It’s Time To Stand Up And Let Our Voices Be Heard.
A 6-month immersion into the teachings and philosophy of The Practice® – a combination of sacred circle, feminine leadership, and embodiment.
For too long we’ve been quiet. For too long we’ve been “good.” For too long we’ve been hiding in the shadows and living by someone else’s rules. For lifetimes and generations, we’ve ignored that calling nudging at our bodies and souls, begging us to listen and to do what we need to do. For too long we’ve tried to be equal, or better than, rather than just accepting ourselves in our wholeness. For too long we’ve avoided our true essence and power as women.
Now is the time to stand up and let our voices be heard. To step in front of fear and finally live our lives out loud. Now is the time to stop hiding and live undefended as the women we are called to be. It’s time to awaken through connection, through our bodies, and by taking back our power. It’s time to lead and to heal by bringing women together, putting back all the broken pieces, and remembering who we truly are.
This is why I created The Practice®. It’s a powerful journey that provides women a path back to themselves. This training is for 16 women who are called to deeply learn and embody this new way of living and leading.
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It’s time to liberate the gifts in your heart and start speaking your voice. It’s time to open your soul and connect on a new and higher level. It’s time to connect fully with your feminine wisdom and shine as the leader that you are called to be.
This is a personal invitation for you to join me and 16 other women in pioneering a new wave of feminine leadership. I see you and would love to have you be a part of this sacred vision.
Now is the time to enroll and save your spot.
Many moons ago I was sitting in a yoga class with a group of women and a renowned female teacher. We were studying an ancient yogic text, which was talking about how, in order to deepen on our spiritual path, we need to avoid toxic people. Now, I completely understand this—saying no to people that don’t support us in being the best version of ourselves is important. But the text went on to say (and the teacher read this out loud to the class) that we must also “avoid women.”
The teacher paused, I could see her processing what she just read, and I waited for her to address the words that had tumbled out of her mouth to the group of women staring back at her, but instead, she just looked up at us and said, “Well, we need to turn our cheek to that because it was written a long time ago.” And she went on to the next lesson.
But the words “avoid women” continued to echo in my heart and in my bones. I felt them move through my mother, my grandmother, and the generations of women before them. It was as if, in that short moment, even after practicing and teaching yoga for 17 years, something in me woke up for the first time, and I was pissed. I felt a rage boil inside of me and I felt like shouting, “NO! I cannot turn my cheek to this. You are talking about avoiding me!”
The reality hit home hard. Yoga, the way it was written in those ancient yogic texts, and the way it is still largely practiced in our mainstream culture today, was designed and written by men, for men. At the time, men thought of women as a distraction from their spiritual path. Women are sensual, sexual creatures who could deter them from enlightenment. We were considered to be “toxic.” And the irony in my yoga class was that we were a circle of women, being led by a woman teacher, reading 2000-year-old rules written by men and turning our cheeks to their thoughts on women. Not even questioning them. None of it made sense to me anymore.
The question came to me that, at the time that those ancient texts were being written, what were the women doing? What did our yoga and spiritual practice look like? Where was I in this story? I had a vision of women in a circle, moving their bodies intuitively, connecting, supporting each other, laughing, sharing, crying, communing. They were raising families, managing the homes, lifting each other up and dancing their way through life. They were the quiet humble leaders guiding their communities back to love.
The vision held a sense of wildness, rawness, mystery, grit… of feminine truth. I suddenly yearned for a practice that understands who I truly am.
To me, “yoga” is connection. Connection to our highest selves, to our inner truth, to our inner knowing and intuition. It is connection to the whole, to the collective, to the planet, to our communities and to each other. Yoga is love. But how do women connect? How do we commune with and lead from our highest wisdom? I started to see that in all my years of practicing and teaching yoga, these questions were never asked. I craved a spiritual practice and a way to lead my life that felt more feminine, that felt more like me.
Women are voluptuous, wild, messy, complicated, wise, intuitive, deeply connected to source, and anything but perfect. Collectively, we are wounded, and have been for centuries. We have wounds of shame, of self-doubt, of being ostracized and quieted, of being objectified, used, and taken for granted. We have wounds from being avoided.
We need a spiritual practice and a new way leading that our embraces our wounds and no longer avoids who we truly are. We need a practice and community that holds us in our wholeness and celebrates our strengths. It’s time we have conversations and feminine leadership to guide women back to who we truly are.
