EMBODIED YOGA TRAINING: 250 HOURS

Āgni is often translated as fire but its truer meaning is transformation. It’s the alchemical power of your cells to transform energy. Bringing your Āgni into balance through diet, Ayurvedic principles and yogic lifestyle (Dinacharya) will create harmony in your system. This makes it’s easier to wake up, be still and establish a daily meditation practice, or sādhanā.

This six week program starts with a ten day cleanse to honour the equinox. You’ll learn how to follow a circadian rhythm of eating, moving and sleeping that aims to restore your physical and emotional digestion to its optimum levels. Towards the end of the program we will deepen into a Durga sādhanā to honor the 9 nights of the Goddess, Navaratri.

You will also have time to start reading the set texts so you have a basic understanding of non-duality when you come to the next module.

Sadhana, safe space and core concepts

This four week prayer will establish a supportive container of daily meditation, mantra and pranayama, as you explore the revelatory and life affirming technologies of radical non-dual Tantra.

Each session will open with a kirtan and sadhana of mantra, meditation, pranayama, deity yoga and transmission. After a break, we’ll sink into an inspiring lecture on the core teachings of the Tradition, including the 5 Acts, the 5 Powers, the 4 Levels, and the 3 Impurities. Together we will study the tantras and sutras, connect as a community, guide each other into practice and steep ourselves inside the philosophy.

Samskaras, Upayas, Active Imagination + Jung

In each 2.5 hour session, we will explore the Unconscious through the fascinating lens of Carl Jung and the View of Kashmir Shaivism. Collette will guide you into a deeper understanding of Tantric Psychology and how to release Samskaras through the skilful means of the Upayas. We will look at the mystical, the imaginal and the dreamworld as realms of Soul, making contact with the underworld of the unconscious to touch into our totality and wholeness.

An astrologer and psychotherapist, Chris will introduce us to psyche through the doorway of soul, exploring Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious and how we can meet the parts of ourselves from an astrological perspective. We will also explore the Jungian technique of Active Imagination and how this weaves into yogic philosophy, embodiment and practice

Vak, Alchemy and the Moving Imagination

A deepening from the first module, we will introduce the inspired and extraordinary work of the Embodied Flow™ school of yoga to access a felt sense of the Tantric teachings. This will be a shared movement laboratory, recognizing the body as a vehicle for awakening, through embodied anatomy and experiential philosophy.

The session will include a lecture on Vak (mystic linguistics), from Leela Dasi, a generous break and a 90 minute movement practice from Collette. There will be time to share our embodied research, to journal, process and integrate our learning. You will also be introduced the the class planning pillars.

Madhya, Visioning and Dreams

The liminal space pulses at the heart of the Samāveśa process and we are finding portals to abide in the place where everything waits. The home of potentiality and deepest knowing. This module opens the door to profound practices of creative flow that show us how to live in alignment and rhythm with life.

You will turn rest into ritual, attune to your own poetic heart, know your yes and your no and understand your boundaries. This module is a sweet holding and refuge where we view awakening from the perspective of wholeness. Where honoring your bodymind is honoring the organism of the whole. And where tending to your own needs will allow you to build your resilience and increase your capacity to hold stronger, safer and clearer space. At work, at home and in your community. For the benefit of all beings.

Experiment, Embodiment and the Imaginal

Embodiment is a homecoming into the natural, indigenous terrain and topography of who we really are. It is an ineffable language, one that allows us to uncover, unbridle and undomesticate the bodymind. One that allows us to remember, reinvigorate and re-articulate ourselves in an ever-renewing and ever-unfolding process of discovery, recognition and re-attunement.

Alexandra will guide us through poetic landscapes and movement explorations, through different gateways and systems of our intelligent body-mind. Inspired by her life’s work as a dancer, somatic facilitator, BMC™ and Embodied Flow™ practitioner, researcher and explorer. Alexandra is a poet and exquisite steward of the thresholds.

Experiential, somatic education

Join this 4 week experiential programme that artfully blends weekly self-paced recorded content with live community circles. Explore anatomy from an embodied perspective, through the lens of movement-based methodology, including Body-Mind Centering, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Laban Movement Analysis.

