Embodied Resilience Atelier 2024
Personalize and optimize embodied practices based on bodymind, nervous system and movement science. Evolve with modern research. Honor wisdom teachings. Align with Nature.
Make a difference by redefining alignment for safety, accessibility & longevity of practice.
Empower students’ agency & innate embodied wisdom. Refresh your practice with wonder, inspiration, fluidity & creativity.
The Embodied Resilience Atelier brings a needed paradigm-shift to modern approaches to embodied practice.
This training bridges perspectives of biotensegrity & joint integrity with modern evidence-based understandings of the mechanisms of bodymind connection, applied to embodied practice of various styles - with a particular focus on modern postural yoga.
You'll learn how & why to move, teach, sequence & cue in ways that you weren't taught in other trainings ~ ways that honor the body's spiraling, interconnected design... and align with the root teachings of yoga. You'll learn how to best support personal & collective health, vitality, adaptability & resilience.
The world needs this right now. The world needs evolutionary embodiment teachers to help build resilience, one person at a time.
Embodiment is a powerful tool of being human.
It's how we're wired to digest life experience, self-regulate & self-resource.
Unfortunately, many, (if not most) forms of modern mindful embodied practice are taught with alignment that neglects our body's design.
We tend to get stuck in ideas of linear movement, forcing our spiraling anatomy to fit into imagined grids that neglect how we're designed to move. Over time, practicing this domination over the body & its messages can cause physical injury & harm on multiple levels.
The solution is simple ~ to align with our design! To understand & prioritize biotensegrity & the spiraling, interconnected nature of our joints, tissues & movement.
This shift to aligning from the inside->out (rather than with an imaginary outer grid) cultivates healthier movement patterning, injury prevention, greater accessibility for all bodies, more adaptability in the bodymind (physical, mental, emotional & nervous system) & increased resilience on all levels.
The Embodied Resilience Atelier is one-of-a-kind.
Most modern movement & yoga trainings teach the same standard approach to alignment. What many don't realize is that standard rectilinear alignment does not teach good movement patterning, which we need for sustainable practices & balance in the body+mind+nervous system.
The Embodied Resilience Atelier will teach you how to adapt embodied practices (with an emphasis on modern postural yoga) so they DO teach good movement while cultivating greater body+mind+nervous system resilience.
In this training, you'll learn what it means to keep joint articulation in integrity - aligned from our design. You'll investigate each of the main movement centers in detail: hips & pelvis, shoulder girdle, spine & head, hands & feet. You'll explore & embody the adaptations needed to align from within, and free yourself from restrictive ideas of aligning with an unnatural outer grid.
The Embodied Resilience Atelier bridges modern scientific understanding & ancient yogic teachings that have been woven into many forms of modern mindful movement. You'll learn how yoga is a path of life, and embodied practice a powerful tool for all.
the problem with standard grid alignment:
we're part of the spiral nature of the universe
The Embodied Resilience Atelier is an invitation to teach yoga & movement meditation that cultivates adaptability, longevity & resilience in our bodymind - by aligning from within, with our body's design.
Maximize benefit + Minimize harm
Ancient yogic wisdom + Modern scientific understanding
This course is for you if:
- You've experienced the power of mindful embodied practice
- You want to cultivate a sustainable embodied practice
- You're looking to refresh awe, wonder & creativity in your practice
- You want to move well & move freely as long as possible in your life
- You've ever felt stuck in a rut with embodied practice- doing the same old thing
- You've ever felt stuck in a pose, with few options to get out of the pose
- You've ever felt that you pushed your body into over-stretching or overdoing
- You've experienced joint pain or muscle tightness that doesn't seem to go away with what you're doing
- You're looking to maximize benefits of embodied practice for yourself and/or students
- You want to know more about why & how embodied practices work
- You're fascinated by the merging of ancient wisdom + modern science
- You're a yoga or movement teacher wanting to stand out and make a bigger difference, by applying new paradigms of understanding
- You're a yoga teacher aware of growing rates of injury in yoga and want to teach safely for all, while honoring the roots of yoga
- You're a yoga or movement teacher who wants to teach movement that cultivates healthy & resilient patterns for real life
- You want to help build a more resilient world, one person at a time
What you get:
- *All virtual training* accessible anywhere
- Opening Resilience Retreat: (9hrs)
- 8 Saturday Trainings: education + embodied exploration (4hrs each)
- 23 Sadhana Sessions: embodied practice flow + discussion (2hrs each)
- Extensive educational materials / digital manual
- Private WhatsApp group for ongoing reflection, sharing & collaboration
- 3 - 60minute 1-on-1 sessions with Michelle
- Access to all recorded Atelier 2023 sessions until December 31, 2024
- Access to all Kutilaa Collections until December 31, 2024
- BONUS: Access to the Embodied Resilience Training (30hrs) forever (no longer open to the public, $1300 value)
You'll have forever:
- A new way of understanding & teaching movement as meditation aligned with our body's design, modern body+mind+nervous system science & timeless yogic teachings
- Mini-sequences that combine movement + mindfulness + breath + relaxation + functional movement coordinations + embodied balance for modern day movement diets
- A deeper understanding of the mechanisms of body+mind oneness, including: yoga nidra, restorative movement & somatics, polyvagal theory, science of breath & more.