What would happen if there were communities, work places, women’s circles, and yoga classes that invited women in and celebrated them for who they are? What would happen if we created spaces and experiences that hold us in community so we can move through life together instead of apart? What would happen if we went to yoga or dance classes that were about sharing—opening in vulnerability with ourselves and each other? What would happen if we started to move our bodies in ways that felt naturally good, and followed our rhythms as women? What would happen if we reclaimed leadership styles that are intuitive, sensual, free, and open?
What I’ve come to understand is that women need each other. We need each other to rise, to heal, to see that we are not alone, to love, and to awaken. We need each other to remember our own power. We are not meant to go through this life alone, and at a time when our world is plagued with disconnection, we need leaders that bring us back together. Women need to be those leaders.
We’ve lost sight of our own creative nature, our sensuality, what it means to be feminine and to live in a woman’s body. We’ve forgotten how to ask our bodies what we need. We’ve given our authority away. Our minds have been caught in endless circles of should’s and have to’s, constant judgments, and paralyzing fears. It’s hard to find space to simply be quiet and listen to our own voices.
We need a new kind of practice – a practice just for women. We need a practice that is responsive to what women need. One where it’s safe for us to show up just as we are. Where we get to make the rules, move our bodies in ways that feel good, connect, share, and heal together.
We need a practice that honors us completely. One where soft is the new hard, where we can practice receiving instead of giving, and where we can learn to surrender instead of to push. It’s time we start listening to our own bodies and our deepest wisdom and ask what life could look like through this new paradigm of feminine leadership.
My journey has been about really understanding feminine spirituality—looking closely at women’s desires, our bodies, our wounds. I’ve worked with female mentors and spiritual teachers who have shown me how we can be taught in ways that meet us as whole women and acknowledge all parts of ourselves. I’ve gotten to know thousands of women, asked deep questions, and studied who we are collectively and individually. And I’ve brought this wisdom back to my yoga teaching and leadership.
At The Practice®, I’ve been leading and teaching from this place for more than seven years. Women are waking up to themselves and seeing that we are not that different and not alone. They are recognizing their own power, hearing their own voices for the first time, releasing old stories and patterns, and living more aligned lives. They are finding their divine wisdom and making changes in their lives that have been waiting for years—decades—generations. What is happening is what I believe we need in order to begin to save the world. Today’s woman needs a space, a community, and a practice to help her remember who she truly is. At The Practice®, she finally has a place to call home.
And because you are here, I trust you are ready to live and lead from this source of wisdom.
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I have created a 6-month Sacred Leadership Training based on the principals of The Practice®. It is not a yoga teacher training. It is a feminine spiritual and leadership training that can applied to all aspects of your life. It will take you on a deep dive into yourself so that you can navigate your dark shadows and find your own wisdom, honor who you really are, and bring your gifts into the light so that you can serve and lead from your own experience as a woman. This 6-month training is about remembering who you truly are, and then learning to lead from that place.
I’ve taken part in multiple yoga teacher trainings over the years, and while I was taught how to do the poses and how to teach them, I was never taught how to lead, to facilitate, or to hold space. That part was missing and I had to learn it outside of the yoga world. In this training, the principals of leadership will be our focus. We will work on authentic connection, vulnerability, and using personal experience as a way to transmit your wisdom.
We will learn how to lead from a place of intuition and personal expression. We will explore feminine spirituality and wisdom and learn how to translate that to support other women in their own journeys. We will deepen into the body and tap into its wisdom. We will expose the inner critic, our wounds (both personal and collective), and the difficulties we face as Western women so we understand what is needed to heal. I believe that in order to truly teach and serve, we have to know ourselves intimately, and know who we are teaching.
This is a university-style course with university standards. We will go deep and come out strong.
Feeling the call? Here is what our journey together will look like: The 6-month course will be divided into three parts. (1) Remember. (2) Deepen. (3) Lead. Throughout each trimester we will spiral deeper into the understanding and wisdom behind The Practice®. If you desire to continue on to be certified as a teacher of The Practice, there is a separate week-long intensive in July, after the leadership training has concluded.
Sisterhood. You will be immersed into deep self-reflection with a small group of women for 6 months. These women will become your cheerleaders, confidants, and sisters. This circle of women will stay with you forever.
