Patty Townsend
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Patty Townsend, Director Yoga Center Amherst, Developer Embodyoga™ Expert
Patty Townsend Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Embodyoga™ — Precision Alignment and Vinyasa Yoga for All Levels and Abilities, Yoga Therapeutics, Yoga Teacher Trainings, Workshops
- Best Sellers
- 100 Hr. Embodyoga™ In-Depth Study Program, 200 Hr. Embodyoga™ Teacher Training Program, 500 Hr. Embodyoga™ Teacher Training Program
- Career Focus
- In-Depth Training of Yoga Teachers - Practicing and Teaching From the Inside Out
- Affiliation
- Yoga Center Amherst, Massachusetts
Patty’s breath and awareness centered teaching approaches asana and vinyasa practice as an expression of consciousness, and as fertile ground for gaining self–knowledge and increasing awareness of Source. Her teaching incorporates a deep knowledge of alignment that is profoundly influenced by the innovative approach to consciousness and full embodiment that is presented by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of the School for Body–Mind Centering®. Patty has completed certificate programs in Embodied Anatomy™ and Embodied Developmental Movement™ in the Teaching of Yoga.
Patty is a teacher of Tantric and Transcendental Meditation and has maintained a daily practice of postures, pranayama and meditation for more than 35 years. She brings a strong understanding of all aspects of Yoga practice and philosophy to this rich curriculum for training teachers.
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Embodyoga™ Precision Alignement and Vinyasa Yoga
In-Depth Yoga Study
Teacher Training Programs
IN BEAUTIFUL AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS
Embodyoga™ is an innovative and exciting approach to the study of yoga. Steeped in ancient wisdom and informed by cutting-edge-study in the field of body-awareness, embodyoga™ introduces us to “embodied-inquiry” techniques that invite us deeper into ourselves.
Embodied-inquiry is a methodical practice for experiencing directly — through sensing, feeling and witnessing — every aspect of intelligence and clarity as it expresses through us.
The embodied-inquiry techniques of embodyoga™ blend with our practice of asana, pranayama and meditation giving rise to intimate self-knowledge. Self-knowledge breeds acceptance, contentment and love; insight and inspiration flow spontaneously.
Patty Townsend, developer of the embodyoga™ programs, brings decades of serious study with the major teachers of our time to this rich curriculum. Over the last 35 years, Patty has absorbed and synthesized information and wisdom from the major schools of yoga in the west today. In 1999 Patty was introduced to Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of the School for Body-Mind-Centering® and in the first moment realized that this was the future direction of yoga in the 21st century.
The radical concept of full-embodiment as the key to deepening awareness was as stunning as it was obvious.
Bonnie, a brilliant innovator and pioneer in the field of consciousness, has introduced us to techniques and practices for experiencing directly, the finest aspects of this miraculous system that we know and inhabit as “our bodies”. Since her first meeting with Bonnie, Patty has immersed herself in this study and especially into the intimate way that fully inhabiting our body-mind-system informs the depth and evolution of our yoga practice.
Our embodyoga™ programs are a gateway to personal transformation designed to significantly deepen practice, understanding and experience in yoga. Join us for a profound inner journey — carefully sculpted through honesty and love in an atmosphere of community and support.
EMBODYOGA™ teacher training program is registered with
the National Yoga Alliance ath the 200 and 500 hour levels.
Contacting Patty Townsend
Embodyoga™ — Precision Alignment and Vinyasa Yoga
Daily classes — In-Depth Study and Teacher Training Programs with Patty Townsend and our excellent teaching staff.
Yoga Center Amherst
17 Kellogg Avenue
Amherst, MA 01002
413-256-0604
How to get started
EMBODYOGA™|100 HOUR IN-DEPTH YOGA STUDY
WITH PATTY TOWNSEND
Radically deepen your field of awareness & open to a fuller vision of all that you are.
This immersion in the study of yoga is a gateway to personal transformation designed to significantly deepen practice, understanding and experience for students and teachers of all traditions.
embodyoga™ approaches the study of consciousness through our bodies; and the study of our bodies through consciousness. Experience directly the movement of consciousness through all the layers of your being. Experience the support of organs, glands, body systems and energy.
Discover “whole–body–support” templates for strong, graceful, joyful and injury free practice and teaching. Learn to weave postures, breath and movement into progressive depths of experience. Experience directly the grace and wisdom of the body-mind-spirit in movement and in stillness. Develop a depth and beauty in your yoga practice that is felt internally, is evident to the eye and remains constant when you step off the mat.
Other highlights
EXCELLENT YOGA CLASSES 7 DAYS A WEEK!
http://yogacenteramherst.com/schedule.html
EMBODYOGA™ | PRECISION ALIGNMENT & VINYASA YOGA
100 hour in-depth study & 200 hour teacher training program in beautiful amherst, massachusetts.
http://yogacenteramherst.com/200hrTT.html
EMBODYOGA™ | PRECISION ALIGNMENT & VINYASA YOGA
500 hour teacher training & advanced study program
http://yogacenteramherst.com/500hrTT.html
ASHTANGA YOGA FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
with DAVID WILLIAMS
This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to study Yoga with the man who brought Ashtanga to the US. details
May 1 - 4, 2008
http://yogacenteramherst.com/workshops.html
YOGA THERAPEUTICS: THEORY & PRACTICE
with JUDITH HANSON LASATER
An outstanding and exceptional opportunity for teachers to study therapeutic applications in yoga with one of the foremost yoga teachers of our time.
October 10 - 12, 2008