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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Chillax
A sweet, low to the ground practice to help you wind down and give a little gratitude to your body.
We explore all 4 movements of your spine and hip stretches to give you a chance to discharge any stress from the day and to leave you feeling absolutely chill.
You might like to have a block for ...
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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...
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Sunshine Flow
This practice is all about RISE and SHINE!
It’s a flow practice designed to get your energy moving and the light in your eyes burning bright again!
Though it’s made for morning, it’s a great practice for anytime you’re feeling a little flat!
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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!
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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.
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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...
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Dial It Back
When stress is rising, sometimes you just need to simplify, ground yourself and dial things back.
This low to the ground practice keeps things simple but thorough so you can restore balance to your nervous system.
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Slow Build
This is a progressive flow in rounds where each round includes a new pose that builds on the last. Really efficient for when you have short time and want to move some energy!
Not only does it allow us to use more of our body in each round, but it can have a meditative quality when you drop into ...
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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.
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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 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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Heavenly Hips
Whether it’s caused by our stress holding patterns, activities or good ole aging, sometimes our hips feel tight and creaky, especially that elusive outer hip including your gluteus medius, minimus, tensor fascia lata and IT band.
In this practice we’ll take a slow journey into some much needed s...
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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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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 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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Trinity
Asana – Breathwork – Meditation – the Yoga Trinity
In this practice we’ll move through a hip-centric flow before grounding ourselves with some relaxation inducing breathwork and then settle in for a short meditation practice.
I crafted this for those days when you want it all but have short tim...
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Cherish
This slow flow practice leads to deeper pauses and holds in hip openers to support a need to move energy through your body and then cherish yourself in stillness.
It focuses on hip mobility and centering balance poses while cultivating nervous system equilibrium.
You might enjoy being near a wa...
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Basics
I created this practice for anyone craving a simple practice, anyone who never got some of the nuts and bolts of the basics, anyone re-starting a practice and of course, anyone who is new to yoga!
We cover all the orientations – seated, kneeling, inverted, prone, standing and supine and do some ...
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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.
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Charging
Charging…we see it when we plug in our phones and other devices but do we give ourselves the same opportunity to restore your energetic charge?
This practice aims to do just that – we start with some very simply flow to discharge any energetic debris and then settle into a seated hip opening seq...
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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...
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Live Asana 11/12/23
Sublime Live Slow Flow To Restorative (LunaRest) Practice with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Focus on gratitude, our theme for November 2023.