When using the Alexander Technique, a practice of non-doing, as the basis of a yoga practice, it quickly brings you into the deeper, more subtle aspects of asana and promotes an attention and sensitivity coming from the collaboration of body and mind.

Through non-doing, we stop fighting the body, we stop dominating the body. We find an OK-ness with how it is. We find an ease and lightness.

The beauty (and power) of Ayurveda is in it's simple message... First know yourself, and then above all else love yourself. It's a time-tested body of wisdom that helps you understand why this is vital to your health and then provides some of the tools you need to do it.

Like many westerners, I discovered Ayurveda through yoga.  Its simple message about the value of living authentically spoke directly to my soul.  It was the wisdom that I'd been looking for...

Through exploring our four different approaches to enhancing and restoring vitality and connection, you will gain a holistic understanding and capacity to apply a diversity of tools and frameworks to support others to live life in flow— on and off the mat.

The Gifts of Trauma, an excerpt from the book: Yoga & Psyche: Integrating the Paths of Yoga and Psychology for Healing, Transformation, and Joy by Mariana Caplan, PhD, MFT.

The whole of humanity has been thrown, or guided, or entered out of necessity into an underworld journey. The question for us is: can we travel together with enough compassion….. so that the potential fruits of this initiation can be fully reaped, eventually.

Today there is much mention of embodiment in movement practices. But what really is embodiment?

The Bandhas are seals for containing and directing prana flow within the body. They are practiced in the central body and find their organizing structures in four of the main diaphragms.