Morning Ritual: Cultivate Connection

Neuroscience tells us we can practice the ability to create internal feeling states anytime we want. This morning practice helps us create a sense of feeling connected to the world around us, and to other people, including cultivating empathy, which has been shown to contribute to our well-being overall.

Lighter

A 60 minute practice intended to “lighten” a heavier mood. Includes a breath technique and visualization to create space between thoughts and movements that invite the mind to focus and may create a more spacious feeling in the body.

20 Minute Meditation

Brief movement to prepare to sit, followed by a meditation technique that invites us to focus on the sense of touch, and then the awareness of sound. Learning to observe, rather than resist distraction can help us to become more accepting overall.

Reclaim Your Attention

An ideal class to close the day using various techniques to call our energy back to the present moment. From there, we can discern our most efficient use of it. Expect mindful, grounding centering and movement intended to be an embodiment of the natural cycle of expansion and contraction.

Grounded and Focused

A 60 minute hatha class that challenges the mind to focus on the different ways the body moves and the visualized paths the breath is taking. A perfect class for grounding your energy and attention back to yourself so you can decide the most efficient places to direct it.

Happy Hips

A therapeutic practice to support long term hip health by mobilizing the hip joints and strengthening the muscles around the hips. You'll need a chair and a wall nearby.

30 Minutes, Balance, body, Calm, HipsLisa Dumas
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.

Shift Your State

A moderate 75 minute hatha practice designed to get things moving, whether it be difficult emotions, habitual worrying thoughts or lethargy due to time of year. Explore a breath technique to break up inertia and a purposeful quality of movement to focus the mind and warm the body.

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

60 Minutes, body, Calm, LegsLisa Dumas
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.