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Warm Up
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...
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Satsang - Part 1 - 3/2/25 - Krodha or Anger
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...
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Embrace
Embrace is a practice that liberates your heart center, frees your shoulders and even releases your hips. We start with a tension relieving sequencing to help you truly embrace the moment.
It’s an embodied practice of self-love to remember and honor who you are, just as you are.
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Live Meditation 2/17/25 - Vishada or Working with Emotional Overwhelm
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...
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Live Satsang - 2/2/25 - Vishāda - Emotional Overwhelm
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...
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Live Asana 2/9/25 - Vishāda - Emotional Overwhelm
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...
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Higher Love
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...
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Live Meditation 1/26/25 ~ Flow State
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...
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Top You Up
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 ...
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Live Satsang Soul Circle ~ Flow State ~ Dharana/Dhyana
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,...
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Enliven
This practice is full-spectrum and supports the activation of your life force so it’s great for when you’re feeling a little stagnant or sluggish and you want to stir things up!
It’s a flow practice with elements of core strengthening, upper body strengthening and even multiple hip openers to le...
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Live Asana - 1/5/25 - Yoga Mala
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...
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Live Meditation 12/29/24 ~ MATI ~ Self-Reflection
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 meditaitonAudio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nVh0_EEglJWrLIeABl6SwCHvxk_uE-yW/
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Live Satsang Soul Circle 12/8/24 ~ MATI ~ Self-Reflection
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...
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Gathering
This practice highlights SAMANA VAYU, or the energy that flows from outer self to inner self, a gathering in of energy if you will
We’ll start with a grounded simple flow that leads to a creative, midline energy specific sequence into some supportive hip openers.
You might like to have a block ...
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Live Asana - 11/10/24 - Grounding
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...
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PM Short Practice
I crafted these two short practices with busy times in mind.
Whether we’re out having fun with summer travel, we’re bogged down with work or it’s the holidays, it’s nice to have short practices to turn to so we can stay consistent.
One is suited to mornings and has a rise and shine vibe, the ot...
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Load In
Load In is a time to be organized, activated, focused and efficient. It is the foundation on which the rest of a live music show is built.
In this class, I’ve crafted a yoga practice that embodies all these qualities while also supporting you feeling calm and relaxed.
The first in a series of 4...
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On The Road - PM Practice
As the name would suggest, this practice pair is designed for travel! Sometimes you’re in tight spaces, sometimes you don’t have as much time as usual.
The AM practice is great for daytime, wherever and whenever you can squeeze it in. In addition to some well-rounded postures, it includes a litt...
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Live Yoga Mala 2023
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 ...
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Live Yoga Mala 2024 - 1/15/24
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 ...
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Live Satsang 8/9/24 - Auspiciousness
For August we explore AUSPICIOUSNESS - those moments in life that are most favorable and likely to bear fruit. These are excellent times to explore growth. In this video I talk about ways to tune towards your own intuition and included several journal prompts for how connected you are to signs of...
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On The Road - AM Practice
As the name would suggest, this practice pair is designed for travel! Sometimes you’re in tight spaces, sometimes you don’t have as much time as usual.
The AM practice is great for daytime, wherever and whenever you can squeeze it in. In addition to some well-rounded postures, it includes a litt...
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All In A Day's Work ~ Evening
These 3 short home practices were designed to support you throughout the day. The first practice is sensitive to your body and mind's needs in the morning before you get rolling. The second practice can be a mid-day pause at home or at work to hit the reset button. And the third practice supports...