5 Day Advanced Training

October 2-6, 2025

5 Day Advanced Training + Experiential Learning

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There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. --Aldous Huxley

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. ...whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Matthew 25:35-40

What distinguishes self-from-environment, self-from-other, and self-from-not-self? What enables us to allow or refuse the deluge of sensory information offered us by the world? Boundaries allow us to recognize or ignore a multitude of sensory inputs germane to our survival and our becoming. This intelligence to choose what is relevant to our being alive is the birthright and commonality of every living organism. How does Mind and Breath interact through these apertures? As we develop and mature, how do these gating dynamics change?

Each morning we will practice [Forrest yoga] asana for 2 hours, centered around the ritual of gathering and being together. The formal practice portion will include: asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga nidra, chanting and verbal dialogue.

The afternoon session consists of practices for vocalizing, games, cueing, manual adjustments or partner work, and embodied anatomy. While some trainings offer principles or techniques as the course material, in this training, your body and mind are the material for exploration. You do not need to be a yoga instructor to take part in training, but having a sincere desire to wonder, and play experientially, is sufficient. This is deep play, and I'm open to the possibility of this transforming your confidence in your oration, teaching, bodywork, dance, or therapy modalities.

The Ritual Construction of Containment

Context awareness gives rise to context creation. A context for healing, obtaining information, or endeavoring into any personal experiment often benefits from the deliberate containment of these actions. In shamanic traditions, this has been referred to as altered consciousness. When we establish a sacramental arena for our spiritual explorations, we create a distinction between salient and mundane--we alter our perception as a practice and as a reliable frontier for relevance.

Ordinary and non-ordinary states: how ritual/theater helps stage a change in perception and facilitates recognizing what is sacred and salient.
Bringing Inquiries to the Body: When we engage an embodiment process we look for direction, guidance, or insight. What has traditionally been named ceremony is a way to alter what Vervaeke dubs the "salience landscape."

Diaphragms as Breathing Boundary:

The thoracic diaphragm may be the most thought-of diaphragm, but many diaphragms exist in the body. The diaphragms are responsive to both breath and to each other, relaying with each other. The pelvic floor diaphragm offers containment and support for the legs and torso, the thoracic diaphragm offers a sense of breath expansion and breath support. Cranial diaphragms relay openness in our perceptivity.

Embodying Anatomy through Boundary Structures

We can know the distinct voice of consciousness through our body systems, tissues, and cells. Every cell is intelligent and can perceive and take action. We communicate "body-to-body" and thus, intimately, consciousness-to-consciousness. Material included:

Skin sweating and skin breathing: sweating cleanses the threshold between self and environment. Breathing exercises performed with awareness at the level of skin helps set the stage for investigating other membranes in the body.
Fascia: interconnection, containment, viscosity, immunity processes
Endothelial tissue: the cell lining regulating flow of blood and lymph
Gross body, subtle body, causal body: recognize the broad spectrum of experience through various "bodies" [traditionally called "sheaths" or "koshas"].

When insides get turned inside-out; Shadow [projection] and the me//not-me conundrum.

Shadow as compartmentalized or gated aspects of one's self and vitality.
Practices for working with shadow [not me, other].

Hands-on Exercises

Touch as a non-verbal study of the meeting of consciousness with itself
Attunement with another's Breath and Life Intelligence through the diaphragms of the body
Touch as self-recognizing-self into Awareness
Touch as specific anatomical listening [attunement]
Touch as relational [Leave no trace, return to Source]

This course is for anyone who is exploring a discipline of movement, touch, breath, or voice including:

somatic therapists/educators
bodywork therapists, trainers
singers and musicians
physical therapists
somatic psychotherapists
social workers
orators, educators
yoga practitioners, meditators

Questions & Answers

There will be plenty of time to address your questions. Your thoughtful questions will constitute some of the training material.

Rates

$1000: 5-day event. Bring a training partner or friend and receive 50% off one person's tuition

Special offer: those having attended 50 Hour Advanced Training in June may attend for $500

Confirming your seat.

Number of participants in studio is extremely limited. Interest for most of those seats has been stated. Your seat is confirmed with payment. No refunds after September 6, 2025

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