Structural Awareness Technique - 100hr Bodywork and Yoga Immersion
GOA - INDIA
Structural Awareness Technique is a powerful bodywork session unique to each individual – Using fascial release, body-reading, assisted stretches and integration. This 100 hr immersion is a foundation course in Structural Awareness Technique – a massage and body awareness system devised by Adam Divine and Viriam Kaur.
SAT encompasses fascial release techniques, deep tissue massage, assisted yoga stretches and the key to Adam’s work – body reading and postural assessment. As well as massage techniques, you will look at functional anatomy, emotional anatomy, stress responses, trauma reflexes and methods of integration.
The course will have a framework of yoga and meditative practices to help us understand the emotional anatomy, body armouring, brainwave states, yoga nidra, pranic energy and the sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous system. It will help us to develop a deep understanding of our own physical and emotional blocks and the potential to create the space for our own inner healing.
Conscious bodywork is a conversation between therapist and client… And maybe more importantly the bodyworker starts a dialogue between the client and their own body –in this way we give yoga homework for clients to maintain bodywork results.
Our training will be held at Himalaya Yoga Valley in Mandrem, North Goa. A short walk to the beach, this is a beautiful hill-top location with spacious villas, a lovely yoga/massage shala and conscious food.
“Through this course, you will use your own body as a case study. Looking at your own unique structure and body patterns, where you hold tension and where you can create awareness and transformation. You will learn the tools to help you return to your original blueprint.” Adam
You will learn:
Fascial Release Techniques
Deep Tissue Massage Techniques
Postural Assessment
Spinal Body Reading
Assisted Yoga Stretches
Tensegrity
Applied Anatomy
Emotional Anatomy
Healing and Integration
Breathwork Techniques
Yogic Anatomy (Subtle Energy)
Body Awareness through Yoga and Meditation
“Not only does posture reflect the way that one’s feeling inside, but the feeling and posture become so fused that one readily leads to the other. In this way, posture and body habits come, not only to reflect character, but to actually sustain it and so may hinder growth and evolution.” Swami Rama
Adam Divine
Adam has been teaching massage courses and anatomy for yoga teacher trainees for seven years around the world and has been practicing massage himself for over 13. His original studies were in Ayurvedic Yoga Massage and Thai Massage, but his approach has been revolutionized by working with Anatomy Trains’ teacher James Earls. From working with Anatomy Trains, osteopaths, yoga teachers and breathwork practitioners he has developed a deep understanding of the mechanics of the body and sees subtle awareness as the key to transformation. He has recently been studying Yoga Therapy with Doug Keller and John Stirk. He specializes in body reading, therapeutic bodywork and myofascial release. Structural Awareness Technique is the culmination of years of study and enthusiasm. He has lived in India for over ten years.
Viriam Kaur
Viriam is a yoga teacher and has been teaching since 2003. She trained in the UK with SKY School of Kundalini Yoga and is a registered Senior Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals. She also teaches Yoga Philosophy on an International teacher training. Viriam is a massage therapist and energyworker and has devised her own Chakra Healing technique running regular trainings. Viriam also works with breath and the healing power of yoga nidra. She has just released an album of sacred mantra with her band Mantrica.
"Life makes shapes, and the resulting structures and stresses in our bodies in turn determine the way our life events unfold. Only by disorganising and then reorganising our accumulated layers of experience and body patterns, can we realise our potential" - Stanley keleman
