Fragmented somatic awareness (a reduced and incomplete sense of embodiment) is all too common in today's hectic, competitive, aggressive, and anxious lifestyle. This self-generated mal-adjustment functions as a coping strategy or defense mechansim that involves limitations and rigidity in our psychological resources, characteristic posture, stereotypical behaviors, mannerisms, and movement patterns. As a result, we suffer and struggle through life because we are operating from a distorted perspective based on restricted abilities, diminished functional capacity, and simplistic, shallow understandings. Yoga postures, when practiced with conscious awareness, can be a valuable Mind-Body technique that will gradually lead us toward somatic integration. This is, quite literally, the sensational experience of wholeness, wellness, and authenticity, and it provides the integral understanding that life is live in the moment and experienced as a momentary sensation. In this text you will learn about the three basic mind-body concepts, the seven somatic adaptation theories, the four characteristic somatic patterns, a fourteen pose integration program, eight breathing imagery techniques, and the seven chakras. Ultimately, you will learn that the key to a happy, healthy, and productive existence is grounded in somatic reality.