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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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...
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Replenish
This practice emphasizes simplicity along with hip stretches and forward bends to support a downshifting of your nervous system to replenish you and sustain your capacity for action.
We’ll end this practice with a few potent affirmations to help you feel grounded and safe.
You might like to hav...
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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...
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Bless Up
Bless Up is an opportunity to ground yourself in gratitude, to connect with our many blessings, even when life feels hard.
This practice is mostly low to the ground with emphasis on the four quadrants of your hips.
It culminates with some full-spectrum gratitude affirmations and a blissful sava...
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Nurture
This practice creates an opportunity to slow down and turn your awareness inward to take stock of what you NEED right now to feel your best.
A little bit of simple slow flow plus a couple longer holds in hip openers may be just right for getting right with yourself.
You might like to have a blo...
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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.