A Dynamic Embodiment Approach to the Sun Salutation

This book guides readers toward a Sun Salutation practiced with greater ease, weaving in embodiment cues drawn from the glands, the chakras, and neurodevelopmental movement. Its soft, organic, yet powerful approach applies equally to personal practice, overall health, and teaching others — both in holding the poses and in moving between them.

Working with the endocrine system and its correspondences to the chakras grounds the subtle within the physical body. Readers explore the electrical and circulatory nature of the neuroendocrine system, and how the anatomical placement of the glands — and the spatial tensions, or tensegrity, around them — can become a bridge to the energy needed for a fulfilling life.

The approach draws on Body-Mind Centering’s developmental work, seen through the lens of Dynamic Embodiment by BMC® Master teacher Dr. Martha Eddy: careful skeletal positioning, brain-activating movement, and hormonal balance, set within broader social somatic contexts such as lifestyle, culture, and intergenerational influence. It also offers guidance for when yoga or endocrine work brings on overwhelm — from trauma triggers to kundalini intensity — with tools for grounding yourself and others and taking centered action.

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