Walking the Five Bodies: Second Term Reflections

From Practice to Integration

If the first term of Freedom to Create was about opening doors, the second term was about walking through them.

This part of the journey asked something different of everyone: teachers and students alike.

The field was fuller, the work deeper, the bodies more tired, the insights more integrated. What unfolded was not a collection of separate weeks, but a living transmission, each layer building on the previous one.

Physical Body: Many students arrive with strong ideas of what yoga “should” be. Melanie and Hanako chose another path: stripping away flowery language and returning to essence. Through asana and pranayama in the mornings, yoga nidra in the evenings, and daily inquiry into what yoga truly is, students were invited to feel rather than perform. Sitting without chairs, relying on the strength of their own legs and backs, became a subtle but powerful practice of embodiment.

Emotional Body:

With Asia, emotions were not analysed, but danced.

Dancing barefoot on the land, by the fire, in the rain, and in silence on a mountaintop, the group learned to hold intensity: met fear, joy, and vulnerability, and discovered movement as a language of belonging.

There were challenges. Resistance surfaced. Control clashed with chaos. But at the end calm replaced struggle.

Mental Body:
Zoran met the group at a crucial threshold. Through coaching and movement, clarity emerged. Many touched what Theory U calls the bottom of the U: the place where old patterns dissolve and new commitments begin to rise.

What followed was not confusion, but direction. Students left this week knowing what had been holding them back and how to move forward: it was a mental recalibration.

Spiritual Body:

Zach reminded us of a simple truth: stay in the body. He spoke of spirit as the unseen that animates the seen, inviting spirituality to be lived through presence rather than escape. His reflections on holy relationship, beginning with oneself, rooted in nature, grounded vision into action: from soul to soil, from consuming to creating.

Astral Body:

In the quiet towards the end of an intense period, Hanako guided students through dimensions, subtle layers, and preparation for changing times. The focus was on returning to the original divine blueprint, traveling lighter, and accessing the third eye opening new inner maps without force, but simply making healthy choice about your living.

Integration Body:

In the final week, Jashana held a space of deep reflection and grounding, helping students gather what had truly anchored over the journey. Through life mapping, shared reflection, and supportive feedback, each person was seen, heard, and mirrored in their strengths and gifts. The work focused on remembering, in the body, what supports them in moments of doubt, stress, or transition, and how to carry the essence of this journey back into everyday life. It was a week of re-membering, courage, and mutual recognition, consciously preparing to step back into the world.