Summit: Body as Nature

A one-day on-demand summit on the somatic art of remembering the body as nature

Summit: Body as Nature.
Like the forest and the ocean, we are nature. Losing touch with our essential nature creates a systemic pain that emerges as isolation and separateness — and reclaiming it is the foundation for wholeness. Join six world-leading embodiment experts for an on-demand summit exploring the body as nature through somatic yoga, breath, the elements, and Tantrik practice. Come home to your essential pulse, your elemental truth, and your inherent connection to all that is.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Welcome & Meditation
Dr. Scott Lyons · 30-minute experiential session

An opening meditation and welcome to set the tone for a day of remembering the body as nature.

Session 1 — Fall Gently Into Your Skin
Satu Tuomela · 90-minute experiential session

A return to the more Yin (but still Yang) phase — eliminating what is unnecessary and storing only what is needed. Explore Flow (Yang) within the container (Yin), tap into the alchemical power of the "three lungs" of Chinese medicine, and presence the power of resting in movement. A somatic Yin yoga session welcoming all levels.

Session 2 — Yoking to the Inherent Potency
Tias Little · 90-minute experiential session

Yoke to the inherent life force within — ancient yet always immediate and continuously evolving. Each of us has a signature pulse, rhythm, and flow. Through breath, bloodstream, lymphatic awareness, meditation, and movement, Tias guides students to listen to this sacred pulse, recognize its frequency, and animate its presence. Profoundly restorative and enlivening.

Session 3 — Yoga Through the Elements
Patty Townsend · 90-minute experiential session

We are the ocean, earth, water, fire, and air. We breathe and move within the sea of Radiant Awareness. Through asana and pranayama, breathe and move from the depth of the personal into the universal — exploring with love, sweet vulnerability, power, and compassion for our humanity and our very Being-ness.

Session 4 — Discover Your Elemental Truth
Chara Caruthers · 90-minute experiential session

Ayurveda holds that we are made of the same things as the stars, the moons, the people we love, the food we eat, and the environments we live in. Through this asana class, explore the qualities of the five great elements — space, air, fire, water, earth — within and without. A journey honoring our connection to everything around us, ultimately bringing us home to ourselves.

Session 5 — Tantrik Yoga
Kara-Leah Grant · 90-minute experiential session

Kara-Leah shares the Tantrik Yoga practice she learned from Christopher Tompkins in 2010 — the same one she committed to in a 1000-Day Practice beginning in 2015. This seated practice consists of breath work, visualization, mudras, bandhas, chanting, and meditation. Suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

  1. Embody the body as nature and reclaim a felt sense of wholeness
  2. Practice the elemental power of "the ultimate let go" through Yin movement
  3. Connect intimately with your inherent life force, breath, and bloodstream
  4. Listen to and animate your unique signature pulse
  5. Embody the five elements — earth, water, fire, air, and space
  6. Move from the personal into the universal through asana and pranayama
  7. Experience Tantrik Yoga through breath, mudra, mantra, and meditation
  8. Return home to your essential nature and the wisdom of the body

Who This Is For

- Yoga teachers and students of any level
- Movement and somatic practitioners
- Bodyworkers and breathwork facilitators
- Mindfulness and meditation practitioners
- Therapists integrating yoga and somatic practices
- People drawn to elemental, Ayurvedic, and Tantrik traditions
- Anyone seeking to remember their essential nature and wholeness

Faculty

Tias Little

Tias Little

Tias Little synthesizes more than 30 years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhism, anatomy and trauma healing in his dynamic, original style of teaching. He is author of the book Yoga of the Subtle Body and directs Prajna Yoga in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Chara Caruthers

Chara Caruthers

Chara Caruthers (C-IAYT, CAP, E-RYT-500) is an international educator, speaker, therapist and lifestyle medicine practitioner. Informed by decades of study and practice of yoga and Ayurveda and more recent work in the world of psychedelics as a researcher and provider of integration support, she is passionately dedicated to building bridges between eastern spiritual lifestyle traditions and modern western medical approaches to mental health and wellbeing.

Patty Townsend

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.

Kara-Leah Grant

Kara-Leah Grant

Kara-Leah is an internationally renowned Direct Realization Tantra Teacher and author who has impacted millions over the last decade through her articles, books, videos, and teaching. Passionate about liberation in this lifetime, she practices and teaches an integrated householder path of awakening grounded in Classical Tantra, focused on dissolving layers of the conditioned mind into deeper heart-felt presence. Through her teachings, trainings, writing, and retreats, Kara-Leah uses compassionate inquiry to reveal conditioned mind and help people drop into being-ness and presence.

Scott Lyons (Dr.)

Scott Lyons (Dr.)

Dr. Scott Lyons (DO, PhD, MS, MFA, CHT, BMCP/T, RSMT, SME, BMCP, IDME, SEP, CST, BFA, RYT-500) is a Clinical Psychologist, Osteopath, and Mind-Body Medicine practitioner who specializes in therapies for infants, youth, and adults. Additionally, Dr. Lyons holds a BFA in Theater/Psychology, and an MFA in Dance/Choreography. Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab — a hub for embodied education, self-discovery and healing— and developer of Somatic Stress Release™ — a processes of restoring our biological adaptation system.

Satu Tuomela

Satu Tuomela

Satu has taught for over 25 years and is known for her unique, authentic transmission. Specialising in somatics and embodiment, she is an ERYT500 yoga teacher with 2000+ training hours and 13,000 teaching hours, creator of Authentic Flow, Shake the Dust, and Embodied Yin, co-creator of Embodied Flow™ Yin, an Embodied Flow™ senior teacher, and Reiki Master. Currently a BMCA student in Body-Mind Centering, Satu weaves shamanic roots, non-dual Tantrik teachings, music, and somatic brilliance. Her teachers include Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Adyashanti, and Shambhavi Sarasvati.

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