Natual Agency & Personal Evolution: Bodhi Yoga Immersion

For you, here is just a peek into one of my favorite Bodhi Yoga techniques that we learn during the Teacher Training. More than just a recipe for routine, Bodhi Yoga is about how we approach yoga for ourselves; as well as a taste of how we share the practice with others:

"Using Bodhi Yoga's Natural Progression™ techniques as an integrated part of your own practice, or when you are teaching helps the body/mind develop increased sensory acuity. In doing so, it will be easier for your students to then recognize what really feels right about any pose or any transition. The result is a wonderful resilience, and it becomes easier to do more in Asana, (the Sanskrit word for pose), with less effort. On many levels, this is the Bodhi philosophy of what it really means to “advance” in a pose.

When we use Natural Progression™ between one pose and another, then deepening into more and more advanced versions of the pose just happens. Resistance in both body and mind begin to subside. Bodhi Yoga Natural Progression™ helps students move deeper and deeper into a pose, while developing the proper strength and flexibility to support the deeper and more advanced versions of the asana.

The beauty of understanding natural progression is that it will give you and your students the sense that they will be able to apply to other poses, movements, mental states, as well as coping tools for life experience. This kind of attention, and exploration of Asanas makes “advancing” in the poses a natural result, instead of an act of will and ego.

One of my mentors, Ganga White teaches that asanas are no more than “tools” for advancing the body, mind and spirit connection. Bodhi Yoga’s Natural Progression™ philosophy would say that Asanas are contexts for “discovering”, “doing” and “being”, who you really are, at your core truth...our humanity.

Practicing Asana in this way will peel back all the layers of personal distortion and help a person gain the agency and courage to be who they already are at their essence. An asana is a physical way to recognize who we really are.

The kind of emotional intelligence that arises from approaching yoga this way has a profound effect on people’s lives, and is one of the hidden benefits of yoga, that is not easy to explain in words. For example, If I have a fear of being open, being in back bends can help me face that fear by opening the front of my body and extending through my neck. In doing so gradually, using both progressive, counter and complimentary poses, I learn to feel safe in my own body and mind. The sense of safety enlightens all other areas of my life, and empowers me as I move through my day, long after class ends.

As a guide and teacher of yoga, you have a unique opportunity to assist your students on this path of transformation. Participating by teaching Bodhi Yoga's Natural Progression™, and giving hands-on adjusting (using Bodhi Yoga’s Thai Partner Yoga Techniques), will not only help your students experience the “Grace” of practice; but it will give you, as their guide, an opportunity to understand first-hand, one of the four Divine states: Mudita, “Sympathetic Joy”.

Over my twelve years of teaching this practice, I have been profoundly evolved by simply guiding others along this path. The state of “Mudita” happens when I see a student who was previously limited, break through an invisible barrier and be able to do something they never thought they would be able to do. The experience is not unlike the blessing of seeing a new baby being born, it changes everyone in the room for the better."

I hope you will make space to join in on one of the most comprehensive Yoga Teacher Trainings & Personal Yoga Immersions available.

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The Miracle Metamorphosis

The Bodhi Yoga approach called "Therapeutic Partner Yoga" is a life changing experience, whether you give it or receive it, you will be renewed beyond transformation!

I can say this first hand, because when I first learned the foundational techniques of Therapeutic Partner Yoga, I was a 14 year veteran in banking. I taught yoga classes on the side, and began to attract a following. I decided to expand my skills as a yoga teacher and thought Therapeutic Partner Yoga would help me do that. I had nooooo idea that it would liquify my need for a 9-5 job and reorganize my life in a way that was far more beautiful than I could ever imagine for myself!

I knew I was starting to feel frustrated in the field of business when I showed up to get my corporate picture taken in a leopard skin shirt (not the usual image of your corporate professional). The world of mother nature, far beyond the desk set crowd had started to call my name.

Sitting at a desk and dealing with the boxed in stressors were taking their toll on my body as I managed Rheumatoid Arthritis and the challenges of mothering my son, who was fast approaching 8 years old. I knew I had to stretch beyond the box of corporate life. Soon, my small group of yoga students, in addition to classes, were lined up two months out for a lunch-hour Therapeutic Partner Yoga session with me, that paid almost as much as a full days work at the bank.

Once I made the jump out of professional life (where I had managed over 17 million dollars in assets and 9 people), to the quiet healing corner of my Therapeutic Partner Yoga office perched next to my friend and colleague Rex Kocherhans LCSW/MFT, life continued to expand beyond the borders of everything I had known.One evening when doing a session on Rex in my office, I was contemplating how I would find the right space to open a yoga studio. I felt ready to give others the wisdom and metamorphosis I had received myself on a broader spectrum. I needed somewhere for people coming from out of town and some place that was "pretty"--a good atmosphere for yoga classes and trainings.

I soon realized that I was already there, when a suite in the building right next door opened up. The bank where I had worked for 18 years had just sold, and my stock had tripled in value. I cashed it in and put money down on a space that I turned into my ivy covered yoga studio in CottonTree Square, along the banks of the Provo River. It is so lovely; beyond anything I could have planned, had I known any better than to FAITHFULLY follow my bliss.

The building needed renovation, so I had rolled my 401K out of the stock market and into my new real estate, when within 90 days the economy crashed. I had pulled my retirement out at full value, and saw none of the losses that have affected so many.I watched my path unfold in ways that have healed and protected me. The common thread through all of my adversity and fear, as I dissolved my old life and reorganized into something completely new, honest, and true, has been the work of Therapeutic Partner Yoga. My path was teaching me that: you can't participate in doing healing work, without being healed yourself; and when you are doing what you have truly been called to do, you will be protected in ways that someday will feel a little bit miraculous.

I have spent the last ten years developing a Therapeutic Partner Yoga Certification Program that teaches you how to follow your bliss through walking the healer's path.This unique style of Partner Yoga is rooted more in Ayruveda and Yoga Practice; it is not available anywhere but in this very miraculous place in CottonTree Square.

We start the next session in just a few months. Join us as we embark on this metamorphic path, for an experience like no other!