Axis of Praxis
the body is your ashram
"We are what we practice"
is an extension of the yogic aphorism,
"As we think so we become."
We are Meghan Prior (Nama Chintamani) and Delphina Parenti
- a mother-daughter duo of Movers & Shakers!
Our passion is to facilitate ever-expanding wellness through a combination of tools from our extensive knowledge within the movement and healing arts, breathwork, embodiment practices and spiritual study and practices. We offer tailor-made, short and long term holistic programs for individuals and organizations to actualize physical health, dynamic interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and unlimited creative capacity.
Individuals, families and businesses must be heart-centered to flourish. As the cosmos enters a new age, a great shift is underway as humanity learns to lead not solely with the head but also with the heart.
Over the past 7 millennia the body was depreciated and the mind was considered supreme. Leaving in its path a wake of destruction, the old paradigms devastated people and the planet and they no longer have a place in our world.
Ascending in its rightful sovereignty, the heart is the seat of the soul, the locus of feeling, and the receptacle of intuition. Functional and joyful relationships in the home, workplace and community are rooted in our physical, mental and spiritual vibrancy fueled by the energy of the heart.
In partnership with you, we achieve results
across a diverse spectrum of challenges
including:
PTSD
panic attacks
relationship conflicts
self-worth/confidence
negative habits
anxiety and depression
loss of physical function
chronic degenerative disease
glandular and nervous system imbalances
lack of connection to self
Our Modalities:
Breathwork practices are potent tools to alter mind and mood states and to manage stress.
TRE generates the body’s own healing tremor mechanism to resolve accumulated stress, tension or trauma.
this methodology rebuilds skills such as getting up and down off the floor, navigating stairs and reducing falls through recovery and stability.
Implementing the concept that our body echoes the ocean in its watery composition and movements, this technique facilitates the access of unique, individual movement language.
Individual and/or collective issues of conflict are resolved though fun, playful, explorative embodiment and movement practices.
Emphasizing proper mechanics and body awareness to improve strength, stamina and flexibility through personal training practices.
the original Body/Mind/Spirit wellness practices that comprehensively address the needs of the human organism through ancient technologies.
A variety of dance and movement methodologies are taught for group or individual classes
Dharma talks and discussions that center around spirit and the influences of matter, especially the patriarchy and its diminution of anything not identified with the masculine.
Sample Programs:
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Resilient Entrepreneur
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Co-existing & thriving for success - strengthening group dynamic within the workplace or family
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Healing relationships in the workplace. Getting out of a ‘stuck’ place
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Addressing anxiety and worry, fear and depression
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Adult Recess - creative, playful team building and problem solving
The body is the most readily available practice space - an ashram or place of retreat to return to our most immediate and intimate place of 'home’.
Every body is perfect. We offer practical and user-friendly teachings and tools to become fully embodied and transcend our limited sense of self paradoxically surpassing our identification with the body.
Our tendency is to vacate the body, relinquishing the world of sensory impressions and information to live in the over-crowded workplace of the mind.
This is our Axis of Praxis: Centering around our internal sensory awareness, the body as the receptacle for our highest aspirations becomes the launching pad to catapult Divine Consciousness!
Meghan Prior
Nama Chintamani
Yogini | Teacher | Holistic Wellness Advocate
Aspiring Wise Woman | Boomer
Nurturing a long love affair with the art and science of yoga, Meghan Prior (Nama Chintamani) has been a practitioner and teacher of yoga for over 20 years. Meghan has studied many different traditions, systems and styles of yoga including Kundalini, Iyengar, Kripalu, Anusara, and Integral Yoga with Teacher Training certification in Larry Schulz’s Ashtanga Yoga program in San Francisco. She has studied with yoga master Sri Mahayogi Paramahamsa at his NYC ashram and currently she is pursuing in-depth study of Bhakti Yoga in the tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism as a student of Swami B.V. Tripurari.
Before her journey into yoga Meghan was a professional dancer and teacher of dance at the university level. With acting and vocal training, Meghan has worked with modern dance choreographers, experimental and jazz tap artists, and in musical theater productions. She has choreographed for college, community, and regional theater productions and both she and her husband have co- created and performed their own shows.
Her work as a dancer richly informs her yoga teaching and she integrates many influences from her background in the movement arts into her classes. Studies in somatics include BodyMind Centering, the Franklin Method, Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals. Meghan presents programs for Stress Reduction, Self- care for Caregivers, team-building, organizational leadership and other programs for corporate and non-profit conferences. She's taught yoga for special populations including those incarcerated in correctional facilities.
Meghan is passionate about holistic wellness and has been on the path of body-mind integrative modalities for many years. She teaches classes about Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and assists those who are seeking more natural ways to promote optimal health and a balanced lifestyle. A committed vegan and animal lover, Meghan delights in sharing her experience and knowledge with students and her mission is to teach the tools that assist in achieving one's highest potential.
She teaches classes about Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and assists those who are seeking more natural ways to promote optimal health and a balanced lifestyle. A committed vegan and animal lover, Meghan delights in sharing her experience and knowledge with students and her mission is to teach the tools that assist in achieving one's highest potential.
