30-Hours | Led by Holly Bray
In this 30-hour immersion, we will explore the subtle body through the doorway of embodied awareness. Using the five senses as our guide, we will investigate the relationship between sensation, perception, consciousness, and energy. Drawing from Tantric philosophy, along with yogic and contemporary understandings of embodiment, we'll learn how awareness refines our capacity to sense what lies beneath habitual patterns of posture, breath and thought.
Together we'll explore the five great elements (Pancha Mahabhutas) and their relationship to the senses, discovering how the physical world serves as a bridge into subtler dimensions of experience. From this foundation, we'll trace the historical roots of the chakra system within the Tantric tradition and examine how these teachings evolved as maps of human consciousness and transformation.
Rather than approaching the chakras as concepts to memorize, we will engage them as lived experiences. Through movement, breath, meditation, mantra, visualization, and sensory inquiry, we'll explore how each chakra expresses itself through the body, the mind, and our lived experience. Along the way, we'll investigate how habitual patterns, protective tension, and embodied samskaras influence our perception and shape the way energy moves through us.
This training invites you to rediscover yoga as a practice of sensing, listening, and direct experience. Through the cultivation of awareness, the subtle body shifts from an idea we study to a reality we can begin to perceive.
What You’ll Learn
How awareness refines and strengthens interoceptive and proprioceptive capacity
The yogic principles of Pratyahara, Svādhyāya, and Śākṣī Bhāva as tools for embodied inquiry
Understanding Samskara as patterned impressions that live in both the physical and subtle body
How to experience and work skillfully with the chakras as living centers of awareness and energy
How energetic imbalances can manifest physically and how embodied movement supports release and rebalance
How to integrate visualization, embodied movement, and sensory awareness into your teaching
Language and cueing that cultivate safety, sensation, and embodiment
How to translate your own direct experience of awareness into an authentic and intuitive teaching style
What to Expect
Our time together blends education, exploration, and embodied experience. Each session includes embodied movement, conscious breath awareness, mantra practice, meditation, visualization, and reflective inquiry designed to deepen sensory awareness and refine perception.
Expect to slow down, tune in, and experience yoga as a practice of embodied awareness and inner listening.
By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to:
Teach from direct experience with greater confidence, authenticity, and presence
Integrate the five elements, sensory awareness, and subtle body teachings into your classes
Understand the historical and Tantric roots of the chakra system
Guide students through practices that cultivate presence, perception, and self-inquiry
Use embodied and breath-based movement as tools for subtle body exploration
Support students in developing a deeper relationship with their own inner experience
How to translate your own lived experience into a grounded and intuitive teaching style
Schedule
Saturday, August 22: 8:00 AM – 5:00PM
Sunday, August 23: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Thursdays, August 20 & 27 + September 3 & 10: 5:30 – 8:30 PM
At completion, participants will receive 30 hours of continuing education applicable toward This Land Yoga’s 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training or as Yoga Alliance CE hours.