- Evolving language & ways to cue to the inherent individuality of prioritizing moving within biotensegrity.
- Greater purpose & potency to make a positive difference in your students & clients
Dates & Logistics:
- Immersive Retreat: April 21-23
- Training Saturdays: 5/13; 6/17; 7/22; 8/19; 9/30; 10/28; 11/25; 12/16 *9-11am PT, times subject to change when needed*
- Sadhana Sessions: 3 Wednesdays/month 10a-12p PT (specific dates provided upon request)
- This is a fully virtual training on Zoom. Everything will be recorded if you can't make it live.
Investment:
- $3300 pay-in-full click HERE
- Payment plans available
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Scholarships, pay-it-forward, creative payment plans & alternative exchanges are always possible.
Training Overview
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1
Orientation
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Welcome & Logistics
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*Resource List*
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Thursday Embodied Resilience Replays
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Building Resilience
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Earth Day ~ Resilience
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BodyMind Meshwork
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Yoga Roots, Rivers & Evolution
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Sadhana Session May 10
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Embodied Anatomy: Fascia, Biotensegrity & Beyond
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Day 1 - Many Forms & Models of Fascia
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Day 2 - Biotensegrity & Body Tuning
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Hip Joint Articular Integrity
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Immersion | Hips & Pelvis
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Sadhana Session July 12
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Shoulder Girdle Articular Integrity
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Immersion | Shoulder Girdle
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Sadhana Session August 2
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Triaxial Spinal Integrity
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Immersion | Spine
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Sadhana Session September 6
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Connecting it all to Hands & Feet
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Immersion | Paws: Hands & Feet
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Sadhana Session Septemper 29
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Somatic Restoration & Floor Play
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Immersion | Restoration
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Sadhana Session October 25
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Breath - Anatomy, Chemistry, Biotensegrity
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Immersion | Breath
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Common Questions
Why is embodied practice important?
We are primarily living bodies, animals still... tracking the world around us for signs of safety or danger. Through our senses, perceptions, thoughts and experiences we make meaning of the world. Embodied presence has the power to ground us amidst chaos, to help us tune into our needs, our intuition, and our ability to return to a sense of center when life gets rocky. Modern science is also showing that embodied practices can train greater empathy, compassion, trust and wonder.
Why not keep practicing asana & vinyasa as usual?
Unfortunately, we're seeing an uptick in yoga-related injuries. These are often aches & pains or injuries outside of yoga practice that occur as a result of the patterns set up by devoted, repetitive, linear physical practice. The teachings of yoga are medicine for the times we live in, yet too many people don't get the benefits if their bodies complain... or get hurt. This can take years, and when it does, the emotional loss can be intense. This training aims to alleviate avoidable suffering.
I thought the asanas were enough?
Embodied presence is a key part of why we feel great after a yoga class. And... embodiment as a daily practice can include movement that trains resilience not only inside, but also targets the movement variety missing from modern life. We are the only species to construct the world we move around in, and for the first time in history, our modern lives are lacking in enough movement to keep our physical (and physiological) bodies healthy and vital.
Is it still yoga if you adapt the asanas?
Yoga is a state of being/seeing/living, and it refers to all the practices that touch that state of connection with more of ourselves, and with something greater. Yoga itself has morphed and changed alot over time. In fact, the origins of physical yoga practices were in spontaneous, fluid movement in the Tantrik daily ritual. Yoga is a Living Tradition, meant to serve life as it is. All instructors in the Kutilaa school are steeped in the roots and rivers of yoga with deep respect for the healing power in our own lives.
Meet Your Instructor
Michelle Nayeli Bouvier
Michelle Bouvier, B.S., E-RYT, C-IAYT is an interdisciplinary movement educator, Prana Vinyasa® yoga teacher trainer, certified yoga therapist & GYROTONIC® trainer devoted to the art and science of embodied practice as a resource for personal & collective resilience & (r)evolution. Loved for her inviting spirit, passion for continued learning & meticulous instruction, Michelle guides students to reconnect with & self-resource their bodymind & expand the root purpose of yoga to serve our lives from the inside-out. Michelle specializes in the merging of ancient teachings with modern science to re-pattern the bodymind towards integration & balance.
