An evening live practice with focus on cultivating loving kindness. Includes Gina's Thoracic Freedom Flow. Emphasizes water and earth elements and has some fabulous hip openers.

Playlists available here: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlists/68569-may-2024-focus-maitri-loving-kind...

Live Satsang 5/5/24 - MAITRI - Loving Kindness - Make Friends With Your Mind Part 3. This month we're exploring a loving-kindness centered approach to the Inner Critic, building off one of the Parts (from Internal Family Systems) and the Cognitive Distortions (part of Maya or illusion, that we fo...

Live Movement + Meditation 4/28/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind 2 - Embrace All Your Parts

0-1:30 Intro to Session
1:30-17:30 Stretch
17:30-23:50 Intro to Meditation
23:50-53:00 Guided Meditation
53:00-End Soul Circle

In this guided meditation, I continue the teaching on Maya or Illusion and t...

In this solar Vinyasa practice, I focused on poses that support determination as well as opportunities to explore cognitive distortions arising.

This month we continue Making Friends With Our Minds by identifying, naming and then confronting MAYA, the veil of illusion, often in the form of the c...

Some days we just need to surrender the cognitive and emotional load we’re carrying and this practice can help.

It’s a short Yin style practice that emphasizes nervous system downregulation, breath awareness and dropping into a state of calm.

You will need either a bolster or a rolled up blanke...

This is a shoulder and chest focused practice with the intention of not only stretching and strengthening these parts of your body but also cultivating the energies of courage and open-heartedness.

Through shoulder mobility, chest expansion, core fortification and a final backbend, we’ll leave f...

April 2024 - Making Friends with Your Mind Pt 2: MAYA - The veil of illusion. We explored the major cognitive distortions - the illusions we cognitively participate in.

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rrIepa4-c1JcAyRbfAYlOIK0a7othWgb

No time stamping since teaching and sharing are ...

Make Friends With Your Mind Bonus Soul Circle - Exploring obstacles, reframes and new approaches to the usual tricks our ego mind likes to play on us that keep us from moving through the world sure of who we are. We talk about pleasing, selflessness, boundaries, external validation and seeking ap...

This is another short and sweet lunar energy practice in the Moondrops series.

Each practice is made up of a combination of simple slow flow and hip openers, each with a primary focus on a different quadrant of your hips.

This Moondrops practice focuses on the front of your hips: hip flexors an...

Live Movement + Meditation 3/24/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind - A Self-Compassion Guided Meditation + continued discussion

Time stamps:

0:000-1:40 - Opening
1:40-13:45 - Mindful movement
13:45-29:30 - Teaching on ahamkara, function of ego, how the mind can turn into your enemy
30:00 - 51:45 ...

Live Asana 3/17/24 - St. Patrick's Day - Trinity - Impermanence

0:00-9:00 - Greetings, meaning of St. Patrick's Day and how that relates to Yoga practice and today's offering. Note: In my excitement to share all the things, I neglected to honor my lineage and say that I initially learned this co...

Make Friends With Your Mind - explore identity, ego and AHAMKARA - the "I-Maker" - just as we and those around us construct our identities, we have the power to change them, expand them and continually challenge them to be sure we're living in alignment, vs on auto-pilot or in an effort to fulfil...

Live Yoga Nidra from Soulshine Bali - This is a practice typically done laying down, in full relaxation!

It's a powerful, guided practice to sink a sankalpa, or powerful affirmation, deep in your consciousness where it can bear fruit.

Audio-only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16oOGV7H...

Sometimes we feel a little shut down or bound tight and Emerge supports us coming back into our true selves.

Side bends, heart openers and quad stretches all activate a feeling of re-opening the front gates and stepping fully into our lives once again.

You might like to have 2 blocks and a blan...

Asana – Breathwork – Meditation – the Yoga Trinity

In this practice we’ll move through a hip-centric flow before grounding ourselves with some relaxation inducing breathwork and then settle in for a short meditation practice.

I crafted this for those days when you want it all but have short tim...

Live Asana February 2024 - Focus on Connection of self to Self - conditioned self to True Self

Includes flow, heart openers, side bends, twists and even a little arm balancing + tips.

Contemplate: How does asana practice support the union of conditioned self to True Self? How do all the moment...

The body-mind feedback loop has a powerful impact on how you feel and show up in the world. What’s going on in your mind is constantly being expressed through your body and how your body is moving is reflecting in your mental state too!

This practice includes strong standing poses, expansive sid...

February Soul Circle on CONNECTION - Yoga - Union. We explore the key connection of self to Self or individual to Divine and the transcendence of conditioning which impacts our ability to CONNECT with all other living things!

0:00 - 41:00 - Teaching
41:00 - 1:18 - Soul Circle

Audio only version...

This slow flow practice leads to deeper pauses and holds in hip openers to support a need to move energy through your body and then cherish yourself in stillness.

It focuses on hip mobility and centering balance poses while cultivating nervous system equilibrium.

You might enjoy being near a wa...

Includes a refresher on what meditation is, what to expect, how to work with what arises and emphasizes the significance of the balance between effort + ease or sthira + sukha. Intro may be helpful for beginners to meditation. Short movement session into a guided meditation with short periods of ...

I created this practice for anyone craving a simple practice, anyone who never got some of the nuts and bolts of the basics, anyone re-starting a practice and of course, anyone who is new to yoga!

We cover all the orientations – seated, kneeling, inverted, prone, standing and supine and do some ...

A gorgeous ritual practice of whole body prayers. 108 prostrations (Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutations) as an act of devotion and reverence. We practice the Sun Salutations in a different way that embodies their origin, the full body prostrations of spiritual pilgrims traversing from home to holy ...

Live Asana 1/14/24 - Effort & Ease - Sthira & Sukha

A balanced flow where effort and ease are woven together throughout. Starts seated, moves to standing, culminates in simple, grounded backbends and then settles into hip openers and savasana.

Live Satsang Soul Circle 1/7/24 - Sthira + Sukha - Effort + Ease - Strength + Surrender

Audio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FR3wQDeEczyR5t8uP5vc9Nr1IUuptNus

Sthira refers to stability, intent, and strength. Sukha refers to ease, openness and surrender.

CONTEMPLATIONS (for thin...