Experienced mentorship. I will be your guide and teach you everything I know during our 6 months together. I will journey together with you on this expedition. You will be safe to explore the depths of yourself.
Graduate-level instruction and inspiration to open you to a new yoga and leadership philosophy for women.
The skills and knowledge to begin leading The Practice®, a combination of sacred circle, feminine yoga, personal development, and meditation.
Leadership skills that you can take with you to any area of your life and career.
The skills to lead a woman’s circle.
20 classes of The Practice® over our 6 months together. You will learn to understand The Practice® deep in your body, so that that teaching come easily and you can translate its wisdom to others.
Inspired talks with feminine spiritual teachers, authors, and leaders in our community. I will bring in guest teachers and speakers and you will gain their wisdom too.
A new understanding of what it means to be a woman in this time of awakening.
A reading list of books to wake you up and whet your appetite.
A new understanding of yourself and your unique gifts to the world.
The ability to lead The Practice®, if you feel called, and take it out into your community.
After completing all three trimesters…, you may feel called to enroll in the additional certification class to become licensed as The Practice Facilitator. Certification will require attending the Intensive Training (sold separately), which is a week-long immersion and four small group practicums with Michelle. Here we will deepen into asana, movement, and how to lead the structure and flow of The Practice.
You will learn the why behind the structure of The Practice, how to instruct the poses, how to teach to music, how to hold space, and how to use your voice effectively. You will be ready to lead.
The next Intensive training will be offered July 22-26, 2019. If you are interested in certification, further dates and details are on the application. The Practice® certification gives you many benefits:
You will become a part of The Practice® Family and have access to our private online forum and resource library.
You will be supported in finding a place to offer and teach The Practice® in your community.
You get to use our trademark and marketing materials, and add the certification credential to your name.
Your name, photo, and bio will be celebrated on The Practice® website.
You will be a part of our ongoing conversations about business, marketing, and how to build your own tribe.
Teaching and leading is a privilege. It comes through devotion to yourself and enables you to unlock your unique gifts. Effective teaching and leadership is part of a lifetime of practice, mentorship, and ongoing learning. Certifying teachers is a responsibility that I take seriously. This is no quick, over-the-counter teacher training. It involves showing up, opening to yourself, stepping out of your comfort zone, and taking the time to ground yourself and get ready. In my opinion, too many yoga teachers are sent out into the world prematurely, and it does yoga and our communities a disservice.
To stay in integrity with the depth of the work of The Practice®, and to be certain that this special experience is upheld by our community of teachers, should you decided to be certified, I will take time to honor you and work closely with you to make sure you are ready for certification. This is the purpose of the Intensive Training at the end of the 6-month immersion. The certification process will also include an application, a private session with me, and community offerings of The Practice®.
You will get to take part in our monthly mentoring calls with Michelle and other leaders in the field.
You will have access to The Practice® curriculum and receive quarterly workbooks to share with your students.
You will get to be a pioneer in a new yoga movement and spread the love to thousands of women in studios, community centers, and corporations.
You will have the opportunity to triple your earning potential as a yoga teacher, and make up to $6,000 per quarter, per program you offer.
You get the opportunity to be a part of something meaningful that changes lives forever.
Our vision is to take the magic of The Practice® to women across the country. To build a community of facilitators committed to helping women awaken through connection. What we are building is unique from other yoga or fitness expressions, because as a community of facilitators, we will grow and move together. The power of having hundreds and thousands of women across the globe, sharing in the same conversations and dropping into circle together is a force. Once certified you will become a facilitator, a pioneer, and a catalyst for this movement.
Of course, woman may choose to attend the training without the intention to teach. This is perfectly okay and I welcome all who feel called to this work. This training will give you skills that you can take into any area of your life and career. It is a personal and transformative yoga and leadership training, meaning you will grow and deepen into yourself in ways that will enrichen all parts of your life. You will have a new lens through which to understand life, and a deeper understanding of how to celebrate your wisdom as a woman. You will have have skills to lead in a new way, to offer circles, or to bring deeper conversations into your fitness classes, or workshops.
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Eden Amadora is a spirit and embodiment coach, as well as a voice coach, sound healer, singer and devotional “prayer-formance” artist. She finds great joy in empowering others to embody and express their most essential, radiant selves and discover their authentic voices. As an ordained priestess of the 13 moon mystery school, Eden provides archetypal guidance working with individuals and focalizing circles with guided meditation, chanting, devotional singing and embodiment practices of the sacred feminine. She is also a graduate of SMI and the Institute of Indigenous Arts and teaches sound/movement integration, combining her love of sound healing and somatic mindfulness practices in private sessions as well as retreats and daylong workshops. Check out Eden’s work at www.edenamadora.com.
