The Student Experience of 121s
121 Yoga Mentoring with Marc
~ in person or online
Whether you are just starting your yoga , or have been practicing most of your life, Marc offers expert guidance that will help you build a practice and a way of physically engaging with life that will massively expand your horizons at the same time as best serving your ongoing needs.
Yoga is a moment-to-moment practice of being entirely present to what is. So if the purpose is transformation, the only way to guide it is in direct response to people that are right there in front of you. And when I get to do this 121, I can follow every nuance, every breath, and guide things to a point of total integration.
The outcome can be mind-blowing for the individual, and deeply satisfying for me.
Rachel Walsh
Hi Guys!
As most of you know i have been dealing with a rotator cuff injury. To begin with i couldn't lift my arm at all and was in a lot of pain doing the most simple of things (putting a jacket on was quite special) BUT i have been lucky enough to spend some with Marc J Acquaviva just one hour last week and half an hour yesterday.
Not only have i got a full range of motion back in my shoulder but i feel like for the first time perhaps ever i am really living inside my body and there is a new connection there in terms of my yoga practice like i've learning to move for the first time all over again... It's fucking amazing. Anyway i'll stop rambling on now and say EVERYONE MUST GO AND SEE HIM.
About Online 121 Tutoring
Hands-on is a very rapid way of transmitting the work, but Marc also offers an online service via Zoom for those that don't live nearby. The outcome is surprisingly effective.
Marc discovered that even online he could pick up on the most subtle of nuances in people's movement and simply 'read' what was going on for them as if they were directly in the room with him, so can offer clear, userful instructions for your practice in your own home.
Online vs. in person...
Some people prefer the experience of online work with Marc, simply because physical progress is at precisely the rate that the mind can assimilate things. Without hands-on, Marc's job is to find ways of expressing things that makes sense to the individual, and the changes in the body follow the development of understanding.
Those that prefer in-person and hands-on are generally more eager to have a new and direct experience of the relationships that Marc gives people. With direct hands-on sessions, there can be enormous physical transformations, but understanding is more somatic than intellectual, so although the body changes rapidly, it is the understanding that develops with practice.
Either way, online is a very effective way of directly working 121 with Marc. You can do it in the comfort of your own home and sessions can be recorded.
Yoga Therapy -
Solutions-based support for remedial issues
Groundbreaking new bodywork -
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Marc developed his unique approach to practice by resolving a myriad of postural and joint issues of his own directly through practice, and he has since expanded the remedial aspect of his work in many directions.
At first he extrapolated the principles that he used to relieve chronic symptoms of sciatica and a collapsing knee-joint, into solving other joint and postural complications that he hadn't personally experienced.
When he applied his technique in manually guiding others, it worked so well that he was encouraged to take things further. He went on to develop solutions for common complications such as migraine, fibromyalgia, ME & chronic fatigue, even osteoarthritis in fingers, fallen arches and bunions, and of course the ubiquitous problems of hips and shoulders backs and necks - pretty much most things.
Problems with organ function?
He can also help you modify practice so that you can safely and effectively develop your health through practice, even if there is a specific organ issue going on (heart disease, liver disease, kidney problems etc etc.).
People’s experience is generally that health can then improve because of the practice, and the specific relationships given also allow organ function to improve.
Does it really work ?
There are hundreds of people out there who have experienced massive improvement directly, through 121s, on his Courses, the occasional spontaneous healing on a workshop, and even once in a while on a group class online. Without extensive blind-testing with thousands of people to 'prove it' in medical terms, the only evidence that is works is anecdotal and by word of mouth... (there are a few of the most recent testimonials below)
However Marc insists that he is not 'doing the healing' - he says that he is simply helping to 'Create the Conditions that allow the body to heal itself.'
What to expect from a Yoga Therapy session with Marc
The way that Marc works with these things is entirely in response to each individual.
It will depend on things such as the degree of the issue, and of the discomfort that goes with it, the amount that the issue is impacting on life, and how much and how quickly the person wishes to be free of the complication. If it is a result of an injury or surgical procedure, the age of the issue will be a factor. And of course the state of body-mind that the person is in at the time...
Yoga Therapy can be entirely gifted to the person, as gentle, supportive manipulations (there is no 'cracking' of joints or any other hard manipulations required). It can be done fully clothed and cushioned by a few yoga mats. As the recipient, you can simply relax and allow Marc to do the work for you... he will occasionally ask you to breathe into what he is doing, or to visualise something particular as he works with you, but it can be a virtually passive experience (and you can ask for that if it is what you are looking for)
If you are ready for it and it is appropriate, he will also give you specific things to do, where you can practice the relationships for yourself. And it will be this that takes it beyond simple relief, towards a complete and longterm solution - ie. a life untroubled by the issue (and you can request this too if it is your preference)
The majority of physical issues end up being directly healed by the process. Others become reminders to practice - in that when you return to the 'old' way of doing things, the body will remind you by re-presenting the 'old' issue. However, once you have physically reminded yourself of better ways of 'being', symptoms simply disappear again with the practice.
If you wish to make your 121 session with Marc a Yoga Therapy session, you simply click the 'This is Yoga Therapy session' box before you select your spot. And it is probably a good idea to let Marc know what the issue is, so that he can directly work out what you need beforehand.
If you want to know how I do it, I simply guide people's bodies to place where there is no longer the condition of 'conflict' between parts itself.
The new relationsips I give people will by definition, be 'different', but in some other way the person will recognise it as 'right' because the somatic sense in that moment, as well as being unfamiliar, will have the quality of ease, together with a marked absense of the usual symptoms.
I then show people how to stay in these relationships in action - yes, in 'postures' but mostly in day to day life, which includes what they actually like to do in life.
This new relationship to what they do, and to life itself, then becomes their Practice. And it also becomes their very own Yoga.