Back+Neck
These home practices emphasize strength, stretch or mobility in entire spine, including your cervical spine, your neck. While these home practices also include movements and postures that touch other areas of your body, they accentuate our ability to articulate through our spines and find reliable ways to strengthen the muscles that move our spines as well as stretch those muscles to release tension and holding patterns.
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The Sunrise Within
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...
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Flow State
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...
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Sunkissed
This short practice emphasizes energy expanding, like the rays of the sun.
We’ll efficiently explore the front gates of your chest, hip flexors and shoulders to let lightness into your heart center and help you feel luminous inside and out.
You might like to have a block for today’s practice.
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Live Asana 6/11/23
Live Asana 6/11/23 - June BLOOM - Heart openers to activate courage to bloom! Per your previous requests, this blooming practice includes heart openers, shoulder mobility, side stretching and a Camel (Ustrasana) clinic to perhaps improve your relationship with this beneficial pose.
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Sweet Release
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...
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Ease Into It
This is a thorough, mobility-focused practice full of dynamic stretches to help you go from stiff to superb.
This is a sequence that is included in ALL of my practices these days, I love how it prepares me for the day or a workout. I especially love it in the morning to get things started right!...
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Flow Focus Feel
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Good Day Sunshine
While we can’t control the sun in the sky, we CAN affect the sunshine within us.
This practice with heart openers, side body stretches, a little bit of obliques core and some well-timed hip openers will help you amplify the light within to boost YOUR mood and that of the people you interact with...
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Live Asana: Hearts & Hips from Bali 3/15/23
Live Asana: Hearts & Hips from Bali 3/15/23
A morning practice on the day we explored Relational Health. Focus is on both our hearts and our hips. Once again my attempt to capture Michael singing live was thwarted, this time by Zoom trying to cancel out "background noise". Hard to do this withou...
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Take Heart
I think grounded heart openers are the perfect blend of centering and uplifting energy.
Through shoulder and side body stretches and grounded but expansive standing poses and approachable backbends, we’ll aim to liberate the 360 degree space of our heart centers both physically and energetically.
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Ritual ~ Morning
A sweet, short practice for morning that moves your spine in every direction + meditation.
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Knot Comes Loose
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...
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Live Asana 12/11/22
Live Asana 12/11/22 - Reflection or Svadhyaya - A SolaLuna practice that is both spicy and sweet. It intends to support the strength and courage needed for self-reflection as well as the receptivity and ease to foster growth. Twists, turning inward, hamstring and hip flexor stretches galore.
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Restart
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...
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September 2022 Live Asana
September 2022 Live Asana - HARVEST - Grounded backbends
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Back At It
For a lot of us, our mid and upper backs lose mobility due to posture, lifestyle and a lot of the same movements over and over again.
This practice aims to restore some mobility and increase a feeling of freedom in your mid and upper back as well as their neighbors, your shoulders.
It combines ...
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Live Asana 8/7/22
Live Asana 8/7/22 - Wholeness - Solaluna practice
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Heart of Gold
This practice enlivens your heart center – all 360 degrees of it.
If you’re feeling a little dull or just want to amplify your heart’s offerings, this practice will help!
It includes side openers, chest expansion, twists and a little core cultivation to get you feeling empowered, free and shin...
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Recovery Boost
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 ...
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Live Asana 4/3/22
A spritely, Spring practice with just the right amount of fire to light you up.
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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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Yoga For Self-Love
Self-love is sometimes elusive, even amongst those of us that freely show others love, compassion and kindness. It’s a constant work in progress.
This practice aims to enhance your awareness of the power of your heart and a feeling of warmth for yourself through movement, breathwork and affirmat...