We will go into the musculoskeletal system, including the role of bones, joints, muscles and connective tissue, the tensegrity and role of fascia as a web of support and our intuitive sixth sense. As well as the anatomy of breath and core with key considerations for pre and post natal. Learn about the importance of somatic movement education, what it means to be a healthy mover and discover a new paradigm for ‘flexibility’.

Wholeness, mythology, feeding your demons

The term ‘shadow’ comes from the inspired teachings of Carl Jung and to honour the dark is a deeply Tantric view. In order to melt away our conditioning and become truly whole, we must welcome all the parts of ourselves and this is a crucial step on the spiritual path, and essential if we are to hold space for others.

We will study shadow and myth through the lens of Jung and astrology with Chris while Leela will take us into the powerful Tibetan practice of feeding your demons. By turning towards our dark and illuminating what remains unconscious we can release stuckness, liberate that energy and become more alive, more whole, more authentic.

The Samāveśa community is organised around The Circle Way. The main principle is that there is a leader in every chair. It challenges oppressive hierarchal structures, allows for co-creation and means that students get to lead.

There are three 2 hour community calls where we get to sit in circle and share on what is coming up. We will then have a break before exploring the topic of decolonisation, led by Leela Dasi.

Alongside our friend and graduate, Juliana, we will also have the privilege of learning from South American indigenous elders who will share their wisdom through ritual and voice.

As facilitators, how we hold space is everything. If we feel safe to explore then we can meet more of ourselves. We can widen our window of tolerance, become more adaptable and build our capacity to meet life with greater compassion and ease.

There is an ever-increasing need for trauma-informed and inclusive spaces where all bodies and beings can feel seen, heard and held.

To certify as a Samāveśa Facilitator, you must complete the 30 hour Trauma Informed Yoga Foundations with Yoga for Humankind. We have been offered the Tier 3 pricing and Scholarships are available. Please visit the website to find out more.

Stillness and silence are the birthplace of form. It is where our words and actions emerge from and becoming intimate with space is how we learn the language of transmission. Space is the fabric of relationship - everything is held inside of it and is moving through it - so once you understand how to tune into the space, you can tune into what is moving through. Learn to attune to space, leave space, lean into space, resource from the space and read the space.

We will explore what it means to ‘hold space’ through the lens of Authentic Relating and Non-Violent Communication. You will learn about ritual, sacred space, how to resource yourself as a facilitator and create energetic containers that support the work and the individuals you are guiding.

Your words are powerful. They are vibrations that ripple through our bodies and stream through our sensitive nervous systems. Their shape, potency, texture, rhythm, cadence and resonance travels through the field of the classroom and how you paint the poetic landscape of a room is central to skillful facilitation.

This module will be curated through the gateway of the central channel to help us find clarity, intentionality and presence.

We will explore active language, felt sense articulation, directional cueing, the three pillars of curation and how to expand your vocabulary through word banks, journaling and creative writing exercises.

Free movement, self discovery and independent exploration are keystones of how we offer somatic inquiry but āsana is still a core component of our facilitation toolkit. It is the doorway for many beginners and, certainly in the West, it is often all that people understand yoga to be.

Āsana opens the body, moves stuck energy and helps formlessness find form, teaching us how to channel expression inside containment and how to align through our own felt sense and intuition. It can be a safe way for some to enter into a conversation with their body and creates structure when that is what is needed.

Embodied Flow™ is the backdrop for our work together. It guides how we practice, plan and share the teachings of yoga from a non-dual and Tantric perspective. In this module, you will discover a creative process that transforms class planning into a laboratory of discovery and inquiry. Where the teachings are brought into a felt and lived experience through the mind of your body.

You will learn how to structure your classes through chapters and portals, allowing the class to emerge from your own authentic experience. You’ll be introduced to basic, foundational and embodied anatomy and you’ll receive short guided embodiment prompts and practices. Our live sessions together will be a mix of guided practice, embodied class planning and teaching.

What is your root intention as a teacher? Taking your sankalpa, we will explore your vision and your values so you can get clear on what is most important to you, who you want to offer the teachings to and how you might go about that. This three hour workshop is crammed with exercises and tools to help you get to the heart of your ‘brand’, your mission and your purpose. You will walk away with greater clarity on your dharma and how you can bring your work to the world with integrity and authenticity.