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...

Bless Up is an opportunity to ground yourself in gratitude, to connect with our many blessings, even when life feels hard.

This practice is mostly low to the ground with emphasis on the four quadrants of your hips.

It culminates with some full-spectrum gratitude affirmations and a blissful sava...

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 ...

Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist meditation practice to awaken compassion. It means "taking in and sending out". With each in-breath, we take in others’ pain. With each out-breath, we send them relief.

It's the most powerful meditation I know, both for the meditator and the objects of our loving ...

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 Satsang 10/01/23 - Impermanence - Anitya - Anicca

Impermanence
Anitya in Sanskrit – Anicca in Pali

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14uAflgnTRM-4LNn0Ou74ctLwwtlrlZxO

One of the kleshas, the 5 oot causes of suffering – AVIDYA – ignorance
For example, ignorance of the connection ...

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...

This lively practice emphasizes twists as a way to ring out anything that would dim your inner light and leaves you with a sense of rising up into a fresh start.

We’ll combine flow with core work, balance and standing poses before we wind it down and ground ourselves with a couple well-timed hip...

Stabilize is a practice I created in response to requests for knee friendly practices! It’s the second in the Happy Knees series!

In this one I focus on stability - poses and movements within poses that will strengthen the muscles that support your knee joints including quadriceps and gluteus m...

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...

This Integrated Vinyasa short home practice is a continuous flow, with focus on synching breath and movement through a range of postures that support you feeling nimble and dialed in.

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...

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...

A twist of fate is an unexpected change in circumstances and often our Yoga practice provides just that, a shift.

This practice uses twists of all sorts to shift your perspective and wring out any stagnancy or stuck thoughts and emotions. There's an option for a twisted arm balance and alternati...

Meditation for Sleep - no music

Focus on the present moment has been an effective technique for getting grounded since time immemorial.

This practice emphasizes legs and hips and your relationship to the solid ground beneath you to support your feeling of presence and stability.

You might like to have a block for this practice.

This practice is like stepping out for a breath of fresh air.

It supports you in activating your life force and reinvigorating yourself.

I included expansive movements within poses, just the right amount of flow and simple heart openers to lift you up.

Live Satsang 3/13/22 - Creativity from the yoga perspective, Shiva/Shakti and barriers to expression

Getting good sleep is essential for your health and wellbeing. But sometimes, an excellent night of zzzzzzs feels out of reach.

This practice is meant to be done next to your bed. It includes simple movements in every direction to discharge your excess energy, a couple in-bed postures and a guid...

Live Satsang 8/15/21 - One of the best satsangs yet. We're talking passion, grief and impermanence.

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies, we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
~ Mumford & Sons

Also, google "Sand Mandala"

Sometimes we feel our get up and go has gone up and went. I created this Integrated Vinyasa practice by request for a simple, morning friendly practice on days where you just don't feel motivated.

While it can be practiced any time of day, I took special care to include bent-knee and wide leg fo...