When your motivation to make time for yoga wanes, Montana-based yoga teacher Lauren Walker suggests trying her two-minute energy shifting technique of “thumping and crossing.” It may help get you on your mat!
Walker first developed Energy Medicine Yoga while teaching at Norwich University and later published it, winning a Nautilus Silver Award for Mind/Body publication.
The EMYoga Prescription
When feeling under the weather, finding motivation to practice yoga may be hard. Even when you do make time for yourself on the mat, however, you might still feel depleted afterwards. What if there was a way you could supercharge your yoga practice with energy from outside in and bring that healing energy directly into your life?
Montana-based teacher Lauren Walker excels at just that. She’s the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription, both winning the Nautilus Silver Award for Best Mind/Body publication. Additionally, Lauren developed EMYoga to help people release emotional residue that causes physical and mental dis-ease.
EMYoga is a blend of ancient yoga practices and energy work, which anyone can incorporate into their regular yoga practice to increase its benefits. Lauren outlines how EMYoga works and provides us with some simple tools for communicating with our bodies’ fight-flight-freeze response to achieve healthy equilibrium.
EMYoga practices involve breathing exercises, tapping on specific points of the body (known as chakras), journaling, and other methods to shift energetic patterns in our lives. It’s essential to recognize that fight-flight-freeze responses should not be seen as something to fear – they can actually be beneficial when used appropriately in your daily life and help balance our bodies response to stress or trauma – making EMYoga so invaluable!
Lauren Walker’s latest book, The Energy to Heal: Discover Lasting Freedom from Stress and Trauma Through Energy Medicine Yoga (Llewellyn 2022), expands upon Donna Eden’s teachings by linking yoga and energy medicine together. She chronicles meeting and working with Donna while sharing how personal health issues inspired her to found EMYoga.
As we explore the relationship between yoga and energy medicine, we will also take a look at Lauren’s book’s powerful tools for using energy to heal ourselves and others: Five Element Theory, yoga poses, and the Meridian system are just some of them.
The EMYoga Practice
Your body is an energy system connected to and influenced by the external world. To enhance the quality of life for yourself and those around you, learn to energize and balance these energies throughout your physical body, emotional heart, and mental mind.
Yoga is an elegant ancient practice which combines movement and stillness with breath and intention, to produce profound therapeutic results. Integrating energy medicine techniques can further magnify these benefits and enable you to live your life more fully.
Lauren Walker is a Certified Energy Medicine Teacher and the creator of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Practice (EMYoga). Her unique blend combines Eden Energy Medicine, Acupressure Holds and other energy healing modalities with timeless yoga postures for maximum mental, emotional and physical well-being.
EMYoga is an accessible and integrated yoga practice designed for students of all levels that can be done anywhere – no fancy pants or backbends necessary! Based on the principle that your body’s energy system has the capacity to heal itself and that this healing depends upon being facilitated successfully, EMYoga ensures your wellbeing through energy healing.
Lauren will demonstrate how to incorporate healing tools into your yoga practice in order to maximize its capacity for self-healing. She’ll provide training with various energy healing tools like acupressure holds, Neurolymphatic Reflex self-massage techniques and energy channel clearing techniques.
You will learn how to utilize these tools to rewire your body and change how you approach stress. And you will discover how the Five Elements influence both your energy levels and lifestyle choices.
Join Lauren Walker for this invigorating, transformative, and powerful class – you won’t be sorry you came! You won’t regret it.
The EMYoga Meditation
When the body experiences trauma or any event that provokes stress response, its fight-or-flight system becomes activated. When this response does not resolve itself as intended (fight or flee), its activation remains on high alert longer than intended and this chronic state can result in inflammation, autoimmune diseases, anxiety and depression or even addiction.
Walker’s EMYoga practice incorporates energy medicine techniques into timeless yoga poses to balance electromagnetic energy flow within the body, alleviating stress and trauma while building resilience for greater balance and health in body-mind systems. She offers this introductory course as an easy and powerful way to intensify any regular yoga practice for enhanced healing benefits.
Blocked energy typically manifests itself through pain in the physical body, according to Walker. She believes this pain signals to us that something needs to change: nothing should hurt; yet too often people disregard or dismiss these messages and continue suffering in silence.
In the first session of this course, you’ll discover an EMYoga technique known as “crossing.” Additionally, you’ll explore a powerful but simple breathing practice to activate vagus nerve and detoxify whole body as well as an effective tapping tool to reprogram unconscious patterns. By the final session of this introductory course, all these tools and techniques will have been integrated into a comprehensive EMYoga practice that balances energies, calm emotions and increases resilience.
Lauren Walker is the award-winning author of two acclaimed books: Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice and The Energy to Heal: Find Lasting Freedom From Stress & Trauma Through EMYoga (Llewellyn 2022). Walker has been practicing and teaching yoga since 1997 and established ELYON Life Energy Healing & Wellness Services in 2009. Among her international certification work for yoga teachers using the EMYoga technique she has also been recognized by Yoga Journal, Mantra Magazine and The New York Times among many other publications.
The EMYoga Journal
Lauren Walker will guide you through this powerful seven-part virtual course on EMYoga techniques that you can use for life to reduce everyday stress and anxiety, heal trauma symptoms, and more! Her approach relies on ancient yet proven practices such as breathwork, tapping specific energy points on the body to stimulate neural repatterning, gratitude practices, and gentle poses that align with energies in the subtle body.
These techniques offer natural alternatives to medication with few side effects; they can help balance endocrine systems, strengthen immune systems, detoxify bodies and keep spirits young!
Lauren Walker’s books Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Practice and The EMYoga Prescription teach us how we can use ancient yoga and energy medicine tools to take control of our own lives and be masters of our destiny. With so much turmoil afoot worldwide, it is more vital than ever that we learn how to channel our energy productively to create peace and wellbeing for ourselves and those around us.
Beginning a new practice can often cause initial discomfort and resistance; during this phase it’s important to be patient with yourself and show kindness as your body adjusts to new movements patterns. Listen carefully to its signals while letting go of any expectations about how things should be done.
Remembering the dynamic interrelation between fight-flight-freeze response and rest-digest response in the body is also key for healthy functioning, and maintaining optimal health.
Blaine Wilkinson is a Master Energy Medicine Yoga teacher, studying directly under Lauren Walker. He completed both Hatha Yoga 200 hour teacher training and an Advanced Teacher Trainer certification of Eden Energy Medicine created by Donna Eden. Blaine blends his knowledge of yoga, meditation and healing with plant-based nutrition and vegan lifestyle expertise – offering individuals and families alike assistance on making positive transitions toward living a healthier, more compassionate lifestyle.
