Our Vision
A Welcome from Our Hosts—
Chara Caruthers & Dr. Scott Lyons
The Embodied Yoga Summit is an invitation for you to explore the depths of your body as a rich inner landscape of experience, and a mirror to the expansive outer landscape of life.
As humans, our universal language is movement, sensation and breath. While somatics enhances our capacity to listen to and speak this primal language, yoga can offer the container and map to utilise this primal language to connect ourselves to everyone and everything.
Our deepest wish and belief is that we can, through our intention, expand our capacity to meet and be met. Through the intersection of yoga and somatics we can be guided home into ourselves, and arrive fully into the depths of what is present for us, in every moment. This inward connection is what empowers us to rise above and transform the pain and challenges in our life, to mend disconnection, and ultimately feel a belonging to ourself, to community, to the world.
Our vision for this summit is to support a growing movement and conversation that is happening between the ancient wisdom of yoga and the potency of somatics as a process of feeling an empowered freedom, ease, and a fullness to life, and deep healing.
We aim to create a safe and supportive collective space for the embodiment community to learn from one another, deepen their learning together, and easily find pathways of learning and certification to meet their personal and professional goals.
The term “you belong here” is not only about community, but personal inclusivity. It is your birthright to fully be you and experience a felt sense of belonging. There are institutions and systems that wish to usurp that power. Through the compassionate facilitation of these presenters, we hope to restore and enhance that sense of power, strength, and belonging.
We welcome you on this journey.
In Love,
Chara Caruthers & Scott Lyons
THANK YOU TO
OUR SPONSORS
Our Practice and Intention on Earth Day
Like the forest and the ocean, we are nature. Loosing touch with the experience of our essential nature creates a systemic pain that emerges as isolation and separateness. Reclaiming our essential nature is the foundation for experiencing a sense of wholeness.
The “Hamsa” mantra meditation captures the essence of this interconnection of nature by using repetition and focus on the felt sense that “I am that.”
When we hurt those around us, we are by extension hurting ourselves. When we discount our own self worth and value as a living being, we de-value that which is outside of us…which is also us. When we forgive others, we are forgiving ourselves. When we feel this interconnectedness, which the yoga tradition has been teaching for thousands of years and what quantum physics validates, then we step out of a place of harming ourselves and others through separation, and enter a place of radical peace.
We are nature- we are birthed from the same ingredients as the trees, the ocean, and all else that is around us. When you step outside and see the next tree you come across, feel “I am that.” When you step outside and see the next stranger, feel “I am that.” The next time you see a loved one, feel “I am that.”
As you recognize all that is you, you may wish to turn the recognition around, for all the magnificent nature in the world is you- "That am I.”