesitation, and their tenderness.

You are welcome exactly as you are — with your abundance or your fatigue, your open doors or your careful boundaries, your wish to offer and your wish to be met.

Let’s explore what giving means when we allow it to begin in the body.


Kahlil Gibran — “On Giving” (from The Prophet)

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?

There are those who give with joy,
and that joy is their reward.

And there are those who give with pain,
and that pain is their baptism.

And there are those who give and know not pain in giving,
nor do they seek joy,
nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
they give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.”

Vous donnez peu lorsque vous ne donnez que de vos biens.
Ce n’est que lorsque vous donnez de vous-même que vous donnez vraiment.

Car que sont vos biens, sinon des choses que vous gardez par crainte d’en avoir besoin demain ?

Il en est qui donnent avec joie,
et cette joie est leur récompense.

Il en est qui donnent avec peine,
et cette peine est leur baptême.

Et il en est qui donnent sans ressentir la peine de donner,
sans rechercher la joie,
et sans se soucier de la vertu ;
ils donnent comme, dans la vallée, le myrte exhale son parfum dans l’espace.

Come and join us on a common floor and in a common dance!
Good music is going to support us in our explorations.

Price: 25 €
You can pay cash at the beginning of the class
You can use PayPal if you have an account
You can use Payconiq
You can transfer 25€ on my Bank Account IBAN LU85 0024 1521 8570 0000
Wear comfortable clothes in layers, you might like also to wear socks at the beginning or during the whole class
Bring your bottle of water or tea
… and the curiosity and the willingness to … give and to receive