Ateeka's Systemic Yoga is "Cellular Soul Food"

SYSTEMIC YOGA is an ever-changing and growing approach to yoga with the primary objective of RECOVERING THE NATURAL INTELLIGENCE that lives and thrives in our living, breathing bodies. Practices encourage full body self-awareness and radiant health through innovative breath, sound and movement experience.

SYSTEMIC YOGA combines ancient yogic wisdom with modern relevance and includes fluid and spontaneous asana, innovative pranayama and breathwork, active and silent meditations, nada yoga: deep experiementing with sound and vibration, TANTSU (partners work with contact & full body holding) all within a vibrant context of the collective archetypal energy patterns, myths, metaphors, stories and poems.

SYSTEMIC YOGA practices with Ateeka are exploratory, changing, growing and evolving.  No class is ever the same and each offers an opportunity to move deeply into movement that is initiated by the fluid systems of the body.  Asanas are taught as “islands” from which we can move into an infinite “ocean” of possibilities for movement and exploration.  What Ateeka is sharing now is a new and different dimension of the yoga practice . . . the yoga of possibilities. . . of exploring our evolutionary ancestry and energetic spectrum . . . of intelligence and playfulness and fluidity.   Systemic Yoga is without doctrine, dogma or hierarchy and has a spherical opportunity to learn from and contribute to the immediate environment.

Classes explore movement, healing and vibration from many different perspectives offered to us by nature.  The evolving work is taught on land, in the water of ocean and warm pools and in situations that allow for suspension (like trees or hammocks) to constantly change our relationship with gravity, amplifying the body’s electromagnetic field.

SYSTEMIC YOGA explores asana with curiosity, openness and creativity. Rooted in evolving practice and personal experience, levels of alignment are approached as an intuitive and intelligent individual choice rather than an imposed demand for a perfect standardized form.

Above all, Systemic Yoga practices are intelligent and stimulate the practitioner to embrace individual awareness of movement inspired by the rhythm of the breath and fluid currents of the body.

SYSTEMIC YOGA is an “evolutionary yoga.” It’s practices respond to each moment’s needs. The science of Yoga has traditionally been taught by men to young men, in preparation for going inward in meditation and isolation.

Current statistics tell us that over 16.5 million Americans practice yoga and 76.9% of these practitioners are women. 42% of these women are aged from 35 – 54. The science of yoga must evolve to respond to the needs of women and men and our planet. Yoga is no longer just a training practice for young Indian men destined to become sadhus and Brahmin. Yoga has become our great inheritance, a tool for reclaiming balance and present moment JOY in our lives here in the West.

SYSTEMIC YOGA invites the fluid, changeable, responsive nature of water and flow into the practice. It is in this evolution that we will restore our balance personally and collectively. SYSTEMIC YOGA is for the modern practitioner, lifting the veil of our cultural conditioning and tradition to see clearly what is vitally needed for today. . . RESPONSIVE, FLOWING, LOVING CONNECTION with each other.

Frithof Capra on What is a Living System?

The most appropriate theoretical framework for ecology is the theory of a living system. This theory is only now fully emerging but has its roots in the several scientific fields that were developed during the first half of the last century - organismic biology, gestalt pshychology, ecology, general systems theory and cybernetics. In all these fields, scientists explored living systems, which means integrated wholes whose properties cannot be reduced to those of smaller parts. Although we can distinguish parts in any living system, the nature of the whole is always different from the mere sum of its parts. Systems theory entails a new way of seeing the world and a new way of thinking. It means thinking in terms of relationships, connectedness and context.

All living systems are wholes whose specific structures arise from the interactions and interdependence of their parts. Systems theory tells us that all living systems share a set of common properties and principles of organization. This means that systems thinking can be applied to integrate academic disciplines and to discover similarities between phenomena as different levels of scale.

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