An intentional meditation in motion. Continuous Moon salutations followed by a selection of yin postures matched with a pause at the end of the exhale, signifying nature's pause, long nights and becoming comfortable with the unknown and the uncertain. A valuable practice for these times.
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 core-centered engaging practice inviting a focus on alternate sides of the body preparing for alternate nostril breathing to ease a busy, distracted or anxious mind.
Ayurveda teaches the quality of vata (nervous, turbulent energy) can be balanced by bringing it back to it's "home", the pelvic region. This class is inspired by that concept by focusing on mobilizing, strengthening and stretching the hips and engaging the mind with visualization throughout this full spectrum practice.
Center into physical body, breath and what really matters to you.
Brief Calming Breath Technique
Movement First! Prepare your body for the day with gentle movement and presence- a little goes a long way.
In November's workshop we explored the heightened connection with creativity and compassion that comes through relaxation and meditation. Enjoy gentle, stress relieving movement and the guided deep rest of yoga nidra.
A practice to try in the first moments of waking to have agency over how you'd like to feel in the hours to come.
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.
A gentle and restoring 30 minute seated and standing practice offering practical skills like mindfulness, movement and a breath technique intended to soothe your nervous system and bring you home to yourself.
If you are in recovery from an injury, an illness, an episode of stress or another state of dis-ease, a practice like this can support healing. Expect 40 minutes of gentle movement leading into guided deep relaxation.
A mindfulness practice designed to help you hold all the parts of yourself in compassion and discern how you really feel and what you need to support yourself.
Inspired by the autumnal equinox and its equal balance of night and day, this practice explores the concept of balancing our inner sun and moon energy through hatha yoga (ha-sun, tha-moon). Expect postures that merge both sides of the body and engaging balancing poses.
A 20 minute meditation intended to be received from a supine (lying down) position. Get comfortable and enjoy this body scan and breath technique inviting you to connect with the support beneath you.
A quick and dynamic standing sequence featuring heel raises, squats, arm swings and shoulder rolls to wake up the body and mind.
Practice observing sensation related to emotions rather than getting swept away on the waves of our ever changing inner landscapes.
A restoring and inspiring exploration of a handful of meditation techniques including a gratitude meditation, meditation in motion, an embodied practice, a seated version and a supine body scan. See which one resonates with you today!
Our July workshop focuses on the ayurvedic concept of "pitta", a fiery part of our constitution that can become aggravated during summer (pitta season). This class explains signs of over-active pitta along with several skills to balance, like sensitizing ourselves to our body heat, an engaging warm up, moon salutations, yin postures and embodied mantra for focus. Enjoy!