Worrier to Warrior Yoga Therapy
soothe an anxious body and mind and cultivate authentic confidence, strength, resilience and presence with countless evidence-based practices and practical skills. guided with compassion by your personal Certified yoga therapist, Lisa Dumas
“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.” Tao Te Ching
Welcome to a resource intended to empower you with skills to befriend your body and mind and reconnect to authentic confidence and purpose. Please enjoy this robust selection of therapeutic experiences in varying lengths and themes. Explore movement, meditations, breath practices and much more to encourage increased presence, strength, balance and self-compassion.
November Live Practice:
Thursday, Nov 20th: 5:15-6:30pm PST- Metaphorical Movement
All Class Codes:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7774149357?pwd=OUNMT3U5NEJqbHNFZVdRVGVnT0NlUT09
Meeting ID: 777 414 9357
Passcode: 102313
*By choosing to practice online, you are acknowledging that you are making an informed choice that the activity is appropriate for you, assume all risk that may be associated and will take care of your body and mind throughout. There is never any demand in my guidance, only invitations and suggestions. Take what you need.
Browse or choose the class that is right for you, right now:
Length
15 Minutes | 30 Minutes | 45 minutes | 75 minutes
Attention
Full Body | Arms | Core | Hips | Legs | Upper Back
Intention
Calm | Balance | Invigorate
Intention and Attention
Every moment of this 50 minute offering is intended to invite you back to the breath, the body and present-centered thinking. A focus on the sense of sound and an invitation to create your own inner sound using your intention, meets a full body refreshing hatha practice.
February Workshop: Rejuvenation from the Inside Out and the Outside In
Designed to attend to a late winter mood, this 90 minute workshop offers various skills using the breath, body and mind to lift, lighten and invigorate. Expect a unique gratitude practice, breath-work to enliven, a dynamic asana practice and a restorative yoga nidra guided meditation to refresh.
The Power of Awareness
It's balancing for the mind and body to practice present-centered awareness. This 60 minute sequence features a blend of ease and challenge with encouraging cues to practice the art of awareness throughout. Feel the difference presence can make.
Exploring Real Self-Compassion
A 30 minute hatha class that invites you to investigate the quality of the tone of voice you use when you talk to yourself. A practice that is strengthening for the arms and upper back to create more freedom in the shoulders and maybe even a more spacious feeling at the heart.
January 2021 Workshop: A Deeper Exploration of Meditation
Why we meditate, best practices to center ourselves and prepare to "sit" including movement (asana) and breathwork (pranayama) and an exploration of meditation techniques including a restoring yoga nidra.
15 Minute Meditation
If you’ve been progressing your meditation time in this program, I invite you to be compassionate with yourself as you explore a 15 minute sit. A breath technique and mantra are here to help your mind focus, but remember, thoughts will still arise. You are invited to be with whatever comes and goes. It’s a practice.
Releasing 2020- Receiving Renewal
A deluxe practice full of therapeutic skills to assimilate the transition of the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Expect to explore the breath as inspiration to receive and release, along with mudras, symbolic movement and reflective self-inquiry.
Creating Contentment Within
A special extended class featuring some of my favorite therapeutic techniques for reconnecting with your natural, peaceful place within. Expect a very calming breath practice, an extended guided meditation followed by nourishing movement and a deep, heart centered yoga nidra to close.
December 2020 Mini Retreat, a Therapeutic Experience for the Winter Season
Gift yourself the time to move through this inspiring collection of tools to warm you up from the inside out, and the outside in. Feel how devotion, gratitude, and reflection can enlighten. Explore movement to enhance digestion and renew. Be guided through a breath practice and restoring yoga nidra meditation to restore and balance.
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.
Cultivate Happiness Without a Reason- December Workshop
In December's workshop we explored several therapeutic skills for connecting with qualities of the heart. Expect philosophy, meditation and use of mantra. You are also invited to offer your practice to someone you appreciate and to deeply rest in a 20 minute guided Yoga Nidra.
Practicing Presence with the Senses
A 75-minute practice using focused observation of the senses to drop into the present moment. Expect some strong, sustained postures to learn to observe sensation rather than judge it, a useful skill to to cultivate for managing reactivity off the mat.
Setting Intentions for a New Month
This 45 minute moving meditation and visualization could be useful at the beginning of every new month as a way of reminding you of what’s truly important and where you choose to place your energy and attention. This unique class utilizes self-inquiry inspired by the chakra system and journaling (which has been shown to aid in creating positive mood states and goal attainment) to create 7 statements to use as your North Star in living an authentic life.
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!
Yang Yin with Pranic Balancing
Yoga teaches us we are much more than a physical body. We also have a mental body, a wisdom body, a bliss body and a pranic body that are effected by everything we do. Our pranic body is our energy body, prana is our life force. Breath practices along with many other things affect our vitality. This 60 min practice utilizes the breath in several ways to help harmonize our energy while the physical practice is a balance of more warming, followed by cooling postures. Enjoy!!
A Meditation to Release Patterns of the Past
This is an open-ended meditation so please set your timer if you would like a practice that is longer than 10 minutes before beginning. Regular meditation helps us to move what we are not aware of into our conscious mind so we can have a deeper understanding of the roots of our reactions, thoughts and patterns and eventually helps us move and clear what doesn’t contribute to our highest good. This practice begins with “Bhairava Mudra” that supports all systems of the body and helps us to release fear and continues with a visualization and mantra.
Connect to Your Heart Meditation
This meditation is intended to support you in softening into the qualities of the heart. Have your timer ready set to your desired practice time and enjoy this healing visualization practice.
A Meditation for Unrelenting Thoughts
Anchor the mind with a meditation that invites you to inwardly repeat the sounds associated with aspects of the energetic body. The intention of this practice is to harness our ability to focus our attention on one point and to create balance in our systems eventually creating more harmony in the mind. The sounds we repeat are said to be the sounds that harmonize internal centers of energy called chakras.