Reclaim Your Attention

An ideal class to close the day using various techniques to call our energy back to the present moment. From there, we can discern our most efficient use of it. Expect mindful, grounding centering and movement intended to be an embodiment of the natural cycle of expansion and contraction.

Happy Hips

A therapeutic practice to support long term hip health by mobilizing the hip joints and strengthening the muscles around the hips. You'll need a chair and a wall nearby.

Shift Your State

A moderate 75 minute hatha practice designed to get things moving, whether it be difficult emotions, habitual worrying thoughts or lethargy due to time of year. Explore a breath technique to break up inertia and a purposeful quality of movement to focus the mind and warm the body.

Release Distraction

A 15 minute standing practice intended to help overcome invasive thoughts that may prevent you from focusing on what you choose. Invitations to balance may require a wall or chair nearby.

Comfort in the Present Moment

A 60 min moderate hatha experience inviting you to practice present-centered awareness. Through attention on body sensations and breath, we learn to compassionately observe what we sense and think rather than identify with thought patterns based on past conditioning. Prop: bolster or pillows

Permission to Slow Down

A deluxe practice that begins and ends on the ground. Expect to prepare your joints for strengthening in postures that stay close to the mat. Once warm, we’ll move into a few yin and restorative shapes to balance the “yang” energy we experience in most hours of the day. Thoughts are also invited to slow and rest through several cues to “be here now”, an ideal evening practice

December 2020 Mini Retreat, a Therapeutic Experience for the Winter Season

Gift yourself the time to move through this inspiring collection of tools to warm you up from the inside out, and the outside in. Feel how devotion, gratitude, and reflection can enlighten. Explore movement to enhance digestion and renew. Be guided through a breath practice and restoring yoga nidra meditation to restore and balance.

Grounding Into Gratitude

Our minds are built to look for what could go wrong, what we need to achieve and what to worry about. For busy modern humans, that can mean a feeling of overwhelm or even anxiety. This 75 minute practice teaches how to ground the mind in what is more uplifting but also very true through a breath technique, visualization and movement intended to create a lighter, more expansive physical sensation.

Soothing Overwhelm and Distraction

A 60 minute practice beginning with a breath technique and mantra to rest and focus the mind. We thread the mantra through the movement to continue to protect the mind, while the rhythmic quality of asana is intended to merge with breath and the repeated internal sound inviting us toward our peaceful nature.

Creating Your Own Light in Darker Days

An energizing practice to release stagnation. Includes a rejuvenating breath technique and movement to renew. Expect to explore a mudra to ignite clarity and vibrancy and a sweet visualization in Savasana to enhance your glow.

Have Your Own Back

A 60 minute full practice with the intention of supporting posture, spinal alignment and upper back tension. There also virtually no pressure placed on the wrist joints, so it is a relief for an area that can get taxed while it is getting stronger. Expect to explore a mudra said to relax "tightness" in the upper back and a reflection on where in your life to "have your own back"

Transitioning from Day to Night

A 60 minute practice designed to help you shift gears from the workday to the evening hours. A mudra and breath technique is offered to support the wind down, the intention of letting go of the day is held throughout and the practice closes with deep relaxation to help you shift into nighttime activities feeling refreshed, present and at ease.

Managing Stressful Thoughts

This 65 minute practice offers the opportunity to “watch” your thoughts rather than identify with them or react to them, explores how breath and movement can affect the quality of the mind and displays the empowering skill of choosing a thought to create more contentment which may ultimately create a condition where we can open to the truer, softer voice of the heart.

Yang Yin with Pranic Balancing

Yoga teaches us we are much more than a physical body. We also have a mental body, a wisdom body, a bliss body and a pranic body that are effected by everything we do. Our pranic body is our energy body, prana is our life force. Breath practices along with many other things affect our vitality. This 60 min practice utilizes the breath in several ways to help harmonize our energy while the physical practice is a balance of more warming, followed by cooling postures. Enjoy!!

Free the Upper Back

A practice to tend to upper backs and necks sore from increased screen time. Movement to mobilize the upper back, strengthen weak muscles and stretch tight ones. Closes with a breath technique and visualization to support healing and a softer way of relating with muscle tension of the body. Try this practice every other day for improvement over time but keep mobilizing the upper back daily. *Note, continued pain related to the spine may require further investigation from a Dr. or PT

Practice for Healthy Digestion- Get Things Moving!

A morning practice designed to support your body in elimination and digestion. Start by sipping hot water and continue with a breath technique and movements intended to stimulate and enhance digestion followed by a mudra that supports digestive fire, not to mention our ability to properly digest our life experiences- taking what we need, and releasing what no longer serves us!

Soothe a Stiff Neck

A practice for occasional neck and shoulder stiffness (if neck pain is acute, sharp, electric please see a health professional) When we work with freeing the neck and shoulders we are also tending to the 5th chakra-this practice can also be useful for those wanting to address challenges with communication, listening or clearly expressing truth. Practice closes with a mudra to help release neck tension and balance energy.

Ease Physical Tension as Mind Rests

This offering includes a visualization technique to invite the mind to rest throughout. The physical sequence moves through warming, then strengthening and stretching to ease tension from areas that can tend to feel “tight”.

Deluxe Practice to Cultivate a Tranquil Mind

This 75 minute experience begins with a 10 minute meditation known to be helpful for the “pitta” dosha in the mind, an Ayurvedic concept that can describe the state of mind/body when we are pushing ourselves (and maybe others) to get things done, to achieve and do more, perhaps to the detriment of our energy and relationships to others and ourselves. The sequence is meant to be engaging and strengthening, ultimately supporting more contentment with the way things are, as they are.

Wake Up Happy

A first thing in the morning refresher. An invitation to focus on the good, get inspired, breathe and move in ways to uplift and invigorate (no yoga mat required- you could do it next to the bed!). Then, have your journal ready for some gratitude listing to take you into your day ready to receive more of what you love.