Kevin Courtney

Kevin Courtney

Kevin Courtney has dedicated the last two decades to the pursuit of awakening consciousness by focusing on strength, energy cultivation, and mental clarity. Kevin began his relationship to movement and connection to nature as a child, surfing in San Clemente, CA.

After transplanting to New York City in his mid-twenties and becoming consumed by work in business development and consulting for Fortune 500 companies, Kevin was diagnosed with cancer. This life-altering diagnosis, compounded by witnessing the fall of the twin towers from just a few blocks away, inspired Kevin to make an abrupt choice to shift focus and rediscover his passion and purpose. All signs kept pointing back to his profound love for Yoga and in 2002 he began teaching in New York City. 

He found inspiration in teachers like Dharma Mittra, Richard Freeman, and Swami Satchidananda and has now dedicated his study through the mentorship and guidance of Nikki Costello, Rod Stryker and a daily personal practice.

Kevin is co-creator of The Bridge Practice, a method which merges Yoga and Qi Gong into one powerful class experience. He is also on faculty at the Boston Yoga School, where he teaches philosophy through the art of Raja yoga.  In 2013, Kevin founded INSIGHT - a program which awakens the consciousness of business leaders using the art and science of meditation.

Kevin facilitates annually at the Bonnaroo Music Festival and has offered at Wanderlust, Envision, and the Burning Man Arts Festival. His work has been featured in Well + Good, Vogue Magazine, VICE, Elephant Journal, and most recently in the new book Yoga Bodies: Real People, Real Stories, Real Transformation. 

Discover more about Kevin: https://www.kevinjcourtney.com/.

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Intuition: Audio Meditation
Kevin Courtney
A guided audio meditation to tap into sensation, deep listening, and intuition. What does your inner wisdom want you to know today?
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Kevin Courtney
Cool your body and calm the mind with a breath practice known as Sheetali pranayama, or cooling breath.
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Kevin Courtney
Awaken the seeds of presence, courage, and power within your heart and mind with this mini guided meditation.
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Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest
Kevin Courtney
An audio-only guided relaxation practice to prepare for sleep. Lie down in bed, bring awareness to your breath, and rest. Use any props that will allow you to feel comfortable.
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Kevin Courtney
Prepare the body for deep rest in this guided relaxation practice of yoga nidra. Find a comfortable place to lie down for a physical tension release practice followed by yoga nidra meditation.
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Yoga Every Day
Generate space and rediscover the bliss stored in the abdomen using breath, bandha, twists, backbends, forward bends, and meditation. The teachings of hatha yoga suggests that your center governs your state of mind. Science also suggests that the health and wellbeing of your gut directly affects your mood. Yogic practices address this mind-body connection and empower you to manage your state of being and recognize the undercurrent of bliss (ananda) that is your essential nature.
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Yoga Every Day
Develop conscious awareness (cit) within your body in this full body practice. A vibrant mixture of standing poses, twists, and pranayama (breath work), this practice encourages you to awaken fields of awareness and intelligence within both your physical and mental bodies.
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Yoga Every Day
Build awareness to the connection of hips to thighs with subtle and repeating alignment cues. Open your hamstrings, low back, and hips while building some heat.
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Yoga Every Day
This purifying and energizing practice is aimed at activating your vital energy. Focus on moving energy up from the base while exploring bandhas (energy locks), kriyas (purification exercises), twists, and backbends.
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Yoga Every Day
A down-tempo practice that explores the subtlety of surrender using floor-based postures, hip release techniques, and moving meditation. TThe practice of Ishvara Pranidhana (self-surrender) is to attune your awareness to the purity of presence in yourself and others. Perhaps the most refined version of the practice of Ishvara Pranidhana is to offer yourself up to the graceful and intelligent flow of divine consciousness that unites us all.
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Yoga Every Day
Observe your thoughts, feelings, and behavior from an objective perspective is central to the practices of yoga. To study habitual patterns through meditation, contemplation, and the study of ancient texts is what the yoga tradition calls svadhyaya, or ‘self study.’ Join this reflective practice to help explore your own inner terrain. The practice includes moon salutations, longer-held standing postures, seated twists, meditation, and contemplation. Like moonlight reflecting off of a calm lake, so the mind stills and the ever emergent light of the Self can be seen.
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Yoga Every Day
Focus on approaching the challenge of being at peace with whatever arises. The sequence includes surya namaskar (sun salutations), balancing postures, standing postures, handstand, backbends, and some quieting closing postures. It’s through the process of meeting yourself well in the practice that you hone the subtle yet powerful skill of cultivating contentment out there in the world.
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The Hidden Power of Meditation
Explore this meditation on time as we weave your focus forward and backwards through the past, present, and future. As you access these different timelines, build the muscles necessary to access deeper dimensions of the meditative state. From this place, the hidden powers of meditation — such as the ability to see into the true nature of things — can emerge.
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The Hidden Power of Meditation
Relax into the power of your breath and find the freedom to expand organically into the cosmos. Also includes breath of fire (kapalabhati) practice.
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The Hidden Power of Meditation
Begin to drop into the more subtle realms of meditation and experience the resonant nature of deep inner listening. By tuning into the sacred vibration at your core, heart, and crown, you will experience the inner sound of silent mantra in this meditation. Listening to the subtle sound inside you can be tricky.
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The Hidden Power of Meditation
Harness the power of the mind and awaken the intelligence of the breath through potent pranayama (breathing) techniques in this meditation.
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The Hidden Power of Meditation
A great starting point for those looking to commit to meditation, this practice is simple, short and powerful.
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The Hidden Power of Meditation
Invite a powerful connection with your breath in this guided meditation to help establish a regular practice. Part of a six-part program, this stand-alone meditation unveils gentle techniques designed to meet you where you are and take you beyond.