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Thoracic Freedom Flow
Do this short practicedaily to maintain and enhance your thoracic freedom! (includes your chest, back, shoulder blades and shoulders!) Once you learn the flow, you can do it anywhere! 10/10 recommend this investment in your long-term mobility and love of life and living fully!
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Bija Surya Namaskar
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3 Pranayamas For Vigor
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Chakra Bija Mantras
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Live Meditation 6/23/24 - Virya ~ Vigor ~ Inner Warrior
A short, gentle movement practice sets the stage for acknowledging and caring for your inner warrior. We explore two ways we express our warrior vigor - in crisis and in personal evolution. Our warrior is always within, but not an unlimited resource. Self-care, discernment and boundaries are esse...
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Live Satsang 6/9/24 - Virya ~ Vigor ~ Inner Warrior
Tap into your vigor to face the challenges of life with intention and empowerment. This Satsang was LIT. Give it a listen and explore what is calling for your vigor to rise up right now.
Audio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTp2ynBfReYjMO7BEg-htW6f5XVgnzkQ/
Time stamps:
Greetin...
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Live Asana 6/15/24 ~ Virya ~ Vigor ~ Inner Warrior
Live Asana 6/15/24 ~ Virya ~ Vigor + Inner Warrior
This practice opens with my Thoracic Freedom flow to stoke the heart fire, then goes into the Agile Warrior sequence I've been doing, some seated breathwork bookend a sequence of warrior poses followed by hip openers and rest!
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Live Movement + Meditation 5/19/24 - Maitri
Live Movement + Meditation 5/19/24 - Maitri Meditation - Loving Kindness
A little movement practice to support your mobility (every day my friends, a little bit every day goes a long way!) followed by a classic meditation: Maitri Meditation. We generate loving kindness in rounds beginning with o...
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Live Satsang 5/5/24 - MAITRI ~ Loving Kindness
Live Satsang 5/5/24 - MAITRI - Loving Kindness - Make Friends With Your Mind Part 3. This month we're exploring a loving-kindness centered approach to the Inner Critic, building off one of the Parts (from Internal Family Systems) and the Cognitive Distortions (part of Maya or illusion, that we fo...
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Live Asana 5/12/24 ~ Maitri ~ Loving Kindness
An evening live practice with focus on cultivating loving kindness. Includes Gina's Thoracic Freedom Flow. Emphasizes water and earth elements and has some fabulous hip openers.
Playlists available here: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlists/68569-may-2024-focus-maitri-loving-kind...
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Surrender
Some days we just need to surrender the cognitive and emotional load we’re carrying and this practice can help.
It’s a short Yin style practice that emphasizes nervous system downregulation, breath awareness and dropping into a state of calm.
You will need either a bolster or a rolled up blanke...
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Live Asana 4/21/24
In this solar Vinyasa practice, I focused on poses that support determination as well as opportunities to explore cognitive distortions arising.
This month we continue Making Friends With Our Minds by identifying, naming and then confronting MAYA, the veil of illusion, often in the form of the c...
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Freebird
Freedom requires that we break loose of the bonds that hold us down.
For many of us, it’s negative self-perception that keeps us restrained from recognizing our actual potential.
This class challenges you to tap into the courage to believe you’re capable of more than you’ve let yourself believe...
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Heart's Desire
This is a shoulder and chest focused practice with the intention of not only stretching and strengthening these parts of your body but also cultivating the energies of courage and open-heartedness.
Through shoulder mobility, chest expansion, core fortification and a final backbend, we’ll leave f...
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Live Satsang 4/14/24 - Maya
April 2024 - Making Friends with Your Mind Pt 2: MAYA - The veil of illusion. We explored the major cognitive distortions - the illusions we cognitively participate in.
Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rrIepa4-c1JcAyRbfAYlOIK0a7othWgb
No time stamping since teaching and sharing are ...
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Live Bonus Satsang 03/29/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind
Make Friends With Your Mind Bonus Satsang - Exploring obstacles, reframes and new approaches to the usual tricks our ego mind likes to play on us that keep us from moving through the world sure of who we are. We talk about pleasing, selflessness, boundaries, external validation and seeking approv...
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Moon Drops 2
The second in a series! This one is entirely seated.
Moon Drops is a series of short, lunar energy practice meant to complement the more solar energy series – 5 Yoga Shorts.
Each practice in this series is meant to help you drop in to the moment, reset yourself and re-emerge feeling grounded, c...
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Moon Drops 4
This is another short and sweet lunar energy practice in the Moondrops series.
Each practice is made up of a combination of simple slow flow and hip openers, each with a primary focus on a different quadrant of your hips.
This Moondrops practice focuses on the front of your hips: hip flexors an...
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Live Movement + Meditation 3/24/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind
Live Movement + Meditation 3/24/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind - A Self-Compassion Guided Meditation + continued discussion
Time stamps:
0:000-1:40 - Opening
1:40-13:45 - Mindful movement
13:45-29:30 - Teaching on ahamkara, function of ego, how the mind can turn into your enemy
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Moon Drops 1
The first in a series!
Moon Drops is a series of short, lunar energy practice meant to complement the more solar energy series – 5 Yoga Shorts.
Each practice in this series is meant to help you drop in to the moment, reset yourself and re-emerge feeling grounded, centered and calm, even when yo...
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Live Asana 3/17/24
Live Asana 3/17/24 - St. Patrick's Day - Trinity - Impermanence
0:00-9:00 - Greetings, meaning of St. Patrick's Day and how that relates to Yoga practice and today's offering. Note: In my excitement to share all the things, I neglected to honor my lineage and say that I initially learned this co...
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Live Satsang 3/10/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind
Make Friends With Your Mind - explore identity, ego and AHAMKARA - the "I-Maker" - just as we and those around us construct our identities, we have the power to change them, expand them and continually challenge them to be sure we're living in alignment, vs on auto-pilot or in an effort to fulfil...
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Yoga For Anxiety
This practices supports you in centering and grounding when you’re experiencing a bout of anxiety!
One point of focus is APANA, or the downward flow of energy so you start to come out of the head-spin and get grounded. The other focus is SAMANA or the inward flow of energy so you regain a feelin...
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Live Meditation 2/25/24
Live Yoga Nidra from Soulshine Bali - This is a practice typically done laying down, in full relaxation!
It's a powerful, guided practice to sink a sankalpa, or powerful affirmation, deep in your consciousness where it can bear fruit.
Audio-only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16oOGV7H...