Embodyoga

12/21/2025

Hierarchy is Poison to Embodiment
How the rising matriarchal mind and the recognition of radiance in form is saving yoga. With love.

How the rising matriarchal mind and the recognition of radiance in form is saving yoga. With love.

12/14/2025

Simple, Guided Resting Practice (11 min)
A gift you can probably use about now. 💝

Enjoy this delightfully simple short rest (11min) Perfect help when you need it 🎁

12/13/2025

Bones are incredible! Alive, sensitive, responsive and intelligent! Find it, feel it, and inhabit it for yourself.
Two videos:
—Video 1: Embodied Anatomy of Our Bones (15min.)
—Video 2: Simple Experiential Practice (15min.)

Anatomy as lived experience — not information.

12/02/2025

It's a snowy day in the Northeastern USA. Good day to peruse my Substack. So many great articles and videos.
Subscribe! it's worth it.

Philosophical and Somatic Inquiry Through Yoga. Click to read Patty Townsend | Embodyoga, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

11/29/2025

Embodying Yoga means sensorily, sensually, and spiritually inhabiting this life, this form, now.

11/23/2025

Finding the space between stimulus and response — embodying the movement of impulses in the spinal cord.

You have more choice in how you perceive than you think have. And it matters how your body engages with, and absorbs what is being offered.

11/09/2025

Pelvic bones are not spine and spine is not pelvis. ❤

Exploring the intricate relationships of the pelvis, sacrum, and hips — for movement that’s both stable and free.

11/07/2025

The Unified Diaphragm — all one continuous fascial weave. Where breathing begins and vitality is expressing in waves. Deep internal comfort and touch. We can find this for ourselves. We can do this together.

11/03/2025

The Inner Life of Fascia | Micro-Movement
Every living cell is already in motion — you don’t need to make it happen.
Explore | Simple Practice:
—Turn the palm of one hand upward and rest the back of that hand on your leg.
—Look at it. See its soft, padded tissues. Feel gravity as it settles your hand onto your leg, stimulating sensation. Be patient.
—Feel where your hand is resting.
—Now slowly — feeling what you are doing as you do it — lift your hand and turn the palm down to touch your leg. Let it land with soft contact. Then pause. Do nothing.
—Can you feel where your hand touches your leg? Let yourself linger there.
—Now, ever so gently, allow a little more weight — a subtle, pulsating movement — to settle downward, soft and deep, in the direction of your knee.
—See if you can feel that soft touch and pressure transmit through the tissues of your leg.
—Imagine, notice or feel that you are moving the tissues from themselves. Micro-movement.

Read the full article:

Tensegrity, Consciousness, and the Fascial Web of Support

10/31/2025

This natural and easy breath nurtures your organs, the spaces, and the membranes of your central body.
A real boon to core body health. Try it and let me know how it feels. ❤️

Soothing and Balancing — Short Guided Breathing Practice — 12 Minutes

10/25/2025

A full 1.5-hour class. Enjoy!
Part 1 — Context, Philosophy, Anatomy.
We look at how Tantra’s understanding of core development aligns with what we now know from embryology.
Part 2 — We Move.
We begin quietly and build to a complete practice — strong and deep without strain — applying those principles to our moving and breathing bodies.
Part 3 — We Resolve and Rest.
Supine postures, seated breathing, and shavasana to integrate and settle.

For Everyone — Deep Dive for Teachers and Students