Short Practice to Curb Anxiety

Simple, rhythmic standing movements rule this practice intended to soothe an anxious mind and body. I recommend using this as a resource in the face of overwhelm, a turbulent mind or when chaotic thoughts interrupt getting to sleep. Closes with a short seated mudra and humming breath technique to further ground and calm.

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.

Pranic Flow Meditation

A practice that views the breath as the base form of our internal life force “prana”. You will be invited to visualize the breath move in various directions, and sense the energy moving in your body. Intended to balance the flow of prana within to help harmonize body and mind

Meditation: Presence Through Body Awareness

For those of us who count ourselves as worriers, focusing on our breath during meditation can be anxiety-inducing. This meditation invites you to focus on sensations of the body- the part of you that’s always present. You might find this technique to be very relaxing, because it helps us to arrive in the present moment where we belong and feel the most content. It’s also useful for those of us not accustomed to feeling our bodies and helps us befriend them and the sensations within.

Morning Ritual: Cultivate Qualities of the Heart

A practice to connect with qualities like love, compassion and gratitude. We begin with asking for what we need with a breath visualization followed by a heart-centered mudra and movement and we close with an embodiment of gratitude with a practice of thanks. A beautiful way to soften before a tough interaction or to lead with love.

Morning Ritual- Connect with Inner Knowing

A ritual to use anytime chaotic thinking is getting in the way of inner knowing. A breath technique to connect our hearts to our higher wisdom leads us into enlivening movement. Then, we explore a mudra to activate our intuition and 3 useful journaling prompts to invite clarity.

Morning Ritual: Connecting the Heart and Mind

A practice to use when thoughts are chaotic. Bring awareness to the center of the body, enliven and prepare the body for the day with movements from the edges of the body to the center and choose a a heart centered thought as the north star for the day

Morning Ritual: Go With the Flow and Glow

The second sheath in the yogic map of a human being is the “pranic body” or energetic body. This aspect of us is affected by everything that we take in or put out. When our energetic system is out of balance we might feel depleted, or we might feel overly activated. This practice consists of 15 minutes of guided breath work, visualization, fluid, gentle movement and mudra with the intention to get the energetic body harmonized and glowing while encouraging the mind to be present with life, one flowing breath at a time.

Morning Ritual: Energy & Determination Boost!

A short practice to quickly cultivate vitality when you’re feeling sluggish. Starting standing, we explore a powerful mudra to turn on our positive determination and personal power, move more dynamically with shaking (and maybe dancing) and close by choosing a thought that helps propel us toward taking useful actions.

Morning Ritual: Ground and Connect to a Sense of Safety

The yogic map of a human being consists of five sheaths (koshas) that we can work with to balance our system and connect with our true nature more often. The first sheath or layer is the physical body. For many of us, connecting with our physical body is a path to feeling more at ease because we become present, the only place life really exists. Use this morning ritual when you want to ground and calm a nervous mind and body and focus scattered attention.

Soothe an Anxious Mind and Body

A moderate practice that includes a toolbox of techniques that you can use to soothe a worried mind and nervous body.

Grounding Into Intuition

This slow flow hatha class begins with a breath technique intended to help us connect with our inner teacher, higher perspectives and intuition. Throughout the practice, you will be offered prompts and inquiry to continue to connect with your inner wisdom. An ideal practice for confusion, overwhelm or of feeling "stuck"

Grounding into the Qualities of the Heart

This slow flow hatha class begins with a breath technique to ignite the symbolic heart space. The physical practice is structured to "open" the front of the body and strengthen the back of the body and it closes with relaxation and meditation intended to help us stay connected to love, gratitude, compassion and the other expansive qualities of our hearts.

Balancing Body, Balancing Energy

Yoga views the human being as being multi-dimensional, and when we practice, we not only tend to the physical body, but our internal life force and or minds so we can reconnect with our true nature. This is a moderate class designed to strengthen the physical areas that will help to "balance" many bodies, along with a harmonizing practice for the pranic (energetic) body.

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.

Establish a Foundation for Your Body, Mind and Your Day

A moderate hatha practice that connects you with your core muscles to stabilize your pelvis so you are supported as you move freely. The structure we're creating for our body inspires me to think of establishing some structure when we wake up in the form of intention setting.

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.

Soaking Up Simple Sweetness

A moderate to challenging hatha practice that invites you to infuse gratitude into your practice. 75 minutes of hip and chest opening and arm strengthening to practice the art of enhancing and focusing on the beauty in our lives, ourselves and our yoga.