Transformation through Yogic Practice

The body and the soma are two different entities.

One is known and categorized from the outside. One is known from the inside.

In a time where our neofrontal cortex (thinking and logic brain) is getting larger and the parts of the brain that perceive spatial awareness are shrinking, we need to return to the connection with the soma.

This section of instruction explores how we have veered away from this inner relationship and creates pathways for reconnection.

According to Susan Aposhyan, Natural Intelligence is “the synergistic intelligence that arises out of including all the resources of every tissue and fluid in the body.”

In our modern world, we seem to be moving further away from following the innate intelligence within our living tissues.

We have tamed and quieted many natural ways of responding to life.

Using the 6 Principles of Body-Mind Integration, this block of instruction provides us with several techniques and explorations to reconnect with the pulsing aliveness within our organism.

We use discussion and movement to explore this possibility.

In human development, our organism organizes itself in a series of movements as our body begins to interact with the world.

These 5 fundamental actions explain how we interface with the environment through bodily expression.

Depending on the conditions in which we were raised, our connection to these types of movement will vary in range from deeply connected and favored, to minimal access, to complete absence of connection.

This will be a self-exploration of these movements in your body that can then be applied to your teaching practice.

Returning to our natural intelligence requires conversations with each of the bodily systems. At varying stages in life, we need to attend to our bodily systems in fluctuating degrees. Opening a dialogue with these systems helps to facilitate the process of communication.

The emotional tone, accessibility, and perception of each system will offer insight into the individual systems, ultimately contributing to the whole.

This interaction between systems will deepen our experience of ourselves in wholeness.

This final section of material weaves what we studied into an integrative and transformational crescendo.

We will utilize techniques and practices to integrate and support the material moving forward.

Investigating healing, development, transformation, and evolution, we formulate ways to use the work of this course in your continued self-exploration and instruction.