Functional Practices For Embodied Longevity

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Learn the language of your embodiment— fit, function, and metaphor.

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Yoga for real bodies with real needs.

Bodies are forms provided by nature. Every form tells a story shaped by time, habits, and experiences. Form creates function, and function shapes our experience of time. So, to reorganize the form is to repattern function and rewrite the story of what our body has been becoming.

FOR DOING
LIFE BETTER
(NOT YOGA)

FOR MIND-BODY
CONNECTIVITY

FOR BEING SELF-REFERENCED AND EMBODIED
(NOT THE OPPOSITE)

FOR LEARNING, COMMUNITY
& JOY

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Katie Cooley, PhD

After years of exploring the experience of being in a body, as an elite rower, a third series Ashtanga practitioner, an avid mountain biker, a mother of three… I am starting to understand how to weave, with intention, the narrative of self, through my embodiment. It continues to be a practice, and it is a joy for me to keep learning, growing, and sharing ♡.