50-Hour Embodied Yoga Training
The shortest way into the method itself, and the one most people take before deciding on anything longer.
This immersion is built around direct experience rather than a fixed method. The emphasis moves away from achieving a form and towards listening, sensing, and allowing movement to arise on its own.
It suits committed practitioners as much as teachers. What it asks for is a settled practice behind you and a willingness to stay with one process for the week rather than sampling several.
The curriculum
- Embodied movement practice
- Exploration through circular and spiral patterns, working from sensation rather than towards a posture.
- Breath awareness and pranayama
- Observing how breath already moves through the body before adding any deeper practice on top of it.
- Meditation and inner observation
- Attention developed through movement and breath, rather than sat apart from them.
- Yoga philosophy
- The Yoga Sutras approached through reflection and direct observation rather than theory alone.
- Experiential anatomy
- Understanding the body as a living system, learned through moving it rather than reading about it.
- Exploration and improvisation
- Unstructured movement, where the response is allowed to be your own.
A day, roughly
Days run Monday to Saturday. Sunday is free.
- 06:30
- Guided meditation
- 07:00
- Embodied movement practice
- 08:30
- Discussion
- 09:00
- Yoga Sutras
- 10:00
- Brunch
- 11:30
- Experiential anatomy
- 15:30
- Movement exploration
- 17:00
- Breath inquiry and pranayama
- 18:00
- Meditation
- 18:30
- Dinner
- Bus transfer from Tapovan on the arrival day
- Two vegetarian meals a day, with dietary needs met given notice
- The Embodied Yoga manual and cue cards
- Audio and video recordings of the sessions, to keep studying afterwards
- Two years of consistent practice, or a completed 200 or 300 hour training
- A willingness to stay with the process offered, and to set other physical or spiritual practices aside for the week
- Any medical condition shared in advance