Trauma or tension release through TRE is another potent somatic modality that Meghan has embraced as a practice in her own life and to help others in becoming more intimate with the body and its capacity to reveal its knowledge and wisdom. As a Certified TRE Provider, she celebrates the body’s infinite potential to generate transformation and healing. The neurogenic tremor mechanism induced through the TRE process assists in relieving levels of stress, tension and/or trauma and restores and reorganizes the brain, spine, nervous and Myofascial systems with profound
effects. As a TRE Provider, Meghan ensures that the individual has an optimal and safe experience.
Body Business is a new system that Meghan has recently launched to optimize physical and mental well-being for those who want to be healthy longer and live stronger. A synthesis of modalities, Body Business uses elements from the movement arts to fine-tune coordination skills, proprioception and balance, and to increase neural drive - firing muscles quickly. Vitality/life force is enhanced through practices from Kundalini Yoga and other ancient systems, and concentration and focus is harnessed through meditational practices using sound and breath to restore and rebuild neural pathways, prevent cognitive decline and to regain brain function. Body Business assists clients to regain physical function, flow and control of movement, balance, and mental and emotional equilibrium. Clients include those with physical challenges including Parkinson's, MS, Alzheimer's, Obesity, Diabetes and other conditions.
Delphina Parenti
Dance Artist | Educator | Choreographer
Yogi & Trainer | Millennial
Delphina Parenti grew up in a family of performers, dance teachers, and yogis. She received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School where she studied dance and somatics such as Alexander Technique and Anatomy & Kinesiology with Irene Dowd. Professionally, Delphina Parenti was a member of NYC-based companies Gallim Dance, Anatomie Occulti, Company XIV, LeeSaar the Company, Nadine Bommer Dance Co., and D.C. based Company | E where she performed works by Kate Weare, Sharon Eyal/Gai Behar (L-E-V), Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, Lidia Wos, Alex Neoral, and Brenda Way/ODC Dance.
In the EU Delphina has been a guest performer with Mainfranken Theater Würzburg under the direction of Dominique Dumais, and Nationaltheater Mannheim. She also currently guests with Compagnia Zappalà Danza in Catania, Sicily. Delphina is a master teacher of Nadine Bommer's improvisatory dance theater method 'Animato Dance Art'. Animato Art inspired Delphina to develop her own unique, effortless, limitless movement possibilities and characters. She’s grateful to share this method which allows performing artists and ALL bodies to truly shift and advance physical and artistic sensibilities. Delphina also has years of experience in Gaga working with LeeSaar the Company which she fuses into her teaching style and classes. She also performs as a cultural ambassador for Company | E and teaches Animato Dance Art and master classes internationally. She has worked intimately with Margie Gillis/Legacy Project where she studied Margie’s body of work 'Conflict Transformation', a somatically-based approach integrated within the field of Conflict Resolution.
Delphina is the winner of the Metro DC Dance Award 2009 for "Outstanding Individual Performance".
Delphina received her yoga teacher certification from Integral Yoga Institute in 2005 and has been teaching Vinyasa, Gentle/Restorative yoga, Pranayama and Meditation since. Through her expertise in movement she strives to use the body as a means of finding not only health and well-being, but also as a path for creating positive change physically, mentally and emotionally. She brings a unique focus to her classes emphasizing specific movement transitions between poses, using anatomical imagery to develop deep awareness and full-bodied cellular activation. Her passion is to share the authentic teachings of yoga with a playful and caring attitude.
Delphina has taught yoga in Washington DC and New York. While living in NYC she worked for hOM as both property liaison and yoga instructor. hOM is a leading technology-enabled amenity provider that partners with residential and corporate properties across NYC and other major cities providing on-site yoga/meditation/core classes and unique events for tenants.
Her knowledge of yoga and teaching experience extends to many systems of yoga but she is especially drawn to Bhakti, the Yoga of Devotion and love, where the heart can open and become cleansed through spiritual song, studying Vedic literature, and surrender to the Divine.
Choreographically, Delphina has created works in NYC and Washington D.C. at Chen Dance Center, The Wild Project, Velocity DC Dance Festival, and The Green Building. She set work in Astana, Kazakhstan for the Central Asian Dance Festival 2018, and Freier Tanz im Delta in Mannheim 2019. She was awarded a grant from the state Baden Würrtemberg to create her own full-length dance-theater production in 2020.
FAN CLUB
“Delphina helps us tap into our strength providing healing at the cellular level. She communicates her teachings so well in a soft and tender tone that resonates and moves into our deeper emotional state.” ~ Daniel
What a wonder! What a wondrous wonder! Thank you for opening such a magnificent heartspace where the pulse of life finds such joy! ~ Wilda
.“The benefits I have received from our 12 sessions together far outweigh any soreness, fatigue or frustration from battling my competitive nature when we practice. Just the abilities to relax and control my moods through breathing have made the entire experience a true blessing. I cannot thank you enough for bringing this light into my sometimes dark and cynical nature. You are a treasure.” ~ Will