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
Unwinding Tension
Deep releasing breaths followed by a sequence that warms up with joint rotations and invites core strengthening twists and rotated standing postures to release tension, support digestion and calm the mind.
Both Sides Now
A 75 minute dynamic experience that begins with a centering practice including scanning each side of the body and mental alternate nostril breath to encourage focused calm. The sequence features mobilizing, strengthening and stretching the side seams of the body including the hips.
Reigniting a Morning Routine
In this workshop, I share my current therapeutic morning rituals including gratitude, joint mobility, meditation, dynamic movement, a brief sequence with weights and balancing imagery.
Honour Your Energy
The movement in this class is presented in stages, it's your choice how far you want to go as you are invited to honour the level of energy present for you in this moment. May this full body practice serve to enhance and balance, rather than deplete your vitality.
Embodied Mantra Meditation
For the active, busy mind, a 20 minute meditation that invites attention to various locations of the body in time with the inward repetition of a word thought to be a seed sound for the various possible "energy centers" of the body.
Tend to Your Life Force
A balanced practice intended to be engaged with as relaxation in action so as not to deplete along with an exploration of the energetic part of us that animates our thoughts, feelings and actions. Tend to your life force after a busy holiday season!
Winter Solstice Practice
An intentional meditation in motion. Continuous Moon salutations followed by a selection of yin postures matched with a pause at the end of the exhale, signifying nature's pause, long nights and becoming comfortable with the unknown and the uncertain. A valuable practice for these times.
Cultivate Contentment Meditation
A 10 minute meditation featuring a balanced breath rhythm along with symbolic heart awareness and a recall of a memory of contentment to create a contented state in the present moment.
Inspiring a Winter Practice
Some inspirations for using your practices therapeutically during the colder months. Explore vigorous movement, gratitude, a strengthening flow, tapping for self-compassion and guided rest. Enjoy!
Meditation to Rest a Busy Mind
An invitation to focus on left and right side body sensations before a practice of calming alternate nostril breath and imagery.
Deluxe Practice to Rest a Busy Mind
Skills to enhance body-based awareness and presence begin our centering followed by a strengthening, focus-building practice featuring planks and balancing postures. Closes with restful restorative shape.
Inspired Flow
A yang yin practice that invites a continuously moving flow to allow the mind to rest and ride on the movement while opening to the wellspring of inspiration and creativity that exists underneath constant distraction.
Guided Meditation
A 20 minute guided meditation meant to be received lying down. Experience progressive relaxation, a body scan and imagery to deeply rest and restore.
Step Strongly into Intentions
Inspire yourself walking into a new day, week or month with an invitation to create authentic intentions and hold them powerfully with a practice that is strengthening for our legs and our ability to stand strong and walk with purpose.
Anchoring the Over-Active Mind
A core-centered engaging practice inviting a focus on alternate sides of the body preparing for alternate nostril breathing to ease a busy, distracted or anxious mind.
Appreciation Meditation
Movement and focused awareness hovers at the symbolic heart space as you are invited to consider what wants to be appreciated.
Morning Enliven and Ease
Get moving, strengthening and enjoy a couple of restorative poses, all providing sustainable energy, presence and a deeper inner connection during the day to come!
Present and Open
This class frees the hip flexors and front of the body to counter long bouts of sitting while preparing us for a focus-enhancing balancing posture; "Dancer" pose. A great one for cultivating present -centered awareness and strength!
Steadied and Centered
A 35 minute practice featuring a selection of postures that strengthen muscles of the core and hips to support low back health. As you find steadiness in this strength you are invited to feel centered into what matters most to you.
Settling Vata (Anxious Energy)
Ayurveda teaches the quality of vata (nervous, turbulent energy) can be balanced by bringing it back to it's "home", the pelvic region. This class is inspired by that concept by focusing on mobilizing, strengthening and stretching the hips and engaging the mind with visualization throughout this full spectrum practice.