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
Release Distraction
A 15 minute standing practice intended to help overcome invasive thoughts that may prevent you from focusing on what you choose. Invitations to balance may require a wall or chair nearby.
Feel Your Feet on the Ground
A moderate, 60 minute hatha class with focus on the connection between the feet and the ground. This steadying practice is utilized in various postures to cultivate a grounded sense of calm confidence. An opportunity to get out of the mind and into the body, your ever present home. Suggested prop- Blocks
Protect Your Mind
In this 75 min hatha practice, you will be invited to explore the repetition of a mantra throughout. Discover how the inward repeating of a meaningful sound can shelter the mind from habitual, negative rumination as you move through movement and breath matched to the rhythm of the mantra.
13 Minute Meditation
To help you increase your meditation time incrementally, this practice builds on the 10 min meditation. It utilizes a technique where you will “watch” the breath and repeat 2 mantras with your awareness at 2 different locations of the body.
Comfort in the Present Moment
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
Sustainable Strength
An invigorating and warming practice that targets the big muscles of the body through planks and standing poses to build strength functionally.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Creating Your Own Light in Darker Days
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.
Take a Breather! An Antidote for a Stressful Day
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!
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.
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"