Hips+Legs+Feet
These home practices emphasize strength, stretch or mobility in your hips, legs, feet and ankles. While these home practices also include movements and postures that touch other areas of your body, they accentuate our roots.
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Live Asana 9/10/23
Live Asana 9/10/23 - A flow, static pose and balance pose practice designed to support DHARANA - your focus + presence!
0:00-11:30 - Greeting, context and education
11:30-end - PracticeInvitation to free-write after your practice about if you felt present and focused, challenges you faced, opp...
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Live Asana 8/13/23
Live Asana 8/13/23 - Compassion - Live from Portland! We explore Effort + Ease with standing balance poses and a beautiful soundtrack
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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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Live Asana 7/16/23
Live Asana 7/16/23 - Energy Management - Mobility, hip openers, arm balances and lots of CHOICE!
0:00-13:00 - Context and connection to this month's theme of Energy Management
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Moon Drops 3
The third in a series of lunar energy short practices, this one combines slow flow vinyasa with outer hip openers that encourage deep release and liberation of your creative energy!
You might like to have a block for today’s practice.
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Bonus Live Asana 6/21/23
Summer Solstice and International Day of Yoga Bonus Live Practice! Nicely balanced SolaLuna practice with dynamic flow and hip openers alike!
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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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Live Asana 4/16/23
Live Asana 4/16/23 - A more workshop style practice breaking down chatturanga, side arm balance and variations (vasisthasana) and crow (bakasana). Progressions and exercises for each are included for you to experience the poses in an integrated and more sustainable way. I also include some possib...
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Flow Focus Feel
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Down A Notch
Some days it feels impossible to THINK ourselves into chill.
Down A Notch is a hip centric practice that emphasizes APANA or downward moving energy to get you into that state of ease that you’re craving.
We’ll be sure to touch all 4 quadrants of your hips and prioritize slow, deep breaths to do...
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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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Ritual ~ Evening
A sweet, short practice for evening that downshifts your energy, softens your mood + breathwork.
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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 1/15/23
Live Asana 1/15/23 - A flowing, progressive practice. A great practice for exploring movement within postures, the synchronicity of breath and body and generally coloring outside the lines a bit to support your creative impulses! Context first and the practice begins around 6 minutes.
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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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Integration
This practice supports taking a pause to integrate what’s been going on in your life lately.
It gives you a chance to digest recent experiences and process them through a methodical pace, mindful breathing and hip openers of all 4 quadrants of your hips.
May it be of benefit, especially during...