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Wisdom

The Eight Limbs of Yoga — in a Nutshell

Not as moral codes, but precise means for refining the mind.

Jan 3 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Living wisdom, one imperfect year at a time

On honesty, practice, and being in form

Jan 1 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Space, Consciousness, and the Question of What Is Fundamental

(Updated: December 25, 2025)

Dec 25, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Hierarchy is poison to embodiment.

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

Dec 20, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

The Case for Meditation

Before we can act clearly in the world, we have to see clearly inside ourselves. Inner clarity isn’t optional anymore. Meditation is not retreat — it’s…

Nov 1, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

The Eight Limbs of Yoga — a map for living wisdom

An embodied view of Yoga's Eight Limbs — wisdom that lives and breathes within life itself..

Oct 20, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

The yoga sutras are about life and living.

Part 1: We need this now more than ever.

Oct 20, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Yoga sutras require practice.

Good news: Yoga offers freedom! Tough news: You are going to have to "do" something about this.

Oct 20, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Embody Anatomy

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A Gift for Your Kidneys

Easy, comfortable support for inner calm

Jan 10 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Who Are We in Our Bones?

Anatomy as lived experience — not information.

Dec 13, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Calming the Fires of Your Nervous System

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.

Nov 23, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Embodied Anatomy of Your Digestive Tract

Digesting Food, Digesting Life — From mouth to anus, we’re continually choosing what to take in, what to transform, and what to let go.

Nov 15, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Embodying the Diaphragms

An introduction to the soft power of your core

Nov 11, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Dynamic Anatomy of Your Pelvic Bones and Hips

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

Nov 8, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Your Mesentery: The Organ in Your Gut You May Not Even Know You Have

There’s a gorgeous, undulating sea-creature of an organ that supports, nourishes, and even loves you — and it lives within your navel.

Oct 5, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Embodyoga for Kidney Health

Restore reserves, soften urgency, and reclaim vitality.

Sep 19, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Practice

Full Embodyoga® Practice: Awareness & Your Spacious Spine

For Everyone — Deep Dive for Teachers and Students

Oct 25, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Embodyoga® — Move and Breathe

For everyone! Whole body toning and enlivening with the emphasis on breath and strengthening (75 min. class)

Oct 14, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Enliven Feet, Pelvic Floor and Lungs

Gentle Embodyoga® Practice: Simple Forms, Deep Awareness

Oct 7, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

New Offering! Weekly Recorded Practices for Paid Subscribers

Learn with me directly every week.

Sep 30, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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A Simple Practice: Ground & Rise — Shanah Tovah

Enliven the elements that support your good actions. Move the prana. Find your warmth, your love and your liveliness. Do your best to set up a good day…

Sep 23, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Explore the Fluid Foundations of Movement

Find your deepest supports — comfort, nurturance, and strength — for yoga, dance, and all that you do!

Jun 21, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Live Streaming Embodyoga with Patty Townsend

Every Wednesday | 9-10:30AM (USA ET) | Drop-ins welcome!

Apr 14, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Stand Strong – Organ and Bone Unite!

🧡 Pop-up post for the week. 🧡 Play with it and enjoy!

Mar 13, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Breathe

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Somatic Journey Into the Senses

Their Elements, and Gifts to our Embodiment

Dec 7, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Navel Flooding Breath

Soothing and Balancing — Short Guided Breathing Practice — 12 Minutes

Oct 28, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Resting into Gravity and Breath

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

May 12, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Release and soften your shoulders

through breath and simple movement.

Jan 31, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Meditate

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A Somatic Journey Through the Senses

Embodying the Elements in Meditation

Aug 13, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Soothing Yoga for Meditation

Simple Asana for Nervous System Integration

Apr 20, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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Session 6: Deeper Than You Thought

The Cumulative Effects of Meditation

Apr 20, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

The Call for Integrity and the Case for Meditation

How whole are we really in our own personal selves?

Mar 23, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Teach

The Glandular System in Yoga

Chakras, Glands, and Diaphragms

May 13, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

Embodyoga Study Guide & Teaching Manual

Download and Print. Put your own manual together. Enjoy!

Mar 31, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

200-hr Embodyoga Study Manual: Part 5

New Installment - Standing Postures and More - Ready for your download!

Feb 15, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

200-hr Embodyoga Study Manual: Part 4

New Installment!

Jan 9, 2025 • Patty Townsend | Embodyoga

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