Dr. Sará King has been named by Yoga Journal as one of the 15 most Influential Yogis You Need to Know About! We’re thrilled to see Yoga Journal recognize Dr. Sará King for her work connecting science, yoga, and social justice.

This video with Saj Razvi, presenter at our October One-Day Summit MindBody Medicine, explores how many of our symptoms develop as we accumulate biological threat responses over time, creating patterns of illness in our minds and bodies. And though these patterns become painful and even debilitating, they actually function intelligently, alerting us to problems and inviting us to heal.

Recently Dr Scott Lyons of The Embody Lab caught up with Ben Goresky of Evolving Man. Explore their conversation including the power of somatic therapy to heal trauma, how somatic therapy works, and how it differs from other therapeutic practices and so much more

This September The Embody Lab’s One-Day Summit is focusing on Plant Medicine and Psychedelic Assisted Therapies. In this One-Day Summit we’ll shine a light on the use of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and, through discussions with leaders in this re-emerging field of healing and therapy, explore the different medicines and their applications for healing, counseling, psychology, and activism.

This September, The Embody Lab presents the first-of-its-kind 60hr Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate., bringing together world renowned Somatic Trauma Therapy teachers into one program. We caught up recently with Dr. Scott Lyons and discussed some commonly asked questions about the program.

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.