Refresh the body with care and gratitude and feed the mind (and body) with thoughts that support your daily intentions.
A practice that invites you to contemplate "What do I want to put out into the world?" through grounding, self acceptance and embodied intention. Useful for times of over-thinking and worry.
Take a few moments this week to live inside your body with gentle movement and an intentional body scan. Experiences of presence give our active minds a chance to rest and our frazzled nervous systems an opportunity to settlle.
A handful of Yin postures offer an opportunity to come home to your body and rest the mind.
I recommend this 20 minute joint rotation/movement practice as a way of helping you to cultivate calm, presence and a gentle energy as you wake up, or anytime you need an anxiety relieving, balancing experience.
A practice you can use anytime you feel the need for a reset. An invitation to slow down, foster present-centered awareness and just BE.
Just what the body needs after a long stretch of sitting. Doesn't require a mat, and the chair itself can serve as a prop. Take it with you to work!
Brief movement and breath to prepare for a meditation that utlizes imagery to invite you to "plant" new intentions for the season of renewal.
A practice that utlizes the concept of the "Yogic Map" of a human being through an opening meditation, "opening" movement, breath and awareness to move through the various layers of who we are to reunite with our truest self.
This 60 minute ritual includes a reading to inspire, a journaling prompt to reflect on the seeds we've planted and grown, gentle movement that embodies turning within and a special "letting go" meditation for the season of fall.
Half Vinyasa Flow. (dynamic, rhythmic movement in union with the breath) half yin stretch.
Luxuriate in a grounding deluxe warm up, a rooted slow flow focused on grounding body and mind, and a closing with easeful held postures and guided rest.
60 minutes of practice with the intention to strengthen often weak areas like core, glutes and upper back and to work our muscles enough so they can relax deeply in preparation for a 15 minute meditation to strengthen presence and focus.
An enlivening breath technique followed by energizing movements matched with breath. A brief experience to refresh and renew!
20 minutes of rhythmic movement prepares the body and mind for a 15 minute guided meditation featuring a balanced breath rate, focus on body sensations and a cultivation of a heart-centered emotion.
For the active, busy mind, a 20 minute meditation that invites attention to various locations of the body in time with the inward repetition of a word thought to be a seed sound for the various possible "energy centers" of the body.
An intentional meditation in motion. Continuous Moon salutations followed by a selection of yin postures matched with a pause at the end of the exhale, signifying nature's pause, long nights and becoming comfortable with the unknown and the uncertain. A valuable practice for these times.
Some inspirations for using your practices therapeutically during the colder months. Explore vigorous movement, gratitude, a strengthening flow, tapping for self-compassion and guided rest. Enjoy!
Skills to enhance body-based awareness and presence begin our centering followed by a strengthening, focus-building practice featuring planks and balancing postures. Closes with restful restorative shape.
A core-centered engaging practice inviting a focus on alternate sides of the body preparing for alternate nostril breathing to ease a busy, distracted or anxious mind.