Embodiment Practices

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Embodiment Practices

Soothe and Strengthen your Body

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Nourish and Illuminate your Soul

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Discover the space within to feel more supported, safe, and at home in your body.

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Find more integration, alignment, ease, and strength in your body.

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Learn to move and receive with your whole being.

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This yoga weekend incorporates the life changing gifts of the Fascia Unravelled workshop and expands on the practices to include nonduality embodiment meditation. 

Nonduality, huh? What does that even mean?

Nonduality is the philosophy that underlying the diversity of everything we see and experience there is the same infinite and indivisible reality.

Still… huh? Double huh?? 

Do you want to feel more support, strength, fluidity, and comfort in your body? 

Do you want to experience more beauty and ease?

Then Embodiment Practices and nonduality are for you! 
 
The McCarthy Yoga Weekend is about experiencing nonduality firsthand so you understand AND benefit from it. First, you’ll feel nonduality through the continuity of your own body and then through the continuity of yourself and the rest of the world.

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Instead of searching for physical strength, learn to receive support. 
 

We’ll begin the practice from one point of awareness and expand to the entire body. We’ll use different poses, movement techniques, breath, and meditation to develop a better sense of our space and connection.

You’ll unravel fascia into luscious, full body experiences where you can feel the forces of the earth, gravity, and your own movements rebound through your body. (It’s as fun and as playful as it sounds!)

You’ll be able to feel and live in a fuller expansion of yourself. You no longer have to choose between feeling and honoring what’s going on inside of you and what’s going on around you. You can experience both at the same time!

This weekend’s such an amazing progression of accessibility from separate parts towards feeling like a whole being.

Instead of trying to create space, learn to allow it.

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Move and receive as the connected organism you are.  

IMPROVED

🦶🏾 Physical Access🦶🏾

⚖️ Emotional Balance ⚖️

🤸‍♀️ Vitality 🤸‍♀️

🕊 Spiritual Connection 🕊

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What past participants have said… 

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Jessica K

This was a life-changing workshop for me. I can only imagine what will manifest in the days to come, in terms of body alignment. My perspective on movement has been revolutionized.

Magdelena

I knew you were a yoga teacher and had a lot to offer, but I had no idea the caliber of your teaching and the depth of your understanding.

Sarah H.

I Just spent an amazing weekend learning from Leigh, and walked away, or should I say glided or floated away, with some really incredible new awareness of my body.

Stephanie

The way we practice yoga poses and moved during the class felt like true yoga to me.

Gayla

I have been looking for years for something to bridge the concepts of Rolfing to yoga. You’ve done it.

Jenny

Thank you profusely for such a wonderfully enlightening workshop.

Helen L.

It is clear Leigh has a passion and deep love for learning about keeping the body healthy and thriving for the whole life span, and sharing her knowledge in a relatable way.

Cynthia maybe

The practices are so sweet and luscious even as we are holding powerful poses.

The practices are so sweet and luscious even as we are holding powerful poses.

Susan L.

Something that stood out to me was how humble she was while sharing this life changing way of moving. It was so powerful and present in my body.

Mo

You are an outstanding instructor, making very difficult concepts accessible and applicable I am grateful.

Bonnie

I very much appreciate her ability to help me tune into deeper levels of awareness of my body.

Cynthia maybe

You’ve got to be careful about opening up people so much and then sending them down the road into so much beauty.

You’ve got to be careful about opening up people so much and then sending them down the road into so much beauty.

Helen again

The fascia workshop made me even more in love and in awe with the body and it’s capacity to heal and feel good.

The fascia workshop made me even more in love and in awe with the body and it’s capacity to heal and feel good.

Sarah 2

Feels super healthy & has brought more free movement to some places internally that had been holding tension.

Feels super healthy & has brought more free movement to some places internally that had been holding tension.

Karen

Just that short workshop at McCarthy this summer has helped me ground and become embodied in my practice.

Just that short workshop at McCarthy this summer has helped me ground and become embodied in my practice.

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Real life benefits of embodiment!

There have been 1752 ways that I’ve benefited from my embodiment practices. 

From my experience playing with these practices over the last 6 years, embodiment feels like magical superpowers.

I’m so confident in the weekend’s sequencing to access these practices that I’ll guarantee improved internal access and more supported spacious poses. 

