A 60 min moderate hatha experience inviting you to practice present-centered awareness. Through attention on body sensations and breath, we learn to compassionately observe what we sense and think rather than identify with thought patterns based on past conditioning. Prop: bolster or pillows
An invigorating and warming practice that targets the big muscles of the body through planks and standing poses to build strength functionally.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
A simple, brief breath practice to quickly relax and slow down. Perfect for a hectic, busy day because it takes under five minutes!
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.
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.
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.
An energizing practice to release stagnation. Includes a rejuvenating breath technique and movement to renew. Expect to explore a mudra to ignite clarity and vibrancy and a sweet visualization in Savasana to enhance your glow.
A short, accessible breath practice to relax the mind and body quickly. If it works for you, use it 3 times a day to help become more calm and content on the regular!
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.