Exploring Healing and Health through the Four Pillars of Yoga Therapeutics
Join us September 2, 2020 at 7:30am EDT (New York time) for an intimate conversation with Patty Townsend, Michal Yarkoni, Dr. Scott Lyons, and Chara Caruthers.
Together they will share their personal stories, intimate perspectives, and lived experiences... all starting from the theme of “Demystifying Wellbeing: Exploring Healing and Health through the Four Pillars of Yoga Therapeutics.”
How do we apply the principles and practices of yoga in a context of healing, empowered awareness, and tools for physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing? This conversation will introduce you to the four pillars of embodied yoga therapeutics: Applied Philosophy, Embodied Anatomy and Bodywork, Somatic Psychology, and Ayurvedic Technology.
FACULTY BIOS
Patty Townsend
Patty Townsend is the founder of Embodyoga®, an inclusive and fully embodied approach to yoga developed out of over 50 years of dedicated practice and 20 years of intimate study with her current teacher Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Patty's breath and awareness centered approach incorporates a deep understanding of how Awake-Alive-Intelligence expresses through the body-mind shaping our perceptions and experiences.
Patty embodies a strong understanding of yoga philosophy and encourages deep inquiry into all things personal and universal. She is an expressive and joyful teacher and her offerings are the culmination of a lifetime of serious practice and inquiry.
Michal Yarkoni
Michal Yarkoni is a Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and an Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, living and practicing in Israel. With over 20 years of experience practicing yoga and other somatic modalities, Michal brings to her teaching and therapy sessions a sincere passion, curiosity and love for understanding the body, movement and the ways embodiment supports growth and healing.
Michal is the co-director of Wisdom Body Yoga Therapy, an 800 hour yoga therapy training program accredited by IAYT. She is involved with developing and integrating the field of yoga therapy into the health-care system in Israel. She works as a Yoga Therapist in a mental health clinic of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in northern Israel, running yoga therapy groups for veterans with PTSD. Michal also has a private clinic for embodied yoga therapy where she integrates yoga, BMC, and SE.
Dr. Scott Lyons
Dr. Scott Lyons is dedicated to teaching embodiment as a way of exploring human development, healing, growth and transformation. His deep passion is to integrate somatic practices, transpersonal inquiry and scholarly research into the creative and healing arts.
Scott is a Clinical Psychologist and Mind-Body Medicine practitioner who specializes in therapies for infants, youth and adults. He is a Certified Body-Mind Centering™ Teacher and Practitioner, Cranio-Sacral Therapist, Visceral Manipulation Therapist, Neuro-Developmental Therapist, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Registered Movement Therapist and Educator, Trauma Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Thai Massage Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness-based Executive Coach, Experiential Anatomy/ Developmental Movement and Yoga Practitioner, and a 500-hour registered yoga teacher. Additionally he holds a BFA in Theater/Psychology, MFA in Dance/Choreography, MS in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Mind-Body Medicine.
Scott is the co-creator of Embodied Flow and has had the privilege of teaching Embodied Flow and Body-Mind Centering workshops and trainings throughout the United States, Europe, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. He was an adjunct professor at New York University from 2007-2010 where he co-taught the Viewpoints Studio with Mary Overlie. As an artist, Scott’s work has been performed at BAM, Symphony Space, Dance New Amsterdam as well as theaters throughout the United States and Europe.
Foundational to Scott’s teaching is the principle that we can, through intention, expand our capacity to meet and be met. In this way, we can offer the profound gift to our self, others and the environment of being heard, seen, and feeling felt at a cellular level.
Chara Caruthers
Chara Caruthers is a passionate and outspoken voice for the power of living your truth. An international teacher, speaker, author and advocate for women’s wellness, she has inspired and motivated a diverse global community of all ages to live juicier and more connected lives by embracing the principles of yoga and Ayurveda.
A global citizen, she was born and raised in Southern California, and has lived on five continents. She spent years as a successful corporate engineer in the fast paced environments of LA, New York, London and Sydney, before choosing to step away from it all in order to save herself, find her true voice, and live a more authentic life.
Chara is a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and an experienced yoga teacher at the ERYT-500 level. She has studied and practiced Ayurveda in the United States, Australia and India. Her work is focused on sharing these ancient principles in a modern context empowering wellness seekers of all backgrounds and cultures to boldly embrace the responsibility we all have to know and love ourselves. She has worked with students of all ages and backgrounds, trained yoga teachers, and supported her community through the creation yoga outreach programs for homeless adults and at-risk youth.
As a writer, presenter, and podcaster, she shares her unique voice and soulful approach regularly with audiences around the globe. Her latest book, Eat Like You Love Yourself is a modern guide to Ayurvedic living and cooking. It was created as a practical reference and love-letter for anyone who is struggling to understand how to nurture and nourish themselves throughout the year and their life.