30-Hours | Led by Holly Bray
Through awareness, the subtle body shifts from an idea we study to an experience we feel. In this 30-hour immersion, Sensing and the Subtle Body, we explore how the classical teachings of yoga guide us toward refined perception and an ability to sense not only our physical form, but the living energy centers and channels that move through it.
This training offers an in-depth exploration of the chakra system, not only as symbolic theory, but as a direct, embodied experience. Using awareness as our guide, we’ll learn to sense, interpret, and work skillfully with these subtle energy centers as expressions of our individual life experience.
As we journey through each chakra, we’ll examine how energetic imbalances often manifest as physical holding patterns, postural tendencies, and protective tension w throughout the body. Through awareness-based inquiry and embodied movement sequences designed for each region, we’ll explore how conscious engagement and refined perception can help restore balance, promote the natural flow of energy, and begin to dissolve long-held patterns of protective armoring.
This immersion invites you to rediscover yoga as a process of inner sensing and undoing, where awareness becomes the bridge between body and energy, and consciousness the instrument of exploration.
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 an embodied and awareness-based foundation
Integrate yogic philosophy and subtle-body elements into your teaching
Guide students through embodied movement and sensory awareness practices
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.