A balanced and healthy nervous system can release stored stresses, but it can't do it alone. It needs its partner—the fluid body.
Our nervous system record’s life's experiences and creates patterns of thinking and feeling based on the information received. Unresolved stress and tension becomes stored within the nervous system. It accumulates there, coloring our ongoing experiences and perceptions.
While necessary at first, these patterns of stored tension may outlive their usefulness.
A healthy and resilient nervous system works in harmony with the fluid and cellular body. Together they process and release held patterns of unease that may have become rigid and stuck within. Exploring our nervous system within the fluid environment in which it lives opens new possibilities for release and healing.
Areas of focus include:
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Basic nervous system anatomy—central, peripheral, autonomic, enteric, and vagus
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Unifying nervous system with fluid body
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Yoga techniques and practices for creating balance and ease
Taught by
Patty Townsend
Patty was among the first wave of teacher–trainers in the U.S. while in residence at the Center for Yoga, Los Angeles in 1985, and later as co–owner of Yoga Works, Santa Monica. She has taught thousands of students and teachers over the past 40+ years. Her background includes decades of dedication and serious practice of meditation, traditional Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa, and Iyengar yoga. She is a teacher of meditation, a long-time student of Tantric philosophy, and has received more two decades of direct transmission from her current teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.