Live Satsang Soul Circle 9/3/23 - this month's theme is DHARANA or presence and focus.

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zmKovqfyA_CN0dROFgJOcpHjsIkwlMjX/view

Where focus goes, energy flows
Where energy flows, focus goes

Richard Freeman: “A basic axiom of yoga is that Prana and citt...

November 2023 Satsang + Soul Circle on our monthly focus: Gratitude or Kritanja

What is the spiritual philosophy behind gratitude?
Why purpose does gratitude actually serve?
What is negativity bias, why do we have it and what are the risks of leaving it unchecked?
How and when are we challenged ...

Live Satsang Soul Circle from December 2023 - Focus of the month is SVADHYAYA or SELF-STUDY. Please ignore the video glitches at the beginning due to poor connectivity. Luckily the audio is constant (more important) and be thankful it's not your face freezing on the screen 🤣 🤣 🤣

We explore 2 de...

Live Movement + Meditation - Winter Solstice - 12/21/23. Simple seated sequence focusing on hip and spine mobility followed by a guided meditation in support of this month's theme of Self-Study or Svadhyaya via awareness of space, body, breath and thoughts.

Intro: Start - 3:30
Movement: 3:30 - 3...

Live Asana 12/17/23 - A SolaLuna practice that emphasizes the balance of effort and ease with awareness, focus and attention to details in support of our Self-Study or Svadhyaya theme of the month. Alignment isn't about doing it perfectly, what if it was about cultivating self-awareness as a prec...

A short, mellow movement session, a short tapping practice and meditation on gratitude!

Tapping points: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xGHgTo5S4KpdTARee2k5qAcDLv2taXPa

Audio-only of this session: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bx47z_VMGAWqnwy09Yf-ng3yLVOPeaDr

Sublime Live Slow Flow To Restorative (LunaRest) Practice with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Focus on gratitude, our theme for November 2023.

Reflect has two meanings – there’s a turning inward to witness what you’ve been through and where you’ve come from as well as a shining out of light, sound or heat into the world.

This practice supports and encourages both a tuning in to assess and a shining out from your heart and what you valu...

This practice emphasizes simplicity along with hip stretches and forward bends to support a downshifting of your nervous system to replenish you and sustain your capacity for action.

We’ll end this practice with a few potent affirmations to help you feel grounded and safe.

You might like to hav...

Twists support your both your physical AND emotional digestion and processing and this class includes several different twists!

Rotating our spines is a movement our desk and screen dominant lives don’t require much of so I try to go out of my way to twist in my yoga practices.

Enjoy this twist...

Sometimes life calls for us to assess the balance of the energy we’re putting out into the world and the energy we’re focusing inward, on ourselves and our needs.

This practice includes postures that emphasize that turning inward and a drawing of energy from the perimeter to your center. Sometim...

Live Movement + Meditation 10/15/23

We start with some simple, gentle stretches then shift into seated meditation beginning with a body scan and focus on breath and connection to past suffering and joy. The only constant is change and when something is changing, there is always POTENTIAL. Even ...

This practice creates an opportunity to slow down and turn your awareness inward to take stock of what you NEED right now to feel your best.

A little bit of simple slow flow plus a couple longer holds in hip openers may be just right for getting right with yourself.

You might like to have a blo...

Live Asana 10/8/23 - Impermanence - Anitya

This practice opens with an extended "warm up" before we dive into opportunities to weather the storms of challenge and savor the sweetness, all in the spirit of embracing IMPERMANENCE. You can do hard things my friends!

You'll want a block and a strap...

Mellow movement and stretch before a guided meditation on the 5 Layers of Being or the Pancha Koshas to support your capacity for focus (DHARANA) and presence.

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sjI1mDCK9jz-ocvtJSWp-T74Ij7CO7fA

0:00-5:00 - Greetings and context
5:00-25:00 - Mellow mov...

Live Asana 9/10/23 - A flow, static pose and balance pose practice designed to support DHARANA - your focus + presence!

0:00-11:30 - Greeting, context and education
11:30-end - Practice

Invitation to free-write after your practice about if you felt present and focused, challenges you faced, opp...

Live Meditation with Acceptance Affirmations and a Mantra:

I accept that all situations help to empower me, inspire me and give me direction and purpose.

I accept the small joys and opportunities for joy woven throughout my life.

I accept that which I cannot change and believe in myself to tak...

Patience requires the dual powers of stamina and softening.

In this home practice, we’ll explore and embody both through repetition, which requires stamina, and hip openers that require softening.

We’ll also have some well-timed check-ins on our current patience levels as well.

This fruits of...

An embodied celebration of gratitude, both giving and receiving it. Water element practice. Honoring the land, the water, the sky, all living things and the original stewards of the land we now call home.

Starts with context for the sequencing.
Gratitude meditation starts around 5:00.
Asana star...

Set Breaks during a live show are about sustainability – a little recalibration and rejuvenation for a strong second set.

This practice is for those much needed Set Break moments in your life – some slow movement through all your joints culminating in an efficient and powerful bit of restorative...

Live Asana - 5/2/21 - Springtime Emergence - Expansive side and heart openers with a consistent grounding and joy

Our August monthly live practice was an Elemental Vinyasa practice called Earth Below Me, Sky Above Me, Fire Within Me and traversed the elements of Earth, Fire and Air before heading back to Earth again for a sweet finish.

We missed all who couldn't attend and held space for you!

Please note t...

REFRESH is a two part practice and you can choose to do one or both depending on what you need in the moment!

First up is an upper body sequence that renews shoulder and spine mobility.

Second is a lower body sequence that restores freedom to all 4 quadrants of your hips.

They’re both thoroug...

This home practice was inspired by the natural elements Earth and Fire. It starts out with postures that support a feeling of groundedness and evolves into some fire stoking core and standing poses and then shifts back to earthy hip openers.