A mindful rhythmic warm up anchors the mind and prepares the body for strong postures for the legs and core with optional twists. Ideal for cooler weather. Sustainable stress for the body while you de-stress the mind!
Expect an effective warm up to ready your body for a dynamic full body strengthen preparing you for a few restorative shapes and added breath techniques to energize, restore and balance.
An enlivening sequence that begins with a breath technique intended to uplift and moves into core and arm strengthening with movements designed to help you free your shoulders and chest while continuing to explore the concept of enhancing inner energy.
An enlivening breath technique followed by energizing movements matched with breath. A brief experience to refresh and renew!
Connect with the freshness and renewal of spring with this 25 minute invigorating floor sequence.
A practice created for early spring that invites an exploration of a stronger sequence to move stagnation from body/mind and prepares you for productive, rejuvenating relaxation.
In this workshop, I share my current therapeutic morning rituals including gratitude, joint mobility, meditation, dynamic movement, a brief sequence with weights and balancing imagery.
The movement in this class is presented in stages, it's your choice how far you want to go as you are invited to honour the level of energy present for you in this moment. May this full body practice serve to enhance and balance, rather than deplete your vitality.
A balanced practice intended to be engaged with as relaxation in action so as not to deplete along with an exploration of the energetic part of us that animates our thoughts, feelings and actions. Tend to your life force after a busy holiday season!
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 yang yin practice that invites a continuously moving flow to allow the mind to rest and ride on the movement while opening to the wellspring of inspiration and creativity that exists underneath constant distraction.
Inspire yourself walking into a new day, week or month with an invitation to create authentic intentions and hold them powerfully with a practice that is strengthening for our legs and our ability to stand strong and walk with purpose.
Ten minute Enliven: A standing warm up for the joints and muscles to prepare the body and mind for the day to come.
Sun Salutations followed by a handful of standing postures make this a great morning practice when you want to feel stronger and calmer in just a few minutes.
Inspired by some of some of the origins of Halloween, this practice uses imagery of fire for meditation and a core-centered physical practice. You'll also be invited to offer your practice to an ancestor or a loved one who has passed on. Lots of inspiration in this experience!
Begin with an enlivening standing warmup to energize after a night's sleep, then explore full body strengthening and a few moments of restoration to close.
During stressful, busy days, some of us require some stronger movement in order to fully relax and feel refreshed. This 75 minute practice begins with a renewing breath practice and invites a selection of moderate to challenging balancing postures and twists, with lots of options depending on what you need.
A full body warm up and flow from a chair when this style of practice is more therapeutic than being on the floor.
A 30 minute dynamic flow to expand the front of the body to move into our more expansive self.