Sometimes our lives (and our yoga practices) can be hard on our wrists. Enjoy this sequence that shows you how you can strengthen the muscles of your arms without load, and how to care for your wrists and hands so they stay functional.
One reason we may feel depleted is having to continue to take action to fulfill our responsibilities even when we may need rest. This necessary tendency can desensitize us to our energy levels and lead to burn out. The intention of this hatha flow is to re-sensitize yourself to how much energy you are expending by committing to work at 70-75 percent of your ability during the dynamic portion of this practice. The last third of this class is a series of restorative poses to further help us rebuild the energy we scatter through our lives every day.
A rebuilding gentle and abdominals- focused flow that invites you to receive restoration through awareness of your "center"- drawing breath, attention and physical strength to our "core" area that is symbolic of our personal power, boundaries and self-worth. Nourishing depletion of energy and motivation through movement, breath and present-centred focus.
When you need a quick lift, this short standing practice includes big breath and movement to reduce stagnation and encourage an uplift of body, mind and heart!
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.
A useful practice anytime you feel like you need a reset for the body and mind. Explore a breathe technique that can in itself create a shift in your state, followed by a refreshing full body movement sequence (with an appearance by my malti-poo Bowie near the end). Close with a renewing meditation.
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.
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.
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.
A practice that focuses on three of our "centers", our heart center, power center (abdomen) and the concept of a center of peace within. Sample a breath technique that visualizes placing peace in "the heart" throughout a physical sequence that seeks to stabilize the power center while creating freedom for the shoulders and making space for “the heart”.
This 20 minute practice offers a technique to shift the mind away from habitual morning thinking to inspiration, presence and thoughts that welcome you wholly to a new day. You'll receive a poem to promote a more expansive mindset and a joint freeing sequence matched with breath and ideas to awaken while cultivating a kinder inner morning landscape.
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.
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.
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.
Yoga Nidra, which means "yogic sleep" is a meditation that invites the practitioner to lay down and listen as she is guided through relaxation, a body scan and imagery with the intention to deeply relax the body, rest the busy mind and drop into a profoundly healing state. Please enjoy this version customized for the season of spring any time you need a refresh.
Your first of two yearly mini-retreats in Vibrancy & Tranquility Daily explores the spring themes of renewing and clearing our outer and inner spaces. Sample cleansing breath, rejuvenating movement, meditation and reflection about how spring is emerging in you. Includes a deluxe guided restorative reclined meditation because enhancing our energy also requires productive rest.
A 60 minute moderate experience with an invitation to focus on a heart-based quality like acceptance for another or self, empathy, compassion and love as a means of balancing the mind and its tendency for ceaseless chatter. The breath technique and sequence offered is meant as an embodiment of growing these qualities through our practice.
A short practice to add a spring to your step as you acclimate to the time change, or whenever you desire a quick lift in energy. A standing sequence of enlivening movements to warm the joints, free the breath, enhance circulation and spring forward into the rest of your day!
For my birthday I created a sequence intended to celebrate the strength and mobility we have available now. This 75 minute feel-good hatha flow features fluid and challenging movements intended to free the upper back while invigorating and inspiring appreciation for health and wellbeing. Closes with a guided body scan to enhance restoration post-practice.
A 60 minute practice that explores a foundational aspect of good posture, back health and the optimal function of many systems of the body- lengthening the spine. Learning to sit and stand tall can help to uplift us in this energizing yet grounding sequence.