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Schedule
Each session runs for 30-minutes, with an optional 15-minutes Q&A.
Core sessions follow a learning journey over the three days. For this reason, we suggest trying to come to the same slot daily to follow the thread (colour-coded below):
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How to Make Your Meditation Embodied @ 9am UK time
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How to (Re-)establish a Practice @ 1pm UK time
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How to Take Practice into Daily Life @ 7pm UK time
Bonus sessions explore topics that may be interesting to anyone.
February 26
(Sunday)
Is your meditation embodied?
Karin van Maanen
9am UK time
(4am EST / 8pm AEDT)
Five reasons to practise
Karin van Maanen
1pm UK time
(8am EST / 12am AEDT)
From the cushion to life (how to increase “transfer”)
Karin van Maanen
7pm UK time
(2pm EST / 6am AEDT)
Bonus
Prayers: somatic practice for the soul
Yasmine Madkour
11am UK time
(6am EST / 10pm AEDT)
Accessing the subtle body and beyond
Miles Kessler
3pm UK time
(10am EST / 2am AEDT)
Sitting in the fire: 3 ways to stay cool amidst the heat of life
Martin Aylward
5pm UK time
(12pm EST / 4am AEDT)
February 27
(Monday)
Add bodily depth to meditation (in just 20 minutes)
Mark Walsh
9am UK time
(4am EST / 8pm AEDT)
How to be kind to yourself (even when you "fail")
Daniela Welzel
1pm UK time
(8am EST / 12am AEDT)
Meditating as the world burns
Mark Walsh
7pm UK time
(2pm EST / 6am AEDT)
Bonus
Trauma-sensitive meditation
Patricia Aguirre
3pm UK time
(10am EST / 2am AEDT)
Alchemy Meditation: using the body as a portal
Anthony Abbagnano
5pm UK time
(12pm EST / 4am AEDT)
February 28
(Tuesday)
How to lead embodied meditation safely
Karin van Maanen
9am UK time
(4am EST / 8pm AEDT)
How to support students to develop a regular practice
Karin van Maanen
1pm UK time
(8am EST / 12am AEDT)
Five keys to help students integrate into daily life
Mark Walsh
7pm UK time
(2pm EST / 6am AEDT)
Bonus
Breathwork: industrial-strength active embodied meditation
Michael Stone
11am UK time
(6am EST / 10pm AEDT)
Neuro-somatic mindfulness
Fleet Maull
3pm UK time
(10am EST / 2am AEDT)
How to face challenging emotions during meditation
Dr. Raja Selvam
5pm UK time
(12pm EST / 4am AEDT)
Event leader
Karin Van Maanen
Yoga & Meditation Teacher-Trainer
Karin is a yoga & meditation teacher with an MSc in Mindfulness Studies, and has been teaching compassion-based mindfulness full-time since 2008.
She delivers yoga teacher training courses, is a certified Embodied Yoga Principles teacher trainer, and is an Assistant Trainer on The Embodied Facilitator Certification.
She also has a background in community arts and works as a storyteller, often combining a range of embodied and creative approaches to support the personal and professional development of the people she works with.
Core teachers
Daniela Welzel
Coach & mindfulness facilitator
Daniela brings her unique blend of embodied experience to everything she does. She is authentic, honest and fearless in her work and honours whatever arises with grace, patience and presence.
Daniela has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a diploma in police leadership science. She served in a bilateral training mission in Afghanistan, teaching Afghan police officers methods and didactics, psychology and code of conduct.
Daniela also holds a black belt in Aikido, and is a certified MBCT trainer. She regularly teaches workshops and courses on embodied self-defence and mindfulness, along with offering individual coaching.
Mark Walsh
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited
“Mr Embodiment” is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation. He hosts The Embodiment Podcast (1 million+ downloads), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?
He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course in the UK and Russia, and has trained over 2000 embodiment coaches in over 40 other countries (some of which will even let him back in).
He gained an honours in psychology (despite been an alcoholic at the time), and has taught widely in the corporate world where he pretended to be a grown up for years, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal) whom he charged wayyyy too much as they made him wear a suit.
He has also upset… sorry, taught… many yogis, NGOs, police officers and several militaries.
He has worked in war zones, and entertained over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, taught at Moscow State University, lived with the circus in Ethiopia, taught celebrities and kissed a princess.
Mark is an aikido black belt, and also has 25 years of experience of other martial arts, with yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, conscious dance and meditation.
Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else. He dances like your dad at a wedding, overshares about his gorgeous Ukrainian wife, and offends pirates with his swearing.
He is now tired of writing in the third person.
Bonus teachers
Martin Aylward
Dharma Teacher, Founder of Sangha Live
Martin has been practising meditation intensively for 30 years and has been teaching dharma and guiding people in their practice since 1999.
Aged 19, Martin left for India with a one-way ticket and no luggage. He spent most of the next four years in Asian monasteries, retreat centres and Ashrams where he developed a formal meditation practice based on Vipassana / Insight Meditation, while also exploring many different teachings and practice forms.
He spent several months with Ajahn Buddhadasa at Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and sat annual month-long retreats all through the 1990s at the Thai Monastery in Bodh Gaya with Christopher Titmuss. After ten years of practice, Christopher encouraged him to begin teaching. He has also studied and practiced with various Buddhist teachers and traditions, including the Vajrayana practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
Martin spent two years living with Sukhanta Giri Babaji, a Hindu sadhu, at his hermitage near Dharamsala and has lived and practiced with various other Indian sadhus and Himalayan hermits. He was also a student of the Diamond Approach of A.H. Almaas for 13 years
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Patricia Aguirre
Family Constellations Facilitator
Patricia is co-lead trainer of the Trauma Coaching and Courage to Lead courses and works extensively with women through private sessions and workshops.