For the past 26 years I have studied and practiced what it takes to live in the Healthy Feminine.
Cultivating the Healthy Feminine is what I call the ‘Feminine Advantage’ and it has given me the ability to create a happy, fulfilling & radiant life.
My most important job and the most intense training I’ve ever done: raising my son & daughter as a single Mom.
I was facing my new parenting job with woefully inadequate training & tools so I went looking for better ones, resulting in much of the trainings listed above. With time my guiding principles for raising two young human beings became clear; keeping their Hearts & Souls healthy & whole!
I am delighted to say they have grown into two people I am completely proud of, love dearly and am grateful to know.
All the knowledge and training I gathered on that journey I now share with my clients. Helping a Woman honor her Heart & Soul and bring her full self to her life, makes everything she touches more beautiful, whole and vibrant. Learn more about Georgie at georgiewestoncoaching.com.
Julie Santiago is a former Wall Street Trader turned writer, speaker, and guide for women who are longing to follow their hearts, live their Truth, and trust their nature.
Julie graduated from The John Hopkins University and is a Transformational Master Life Coach and Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Drawing from her personal experience and years of deep soul initiation, Julie is a spiritual catalyst for women longing for something “more” in their lives. She guides women to embrace the breakdown in order to break-through.
She has led thousands of women through her virtual communities, private coaching, and in-person transformational retreats.
Julie believes that one thing that connects us all as women is our ever-changing nature and as we embrace our own transformation, we come to fear less and love more. Her clients say that working with Julie is a revolution for your soul and a life-changing journey. Learn more about Julie at juliesantiago.com.
Eden Amadora is a spirit and embodiment coach, as well as a voice coach, sound healer, singer and devotional “prayer-formance” artist. She finds great joy in empowering others to embody and express their most essential, radiant selves and discover their authentic voices. As an ordained priestess of the 13 moon mystery school, Eden provides archetypal guidance working with individuals and focalizing circles with guided meditation, chanting, devotional singing and embodiment practices of the sacred feminine. She is also a graduate of SMI and the Institute of Indigenous Arts and teaches sound/movement integration, combining her love of sound healing and somatic mindfulness practices in private sessions as well as retreats and daylong workshops. Check out Eden’s work at www.edenamadora.com.
As a full figured woman who struggled with her weight for years, Sarah Jenks finally found the key that all diets were missing. After bouncing between fad diets and struggling with her body image, Sarah realized she had been “waiting on the weight” – waiting to be thin before she: got the great job, the great wardrobe or the great relationship.When Sarah stopped waiting on the weight, she finally did all the things that she had put on hold for years: going for her ideal job, flirting with her dream guy, going out dancing and living a fully engaged life. In her words, the late
night “pity snacking” ceased with all the joy and activity this new lifestyle brought, and she naturally moved to her ideal body.Sarah’s success in creating a happy lifestyle, which also resulted in a dramatic weight loss, is what led her to create Live More Weigh LessTM, now the most popular non-diet weight loss program on the internet. It’s not about cutting out crème brulee, it’s about embracing the life you want, right now. Living a full, meaningful life is a great adventure; when you have adventure in your life, diving into a pint of ice cream seems less exciting. Check her out at sarahjenks.com.
Michelle has spent the last 20 years exploring several styles of Hatha Yoga in depth: Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Yogaworks, Vinyasa Flow and Anusara. An insatiable and curious student, Michelle started studying pole dance in 2008, and she is now certified to teach through Felix Cane Inc/OC Pole Fitness. Her Sensual Yoga classes, a fusion of dance, sensual movement and yoga, receive accolades from women of all ages. Michelle teaches that through music and movement you begin to develop a relationship with the feeling of desire, sensuality that lives in your body. It’s inside of you, not in the model in the magazine or the friend you admire. We each have our own story and our own truth. Learn to quiet the mind and let your intuition be the loudest voice you hear. Our female sensuality is intimately connected to our creativity, our ability to give birth, to give life on all levels. Check out Michelle’s work at www.michellecordero.com.