Embodiment practices have been a well of joy and beauty to tap into and a respite for the suffering, conflict, loss, and chaos of the world. I’m sure embodiment has its limits like anything else, I simply haven’t found those limits yet. I imagine, like anything else, that embodiment practices can be harmful if practiced too quickly to accommodate sustainable integration. But as far as I’m concerned, if I could just remember to use these superpowers before I was suffering, I’d be all set. 

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Embodiment has increased my sense of humor for the human experience.

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I’m able to ease fear, anxiety, and judgment into a softer and more compassionate experience. I can be human and not get stuck, or at least not stuck for as long. 😜

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I’ve been able to allow more love in and out because I’m not as constricted. I'm receiving all the goodness around and within me.

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When I remember to inhabit myself during conflict, I watch the conflict naturally soften so it can be discussed from a safe and more connected place. Sometimes I watch the conflict dissolve completely.

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When I'm actually living in my body, the world seems more vivid. Everything seems a little richer. As a result, it is easier to be captivated in the moment.

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I don’t have to brace against pain and sorrow as much as I’ve had to in the past. I have the capacity to experience pain without it debilitating me.

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When expedition sea kayaking created shoulder pain and pervasive numbness, I was relieved that embodiment practices helped alleviate pain and brought back sensation.

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I sometimes experience ringing in my ears. When I remember to use my embodiment tools and inhabit the space in my head, to my delight, the ringing quickly quiets and then disappears completely.

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I experience ringing in my ears. When I remember embodiment and inhabit the space in my head , the ringing quickly quiets and then disappears completely.

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When expedition sea kayaking created shoulder pain and pervasive numbness, embodiment practices helped alleviate pain and brought back sensation.

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I don’t have to brace against pain and sorrow as much as I’ve had to in the past. I have the capacity to experience pain without it debilitating me.

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When I remember to inhabit myself during conflict, I watch the conflict naturally soften. Sometimes I watch the conflict dissolve completely.

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Embodiment has increased my sense of humor for the human experience.

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I’ve been able to allow more love in and out because I’m not as constricted. I'm receiving all the goodness around and within me.

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I’m able to ease fear, anxiety, and judgment into a softer and more compassionate experience. Now I can be human and not get stuck, or at least not stuck for as long. 😜

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When I'm actually living in my body, the world seems more vivid. Everything seems a little richer. As a result, it is easier to be captivated in the moment.

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Discover Wholeness

Each session is designed to be sustainable for all levels and in addition to asana, practice may include meditation, discussion, and some ball rolling.

Come explore and play in the wilds of Wrangell St. Elias National Park!

Friday

Evening Practice 4:30-7:00pm followed by a welcome dinner.

Saturday-Monday

7:30-10:00 am practice followed by a hearty breakfast and the entire day to play and discover McCarthy and Kennicott or to relax and restore.

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What You’ll Get

GUARANTEED DEEPER ACCESS TO YOUR BODY

(If you don’t gain internal access, I will refund $250 which is most of the yoga costs of the weekend).

Expert guidance with me, a highly trained teacher with a gift for making profound practices accesible.

A pair of soft therapeutic rolling balls. ($14 value)

A sustainable and enlivening pace of practice.

Individual attention in a small group atmosphere means that I can meet you where you are.

Yoga props for practice including blocks, strap, blankets, chairs, and bolsters.

Personal tools and practices to help integrate summer’s actvity and nourish you through winter.

Playful tips and a realistic perspective on how the practices integrate into your life and being.

Healthy locally sourced meals.

Amazing off the grid lodging with all the amenities.

Time to play and explore Wrangell St. Elias National Park.

Local knowledge of what to do in the area.

A sense of adventure, wildness, and crazy human history.

Access to deeper joy and beauty.

Increased space and ability to allow uncomfortable emotions to exist.

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WHAT YOU WON’T GET

Yoga focused only on the physical form, the physical body, or the fitness industry.

Idealistic practices and expectations that don’t transfer to the day to day world and experience.

Fully scheduled days. (We have a long yoga practice in the morning so you can explore, relax, or introspect the rest of the day. Why go all the way to McCarthy to be confined by yoga scheduling?)

A clicky or judgmental vibe.