Field Explorations in Systemic Yoga

Ateeka has developed SYSTEMIC YOGA based on the fact that all living systems are connected. Our bodies have cycles of growth, decay and regrowth. In the stress of our modern society, it can be easy to fall out of balance and lose contact with our body’s natural cyclical rhythms. In Systemic Yoga, living cycles and movements of life are honored and explored.

SYSTEMIC YOGA combines ancient traditions with modern relevance and includes fluid asana, expansive pranayama, active and silent meditations, work with sound, YogaCONTACT (bodywork) all within the context of the collective archetypal energy patterns and symbology of the Vedic and Hindu pantheon.

Systemic Yoga explores asana with curiosity, openness and creativity. Rooted in evolving practice and personal experience, levels of alignment are approached as an intuitive and intelligent individual choice rather than an imposed demand for a perfect standardized form.

We work with the concept of “islands” (asana) and “oceans” (organic movement). We access traditional asanas in new ways to create a relevance for the body as a systemic whole. Movement is global, aware and open to the flow of life.

Above all, Systemic Yoga practices are intelligent and stimulate the practitioner to embrace individual awareness of movement inspired by the rhythm of the breath and water currents of the body.

SYSTEMIC YOGA is an “evolutionary yoga.” It’s practices respond to each moment’s needs. The science of Yoga has traditionally been taught by men to young men, in preparation for going inward in meditation and isolation.

Current statistics tell us that over 16.5 million Americans practice yoga and 76.9% of these practitioners are women. 42% of these women are aged from 35 – 54. The science of yoga must evolve to respond to the needs of women and men and our planet. Yoga is no longer just a training practice for young Indian men destined to become sadhus and Brahmin. Yoga has become our great inheritance, a tool for reclaiming balance and present moment JOY in our lives here in the West.

SYSTEMIC YOGA invites the fluid, changeable, responsive nature of water and flow into the practice. It is in this evolution that we will restore our balance personally and collectively. SYSTEMIC YOGA is for the modern practitioner, lifting the veil of our cultural conditioning and tradition to see clearly what is vitally needed for today. . . RESPONSIVE, FLOWING, LOVING CONNECTION with each other.

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