10 Minute Meditation

Your invitation is to practice this meditation most days, if not every day of one week. Next week we’ll build our sit by a few minutes with the intention to sit for 20 mins by the end of the month. The technique offered is a breath visualization- watch the inhale move up from a few inches below the body to a few inches above the crown of the head and the watch the exhale flow back down from crown to earth,

Meditation Prep & 20 Minute Sit

A meditation suited for beginning a new day, week, month, or year! To support you in creating a new meditation habit in 2021, explore how techniques that prepare the body and mind to “sit” can create a more easeful experience. Includes intention setting on how you desire to feel, gentle movement and breathwork to enhance focus.

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.

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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.

Permission to Slow Down

A deluxe practice that begins and ends on the ground. Expect to prepare your joints for strengthening in postures that stay close to the mat. Once warm, we’ll move into a few yin and restorative shapes to balance the “yang” energy we experience in most hours of the day. Thoughts are also invited to slow and rest through several cues to “be here now”, an ideal evening practice

Total Relaxation for Body and Mind

A 60 minute practice intended to provide nurturing grounding. You’ll be guided to prepare your joints for strengthening and stretching, while moving in postures that stay close to the ground throughout. Explore a calming mudra and breath technique and focus your mind on slow exhales while your body and mind are encouraged to slow down too.

Calm Down Quickly

A simple, brief breath practice to quickly relax and slow down. Perfect for a hectic, busy day because it takes under five minutes!

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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.

Transitioning from Day to Night

A 60 minute practice designed to help you shift gears from the workday to the evening hours. A mudra and breath technique is offered to support the wind down, the intention of letting go of the day is held throughout and the practice closes with deep relaxation to help you shift into nighttime activities feeling refreshed, present and at ease.

Maximum Glutes

Strengthening the glutes and core helps our body function optimally in so many ways. This 40ish minute practice offers lots of movement and power for these big, important muscles with an added touch of focusing the mind on appreciation of all the pleasure we can experience using our strong bodies including the abundance and beauty of nature and the world around us.