Aberystwyth – Working with the Body for Coaches & Trainers with Embodied Yoga Principles, 24 January 2016

Introduction to Embodiment Training for Trainers and Coaches with Embodied Yoga Principles.

This is an experiential training for those wishing to develop practical skills working with the body for their own growth and in training and coaching. Using posture, breathing and movement helps people go deep quickly and creates lasting results affecting many areas. This training will give you both a greater personal insight and a clearer overview of the field as well as tools you can use the next day. Our embodiment determines how we think, how we feel, how we are perceived by others and what we achieve, so is an extremely helpful area for facilitators to address. Coaches know the body matters and this is a training to clarify how, and give you many useful tools. It is for both business facilitators wanting pragmatic techniques, and for those already skilled in working with the body to transfer their skills to organisational work as well as to everyday activities.

Embodied yoga emphasises discovering more about ourselves and improving our lives– rather than athleticism – and incorporates elements of life coaching, body therapy, meditation, dance and martial arts. Embodied yoga is politically aware and avoids both new-age superstition and Western body materialism. Embodied yoga can be emotionally intense as it’s a powerful tool for looking at your personal patterns and changing your life for the better, it’s also more social than most yoga and a lot of fun. In some ways it’s a very novel approach to yoga including things you won’t find anywhere else, though it’s also aligned with traditional yoga’s emphasis on developing the practitioner.

Embodied Yoga uses asana practice for personal insight and to build skills for life. It helps with these questions:

– What can yoga teach me about myself and how I live?
– What matters most to me and how can yoga benefit this?
– What personal qualities would I like to develop through my yoga practice?

Who this training is for:

  • Business and life coaches, trainers, facilitators and consultants
  • Yoga, dance, complementary health practitioners and martial artists looking to apply their skills to business
  • Teachers, therapists and those in other helping or educating professions
  • Anyone looking to develop their individual leadership or grow as a person

Come if you’d like to gain:

  • A deeper and much clearer understanding of the relevance of body awareness, posture and movement to your work
  • Practical embodied tools you can use with clients immediately
  • Tips on how to make this work accessible within a business environment
  • Knowledge of how to work with the body confidently and safely
  • Improved self-awareness – what is hidden that is limiting your work?
  • Bodily leadership and influencing skills
  • Techniques to manage pressure and complexity
  • How to better “read” others and employ your intuition
  • How to develop the four aspects of embodied intelligence
  • A “second generation” approach to embodiment that is clearer, more rational and culturally appropriate than older West-coast US styles
  • A taste of embodied work if you are considering The Embodied Facilitator Course professional qualification

About the Trainer

Mark Walsh has dedicated his life to embodied learning. He leads embodied specialists Integration Training and has taught embodiment in twenty countries. He founded The Embodied Facilitator Course and made embodiment available online through a Youtube channel with over 8 million hits. Mark has been a practitioner of movements arts for twenty years, including several years as a full-time aikido student. His main yoga influences are Scaraveli, Yin and Buddhist inspired teachers. He also trains yoga instructors and vcilitatotrs in twenty countries annually. His qualifications include an honours degree in psychology, an aikido black-belt, residential training with various bodymind masters such as Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Paul Linden and Wendy Palmer, training in linguistics, Non Violent Communication, body-psychotherapy, improvisation, meditation, dance and ten martial arts. His clients include Unilever, L’Oreal, Virgin Atlantic, AXA, Shell, Newfield coach training, Liberty Global, Sussex University and The House of Lords.  He has also worked with peace and trauma projects in Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, Ukraine the slums of Brazil, East Africa and with the Sierra Leonian Army.

Date: Sunday 24th January 2016

Venue: Aberystwyth, Wales (location TBC)

Time: Arrive 9.15am for a 9.30am start. Finish at 5.30pm

Cost:  £65 early bird (for bookings made until 24th Dec), £85 standard rate. £30 deposit payable to confirm your space.

To register: Click here

Questions & info: Siwan – Siwan.gwyndaf@gmail.com

 

Videos:

What to find out more? Videos on embodiment here:

The Body for Trainers and Coaches

What is embodiment and why does it matter?

The body and leadership

What an embodied coach training looks like (in Russia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dIyKSaRYE

Coaching and the body – overview

Why coach with the body

Working with a client using embodiment

4 Elements embodied coaching with a client: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgTisCJKss

International Coach Federation Core Competencies and the body

 

…and embodied Yoga videos here

Embodied Yoga Principles
What happens in an Embodied Yoga Class?
How Embodied Yoga Works
How to take yoga off the mat, into life

 

Testimonials

“Not the type of course that comes in a folder to collect dust on your desk. I found the content real, accessible, and I was able to put it to practical use immediately.”

–   Kathryn Knock, Coach, Norfolk, UK

 

“I was impressed and inspired by the way which Mark conducted the day, he was like an orchestra conducter, leading people through the structure of the day with enough freedom in the form for people to explore and express themselves in meaningful ways. It was a wonderful day with a great mixture of learning,laughter and play,but related to the context in a serious way. He successfully steered us through experiences which gave people insights and understanding into embodiment and integrative methods of personal and collective practices, sharing how helpful it is to be aware and present, responsive to internal and external stimuli in creative ways…Mark is an exceptional trainer and I would thoroughly recommend him for his perceptive skill and responsiveness to the issues arising in the moment,he has a toolbag of techniques and methods which are accessible and useable in a variety of contexts, work,relationships and day to day living (LIFE!)…”

–  Andy Griffiths – mindfulness and yoga teacher, UK

 

“These workshops connect your body to your mind and help to complete a soul circuit. Plug yourself in and enjoy more powerful coaching and facilitation.”

