Awakening Yoga Mini Immersion: 6 weeks
A progressive vinyasa practice backed by movement science, rooted in tradition, and built as a modern movement map.
Awakening Yoga is the vinyasa method at the heart of everything we do at Moved. It's a modern yoga system that respects traditional yoga ritual while providing a practical, accessible, and honestly functional approach to asana. It's built on four pillars (Vinyasa, Ritual, Integration, and Focus) and guided by the belief that your yoga practice should build a body that works well, not just a body that looks impressive in a pose.
This 6-week immersion is your invitation to learn the method from the inside out. We'll walk you through all 12 movement series that make up the Awakening Yoga Solar Vinyasa (our signature class format), break down the nuances you need to practice with confidence, and build new strength, stability, and competency along the way.
Whether you're brand new to vinyasa or you've been practicing for years and want to understand why things are sequenced the way they are, this program meets you where you are and gives you a framework you can actually use.
Here’s our Weekly Practice Rhythm:
Each week introduces you to 2 of the 12 core movement series within the AY Solar Vinyasa Practice.
By the end of 6 weeks, you'll have met every series, understand its purpose, and know how it fits into the bigger picture of a full practice.
2x Series Tutorials (follow-along/learning) : Video walkthroughs of each week's two movement series. These break down the postures, transitions, and cues so you actually understand what you're doing and why.
2x Focused Practices (30–45 minutes each) : Shorter practices built around the week's series so you can put what you just learned into your body. This is where the tutorial knowledge becomes movement knowledge.
1x Breathwork Practice : A dedicated pranayama session each week. Breathwork is the engine of any vinyasa practice, and we treat it that way here.
1x Full Awakening Yoga Practice (60–100 minutes) : This is the real deal. Either The Set (our 60–70 minute foundational practice) or the Full Solar Practice (our 90–100 minute complete sequence). These full-length classes give you the chance to experience the method as a whole, not just in pieces, and to build your overall capacity and familiarity with the flow. Both beginner and intermediate options are provided.
This program was built for:
Yoga practitioners who want to understand the why behind it all, not just follow along
People who are new to vinyasa and want a structured, supportive entry point
Experienced yogis who've taken a lot of classes but never really learned a method
Anyone who wants a yoga practice backed by modern movement science that still feels like yoga
Teachers who want to deepen their understanding of vinyasa sequencing and the AY approach
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But, What Is Awakening Yoga and the Solar Vinyasa Practice?
The Solar Vinyasa is the signature class format of the Awakening Yoga method. It's a structured flow that moves through 12 distinct movement series, each with its own energetic tone and physical intention. Think of it like a story your body tells from beginning to end:
You start with grounding and centering. You warm through sun salutations. You build heat and strength through warrior and stability work. You explore range of motion, target your focus, challenge your edges, open through backbends, fold inward, and close with rest and integration.
Every series has a purpose. Every transition is intentional. And the whole thing is designed so that by the time you reach Savasana, your body has been through a complete, balanced experience (not just a workout, but a practice).
The 12 series are: Opening, Ritual, Navigation, Folding, Warrior, Expansion, Archer, Stability, Power, Continuity, Unfolding, and Closing.
Awakening Yoga has always been about building a practice that is functional, sustainable, and meets you where you are.
We believe in that delightful sweet spot between freedom and structure. In respecting the ritual roots of yoga while being honest about what modern bodies need. In teaching you why things work, not just telling you what to do.
"Every time we step onto our mats we practice out of a love for ourselves. With the desire to know the truth of our own being and with a longing to benefit all beings, in all times and spaces. We practice simply because it is our nature to do so."
Get rid of the guesswork and let the Moved. app manage your daily practice calendar so you can just show up and practice.
Build up your knowledge base, experiment with creative short-form practices, and then step in the Full Solar long form sessions each weekend.
Each series has its own dedicated full practice that centers the specific series intentions but surrounds it with a novel and creative physical practice experience.
Want to go deeper?
If you fall in love with the method (and a lot of people do), this immersion is the perfect first step toward our Moved. School teacher training programs. The 200-Hour and 300-Hour YTTs go deep into the Awakening Yoga system, covering pedagogy, anatomy, sequencing, hands-on assisting, philosophy, and the actual business of teaching. Whether you want to teach publicly or just want to understand the practice at a completely different level, the training programs pick up right where this immersion leaves off. Reach out to us at hi@movedyou.org or head to the School page here for more details
Questions? We’ve got you.
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Awakening Yoga is a modern vinyasa yoga method created by Carling Harps and Patrick Beach. It's guided by five principles:
Ritual
Intrinsic Motivation
Freedom vs. Structure
The Middle Path
Personal Potentiality.
The signature class format we’re exploring here is the Solar Vinyasa, a structured flow that moves through 12 distinct movement series, each with its own physical and energetic intention. It's a practice that respects the roots of yoga while being grounded in how bodies actually work.
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Nope. The immersion was designed to be accessible at all levels. Weeks 1 and 2 give you the beginner/all-levels versions of The Set and the Full Solar Practice, which move at a gentler pace with more cueing and explanation. The tutorials break everything down step by step before you ever put it into a full flow. If you're brand new to vinyasa, this is a genuinely great place to start because you'll learn the why behind every movement, not just the what.
