Blocked energy is often at the source of health issues. From chronic pain and mental health conditions, to auto immune diseases and auto immune treatments, Walker offers effective techniques that will restore balance and allow you to heal yourself.
Walker is the author of “Energy Medicine Yoga” and “Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription”, two books that show you how to integrate simple energy medicine techniques into the yoga practices you already love to do on your mat.
Getting Started
Energy Medicine Yoga blends traditional yoga postures with principles of energy medicine to bring healing and balance to the body. Not only are the poses great strength-builders, they can also clear out energy blockages while increasing awareness of chakras, meridians and seasons in your system.
EMYoga can easily fit into any existing yoga practice, whether that’s hot vinyasa, Iyengar or something else entirely. What’s great about the practice is that you can add it without increasing time on the mat; thus maximizing its full benefits and experiencing increased energy, clarity and efficiency throughout your day!
Lauren Walker outlines aspects of working with energy in her book and offers exercises that can be done both in class and at home. She delves into Chinese Medicine’s five elements (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal), detailing which correspond to certain parts of our bodies and emotions. Furthermore, energy healing techniques like clearing and grounding, Ayurvedic food recommendations, self-massage techniques, self-massaging as well as focussing the mind are covered as well.
Walker provides a basic overview of Energy Medicine before providing specific prescriptions that combine familiar yoga asana poses with holding select pressure points, meridians work, and focused attention. These exercises help release longstanding patterns in energy which affect our body and mind.
Walker presents a practical method of awakening and integrating your subtle energy body. Through an understanding of this energy, yoga becomes such a transformative and healing practice.
Energy Medicine Yoga teacher and author Lauren Walker presents a new online course through Yoga Journal that shows readers how to transform their regular yoga practice using an energy medicine approach to healing and transformation. Join renowned healer Donna Eden and EMYoga creator Lauren Walker for an eight-week training that shifts longstanding patterns that govern body, mind and spirit energy – sign up now!
Using the Five Elements
For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and various alternative medical traditions have relied upon the five elements theory as part of their healing practices. This idea holds that everything, from an atom to an ocean whale, contains wood, fire, water, earth and metal as components; in terms of our physical and energetic health it provides insight into how everything connects together.
Lauren Walker outlines in her book Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Practice how Energy Medicine Yoga can be combined with traditional yoga poses to address chronic health challenges and emotional trauma. She offers sequences that combine traditional asana poses with holding selected pressure points, meridians work, focused attention techniques, Ayurveda food recommendations and self massage techniques, among other supporting practices that may speed healing processes along.
Though science doesn’t support the notion that five elements have any correlation to our physical or mental wellbeing, they can still provide guidance for identifying root causes of certain conditions and providing guidance to restore balance. This holistic approach may serve as an invaluable complement to medical treatments or even provide preventative wellness measures.
Energy Medicine Yoga can be applied to any practice or lifestyle, even those not traditionally associated with yoga. Energy Medicine Yoga takes an “both/and” approach: you can weave its techniques into whatever else you do or practice them as separate techniques; either way, adding Energy Medicine Yoga into your practice will bring new dimensions that enhance the joy of living while creating positive transformation in your life.
Join Donna Eden and Lauren as they discuss how using the five elements can benefit our health and wellbeing. This exclusive recording from Feathered Pipe Ranch Retreat in June 2023 features their dialogue between two beloved teachers! You will love listening in on this meaningful dialogue between two respected instructors! For more information about this innovative new field of yoga please click here.
Intuitive Bodywork
Intuitive bodywork, like massage and Reiki, is a type of healing that incorporates energy work. It’s a gentle yet powerful approach that can reduce pain, relax muscles and shift longstanding patterns of energy that have an adverse impact on mind, body and spirit. Practitioners using intuitive bodywork use clairvoyance or clairsentience to access information about clients before employing appropriate physical techniques such as light touch massage or deep tissue massage – often providing solutions for their imbalance.
Lauren Walker is the creator of Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga). In her books “Energies Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Practice (2014)” and “Energies Medicine Yoga Prescription” (Sounds True 2017), she notes how yoga combined with energy medicine provides an ancient practice to heal both physical and energetic bodies simultaneously. With EMYoga being a holistic practice offering essential insights for wellbeing as well as self-care practices to activate innate healing processes within us, this ancient healing artform continues today.
EMYoga practices combine familiar yoga asana poses with holding pressure points, working the meridians, breathing techniques and clearing techniques. Walker also reviews supportive practices such as Ayurvedic food recommendations and self-massage – intuitive bodywork is another form of therapy which may accelerate healing while alleviating anxiety and stress.
As part of an EMYoga practice, intuitive bodywork has been shown to reduce chronic illness symptoms while improving mood, sleep quality and vitality. Furthermore, intuitive bodywork may also address digestive disorders, depression and anxiety as well as fatigue issues. Meditation can enhance mindfulness and provide a sense of purpose, providing an opportunity to learn more about oneself, their body, breathwork meditation energy and the Five Elements. Practitioners of intuitive bodywork find its greatest benefit lies in learning to read the energy of the body and trust its messages. Anyone, regardless of age, health status or physical limitations can engage in this form of bodywork with instantaneous results that can be maintained through regular self-care routines at home.
Healing Trauma
Lauren’s yoga classes feature Energy Medicine Yoga (EMYoga), an intuitive yet straightforward healing method combining yoga with the transformative power of energy work. Lauren first created her approach while teaching yoga at Norwich University back in 1997. Now, she offers this practice across both domestic and international audiences alike through general courses as well as teacher trainings that incorporate her unique approach.
In this podcast, she details how incorporating Energy Medicine into her yoga practice helped her heal trauma, build resilience and gain clarity in her life. She describes how EMYoga prescriptions include familiar yoga asana combined with holding selected pressure points, working meridians, clearing techniques and supporting practices such as self-massage and Ayurvedic food recommendations to create powerful healing sequences.
EMYoga helps us clear energetic pathways that support both emotional and physical wellness, strengthening resilience against stress and trauma by equipping us with tools to respond instead of react to triggers that threaten to derail us from life’s journey.
EMYoga is a great addition to any wellness regime and offers a powerful new vision of health and wholeness. This yoga style is accessible for people of all bodies and abilities; all yoga styles; it meets people where they are at. The outcome? A joyful, heart-centered healing system that will forever change how you experience yoga – and life!
