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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.

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"

Morning Ritual: Calm and Confident

Start your day with this 20 minute practice that invites the mind to focus on the breath and an empowering mantra rather than the habitual thoughts we wake up with. Expect movement to ready the body and the core for a day of confidence followed by a mudra and short meditation. A reminder of the power within.

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.

The Art of Gratitude

While the practice of gratitude may have become watered down, the power of saying thank you is just as strong as ever. This experience is intended to explore gratitude as a therapeutic technique for lower mood states through mudra, mindset, movement and memory. I hope you enjoy this heart opening, expansive sequence as much as I did creating it for you! Suggested prop- bolster or pillows

Calm and Connected- Deluxe Practice

This is one of my favorite classes ever. You’ll learn how to relax quickly, 2 breath techniques to calm the body and rest the mind, movement that helps the breath and mind to regulate, a tool that may create a feeling of connection to others and a deeply restoring yoga nidra practice to close. 75 minutes of bliss!

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.

Processing Change

A Therapeutic Practice to support us as we learn to digest our life experiences skillfully; to take the lessons we need and release what doesn't serve us. Expect a moderate practice to open the front line of the body.

Balance, 75 Minutes, Calm, heartLisa Dumas
Attention and Intention at the Heart

A moderate to challenging practice that invites the mind to focus on the sacred mantra OM and the visualization of "implanting" it into the heart. Placing a mantra into our practices is intended to help us embody the meanings of sacred mantras. "OM" helps us connect to the expansive part of us that is connected to everything.