This practice aims to support your physical and mental recovery through both slow flow and static stretching.

The sequence provides stretches to all major muscle groups while the pacing and vibe give your mind and nervous system a chance to downshift and restore.

It’s a great recovery practice ...

Gratitude is kritanja in Sanskrit - we explore the etymology of the word, what it means, how it relates to attachment/aversion, enlightenment/awakening and grace! We also have real talk about how to zoom out and feel gratitude especially when things are challenging your ability to feel it. "I'm f...

Wouldn’t it be nice if when we decided to RELEASE something that was troubling us that it simply disappeared?!

But we all know that’s rarely the case.

What we CAN do though is choose to RELEASE the CHARGE surrounding whatever it is, to clear the emotional path a bit for resolution or forbearanc...

Live Satsang - A Gathering Of True People - on SHUNYATA, the absence of the conditioned and the touching of the unconditioned. Plus beautiful, powerful shares, questions and comments from our Potluck community.

Stretching & Meditation - 1/2 seated stretches + 1/2 meditation - with music

Live Meditation (Tonglen) - Taking In and Sending Out - A Tibetan Buddhist practice to awaken compassion

Who doesn’t love a great hike?

This is an effective recovery practice after a glorious hike, a long walk or even a run!

It emphasizes stretching calves, hamstrings, quads and hips as well as opens up your chest and shoulders.

Accelerate your recovery with this practice to get back out on the t...

Breathwork & Meditation - 1/2 breathwork + 1/2 meditation - with music

Sometimes we love the contemplative pauses and deeper stretch through longer holds and other times we want to find a flow state with continuous synchronized breath and movement.

Today’s practice is just that, smooth and continuous. It challenges you to maintain conscious breath as you move throu...

Live Meditation 8/20/23 - Karuna / Compassion

A guided meditation to evoke compassion and a sincere wish for yourself and others to be free of any pain, hurt and sorrow.

0:00-10:00 - Greeting and context for meditation
10:00-35:00 - Meditation
35:00-End - Soul Circle

Audio only meditation with...

This lunar practice is full of glorious static stretches to support a deep feeling of dissolving the stress of the day in your body.

We’ll take a journey through all the major joints and common tension spots in your body and invite your parasympathetic nervous system to the party for deep relaxa...

Live Satsang Soul Circle 6/4/23 - BLOOM

Audio-only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ac4kDZkpYNtSA9FHWNeq-9wUymHhAxCQ

In this Satsang we explore the concept of living in BLOOM and 3 of the main impediments to showing up as your best, most authentic self and the practices and strategies to work ...

Live Meditation 4/30/23 on April's focus on perseverance or tapas. Combines breathwork and inner flame visualization to re-ignite and burn off.

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sbBUXwzMUbURUzbytQtU378UJkj9QlW9/view?usp=sharing

Time stamps:
0:00 gentle stretching
1:30 prep + context
...

Live Satsang 4/2/23 We explore perseverance and through the yogic lens, tapas. How to follow through for the long game with things we deeply value vs short term efforts that use mainly willpower.

Audio-only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TTLHx4yc8NfMkNvVkHpHhaV3dXMEgr2q

Some prompts ...

Live Meditation 3/26/23 with Gina on March 2023 theme Self-Compassion - includes a few minutes of mindful movement, a couple minutes of breathwork and a guided meditation on self-compassion and loving kindness.

Downloadable audio only file of just the meditation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/...

Live Satsang on our February 2023 Focus: RITUAL

Audio only file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13uxSBcxL8ByR7O7bG9_PhyQ1MI2FZ0Rb/view?usp=share_link

0:00-20:00 Teaching on Ritual
20:00-52:00 Community integration and sharing
52:00-End Invitation to engage with ritual, announcements

A pranayama (breathwork) based meditation with 2 simple prana chants.

Welcome, context + teaching 0:00-5:00
Options + instructions 5:00-11:00
Meditation 1 11:00-19:00
Meditation 2 23:00-29:00
Community Soul Circle 29:00 - End

Audio only (MP3): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x1BIiB8c6LE-E_5fwC...

Inspired by the title of one of my favorite songs, Knot Comes Loose is a slow, deep stretch practice to unwind and release the effects of chronic stress and tension.

We’ll lovingly explore some of the most common places for tension knots like chest, shoulders and necks, hips and back and even yo...

Yoga Mala is a reverential moving meditation of 108 Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) to initiate and stabilize the changes that often accompany a new year.

I break the practice into meaningful rounds of intention and make an inspiring playlist to support this whole body prayer for the new cycle ...

Just like a computer that can get bogged down with too many open tabs, windows and apps, so can we when we’re juggling a lot of things at once.

And just like a computer, we also benefit from regular restarts to clear the slate so we can focus our attention where it’s truly needed most and be ful...

Live Satsang - 8/17/22 - WHOLENESS

Key points and sources I referenced:

- Wholeness is a 3 part journey: Contemplation - Action - Healing

- Yoga Sutra 2.1 says Yoga requires the cultivation (kriya) of discipline (tapas), self-awareness (svadhyaya) and faith (isvara pranidhana) which could corr...

This is a strength and stability practice to support those hard working joints, your knees.

This practice pays special attention to not hyperextending your knees, where your quads, hamstrings, calves and shins can be mostly passive and avoids deep knee bending as well as avoids all postures tha...

Renewing ourselves calls for emptying out internal clutter to make space for what we value most.

This quiet practice emphasizes groundedness in hip openers and twists, breathwork and deep stretches to release the dead weight and open us up to what’s possible.