The 5 Body Program is a guide to you. It is an opportunity to move from living to get through each day to using each day to get to all that life has to offer.
How often have you defined yourself by your body or experience? I AM tired I AM allergic, I AM in pain!
How often have you found yourself wishing things were different?
How often have you looked at someone and decided they have a better life?
These are all just stories, stories created from external sources and once repeated become like any children’s song you ever learned - repetetive, simple but you didn’t usually have any idea what the words meant.
Once you learn how to understand and use THE Body (not your body):
you move and flow through each day rather than being defined by it,
you are freed from working so hard to get from day to day
you stop viewing yourself as a thing needing to be fixed and instead start to experience the beauty of who you are.
Once you stop believing you are the energy, and instead control the movement of energy, you are better able to direct it where it is needed.
When you no longer think your feelings and memories are the only reality that exists you are free to create the reality you need.
Once you control the senses life becomes more expansive than you have been taught to believe and you become free to remember the possibility of everything you are, ever were, and could possibly become.
The 5 Bodies work integrates all experiences to help guide you to moments of “Bliss”. The moments where you understand you are everything you ever needed.

 

Physical Body (Anamaya Kosha)

This is the “food” body and the one we concentrate on when a human identifies as the physical. Bones, tissues, skin and flesh.
It can be easy to get stuck thinking of yourself as nothing more than the physical form when you are in pain, when the body becomes tight, or immobile.
Think of working at a desk or on computers all day or having joint problems or working through an injury.
Here we will focus on regaining mobility, reducing stress on the physical body, strengthening and/or releasing constrained fascia. Posture will be a focus.


Energetic Body (Pranamaya Kosha)

Here we look at the Energy Body. Also known as Prana (the Life Force Energy) it is considered the force that holds together the body and the mind. The connection to the Physical Body is through the breath. Think of it as the motor that moves the energy.
Imagine if you were to constantly rev the engine of your car and never turn it off or let it rest. You would run out of fuel and quite possible burn out the battery. This is exactly what happens to the body on a daily basis when you breathe shallowly or quickly all day. Your lungs need to expand and the capacity for breath grows while it slows.
Relearn how to breathe and quite possibly change your life. How you sit and stand and lie down will be explored. How you hold yourself physically will have a large effect on the breath.


Mindy Body (Manomaya Kosha)

The Mind is Manas. The mind is where you begin to understand your individuality, your uniqueness. When your life is filled with social media and technology. When the view of the external world dictates how you experience yourself, it is easy to begin to identify yourself as the physical body or the energy body.
The manas consists of Thinking, Feeling, Willing and Memory. It is the beliefs and patterns we create by what we learn through the mind.
For Manas the work will consist of some movement and breath work, but the majority or time will be dedicated to learning Mindfulness techniques and Meditation.

 

Sense/Discerning Body (Vijnanamaya Kosha)

Here we explore the sense body. This is the intellect, the faculty of discrimination and determination. This knowledge is associated with the perceptions created by the senses which means that, understanding and knowing can be affected by how we perceive things through our senses. The intellect can be affected when we perceive our bodies through our senses.
Think of this Body as your own personal driver. If you are asleep in the back seat the driver will take you wherever he wants to. On the other hand, if you are awake you then tell the driver the journey you would prefer to have.
The work here will be on learning to use your senses to take you through life as you would prefer. Learn how to let sound, smells, sights etc. no longer dictate your experience.

 

Spiritual Body (Anandamaya Kosha)

Ananda is Bliss. This is also considered the Casual Body. This is the state found in the deepest of sleep. When you sleep lightly, the mind and the senses never really get a chance to hit pause. Even in the dream state the mind is working with the thoughts. Given a chance for deep rest the other bodies might quiet and you may arrive at Ananda, Blissfulness where you experience your truest self and only beauty exists. When you are able to access your Bliss body it is far easier to allow the other bodies to experience life without taking over and ruling your experience.
In this, the 5th body, the “work” will be with deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra.

 

5 Body Integration

Integration: “To combine with another so they become a whole”
This full program will take you on an exploration of all 5 Bodies to create some skills that can be called upon through your life. Some people need to work on one area, others simply need to create a skill in each category. Choose where you feel the need to begin and learn how to combine all the bodies you exist within to become whole.

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If you are unsure where you need to start please connect so you can be guided to the program that might serve you best at this time.
If you are booking a package of sessions we can talk first to figure out a schedule that will work.
(If you are wanting me to come to your place of work or home, anything outside of the center of Vancouver will incur a travel charge.)