Embodyoga: Meditation and Yoga

With Annelies Smith

May 13 - 16, 2010

Practice calm-abiding meditation and explore the movement and alignment principles of yoga developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering, and Patty Townsend, founder of Embodyoga™.

With ample time for meditation built into the program, each student will practice the free flow of energy uninterrupted in all postures. Enveloping our physical explorations in the practice of calm-abiding meditation gives birth to inner clarity, direction, and calmness. When we can realize that everything is already okay and there is nothing to prove or gain, awareness of our experience of movement becomes endlessly delightful! The result radiates with radical self-acceptance, compassion, and awe.

Enrollment limited; please register early.

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Tuition: $350.00 Program fees include 3 meals per day served by the Karmê Chöling kitchen.

About Annelies Smith

Annelies Smith is a yoga and meditation instructor and a somatic movement educator. For more than 17 years Annelies has been inspired to help people find out more about their bodies and to help them move through pain toward greater openness and ease. As a dance major at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, she was introduced to the work of Body-Mind Centering, founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and to the Shambhala Buddhist teachings of Chögyam Trungpa. Annelies went on to study Somatic Movement Therapy and Education with Martha Eddy at The Moving On Center in California. She also became a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 1999. In Patty Townsend (of Yoga Center Amherst) Annelies found a teacher who had created a yoga teacher training, called Embodyoga™, which synthesizes the various systems she has studied within one discipline. Annelies now lives, teaches yoga, and offers bodywork in Burlington, Vermont.

Registration is closed for this program.