Patty Townsend

Among the first wave of teacher-trainers in the U.S., I have taught thousands of students and provided training to hundreds of teachers. My background includes decades of serious practice of meditation, philosophical study, traditional Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa, and Iyengar yoga. My teaching embodies a strong understanding of all aspects of yoga and has evolved into a decidedly inward journey over the last several decades. For over twenty years I have been—and continue to be—personally mentored by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the Developer of Body-Mind Centering®. Bonnie’s patience and brilliance helped guide my ongoing journey into the continuous web of the formless, consciousness, and form. Bonnie’s work has informed and exponentially deepened my experience, understanding, and embodiment of yoga. I continue to be passionately focused on weaving the emerging wisdom of somatics into yoga’s wider philosophical context, as well as into the subtle nature of breath and movement, and how live, engage and act in the world. Embodyoga® is the fruit of this inquiry.