Back+Neck

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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  • Live Asana 9/22/24

    This practice will liberate your upper back, neck, shoulders, chest and sides - if your heart is the epicenter of kindness, compassion and all forms of moral beauty then we gotta set it freeeeee.

    Practice playlist: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlists/70310-september-2024-servic...

  • Honor

    Honor is a practice with heart. In this flow, we embody the qualities of humility and honor through a series of spacious heart openers followed by reverential bows and forward bends before culminating in a moment of deep gratitude.

  • Centering

    A short and flow practice of just the right intensity to get yourself centered for the day.

    Hip mobility and twists are emphasized to support you feeling great in your body.

  • Slow Down Restorative

    Grab your pillows and blankets, this deeply relaxing restorative yoga practice will help take you from NO CHILL to GLORIOUSLY STILL.

    If you have yoga bolsters, blankets and blocks, you’ll want to use them and if you don’t, bed pillows, throw pillows and blankets or beach towels will absolutely w...

  • Move It Through

    Whether you feel physically stiff and stuck or mentally unable to break out of a rut, this dynamic practice will help you move things through.

    We’ll especially liberate your hips, chest and spine to get energy flowing again!

  • Regulate

    Enjoy a sweet return to nervous system homeostasis.

    Life often has us amped up, pedal to the metal and gentle, mellow practices like this help us tap the brakes and return to that perfect balance.

    Simple and sweet wind-down practice to regulate your nervous system and return to balance.

  • Live Asana 7/21/24

    A playful practice emphasizing the WONDERousness of our spines and hips! It includes some opportunities to push your growth edges or release into a hip opener! Have some fun, be curious, that's what feeds WONDER!

    Links to the playlist are here: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlis...

  • Recuperate

    This nourishing practice focuses on three main areas for a full spectrum recuperation and rest after any kind of activity.

    We start with a focus on shoulders, then spine, then bring it home with hips.

    And the whole thing has a mellow vibe for the downshift you need.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Emerge

    Sometimes we feel a little shut down or bound tight and Emerge supports us coming back into our true selves.

    Side bends, heart openers and quad stretches all activate a feeling of re-opening the front gates and stepping fully into our lives once again.

    You might like to have 2 blocks and a blan...

  • Live Asana 2/11/24

    Live Asana February 2024 - Focus on Connection of self to Self - conditioned self to True Self

    Includes flow, heart openers, side bends, twists and even a little arm balancing + tips.

    Contemplate: How does asana practice support the union of conditioned self to True Self? How do all the moment...

  • Be The Light

    The body-mind feedback loop has a powerful impact on how you feel and show up in the world. What’s going on in your mind is constantly being expressed through your body and how your body is moving is reflecting in your mental state too!

    This practice includes strong standing poses, expansive sid...

  • Live Asana 1/14/24 - Effort & Ease - Sthira & Sukha

    Live Asana 1/14/24 - Effort & Ease - Sthira & Sukha

    A balanced flow where effort and ease are woven together throughout. Starts seated, moves to standing, culminates in simple, grounded backbends and then settles into hip openers and savasana.

  • Live Asana 12/17/23

    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...

  • Reflect

    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...

  • Cleanse

    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...

  • Live Asana 10/8/23

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Renewal

    Renewing ourselves calls for emptying out internal clutter to make space for what we value most.

    This quiet practice emphasizes groundedness in hip openers and twists, breathwork and deep stretches to release the dead weight and open us up to what’s possible.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...