I’m a spiritual teacher and guide, and combine over 15 years of experience in the fields of psychology research, coaching, energywork, and spirituality. I guide women to access and trust their inner wisdom. The women I work with receive clarity, gently release old blocks or patterns, and receive the support needed to live fully beyond their fears. My deepest desire is for you to learn to be the healer of your own life, trusting your soul’s wisdom, and finding peace and joy within. Check out Paula’s work at www.paulaorozco.com.
Nisha Moodley is a Women’s Leadership Coach and the founder of Global Sisterhood Day. Inspired by the belief that the world will be set free by women who are free & sisterhood is key to a woman’s freedom, her work is focused on midwifing women back to sisterhood and the truth of their innate beauty and brilliance.
Nisha supports communities of women leaders in mastermind groups, retreats, and online courses, to live, love, and lead with depth and devotion. Check out Nisha at nishamoodley.com.
Amy Ahlers, known as the Wake-Up Call Coach, is the bestselling author of Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves (New World Library, 2011) and Reform Your Inner Mean Girl: 7 Steps to Stop Bullying Yourself & Start Loving Yourself (Beyond Words/Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2015). Amy is on a mission to stop high-achieving women and moms from being so darn hard on themselves so they can step into authentic leadership and brilliance.
After a successful sales executive career, Amy became a Certified Life Coach over 17 years ago. She is the co-creator of celebrated transformational programs such as Inner Mean Girl Reform School with Christine Arylo, Find Your Calling with Martha Beck and Lissa Rankin & Visionary Ignition Switch with Lissa Rankin. She helps soulful, spiritual moms embrace the messiness and magic of motherhood in her truth telling sanctuary and facilitated mom’s support group, Mama Truth Circle, and new and notable podcast, Mama Truth Show. Check out Amy at wakeupcallcoaching.com.
You crave to work with women and feel a deep longing to serve and lead.
You are interested in honing in on your own leadership skills and accessing your unique gifts.
You love and or are interested in holding space and facilitating circles for women.
You have been practicing yoga for at least two years, and you want to deepen into your understanding of yoga from a feminine perspective.
You are a yoga, fitness, or dance instructor that wants to add more tools to your teaching experience.
You have always wanted to teach, but you feel like you don’t fit the “yoga teacher” mold. You worry you don’t have the right body or you are not the right kind of woman.
You’ve been teaching yoga for a while (or perhaps not for a long time) and want to experience more as a teacher. You are tired of the drop-in yoga teaching model, you crave to go deeper with your students and teach something different.
You are a career woman wanting to deepen into new knowledge and perhaps rekindle the spark of learning new things.
You are a stay-at-home mom, or an empty-nester, yearning for something more than family and kids.
You’ve been coming to The Practice® for a while, feel the magic happening, and want to learn more.
You are a healer, coach, therapist, or holistic-health practitioner looking for more tools and services to offer your clients.
You feel that buzz in your belly as you read through this page, and have an inner knowing that this is for you.
You are looking for a “quick-fix” yoga teacher training, and you want to start teaching yoga right away.
You don’t like the way I teach. There are plenty of teachers out there, so if you are going to invest in a training, make sure you truly resonate with The Practice®.
You are not willing to commit the time needed for this training or you tend to not finish the things you sign up for. This experience is based on commitment and devotion to yourself and the group.
You are not open to learning new things, which often involves “un-learning” old things.
You are not willing to do the deep inner work and peer into the shadows with the intention to grow.
You are seeking Yoga Alliance registration or a training deeply rooted in ancient yoga philosophy. This training is a modern and intuitive approach to yoga through a feminine lens. We will not be diving deep into Sanskrit or the ancient yogic texts.
You want to focus primarily on the physical asana and do not want to explore femininity, connection, and sisterhood.
Apply now. This is only open to a maximum of 16 women and it will fill up fast. If you feel that buzz in your belly that this is for you, then grab your application today.
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Michelle has been teaching yoga since 2003. She has a Master’s Degree in Holistic Health Education, is a certified Women’s Wholeness Coach, has owned and managed a woman’s yoga and healing center since 2012, and has taught The Practice® to thousands of women. She studies feminine spirituality and leadership. She is also a wife, mother, and daughter who has lived through her share of hardships. Michelle has pulled all of her knowledge, personal experience, and research into this training for women. Her intention is to help guide you back to yourself, find your own voice, and become your own authority.
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