How to print formatted contents of Viewfield in a custom template?
I used the following code:

&lt;?php print views_embed_view('myviewname','block_1', $node-&gt;nid); ?&gt;
&lt;?php print views_embed_view('myviewname','block_2', $node-&gt;nid); ?&gt;


And the view's info is printing just fine now in my tpl files. Hope this can help someone in the future.

Thanks for Worldfallz on the Drupal forum for this suggestion!
https://drupal.org/node/2075411#comment-7800227