She combines deep processes of shadow work through different models of therapy and trauma work with almost two decades on the spiritual path.
Patricia weaves both of these visions into her work where she leads women into states of strength and empowerment, peace and fulfilment in life, as expressed by many of the women she has worked with.
Raja Selvam
Founder of integral Somatic Psychology
Dr. Raja Selvam, a licensed clinical psychologist in California, is a senior trainer in Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) Professional Trauma Training programs and the developer of Integral
Somatic Psychology (ISP).
ISP, based on the emerging neuroscience of embodied cognition, emotion, and behaviour, is a complementary modality developed to quicken
outcomes and shorten treatment times in all therapies; through
developing a greater capacity to tolerate a larger range of emotional experiences in a larger body container.
ISP Professional Training Programs and Workshops have been offered in nearly twenty countries in North and South Americas, Europe, Asia, the
Middle East, and the Far East.
The work of Dr. Selvam, grounded in Western as well as Eastern
Psychology, draws from the Kleinian and Inter-Subjective schools of Psychoanalysis, the Analytical Psychology of Karl Jung, the bodywork systems of Postural Integration and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, the energy psychology modalities of Polarity Therapy and Emotional Freedom
Technique (EFT), the body-oriented psychotherapy approaches of Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Bodynamic Somatic Developmental Psychology, and Somatic Experiencing (SE), Attachment Theory, the emerging neuroscience and physiology of embodied cognition, emotion, and behaviour, Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta, a spiritual psychology from India.
His book can be found at integralsomaticpsychology dot com
Anthony Abbagnano
Founder of Alchemy of Breath
Therapist, podcast host (Grounded Spirituality) and meditation practitioner for 22+ years.
Yasmine Madkour
Sexologist, Somatic Experiencing Therapist
Yasmine is an Integral Trauma Counsellor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a SOMATICA-trained Somatic Sexologist.
Studying a Master’s in Psychology, she specialises in Systemic Trauma and Systemic Sex Therapy.
Yasmine connects women to their inner sense of safety to enjoy a life free from traumatic pain and stress, helping them to be curious with their nervous system and explore their bodies and their capacities for pleasure and play.
Her mission is to help women feel more in your bodies, get unstuck from old patterns, and become more of themselves.
Yasmine loves plants, writing, dancing, cooking, and making stuff out of other stuff, and is a parent to a very silly parrot, Chicko.
Fleet Maull
CEO & Founder, Heart Mind Institute
Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P, founder and CEO of Heart Mind Institute and Windhorse Seminars & Consulting, has been training CEO’s and other senior managers in embodied approaches to increasing their emotional intelligence and developing their capacity for both self-leadership and servant leadership for 22 years.
A meditation practitioner and yogi for more than 50 years, he is a senior Dharma teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a Roshi or Zen master in the international Zen Peacemaker lineage, and an IMTA certified mindfulness teacher.
Fleet teaches a deeply embodied and trauma-informed approach to meditation and awakening called Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM).
He is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good; Dharma In Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull; and The Resilient C.O., Neuroscience Informed Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency (MBWR) for Corrections Professionals.
Miles Kessler
Mindfulness Facilitator, Aikido Teacher
Miles is an American teacher of Aikido (6th Dan Aikikai), meditation, and Integral Practice.
He’s a dual-lineage holder in both the Iwama tradition of Aikido and the Burmese Mahasi tradition of Meditation.
Miles is the founder and director of the Integral Dojo in Tel Aviv, as well as the non-profit organization Aikido Without Borders in Israel/Palestine.
For two decades, Miles has been producing innovative Aikido events around the world, which have been attended by thousands of people.
Michael Stone
Founder of Neurodynamic Breathwork
Michael Stone attended his first breathwork session in 2005 and was blown away by the power of the breath. It was such a life-changing experience for him that it changed his career direction and he decided to focus his life around breathwork in support of world healing.
Michael has a unique way of combining his science background with his breathwork training and experience that allows him to create a safe space for participants to open their hearts and have transformative life-changing experiences.
Michael has a BSc from the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and also has knowledge in the field of neuroscience.
He started by facilitating Holotropic Breathwork Workshops in 2009 for thousands of people in the Los Angeles Area. Then, in 2018, he birthed Neurodynamic Breathwork (NDB) in order to achieve his vision of allowing anybody in the world that wants to experience the benefits of expanded states of awareness to be able to do so from the comfort of their own home.
Michael is currently offering a free online breathwork session to everybody.
In the last 5 years, he has facilitated over 1000 online sessions of NDB with participants from over 120 countries and has been instrumental in creating a thriving worldwide breathing community in support of personal and global transformation and healing.
He has also spoken at numerous international online summits with other speakers such as Joe Dispenza, Tony Robbins, Gabor Mate, and others.
To try a free online breathwork session, go to: www.breathworkonline.com and click on “Try a free breathwork session”
FAQs
Yes. Replays will be sent out on March 1 and be available for 48 hours.
When you register, you’ll be sent an email that contains a link to register for our custom-built platform that contains your Meditation for Your Actual Life mini-course. These will also available to watch on the Embodiment App, so that you can “learn on the go.”
After you register, you’ll be given the option to purchase the replays so that you can own them forever. This will be at a greatly discounted price to what they’ll be available for after the event.
The first reason is that we dream of a more embodied world, and we want these learnings accessible to everyone.
The second reason is that this event is a great introduction to what we do best – provide fun, effective trainings for coaches, facilitators and those seeking personal growth.
Got a question we haven’t addressed here?
Just email support@embodimentunlimited.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.