Learn to balance the body’s energy systems and unlock its inherent healing capacity. Uncover how to recognize and shift longstanding patterns that don’t serve you, and rediscover personal power and clarity.
Lauren Walker of Montana-based yoga teacher Lauren Walker marries Tantra Yoga with Eden Energy Medicine developed by Donna Eden to create simple yet powerful EMYoga techniques that can boost immunity and help the body heal after trauma.
EMYOGA is a powerful synthesis of the oldest medical systems in the world (Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda)
Yoga and energy medicine come together in an effective new form that allows you to tap into the five elements that comprise everything in nature – including yourself! With these simple techniques, you can access their power for healing yourself and others; furthermore they allow you to recognize how the Five Elements apply specifically in your own life kaleidoscope of elements so they can help address life challenges effectively.
Lauren Walker is the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Practice and has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mantra +, and Yoga Digest. She teaches Energy Medicine Yoga across the U.S. and internationally and her work has been endorsed by Donna Eden who describes it as sensual, mysticism, and life changing!
On this episode of Insights at the Edge, Lauren joins me to share her innovative approach for supercharging your yoga practice and life. Combining yoga, breathwork, and the Five Element Energy system for healing purposes – with an aim of shifting away any feelings of unlikeness towards celebrating what makes each of us uniquely us!
Lauren combines Tantra yoga as taught by Rod Stryker with Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine practice of tapping into nadis, chakras and meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as other ancient body maps in her EMYoga practice. You can either incorporate this practice into your existing yoga practice or use it as a stand-in.
Understanding yourself as an array of Five Elements that comprise everything – including you – is the key to unlocking life’s most complex issues and learning how to release pain while accepting joy, love and celebrating the specific parts of you that matter most in life.
As an introduction to EMYoga, begin with practicing some basic techniques. For instance, to activate your left meridian, strike both legs and hands together while striking your left leg – this will cause energies to pause and balance out, providing a simple yet effective energy technique that any beginner can try out.
EMYOGA is a powerful synthesis of ancient spiritual practices
EMYoga is an energy healing practice that integrates ancient body maps of meridians, chakras and Traditional Chinese Medicine with yoga poses and other yogic techniques to offer holistic healing for trauma healing, stamina strengthening and immune balance. According to Walker it can also help address any deep-seeded trauma which is at the core of addiction or depression; and even help heal its effects such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Walker’s retreats utilize both lecture and experiential practices to teach her students how to work with the energy systems of their body, such as breathing practices, visualization, EFT tapping, journaling and body image work. Her approach can easily be integrated into any yoga practice; its most vital benefit being teaching people to love themselves just the way they are.
Energy Medicine offers us an innovative new way of understanding our lives and how they all fit together. Based on the Five Elements that comprise everything in our universe – including ourselves – this knowledge allows you to better comprehend how repetitive patterns may be affected by outside forces; helping you better recognize their influence over time. With Energy Medicine as your guide, even complex problems may become easier to address and solve.
Lauren Walker has spent her life exploring the power of healing. She has studied both traditional yoga practice and modern Energy Medicine practices; ultimately creating her own hybrid approach called Energy Medicine Yoga that marries Tantra yoga taught by Rod Stryker with Donna Eden’s Eden Energy Medicine which detects energy fields within our bodies.
Walker employs Energy Medicine tools in her retreats, fusing them with yoga to create an effective and transformative practice known as EMYoga. According to Walker, anyone of any age or ability can benefit from this form of yoga practice; its power lies within every individual; learning how to tap into that energy will lead to transformation. At her retreats, Walker teaches various practices designed to help participants overcome limitations and heal themselves internally.
EMYOGA is a powerful synthesis of modern science
EMYOGA is an integrative practice that blends Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Ayurveda, yoga and ancient spiritual practices into an amazing blend. Movement, breathwork and energy work come together in this practice to balance all five elements within your body and release trauma, helping you move beyond just surviving to truly thriving and creating an invaluable addition to any yogic practice.
Energy Medicine Yoga helps restore energy flow in both body and mind, creating a template for living from a place of joy and personal power. Lauren Walker details in her new book how the Radiant Circuits of your energy body can be supercharged through simple EMYoga exercises which anyone can learn – this will clear away energy blockages while simultaneously soothing away any stresses caused by daily life.
Walker offers an approach that incorporates yoga poses, breathwork and energy work to empower you to heal both your own body and mind. Her techniques include pranayama, meditation, visualization, journaling and EFT tapping as well as support practices like Ayurved food recommendations and self-massage. In addition she covers fundamentals like body meridian systems, stress response mechanisms and how to calm nervous systems.
Montana-based Walker has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1997. She first created Energy Medicine Yoga while teaching at Norwich University and has taught it internationally since. Yoga Journal Mantra+ and The New York Times have showcased her work, as have Yoga Journal Mantra + and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription; her books offer potent self-care practices designed to accelerate healing while uncovering your body’s secret blades.
If your energy seems depleted, it could be because of an overactive fight-or-flight response which causes chronic exhaustion and results in symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, low immune function and digestive disorders. Regular practice of EMYOGA can restore the natural flow of energy throughout your body while at the same time helping you understand that physical and emotional wellbeing are interdependent with each other and your energy field.
EMYOGA is a powerful synthesis of yoga
Energy medicine yoga is a wonderful way to recharge, whether you need help in your practice or simply need an escape from daily life. Montana-based teacher Lauren Walker has developed an innovative method for supercharging yoga practice and unlocking its secret switches within. Her book The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription incorporates traditional yoga with energy work techniques as well as Five Element Theory into an approach.
Lauren’s straightforward EMYoga techniques are easy and convenient ways to incorporate mindfulness-based yoga practices into daily life. Her techniques focus on breathwork, tapping specific energy points to cause neural repatterning, gratitude practices and poses that align all nine energy systems of the body – created in partnership with Eden Energy Medicine pioneer Donna Eden. These practices have an immediate effect on shifting longstanding patterns of energy that contribute to healing and vitality – shifting longstanding patterns within your energy field to promote healing and revitalize vitality and healing in general.
Since 1997, she has been teaching yoga and meditation. While working at Norwich University – a private military college in Vermont – she founded Energy Medicine Yoga. Now living at Feathered Pipe Ranch – an alpine retreat and wilderness guiding center – where she teaches both yoga and element-based energy medicine as well as traveling nationally and internationally to share this highly intuitive yet straightforward healing system with audiences such as Yoga Journal, Mantra + and Yoga Digest among many other publications – she continues her work teaching both disciplines.
Lauren outlines in her best-selling book, The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription, how yoga poses can be blended with ancient healing modalities like meridians work and self-massage techniques for holistic body healing. Additionally, it includes supporting practices for diet, nutrition, energy clearing and body image. Lauren takes an innovative approach combining yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda alongside ancient spiritual practices and modern science for optimal results.
Since 1997, she has been teaching yoga and meditation classes. While working at Norwich University – the oldest private military school in America – she developed Energy Medicine Yoga. Since then, she has also taught at several renowned retreat centers such as Kripalu Center, Omega Retreat Center and Feathered Pipe Ranch and her writing has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mantra+wellness magazine, New York Times as well as two other books published under her innovative healing methods.