– Antony Parry, coach and CTI coach trainer, Chichester UK

“It is nothing else but amazing how much I learned about embodiment in only a day and a half with Mark and Carol in Berlin. Our bodies talk to us. All of the time. They hold the treasures of untold stories for our success and fulfilment. They demonstrate where our minds make up stories of failure and limitations. They, as an integral part of us, are the foundation for connection. Our bodies talk to us. We’d better start and listen to them.”

– Geert Hofman, coach, musician and author, Germany

“My participation enhanced my ability to talk about embodiment work, helped me gain confidence bringing this work to new audiences, and provided a very rich peer group experience that result in professional friendships”

–   Charlie Birch – professional dancer, Boulder, USA

 

“I now do in one session what I used to do in six”

– Coach and coach trainer, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

‘Great conducive trainer delivery style with a passion for the subject and an aptitude to keep things up-beat and varied to gain everyone’s interest. Everything from the ‘heart’ which is a big thing for me not just going through the motions. We are tough strong bunch and I got the impression everyone got something from yesterday’s session so THANK YOU! It was great and I’m looking forward to next session!’

– Kirstie Hawton, Training and Development Manager, Virgin Atlantic, UK (on a corporate embodied learning session)

‘This transcends the realms of the normal corporate training and lifts the lid to real insight and potential’

– Sue Bottomley, Leadership consultant and co-founder of the International Coaching Federation, London, UK

 

“If you’re looking for training that will challenge and provoke you to learn about yourself in profound and surprising ways, then I highly recommend Mark as a trainer. He is funny, provocative, committed and cheeky. Above all, though, he really knows his stuff, and he lives and walks his talk.”

–  Aboodi Shabi, Executive Coach and Facilitator, Newfield coach trainer, London UK

“Mark is the rare trainer who manages to combine clear, strong leadership with a sense of very inclusive empathy, which enabled all the participants in the group to find their own space and feel welcome, whilst simultaneously motivating everyone to make the most out of the workshop. “

“The new insights in my own functioning and how Mark showed how to lead by example have been most inspiring and have led me to focus on my career and my life with a boost of energy and a sharper focus on my own qualities. “

–  Luuk van Huët, Tour Guide at Terra Tours, Freelance Writer, editor, translator and script doctor, Founding Father of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival

Nice things people have said about Embodied Yoga:

“Yoga offers us the potential to change but it can be a long and haphazard process, particularly when we lead busy lives. EYP makes the most of opportunities to engage with the psychogeography of the internal landscape and has given me many creative tools to engage more dynamically with what I am expressing through my body and how that manifests in my relationship with myself and others. Mark Walsh has used his extensive experience to develop an intelligent, focused, safe and effective framework in which to challenge, deepen and nurture our experiences on and off the mat.”

–          Amanda Brown, yoga teacher of 25 years, Cornwall

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‘I’d been questioning a lot about the yoga scene in general, as well as what I’m teaching. The EYP weekend has left me inspired and thoughtful. I suspect it could lead to a whole new direction!’

– Catherine O’Mahony, Vinyassa yoga teacher, London

 

“Mark has pressed the refresh button on the yoga world to see the practice of yoga through the eyes of embodiment brings a welcome new view .The methods of embodiment link the practice on the yoga mat and brings it firmly out into the world of our relationships,work and all aspects of life…and extends our range of practices as yoga teachers …”

– hatha yoga teacher, Brighton, UK

 

“Embodied Yoga offers a much needed fresh authentic perspective on yoga. Its not offering an opportunity to float off into spiritual la-la and distance oneself from life’s suffering, on the contrary it encourages the participant to become fully aware and to take responsibility for what is going on in their body and mind, becoming aware of patterns and shadows in a safe supported environment.”

– Jane D, Sussex UK

 

“Embodied Yoga is a refreshing take on yoga as a method of self-enquiry and transformation. Highly effective for transforming your patterns of behaviour.”

– Sindre, Oslo, Norway

“Being encouraged to notice how I approached practice, and how I related to others during the class reflected unhelpful patterns and stories that I recognised play out in my in my life outside the studio, and are limiting me. Powerfully insightful.”

– Holly, hot yoga practitioner, Brighton, UK

“I was impressed and inspired by the way which Mark conducted the day, he was like an orchestra conductor, leading people through the structure of the day with enough freedom in the form for people to explore and express themselves in meaningful ways. It was a wonderful workshop with a great mixture of learning,laughter and play, but related to the context in a serious way. He successfully steered us through experiences which gave people insights and understanding into embodiment and integrative methods of personal and collective practices, sharing how helpful it is to be aware and present, responsive to internal and external stimuli in creative ways…Mark is an exceptional trainer and I would thoroughly recommend him for his perceptive skill and responsiveness to the issues arising in the moment,he has a tool-bag of techniques and methods which are accessible and useable in a variety of contexts, work,relationships and day to day life

– Vidyassa, Buddhist yoga teacher, Brighton, UK

“Mark is a jerk and can’t even get his foot behind his head and he barely has any Instagram followers”

– Mr Bicram, LA, USA (…OK, we made this one up, but the rest are real)

 

“It was wonderful to see more holistic approach to yoga being presented during EYP course. I was enjoying the possibility to inquire about the patterns and limitations within oneslef when doing asanas. I think Mark is bringing back some very essential elements of yoga within EYP, which are internal growth, body-mind connection and service for the World.”

–  Ilze Jēče, Latvia