The
Embodied
Breath
An Intimate guide through
the Inner Architecture
of Pranayama
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with Paul Wooden
FOUNDATIONS
Pranayama expands and refines
our capacity for feeling
The Embodied Breath is comprehensive foundations program that opens us to the inner architecture of Pranayama.
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This course will give you the clarity, inspiration and support to expand your understanding
of the transformative power of Pranayama.
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PRANAYAMA IS FAR MORE THAN A BREATHING PRACTICE.
Pranayama expands and refines our capacity for feeling.
It is through the intelligent refinement of feeling we open a unique sensitivity t
o the essential qualities of our inner life.
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Pranayama expands and refines our capacity for feeling.
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This deeper relational intimacy with the living contours of our
body and heart and mind has a profound effect on
the way we approach our yoga practice.
Pranayama re
This 6 week course will guide you through the rich and subtle terrain of pranayama.
Pranayam is far more than a breathing practice.
Step by step, using both theory and practice, we will build a solid foundation by refining your understanding and helping you gain clarity and confidence in working with the subtle dynamics of energy and the breath.
We are not only refining our understanding or what pranayama is we are actually cultivating a responsive intelligence with the living terrain of feeling itself.
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This course is uniquely designed to support you in taking the next steps in an ever deepening process of unfoldment,
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It is an intimate invitation into the rich and subtle terrain of relationship. With you.
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on the waiting list
We will let you know when this training begins
Pranayama practice is about the cultivation of intimacy as much as it is about the breath.
In this training you will gain a deeper working understanding of Prana (life energy)
and how to work with it.
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Together we will cultivate a refined sensitivity to the rich and
responsive contours of feeling.
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Pranayama expands and refines our capacity for feeling.
This deeper relational intimacy with the living contours of our body and heart and mind has a profound effect on the way we approach our yoga practice.
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Pranayama practice is about the cultivation of intimacy as much as it is about the breath.
Pranayama
is an intimate process of apprenticing ourselves to
the subtle and responsive intelligence of life
Pranayama is much more than
a breathing practice.
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This unique training that blends theory and practice designed to awaken in you a deeply personal and embodied encounter with the intimate dynamics of body, feeling and mind.
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This training is step by step process helping you discover, through experience, the living contours of the mind-body-environment connection.
Pranayama is much more than a breathing practice.
It is an intimate process of apprenticing ourselves to the rich and subtle intelligence of life,.
It is pointing us toward investigating our relationship with life itself, the living current of life freed from the habitual self contracting tendencies of the past.
some of the themes
we will cover
EMBODIMENT - Gathering ourselves in
safety -How safety effects our energy body
Boundaries -Bandhas, habitual and natural
Theory -Understanding energy and mind
grounding -The 5 pillars of grounding
prana as nourishment - life as a sensual banquet
intimacy - The guidance of responsive intelligence
befriending feeling - Trusting life
TRAUMA & BREATH - Regulating the nervous system
By the end of this course you will have established a simple yet deeply personal pranayama practice
What students say.
The opportunity to attend one of Paul’s events is an opportunity for me to deepen my practice and embody the ancient teachings of Yoga. Paul’s amazing wisdom and depth of knowledge allows me to release into his care and let go of all pretensions and expectations.
Paul has a wonderful way of making each student feel special and valued and allows them to ‘start where they are at’.
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As a Yoga Teacher myself, attending Paul’s retreats are part of
my ongoing personal development and teacher training as I find I learn so much from him and my fellow retreat participants.
I give Paul’s retreats my highest recommendation.
Gina Macaulay -- Owner/ Director of Yogahara
Paul Wooden is a yoga teachers’ teacher. He offers a wonderful, eclectic blend of yoga traditions.
It’s hard to convey the deep richness of his teaching, nor the exceptional skills and mastery that he uses in his work. Paul has a massive depth of theoretical and practical knowledge in all areas of yogic study.
He teaches with an open heart and humility, honouring each student with deep respect, and delicately nurtures each student’s development.
Personally, I consider being Paul’s student to be essential to my ongoing training and development as a yoga student, yoga teacher and student of life!
Claire Heywood -- Director of Yoga with Claire
About Paul
Paul Wooden has been practicing and studying yoga and meditation for 35 years and teaching for 30 years.
He draws from his experience in many different styles and traditions and, through a practical understanding of their underlying unifying principles, weaves together a cohesive and integrated approach to yoga.
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Paul is a unique voice in the world of yoga. He has a way of bringing the sometimes abstract teaching of yoga into ordinary language making them accessible and workable in our lives.
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For Paul, yoga is first and foremost a relational process, with technique being a way to serve a deepening and more intimate relationship with ongoing moment to moment reality of our lives.
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Working with Paul is an invitation to the deeper dimensions of practice. His particular way of working opens us to the sensitivity and receptivity necessary for the subtler inner practices.
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