The Four Pillars of Healing and Wellbeing

Name: The Four Pillars of Healing and Wellbeing
Brand: The Embody Lab
SKU: PE-W13
Price: 267.0 USD
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Embodied Yoga Therapeutics applies the principles of yoga in a context of healing, empowered awareness, and integrated wellbeing. Join four world-leading teachers as they introduce the four pillars: Applied Philosophy, Embodied Anatomy and Bodywork, Somatic Psychology, and Ayurvedic Technology. Through these complementary lenses, you'll gain a holistic understanding of yoga as a tool to live life in flow — on and off the mat.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Pillar 1 — Fundamentals of Embodied Philosophy
Patty Townsend · 2-hour experiential session

Yoga philosophy is a guide for inquiring into the depths of who we are. Drawing from both Tantric and Classical eras, embodied philosophy offers maps for exploring what, who, and why we are. Learn the map and process for embodying yoga, principles for unifying body-mind-spirit, tools for self-acceptance, and the fundamentals of inquiry.

Pillar 2 — Embodied Anatomy Foundations
Michal Yarkoni · 2-hour experiential session

Embodied anatomy is a practice of self-inquiry where tissues, systems, and structures of the body are explored through direct experience. Learn the difference between studying anatomy and experiencing it, the five important qualities of touch and touching, methods of experiential learning, and how to apply embodied anatomy to the practice of asana.

Pillar 3 — Somatic Psychology and Yoga
Dr. Scott Lyons · 2-hour experiential session

Explore the historical intersection of Eastern origins and modern somatic therapies. Identify the pillars of wellbeing through the lens of psychology, learn techniques for self-dialogue and stress and trauma release, and discover the six key qualities of being a powerful, supportive practitioner.

Pillar 4 — The Fundamentals of Embodied Ayurveda
Chara Caruthers · 2-hour experiential session

Ayurveda is a science of living rooted in the foundations of yoga philosophy — a set of tools and practices that support the realization of our wholeness. Learn the relationship between Ayurveda and yoga, the Ayurvedic framework for preventing and healing illness, and how to apply an Ayurvedic approach to embodied living and yoga practice.

Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

Understand how Embodied Yoga Therapeutics supports your healing and your clients'

Use yoga philosophy as a map for embodied living

Explore one topic — like anxiety or trauma — through four distinct lenses

Transition from textbook learning to direct experiential learning

Apply primary tools and principles of somatic psychology and yoga

Empower yourself and your clients to lead their own healing process

Use Ayurveda as a framework for integration across daily life

Integrate philosophy, anatomy, psychology, and Ayurveda into a unified practice

Who This Is For

- Yoga teachers wanting to deepen into therapeutic applications
- Yoga therapists and trainees
- Somatic practitioners and bodyworkers
- Therapists and counselors integrating yoga and Ayurveda
- Movement and mindfulness educators
- Practitioners exploring Eastern frameworks for healing
- Anyone seeking a holistic, integrated approach to wellbeing

Faculty

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.

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.

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.

Michal Yarkoni

Michal Yarkoni is a BMC practitioner, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and an SE 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 her 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 hours 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.

She teaches Yoga and Body Mind Centering classes and workshops for yoga teachers, and other body-mind practitioners and therapists. She has a private clinic for embodied Yoga Therapy where she integrates Yoga, Body Mind Centering and SE. (from June 2020)