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October 1, 2025
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The Panchamaya Kosha as Your Living Reality
Get ready for a lived, embodied experience of ancient yogic wisdom, as a living reality in your own body!
In this transformative practice series, renowned yoga therapist Lynn Crimando draws upon the ancient Panchamaya Kosha model, not as an abstract philosophical concept, but as a practical framework for understanding and experiencing our own multidimensional nature.
Each of the five koshas represents a different layer of your being, from the gross physical form to the most subtle aspects of consciousness. This series offers you four comprehensive practices, each dedicated to developing intimate familiarity with specific layers of your extended wisdom body.
Practice One: Deepening Connection with Your Annamaya Kosha
The opening practice focuses on Annamaya kosha, our physical body sustained by food and representing our most tangible form of embodiment. However, this exploration moves well beyond conventional body awareness into the realm of what might be called “deep listening” to our physical form.
You learn to attune to the constant stream of subtle sensations that flow through your body—the micro-movements of energy, the barely perceptible shifts in nervous system activity, which usually remain below the threshold of conscious awareness.
This practice emphasizes developing your sensitivity to your body’s constant feedback about your internal states. Rather than numbing or overriding physical sensations, you learn to approach bodily sensations with curiosity and respect, recognizing them as valuable entry points to learn about your body’s current needs and circumstances. The practice includes gentle movement sequences designed to awaken your proprioception and enhance the dialogue between awareness and physical form.
Practice Two: Activating Your Pranamaya Kosha Through Energy Cultivation
The second practice explores Pranamaya kosha, the vital life force that animates our physical form. This session focuses on stimulating and directing the flow of Prana through specific movement sequences, and awareness techniques that reveal the energetic dimension of your being.
You learn practices to develop greater awareness of the subtle currents of life force as they move through your body and how different practices affect your overall vitality and presence.
The exploration extends beyond traditional pranayama techniques to include practices that help you recognize how your energetic state influences your emotional well-being, mental clarity, and capacity for authentic action. Through careful attention to your breath’s natural rhythms and responses, you develop the ability to self-regulate your nervous system and maintain energetic equilibrium even in challenging circumstances.
Practice Three: Navigating Your Manomaya Kosha with Discernment
The third practice addresses Manomaya kosha, the layer of our mind, emotion, and mental activity. Rather than attempting to suppress or control mental fluctuations, this practice teaches you how to develop a different relationship with your thinking processes. The focus is on cultivating the witness consciousness—the aspect of awareness that can observe thoughts and emotions without becoming entangled in their content.
This practice includes techniques for recognizing the difference between reactive mental patterns and authentic insight, helping you identify when you are operating from conditioned responses versus responding from your deeper wisdom. Through mindful movement combined with contemplative practices, you learn to create space between stimulus and response, allowing your innate discernment to guide your choices rather than being driven by habitual mental patterns.
Practice Four: Accessing Your Vijnanamaya Kosha for Inner Guidance
The culminating practice of this series focuses on Vijnanamaya kosha, your wisdom body or sheath of discriminative intelligence. This is perhaps the most subtle and profound aspect of the series, as it involves learning to access and trust the deeper intelligence that lies beneath your ordinary thinking mind. You explore practices that quiet the surface chatter of mental activity and create space for the emergence of authentic insight and guidance.
This practice emphasizes developing what the tradition calls buddhi—the higher intelligence that can discern truth from illusion and provide reliable guidance for living in alignment with your deepest values. Through embodied awareness practices, you learn to recognize and trust the subtle voice of inner wisdom that emerges when you create sufficient stillness and receptivity.
Wednesdays, September 10, 17, 24 &
October 1, 2025
1 pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific
Join Us Live or View the Recordings!