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Not at all. If you've been taking vinyasa classes for years but have never studied a specific method, this will give you a framework and vocabulary that changes how you experience your practice. The tutorials go deep into the intention and mechanics behind each series, and the full-length practices (especially the 90–100 minute Full Solar) are legitimately challenging. Most experienced practitioners find that understanding the structure makes the practice feel completely different (in a really good way). You'll notice things you've been glossing over for years.
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The Set is the 60–70 minute foundational Awakening Yoga practice. Think of it as the essential version, it hits all the key series in a more condensed format. The Full Solar Practice is the 90–100 minute complete sequence that moves through every series with more depth, more time, and more opportunity to explore. Both are offered each week, and you can do one or both depending on your schedule and energy. In weeks 1–2, you'll get the beginner-friendly versions. In weeks 3–6, you'll get the standard versions (but you can always swap back if you need to).
For home training: a solid set of heavy dumbbells (emphasis on heavy, especially by 2.0), a kettlebell or two, and resistance bands. A foam roller is also great to have. That's genuinely it.
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The Solar Vinyasa is structured around 12 distinct movement series, each with its own energetic tone and physical focus. In order: Opening, Ritual, Navigation, Folding, Warrior, Expansion, Archer, Stability, Power, Continuity, Unfolding, and Closing. They move you through a full arc from grounding and centering, through sun salutations and heat-building, into strength and stability work, through flexibility and range of motion exploration, into your edges and power, through backbends and spinal work, and finally drawing inward toward rest. In the Full Solar Practice, the Expansion series appears twice (like a bookend that frames the heart of the practice). Each series has a specific purpose, and learning them individually is what makes the whole practice click.
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A full week includes 2 series tutorials, 2 focused practices (30–45 min each), 1 breathwork session, and 1 full-length practice (60–100 min). If you did everything, you're looking at roughly 4–5 hours per week. But you can absolutely scale this to your life. At minimum, do the tutorials and one full-length practice each week and you'll still get the core experience. The focused practices and breathwork are there for you when you want to go deeper.
Some of the practices and themes are drawn from my favorite sections, but everything you need is provided within the program itself.
That said, if you want to go deeper, the book is beautiful and I’d love for you to support Anne's work. Think of it as a companion, not a textbook.
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No, but there's definitely overlap (and that's intentional). The immersion teaches you the Awakening Yoga method as a practitioner. You'll learn the structure, the series, the philosophy, and the breathwork, but you're learning it for your own practice, not to teach it. That said, a lot of people do this immersion and realize they want to go deeper. If that's you, Moved. School offers 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training programs that build on everything you'll learn here and go much further into pedagogy, anatomy, sequencing, hands-on assisting, and the actual business of teaching yoga. Think of the immersion as your first date with the method. If you fall in love, there's a whole relationship waiting for you.
2.0 uses block periodization (meaning each phase has a distinct training goal and the program cycles between intensification and realization). The loads are heavier, the exercise progressions are more advanced, and barbell work becomes a central feature for gym clients. The power phase in 2.0 pushes into 90% 1RM territory, which is well beyond anything in 1.0. But the session format, the CARs, the cool-downs, the joint-specific logic? All the same. It still feels like your program. Just stronger.
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Many Awakening Yoga practices begin with the Pure Motive mantra: "Every time we step onto our mats we practice out of a love for ourselves. With the desire to know the truth of our own being and with a longing to benefit all beings, in all times and spaces. We practice simply because it is our nature to do so. There is no separation, it is just a way of life." It sets the tone for practice and reminds you why you're here. Not for performance or achievement, but for self-knowledge, connection, and the simple act of showing up for yourself.
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Yes! The immersion pairs especially well with strength programs like Strength for Yoga People, since the physical capacity you build in strength training directly translates to your vinyasa practice (stronger chaturangas, more stable warriors, better balance). You could also run it alongside In Residence if you wanted a week that covers both the active and the contemplative sides of a yoga practice. Just be mindful of overall volume and make sure you're leaving room for rest.
The Strength training philosophy at Moved. utilizes a mixture of conventional S&C principles, mixed with a mobility-forward, Internal Strength approach that incorporates strength and nervous system based mobility work into your supersets and sessions. The aim is is never to just get good at weightlifting - its to keep your joints doing what healthy joints do - move freely and with control, and your tissues resilient enough to keep doing the things you love for a very long time.
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We always change the pose ti fit the person, not the person to fit the pose.
thats means we ALWAYS have options, I promise. it’s completely normal and expected. This program emphasizes building strength and stability within your range of motion, not someone else's. The tutorials include modifications and the philosophy of the whole method is that you adjust the pose to your body, never the other way around. If something doesn't work for you today, there's a version that does. Part of the immersion is learning to make those choices with intelligence and without judgment.
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A yoga mat is the only essential. Blocks, a strap, and a bolster are helpful but not required. If you don't have props, household substitutions work great (a stack of books for a block, a towel for a strap, a pillow for a bolster). You do not need a gym or any strength training equipment for this program.
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Absolutely. A lot of people run through it twice. The first time you're absorbing the series and learning the structure. The second time you already know the landscape and can go so much deeper into the nuances and your own physical experience of each series. The program stays in your Moved. app library, so it's always there when you want it.