Touch gives information.
Hands, fingers and self-pressure make the body legible from within.
Attention · breath · bodily intelligence
Yoga
Old practices meet the body Allen actually teaches — its history, limits, intelligence and capacity to change.
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The point of departure
Spiritual practice begins with a body that can be felt.
Allen begins with the person in front of him: what can be felt, supported, moved and understood now.
In Allen’s teaching, a posture becomes useful when it restores contact with weight, breath, sensation and choice. Difficulty can be studied with patience and care.
The most visible strand
Earth yoga.
Anti-hurry yoga.
Allen uses these phrases for a slow Egyptian body practice in which kneeling, touch, pressure and breath return attention to the ground. Feeling and sensation organise the sequence from within.
Support before effort.
Kneeling and floor-based positions reduce display and clarify weight.
Slow enough to notice.
Breath and unhurried movement allow sensation to organise the form.
A formative teacher
Tim joined strength to a much larger education.
After Taiwan, Allen met Tim Geoghegan: wrestler, strongman, osteopathic thinker and an unusually connected student of human development.
Allen studied with him for roughly a decade. Tim’s wrestling was practical and inventive, but his influence reached far beyond a fighting method. Through him, bodily training, recovery, Yoga Nidra and a comparative map of body, emotion, mind and spirit entered the same conversation.
Young Atlas is Allen’s account of that path. It places the material inside Tim’s life and the larger education he embodied.
Tim’s comparative map
SPAN holds body, emotion, mind and spirit in one map.
The name gathers Soma, Pathos and Nous: body, emotion and mind. Tim kept spirit present beyond the acronym. The value of the map lies in refusing to train one human faculty as if it existed alone.
01Soma
Body · structure · action
02Pathos
Emotion · relationship
03Nous
Mind · image · understanding
04Spirit
The dimension beyond the acronym
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04Documents and open questions
The documents remain part of the story.
Allen did not assemble the Persian and Egyptian material from documents alone. Its practical foundation came primarily through direct study with Tim Geoghegan.
Allen then deepened that received basis through practice, comparison, teaching, source study and correspondence, including exchanges with Charles Musès — whose work was the link to Count Walewski’s material. This is an authentic personal transmission without requiring us to pretend that every older historical link is fully documented.
The Hanish papers are among the sources Allen studied. Their history still holds open questions. Once a sound basis is present, Allen’s method is to test concepts and develop ways of applying them rather than repeatedly treating the work as beginner material. The archive distinguishes that continuing development from claims about an unbroken ancient sequence.
The movement plate uses frames from Allen’s own Body Restructure teaching. It is a contemporary field of practice, not a reconstruction of the Hanish sequence.
Allen introduces the field
Yoga as patient investigation.
An archival introduction to the range of Allen’s yoga teaching, offered in Allen’s own voice.
Further reading
Tim’s path and a study of subtle anatomy.
Direct source · Tim, SPAN & Yoga Nidra
Young Atlas
The Training Path of Tim Geoghegan
Read Young Atlas in the library →
Related study · subtle anatomy
Chakras
A Detailed Overview of Chakras for Students of Yoga
Find Chakras ↗Continue through Allen’s work