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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Yoga Every Day
Participate in the process of saucha (self-purification) with this dynamic practice created to help restore a feeling of physical and energetic vibrancy. The practice includes standing postures, twists, backbends, jumping jacks, and a deep savasana. That’s right… jumping jacks. Don’t judge. The condition of your body directly affects your state of mind. Physical inertia, stagnancy and tension can suppress your mood and, over time, influence the way you think about yourself and the world around you.
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Yoga Every Day
Embrace a series of prop-supported postures to invite space for the gifts of yoga practice and offer you the stillness to trust the natural intelligence of your body, heart, and mind.
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Yoga Every Day
Stoke your inner fire, known as tapas in the yogic tradition, through this energizing practice. Begin with a gentle standing warm up followed by a shaking practice to release stuck energy in the body. From here dive deeper in to several standing and kneeling postures, breath exercises, and then to the wall for the second half of your practice to engage in wall-supported poses to turn up the heat. Close with soothing floor based postures to cool and release the body. A blank supporting wall is needed for much of this practice.
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Yoga Every Day
An energetic practice placing the currency of your attention on three primary centers: heart, navel, and root. As we generate heat through standing poses, forward folds, side bends and twists, experience the naturally occurring alchemy of change that comes with that level of presence, focus, and dedication.
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Yoga Every Day
You may have had a yoga teacher ask you to set an intention - but what does that really mean? Join Kevin Courtney in this class that will illuminate the process of truly cultivating and orienting around intention, or sankalpa.
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Yoga Every Day
Empty out stuck energy through this unique combination of breath work (pranayama), core strengthening, twists, and shaking movements. Aimed at awakening the body's vital energy and reducing stress, this practice invides in the yogic state of emptiness, shunya, to elevate you to a refreshed and renewed vantage point.
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Change Your Perspective
The practices of yoga can help us to learn how to deal with death in a more powerful and honest way. In this session, learn how the breath - specifically the stillness that follows the exhale - can be a tool to awaken our awareness to the impermanence of life. This simple shift in awareness can offer you more strength in the face of inevitability.
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Sunrise Yoga
Life is challenging enough, our yoga practice doesn’t always have to be. Experience the potency of this rhythmic and yet restorative practice to lubricate the hip joints and spine. Release into a state of deep relaxation with supported savasana.
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Change Your Perspective
In this session, we will develop our ability to see greater depth within the people and experiences around us by bring our attention to the presence of universal consciousness.
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Sunrise Yoga
In yoga, you have the opportunity to find your center and gain strength at the same time. Explore a strong practice with the core by moving slowing in a variety of postures to emphasize a centered state of being.
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Change Your Perspective
In this session, learn a basic technique to slowly start reversing negative thought patterns and behaviors.
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Sunrise Yoga
Your breath has the power to shape the way you think, feel, and act — your yoga practice can help you deepen your relationship to this vital function. This sequence is centered on breath and cultivating a calm and stable presence through standing and seated postures.
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Change Your Perspective
Your senses have authority over your mood, memory, thoughts and sense of satisfaction. In this session, learn to track your sensory experience to gain access to core feelings and beliefs which are influencing behavior. As you awaken to these deep patterns and eventually clear the psyche, you naturally experience an inherent sense of wholeness and connection to the source of creative energy.
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Sunrise Yoga
In traditional yoga, the arms and legs are called the ‘organs of action.’ When employed in a specific way they can be powerful tools to help us unlock tension in the body. This practice aims to lengthen the spine with the support of the limbs and awaken energy deep in the core of the body.
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Change Your Perspective
Contentment (santosha) starts with existing with what is, as joyful or uncomfortable as that may be. In this talk, learn how to accept whatever appears for you in the present movement and establish peace with whatever sensations or experiences are arising.
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Sunrise Yoga
Focus on the subtle body and explore the energy of the pelvic floor. This practice contains isometric engagements and kriyas (actions) to charge you up for the day.
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Change Your Perspective
Life is complex, but improving life doesn’t have to be. Learn a basic two-fold approach for cultivating a state of steadiness and ease. The approach is direct and simple: practice, and practice letting go.
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The Process of Awakening
Join Kevin Courtney in this final episode of the series as he guides a meditation into the inner reaches of mind and consciousness.