Strong Arms Without Strong Arming

Strengthen your wrists, arms and upper body in a sustainable way by learning to mobilize joints and strengthen muscles without load, preparing the arms for appropriate challenge. In this 75 min invigorating therapeutic class, you'll warm up before weight-bearing movement and explore how focus on arms and chest can enhance breath and the connection with qualities of the heart.

Low Body Love

While this 60 minute hatha class is conditioning for the whole body, there is enhanced focus placed on therapeutics for the feet and knees. To keep the feet and knees healthy and happy, we need to keep them mobile and free while strengthening and stretching the big muscle groups around them like the glutes, quads and hamstrings. Throughout the experience, there is also an invitation to offer focused appreciation for these hard working parts of our anatomy! Low body love!

Cultivating Healthy Habits, Week 3- Easy Morning Meditation & Movement

For those who wish to include meditation and movement in the morning routine but aren’t able to create a habit, here’s an efficient way to add short and simple practices that can make a big impact over time.

Building Renewed Vitality Through Breath and Movement

A practice that begins with a breath technique intended to restore depleted energy, followed by a fluid sequence of asana meant to be approached with effort and ease. The experience closes with guided imagery to continue to rebuild and nourish.

Cultivating Healthy Habits, Week 2

Here are three more ideas for tiny, easy habits that you could connect to activities you already do each day. This week, I offer inspirations for shower time, the moments we spend waiting and a quick pre-meal ritual that can turn eating into a sacred moment of gratitude.

Transitioning from Work to Home

Small practices to help you let go of one activity before shifting into another are threaded through this 45 minute mellow practice intended to release the tension of the day and past events to arrive back in the present moment, refreshed and renewed.

Reclaiming Helpful Habits- A Month of Yoga Therapy Tips Starts Today

Throughout the month of May, I will be offering simple, accessible ideas to add to your daily routine to help you stay connected to your wellness goals, even in tiny ways. Watch this resource page each Monday this month for a new short video inviting you to sample small habits that can add up to big results.

Present in Changing Times

A calming, grounding 60 minute therapeutic hatha practice that intends to connect you to the undercurrent of peace that exists within us no matter what is happening around us. Expect to explore mindfulness and presence throughout mellow movement and breath and relax deeply with a guided meditation.

Ground in Changing Times

A short practice including a breath technique, mantra and grounding, gentle movements to reconnect with the present moment and an undercurrent of tranquility within resistance to change.

Clear and Content

A 60 minute therapeutic hatha sequence beginning with a breath visualization intended to clear the mind, followed by a concept to help with presence, acceptance and contentment and a flow that can contribute to greater freedom in the low back and hips.

April Workshop: An Intentional Morning

A 90 minute experience featuring alternative ideas to bring into your mornings to counter habitual thoughts and feelings.

-An inspirational reading to encourage new thoughts and feelings. I shared the classic poem, The Guest House by Rumi. (text to follow)

-Focus enhancing breath to support the body and mind

-The "welcoming" of intentions during a joint freeing series

-Morning movements to promote energy and refreshment

-A guided meditation utilizing the imagination to help actualize your intentions.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Reconnection in Isolation

A movement practice intended to uplift and cultivate self-compassion when you’re spending a lot of time with yourself, or, to foster a more loving connection with yourself.

Easing Into Energy

When you need to take your time and ease into movement, a 60 minute therapeutic practice beginning on the floor, warming joints and muscles before slowly inviting you into a flow.

Quick Body Refresh

An antidote to stiffness due to sitting, feeling low or stuck, this standing micro practice frees the joints, warms the muscles and re-energizes.

Opening to the Good

A quick breath technique and set of movements to energize the body and remind the brain to take in the sweetness of life a little more often.

What Seeds Am I Planting?

Our practices can be a good time for cultivating specific qualities and thoughts we'd like to grow in our minds and our lives. That focus is threaded through this 75 minute therapeutic hatha flow using posture, breath visualization and guided meditation to support the concept.

Press Pause

Our time on the mat can be a moment to press pause on our day and connect with how we are feeling physically, mentally and emotionally. Pausing with what is can help us make space for skillful thought and action moving forward. Expect to "pause" throughout this moderate physical practice for a chance to feel and be rather than do and achieve.

The Practice of Holding What Is

An engaging 60 minute practice that encourages your awareness to tether to sensations of the hands inviting an opportunity for presence and an embodiment of receiving what the moment offers. A therapeutic and balancing sequence for the body, blended with the opportunity for acceptance for the mind.

Balance for Body, Breath and Mind

An offering of movements to provide flexibility where there is chronic tightness and strength where there is often weakness along with techniques for the breath and focus skills for the mind. Practices that cultivate balance can help part of us stay tethered to the consistency of contentment in the face of inevitable change.

Effort and Ease

A creative, strengthening and focus-enhancing 60 minute sequence is offered with the invitation to apply a balance of effort and ease throughout.