EMBODYOGA^TM | Precision Alignment & Vinyasa Yoga

Increase self-knowledge, acceptance and love through advanced studies in “embodied-inquiry”, asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophy. 

Our EMBODYOGA™ programs are well-rounded, in-depth studies of yoga with an emphasis on deepening personal embodiment as the basis for developing depth and power as a teacher.

Learn to teach the embodied-inquiry practices of EMBODYOGA™ and share the depth of this experience with your students through Precision Alignment and Vinyasa Yoga.

Program director, Patty Townsend synthesizes more than 35 years of experience, including 2 decades of training teachers, into these highly educational and inspiring programs. Patty’s early study includes a decade with Ana Forrest, serious practice of Ashtanga with Richard Freeman, and 20 years of intensive study in the Iyengar tradition.

Our EMBODYOGA™ programs provide a deep knowledge of alignment, profoundly influenced by the innovative approach to full embodiment and consciousness presented by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of the School for Body–Mind Centering®. 

Patty is a teacher of Tantric and Transcendental Meditation. She has obtained certificates in Embodied Anatomy™ and Embodied Developmental Movement™ in the teaching of yoga. Patty’s teaching includes an invaluable perspective and insight into the crucial process of refining and evolving practices for individuals based on life’s cycles.  She brings a strong understanding of all aspects of yoga practice and philosophy to this rich curriculum for training teachers.

ADVANCED STUDIES PROGRAM

Serious yoga students are invited to attend individual modules of this training for the purposes of advanced study.

500-Hour CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

This program builds on the foundation of the 200-Hour Teacher Training Program providing an additional 300 hours of study.  All 4 Modules constitute a complete 500-Hour Certificate Program.  The Certificate Program is open to yoga teachers with a 200-Hour Certificate from any Nationally Registered Yoga School.

This is a highly rewarding study for serious yoga practitioners and teachers alike.

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Our EMBODYOGA™ program is divided into four distinct Modules. Each module has its own focus. Yoga philosophy is woven into the fabric of the program.

MODULE 1—Embodying Earth — Musculoskeletal System

Define and clarify the principles for healthy support and movement of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. Create ease and integrate the forces of movement and support throughout your whole-body. Harmonious whole-body movement encourages us to drop our “fragmentary-sense-of-self” and invites us into the experience of wholeness that is the state of yoga.

Included: advanced practices in standing postures, arm balances, inversions, pranayama and meditation.

• Embodying the vertebral column
• Integrated patterns of movement through the lower limbs, upper limbs and core
• Sequencing for stress free, injury free practice
• Therapeutic approaches for musculo-skeletal injuries & limitations
• Advanced pranayama 1
• Embodied-inquiry meditation 1
• Philosophy: Yoga Sutras
• Sanskrit pronunciation

MODULE 2 —Embodying Water & Fire — Organs & Glands

Learn to feel your own organs and glands.  Discover how to initiate movement from them.  Recognize the expression of organ and glandular support and intelligence in yourself and others.  Learn to facilitate healing through these systems utilizing touch, asana, pranayama and meditation.

Included: advanced practices in forward bending, twisting, arm-balances, vinyasa, pranayama and meditation.

• Experience postural alignment from organs & glands
• Integrate glands through the skeletal structure
• Learn healing modalities and sequencing for organs
• Learn healing modalities and sequencing for glands
• Deepen understanding and practice of bandhas
• Advanced Pranayama 2
• Tantric Meditation 1
• Philosophy: Hatha Yoga Pradipika and its practices

MODULE 3—EMBODYING OPTIMAL MOVEMENT

DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS AND NEUROLOGICAL INTEGRATION OF BODY-MIND-SPIRIT

Yoga is a developmental process of growth toward the vision of Unity.  We are whole, we begin whole, and we end whole.  In this module we explore the movement patterns that support our experience of wholeness and connection to source.  We integrate these patterns into our asana practice, and gain a deeper understanding of the Yoga form.

Included: advanced practices in standing postures, arm balances, inversions, pranayama and meditation.

• Cellular Breathing and Whole-Body-Ujjayi
• Levels of Core: Navel, Soft Spine and Spine
• Integration of Autonomic Nervous System
• Vinyasa Yoga
• Advanced Pranayama 3
• Experiential Tantric Philosophy
• Tantric Meditation

MODULE 4—INTEGRATION

EMBODYING AIR, SPACE AND CONSCIOUSNESS: CORE—LOVE—UNITY

Define and clarify the principles for healthy support and movement of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. Create ease and integrate the forces of movement and support throughout your whole-body. Harmonious whole-body movement encourages us to drop our “fragmentary-sense-of-self” and invites us into the experience of wholeness that is the state of yoga.

Module 4 is the culmination of the 500-Hr. Training. Successful completion of Modules 1-3 is required for attendance in this module. Material includes:

• Weaving Embodyoga™ Principles into Fluid and Satisfying Classes
• Resonating Through Presence, Voice and Touch
• Beyond Seeing: Perception with all of your Senses
• Advanced Sequencing and Teaching Clinics
• Advanced Pranayama 4
• Experiential Tantric Philosophy
• Tantric Meditation
• Final Assessment

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Our 500-hour EMBODYOGA™ teacher training program is registered with the National Yoga Alliance.

• 100 Hour In-Depth Study 200 Hour Teacher Training
• 500 Hour Teacher Training
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