Introduction to Embodyoga®
Introduction to Embodyoga®
Embodyoga® from the Inside Out
Where Awareness, Anatomy, and Movement Meet
Philosophical and Somatic Inquiry Through Yoga
Embodyoga® is an intelligent and well-grounded philosophical and somatic inquiry into what it means to be alive — to live a full life — and simultaneously to engage in serious inquiry into the nature of life through the teachings of yoga.
Embodyoga weaves together the healing, therapeutic, and spiritual essence of yoga with cutting-edge insights from the field of body-mind consciousness. It fuses the emergent wisdom of Body-Mind Centering®, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, with Hatha Yoga practices and Tantric Yoga philosophy. We seek to enter life with open awareness, to experience the full range of life’s gifts, and to honor the natural beauty and challenges that we are offered.
Curiosity Opens the Doors of Perception
Embodyoga® begins with a simple, transformative premise: our entire personal self— body, heart, and mind — is a sea of vibrating creative awareness. Each part of our physical and energetic form is an expression of awareness manifesting as our individual traits. We experience these layers of self as gradations of consciousness— all made of the same substance, all equally valuable, and all interwoven to form a system designed and primed for self-realization.
Through the gift of human consciousness, we are able to witness our essential nature: creative, bright, alive, and self-aware.
In practice, Embodyoga® harnesses the natural forces of curiosity and desire to guide deep exploration of the body-mind system. Our inner inquiry leads the way. Whatever the path, the destination is always the same: the revelation of unity that underlies all form. While we express unique individuality, we are also universal. At our core, we are awareness itself.