Yoga
Bringing decades of movement study and movement practice to her studio classes, Susan creates private and semi-private yoga instruction, custom-designed to client development.
Susan began studying Iyengar yoga in the late 1970s with Boston teacher Karen Stephan and was intrigued by how satisfying it felt to silently unify body, mind, and spirit. Since that time, she has blended study of yoga along with many other dance and movement disciplines until finally choosing to become certified to teach embodyoga in 2004. Embodyoga is most simply defined as yoga practice from the inside out—an ‘embodied inquiry’ guiding direct experiences of sensing, feeling, and witnessing. It is a system of yoga that invites us deeper into ourselves—to the cellular level—leading to self-acceptance, insight, and inspiration.
After researching a number of training programs, Susan found that
embodyoga stood alone in its unique approach of synthesizing the
pioneering experiential anatomy concepts of the School of Body Mind
Centering into the core of its curriculum. Embodyoga founder,
Patty Townsend, clearly envisions the embodied inquiry approach
as the future direction of yoga in the 21st century.
“I am happy to have found a yoga training system that resonates so
closely to my own way of understanding the human body.
To be able to teach from this perspective is an honor and a joy."
-Susan Carbin-Hardee, MA
There is a clear and fundamental difference between being led through a yoga class and being instructed in yoga. When Susan instructs you in her Embodi approach, she sees you—all of the postural habits built over a lifetime follow you into asana.
She will gently and compassionately guide you to make postural corrections that will completely make sense to you and allow your practice to deepen organically. Instruction will always be attentive both to avoiding injuries and to working with old injuries and disabilities. And, as a seasoned massage therapist, Susan brings a tremendous amount of anatomy knowledge to her yoga instruction.
"Susan's joy and excellence as a teacher is the mature expression of what she knows from experience, intuits naturally, and has the professional ability to pass on to her students and clients for their growth and healing on many levels."
-DG, Entrepreneur
Offerings
Private and Semi-Private Classes
Scheduled in six-week segments, and as two-to-four hour posture clinics, classes are designed to help students learn intensively, with supportive handouts for following through at home. Maximum number of students for semi-private classes is four. Class rates begin at $60.00 per hour, which may be divided by the number of participants in the class.
Customized Posture Sequences
If you would like to deepen your home practice, or simply cannot get to the yoga studio often enough, Susan can create a customized group of yoga postures that targets your particular needs and wishes for steady gains in your yoga practice at home. Using a unique yoga software, postures are presented in a printed form with photos and full written instructions for your successful yoga development. For an additional fee a custom-recorded CD can be created for you, leading you through the asanas step by step, to accompany your printed sequence of postures. Prices for this service run from $100.00 to $200.00.
Embodyoga is most simply defined as yoga practice from the inside out...
Susan Carbin-Hardee . Embodi Health and Wellness . 229 Western Avenue . Brattleboro VT 05301 . 802 254 7715 . susan@embodi.com
