embodyoga® | Traveling to your Yoga Center

EMBODYOGA® is a radical and accessible approach for integrating asana, pranayama, meditation, Tantric philosophy, and full embodiment, into a deeply fulfilling and healing practice.

Our EMBODYOGA® programs offer precise techniques for bringing a whole-body-mind-experience-of-unity, into the forefront of each individual's immediate perception.

Utilizing Embodied Anatomy™, Embodied Developmental Movement™, and Embodied Inquiry, our practice leads us systematically through each and every level of body and mind. We delve deeply, and experience directly, our subtle structures, sheaths, and consciousness. In this way we radically deepen our field of awareness, and open to a fuller vision of all that we are.

Two important keys in this practice are santosha and viveka. Santosha is “contentment with what is”, without inferring non-action. Viveka is “discrimination”, leading to discriminative-understanding, and clarity. Profound self-acceptance, and increased recognition of “life as it actually is”, develops from the pairing of contentment and discrimination.

Our investigations are based on our own actual, direct perception, and authentic experience. Using our own body-mind system as the vehicle for our inquiry, and our own asana practice as the form, EMBODYOGA® helps us integrate our sense-ofself into a unified whole.

Whole-body-support-templates, derived from Embodied Developmental Movement™, enhance every style and level of yoga practice. These patterns are fundamental to the prevention of injury and assist optimal body-mind coordination. Our study includes:

• Vibration, Cellular Breathing, & Whole-Body- Ujjayi Pranayama
• The Fluid Body
• Navel Organization: Navel-Yielding, Navel- Stabilization, & Navel-Flooding Breath
• Hands-to-Tail & Feet-to-Head Support in Asana
• Calm Spine & Contained Body Principles
• Yield, Push, Reach, & Pull
• Asana as Relational Practice: Self & Other, Community, Environment, and Vastness

Embodied Anatomy™ and Embodied Inquiry also guide our explorations. Deepening awareness spreads prana, and increases health on all levels. Inquiring into the nature of our body's structures, we experience directly our inner-matrix of support.We witness the unified-field-of-intelligence, expressing through us as our own individual qualities and traits. Our study includes:

• Healthy Function and Movement and for Bones, Muscles, Ligaments, and Joints
• Embodying Organs and Glands in Movement and in Stillness
• Fundamentals of Breathing and Pranayama
• Embodying Diaphragms and Bandhas
• Creating Nervous System Balance
• Embodying Chakras and Kosas in Asana

The principles of EMBODYOGA® are thoroughly inclusive and apply to every style of yoga. These principles are inherent within each and every one of us, and therefore support all forms of movement. You will find them to be edifying and enriching to the style of yoga you practice and teach.

In addition to our distinguished Teacher Training and Therapeutic Study Programs, Patty Townsend and senior EMBODYOGA® teachers offer workshops at yoga studios, conferences, and in teacher training programs of all traditions. 3-hour, 5-hour, and 10-hour formats are available depending upon workshop content and location. Workshop titles include:

• Introduction to EMBODYOGA®
• The Spine for Yoga Teachers
• Sacroiliac Joint, Pelvis, Legs & Feet
• Awakening the Pelvis–Structural & Energetic
• Healing Shoulders!
• Calm Spine & Contained Body Principles in Yoga
• Balancing the Nervous System in Vinyasa
• Templates for Optimal Movement – Developmental Patterns and Yoga
• Fluid Body and Navel Organization
• Embodying the Organs in Yoga
• Kidneys, Heart and Lungs in Asana
• Organ Support in Back Bending
• Glandular Support in Asana
• Embody Ashtanga & Vinyasa Yoga™
• Yoga Nidra: The Art of Deep Rest

For a full description of any workshop, or more information on our programs contact us:
Patty Townsend, Director of EMBODYOGA®
Yoga Center Amherst
17 Kellogg Avenue
Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-0604
patty@yogacenteramherst.com
www.yogacenteramherst.com
www.embodyoga.com

Our programs are registered with the Yoga Alliance. CE Credits Available

Also check out our: EMBODYOGA® 100-Hr. In-Depth Study, 200 and 500-Hr. Teacher Training Programs.

• 100 Hour In-Depth Study 200 Hour Teacher Training
• 500 Hour Teacher Training
• Graduates of Our Program
• Testimonials
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