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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 & 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
- Integration of Autonomic Nervous System
- Vinyasa Yoga
- Advanced Pranayama 3
- Experiential Tantric Philosophy
- Tantric Meditation
Module 4
Integration • Embodying Air, Space & 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 Hour 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