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Happy 2024 - may this be the year we open our hearts & free our bodies like never before.

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Thank you for all the great feedback on the latest blog on Movement and Mental Health. It's a topic that's so valuable for the times we're living in, and one where current research is on pace to radically transform the way we think about functional fitness & mindful embodiment overall. I hope it inspires you to move every day.

If you need inspiration for creative embodiment that's GOOD FOR YOU on all levels - physical (unwind tension and move with more freedom), mental & emotional (feel more calm, clear & grounded), plus helps to strengthen your nervous system, join me for Embodied Resilience™ weekly practices, live online every Thursday, 9-10am PT (plus replay available indefinitely).

Join in January & get 3 months half-off- only $15/month for weekly out-of-the-box movement, breath & meditation that will make your whole being feel grounded & alive, peaceful & present, that you can return to again & again. (I truly don't know of anything else like this approach, merging science with yogic wisdom of mindful presence in motion.) Click HERE to join us.

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Part of the power of embodiment for mental health is in how it can be a tool to unwind and heal trauma, a topic I'm thrilled to share as a featured practice guide in the *Free* Power of Meditation Summit, hosted by therapist and Dharma teacher Kelly Blaser. Kelly and I shared many an adventure deep in yoga trainings years ago... and we're still in resonance as the theme of this year's Power of Meditation series is...​
​How to Heal Trauma and Build Resilience Through Dharma and Psychotherapy.

This series brings together an esteemed group of Dharma teachers, psychotherapists, and mystics who offer deep reflections about how they’re holding space for themselves and others in these volatile times.

They’ll share ideas and techniques for staying in compassionate presence with yourself and others as the world we’re all a part of evolves. Truly medicine for our rapidly changing world, and it’s completely free!

My contribution is a guided Embodied Resilience practice, specifically to support the nervous system in healing trauma. When you tune in for the wider event, you’ll get complimentary access to many profound and visionary teachers, who will equip you with invaluable skills and strategies to…

• Heal trauma through the intersection of dharma teachings, mindfulness, meditation, and the methods of psychotherapy
• Understand how meditation affects the way trauma is held in both the brain and the body
• Stay open through radical challenges with the support of a non-dual perspective
• Enhance interoceptive awareness and sensitivity with somatic techniques
• Stay present in the midst of radical personal, societal, and global changes
• Learn methodologies to install positive states in your mind-body field
• See present moment awareness as a source of deep resilience
• Practice radical inner healing as an essential component of becoming an empowered agent of social change… and more!
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I've attended or participated in this event for a few years, and it's truly one of the greatest gifts of each new year. If you're ready to hold space for change within yourself and your community, I hope you'll join me and so many other brilliant teachers in the Power of Meditation Summit.

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In-person embodied education ahead:

My joy and why I work so hard is to share the eye-opening, mind-expanding, movement-liberating understandings of revolutions in modern movement science. ​Embodied Anatomy: Fascia, Biotensegrity & Beyond is my favorite in-person workshop, always evolving in now 10 years of teaching about fascia. If you're in the Bay Area, join us January 27-28 at Folk NOPA in San Francisco. Your body will thank you for life. Teachers, this workshop will transform your teaching skills and help you create truly accessible & healing classes that are deeply aligned within the body+mind as well as philosophical teachings of yoga.

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I can't wait to return to my soul home, Encinitas to be hosted in the magical Aum Dome, a very special private venue for an introduction to fascia and the nervous system, plus an in-depth tour of non-linear, inner joint alignment at all the major motion centers of the body. We'll look at hips, shoulders, spine, hands and feet, then put it all together to investigate locomotion patterns of interweaving counterbalancing oscillations - the patterns of the cosmos, of Nature, and the underlying principles of life in motion. This is my first time to offer an introductory weekend of what we study over 9 months in the Embodied Resilience Atelier.

Info & registration is live for Embodied Resilience™ Immersion into Spiral Alignment Feb 2-4!

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Happy New Year,

Michelle

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PS. Stay tuned for a new blog in the works - a deeper dive on the Tantrik Origins of the Chakras in preparation for Elements of Ayurveda, Subtle Body & Tantrik Mantra Practice (aka origin of the Chakras!) January 20-21, 9am-1pm PT with special guest teacher Christopher Tompkins who will be sharing direct translations & chakra mantra practice from source texts. This training is part of The Yoga Reconnection- living Yoga, Ayurveda & Shakta Tantra for modern times. The Yoga Reconnection and the Embodied Resilience Atelier are the two pillars of the Kutilaa School of Embodied Resilience 300hr Yoga Teacher Training! 🥰

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☆ Weekly Classes ☆

• ​Prana Vinyasa Flow | Wednesdays 630pm | Folk SF + streaming live
• ​Embodied Resilience | Thursdays 9am PT | online + recording
• Somatic Flow + Restore | Mondays 645pm | Cloudbreak Yoga Sausilito | begins in February

☆ 2024 Trainings & Events ☆

• ​Elements of Ayurveda, Subtle Body & Tantrik Mantra Practice | Jan 20-21 | online
• ​Embodied Anatomy: Fascia, Biotensegrity & Beyond | Jan 27-28 | Folk SF
• ​Embodied Resilience™ Immersion into Spiral Alignment | Feb 2-4 | Aum Dome, Encinitas
• ​Agni: Ayurveda, Digesting Experience & Tantrik Philosophy | Feb 10-11 | online
• ALIGN: Evolutions in Embodied Practice | Feb 21-23 | online details announced in January!
• ​Advanced Anatomy: Preventing & Working with Common Injuries | Feb 24-25 | Folk SF
• ​Envision Festival | March 4-11 | Costa Rica
• ​Subtle Body 30hr Immersion | March 27-29 | Folk SF
• ​Building Resilience | April 20-21 | online (start of Embodied Resilience™ Atelier 2024, open to public)
• ​Heart & History of Namaskar | April 27 | Folk SF + online
• ​Lightning in a Bottle Festival | May 22-27 | Buena Vista Lake, CA
• Embodied Anatomy: Fascia, Biotensegrity & Beyond | June 1-2 | online (part of Embodied Resilience™ Atelier 2024, open to public)
• Embodied Resilience™ Anatomy of Spiral Design & the Axis Syllabus | June-Sept | online (part of Embodied Resilience™ Atelier 2024)
• Fall modules announced soon.

*If you're tech-savvy and interested in the potential of work-trade, please reach out!*

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The Kutilaa School of Embodied Resilience is dedicated to offering accessible opportunities for helpful & relevant education on Living Yoga, Ayurvedic wisdom & evidence-based embodiment practices for physical, mental & emotional wellbeing specifically for modern life in a changing world.

If you've read this far, thank you!! Birthing an online school takes alot of heart & hard work. 🌹

If you know anyone who could benefit from embodied resilience or living yoga practices, the greatest gift of support is sharing these offerings with friends.

Thank you in advance!

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