This month we're focusing on IDENTITY - a story WE write about ourselves but then promptly forget we are the authors. We can re-write the story anytime we choose. So I let curiosity be my muse in crafting this class. What if? Could I? What happens when?

We head towards mermaid so of quad and hip...

Identity is the story you tell yourself about who you are… and then forget you’re the one who wrote it. In this month's Satsang, we explore Identity from the Yogic Perspective (Ahamkara + Asmita), Neuroscience and life patterns in general. I feel with my whole being that this is one of the most i...

Live Meditation - 4/27/25 - Root To Rise - A bit of preparatory movement followed by a guided meditation that includes breath awareness, body awareness and visualizations.

Time stamps:
0:00 - 8:05 - Intro + context
8:05 - 19:10 - gentle movement
19:10-45:00 - guided meditation

Audio-only versio...

Live Asana 4/13/25 - Root To Rise practice. As it is on the mat, so it is in life! We start with wide legged stances to support a feeling of groundedness, then play with bringing that grounded centeredness into balance with a feeling of rising and opening.

Playlist:

Spotify: https://open.spotif...

Live Satsang 4/6/25 - Root to Rise - Apana + Prana, Samana + Vyana Vayu

This month we're exploring Root to Rise, or the balance of energy required for growth. To rise and expand, we must also contract and ground.

I came up with several journal prompts for you to explore this month on this topic...

The older I get, the more obsessed I get with ankle and shoulder mobility!

Poor ankle mobility makes it impossible to use our leg muscles optimally and the same goes for shoulder mobility and upper body muscles.

This practice aims to support mobility in your ankles, shoulders and your spine to ...

A guided meditation on shifting anger into energy that you can choose how to use. And the Soul Circle we didn't have earlier this month! At first glance, you may decide you don't need this because you don't feel angry but this meditation and our conversation that follow uses Yogic perspectives an...

Live Asana 3/16/25 ~ a practice for working with Anger or Krodha. Anger isn't bad per se, it's our relationship with anger and how we work with it that can be regressive or out of alignment with our values. We often try to talk ourself out of emotions - maybe sometimes it works. But using your bo...

Part 1 of our Satsang on Anger (Krodha) and how to work with it skillfully from a Yoga perspective. I recorded this since I'm in a very different time zone and a live session would be tough but we will have our Soul Circle on this topic in conjunction with our Live Meditation on 3/23 to see how t...

Based on a Yoga Nidra, this guided meditation includes several different techniques for getting focused and grounded including a very powerful mantra. We begin with some simple movement to prepare to sit and then dive in and use several different techniques to cultivate focus. My great hope is th...

Open Hips is a mellow energy, hip liberating practice that emphasizes your inner hips or adductors and the back of your hips, your hamstrings and glutes.

This practice can stand alone for when you’re simply feeling stiff or have been sitting for long periods OR it’s a fantastic recovery practice...

Emphasizes the tool of FOCUS on breath, alignment + balance in support of working skillfully with vishāda or emotional overwhelm. Your focus cannot be controlled by anyone but you, despite near constant attempts to control it. We flex focus like a muscle. Hone it and tone it by focusing in the fl...

By your request for a pre-strength training practice!

Warm Up is a well-rounded flow practice that supports mobility at all major joints. It is designed to be a way to drop into awareness of your body and breath either prior to a strength training workout or simply on its own!

Dynamic stretch o...

Live Satsang 2/2/25 - Vishāda - Working Skillfully with Emotional Overwhelm

Vishāda is the Sanskrit word for despair, dejection or emotional overwhelm to the point of paralysis or collapse. (please note, spelling of Sanskrit words in the auto-captions is almost always incorrect)

In this Satsang...

Higher Love is unconditional and unencumbered.

In that spirit, we’ll show up for this practice just as we are and seek to dissolve any armor that encumbers our ability to both give AND RECEIVE the love that’s available.

An uplifting combination of side openers, heart openers and hip openers te...

This kicks off with a short talk with examples on Flow State challenges, a reminder that our community is a refuge in challenging times, some gentle stretches to discharge stress and tension and then a guided meditation that starts with a body scan, then breath awareness, then focus on Flow State...

This class is inspired by that phrase servers often say with regards to your beverages – "Can I top you up?"

Topping up is replenishing and restoring to the highest level and this class intends to support you in energetically getting back to a place of fullness.

It’s slow and low to the ground ...

This month we explore what constitutes a "Flow State" or the states called Dharana and Dhyana in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

Audio-only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15EA3EI4fv9jg5brtFUnzb-ZVztZ8D5bJ

I reference an important book in my life and personal evolution that I read in college,...

Kicking off 2025 with a ritual practice of 108 cycles of prostration - a more reverential version of Sun Salutations. In each one we take a pranam, or a prostration with the spirit of reverence.

Playlist on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/yoga-mala-2025/pl.u-YmbEg5Mcq1EyPY

Spot...

Live Movement + Meditation on MATI or Self-Reflection/Perception 12/29/24

Time stamps:
0:00-5:00: Welcome & intro
5:00-21:00: Gentle movement & mobility
21:00-42:00: Guided meditaiton

Audio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nVh0_EEglJWrLIeABl6SwCHvxk_uE-yW/

Live Asana 12/15/24 ~ MATI ~ Self-Reflection ~ Turning your attention inward towards Self with Eagle inspired postures, balance work, forward bends and hip mobility enhancers.

Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh's quote "Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. The wounded...

This month we explore a niyama from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika: MATI or self-reflection. Mati invites us into the practice of deep self-inquiry: a commitment to exploring our values, questioning our unconscious patterns, and aligning our actions with our aspirations.

It challenges us to pause and...

Live Movement + Meditation 11/24/24 - Grounding ~ Apana Vayu with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Glorious, simple, grounding movement followed by a beautiful nature-based visualization meditation.

Time stamps:
Opening: 0:00 - 4:45
Movement: 4:45 - 31:00
Meditation: 31:00-52:00
Closing: 52:00-53:35...

Live Asana 11/10/24 A grounding practice from New Zealand

Lots of technical difficulties but we finally made it happen using my phone and cellular so please excuse both the blurred background and the lack of music for this one.

Includes breathwork, kriya (purification), opportunities to dischar...