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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Go With The Flow
This efficient practice is a progressive flow, incrementally building from simple to complex.
The standing pose progression winds down to a little hip-opener, heart-opener sequence before dropping into rest.
It’s a perfect practice for when you’re short on time but want to move mindfully and br...
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Uplift
What the body does, the mind follows and what the mind does, the body follows.
This truth means one way to hack your mood is to move your body in the ways that are more in alignment with how you want to feel.
Uplift is a practice to elevate your spirits with side openers and heart openers with ...
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Moonbeam
Moonbeams are rays of light reflected from the moon. Unlike the sun’s rays which are associated with heat and action, moonbeams are only visible in the dark of the night, a quieter and cooler time.
Their energy is that of grounded radiance and this practice embodies that same energy.
This inten...
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Back To Earth
This is a practice created in celebration of Earth Day but is great for any day that you want to activate grounding energy.
The poses all share qualities of the earth element and emphasize rooting, steadiness, and stability.
The overall effect on your body-mind-spirit complex is calmness with a...
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YINspired
This is a spin on a Yin practice in which we settle in to a pose gradually with mindful movement, pulsation or body vinyasa before enjoying the stillness of a static hold.
The fluid movements leading in support a downshift in your autonomic nervous system and allow you to move tension through be...
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A New Dawn
This practice supports any new beginning and an alignment with the energies of activation and expansion into possibility!
A standing flow culminates in an accessible backbend before grounding down into a hip opener that inspires steadiness.
Now is your time!
You might like to have a block for ...
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Down Shift
Good sleep hygiene is essential to your wellbeing.
This short, downtempo practice can become a part of your routine to support a down shifting of your nervous system and prepare your whole body-mind-spirit complex for a good night’s sleep.
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Drop In
Dropping in is about becoming present and bearing witness to yourself in the moment. Where your attention is, your mood, the sensations happening right now in your body.
It’s often harder than it sounds. Some of us need to clear out a little physical and mental clutter first and this practice wi...
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Energize
When life gives us obstacles, we want to meet them with the dual powers of fortitude and flexibility. A belief in our ability to rise to the challenge but without attachment to how it unfolds.
This practice harnesses your energy with postures that support you being strong, supple and radiant.
E...
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Dark Side of the Moon
One of the lunar phases is called the New Moon, when the sun and the moon are on the same side of the Earth, giving the perspective that the Dark Side of The Moon is facing us, or that the moon has turned inward, perhaps to regroup and reboot so she can shine again.
We’d do well to allow ourselv...
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Release
Wouldn’t it be nice if when we decided to RELEASE something that was troubling us that it simply disappeared?!
But we all know that’s rarely the case.
What we CAN do though is choose to RELEASE the CHARGE surrounding whatever it is, to clear the emotional path a bit for resolution or forbearanc...
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Steady & Strong
Did you know bison walk INTO a storm, unlike other animals like cattle? They instinctively know the fastest way out of a storm is to go directly through it rather than to drift with the winds of the storm.
Walking into challenges, both those we choose and those we don’t, requires steadiness and ...
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Nectar
Nectar is a rich and sweet liquid produced in the depths of a flower. As such, I’ve always associated it with essence and the sweetness of our life experiences – like we savor the nectar of our experiences so we don’t miss them.
Today’s practice is nectarian in that it is slow flow leading to re...
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Deep Sleep
If better and more sleep is one of your self-care priorities right now, Deep Sleep can help.
This practice emphasizes downward moving and grounding energy to support your body and mind’s transition away from the busy-ness of the day and into quality sleep and recovery.
Between deep stretch, con...
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Change of Pace
Today’s practice includes 3 distinct and cohesive segments: Activation, Transformation and Completion. It’s a well-rounded mobility practice that includes strength work as well stretch.
The emphasis is on moving and breathing not on auto-pilot but with total awareness. To support this effort, we...
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Like A River Flows
Like A River Flows is based on a popular workshop I teach and is inspired by the Earth and Water elements.
The earth provides structure and the water flows. It winds its way over, around and through obstacles because its nature is adaptable and flexible based on what it has to work with.
This p...
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Onward
This practice was inspired by the grasshopper, a symbol of good luck and abundance. Grasshoppers are blessed, in my opinion, with the power to only move forward – they can’t go backwards or sideways. So they must always call on their courage to gather the resources of the present and charge onwar...
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Meditation In Motion
You can simply DO yoga poses to stretch or strengthen your physical body OR you can fully inhabit yoga poses to cultivate extraordinary focus and awareness as well.
In Meditation in Motion, we embrace the opportunity for sharpening our focus and even up the game by challenging our focus in motio...
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Low Back Express
A healthy, high-functioning lower back requires a lot of attention and care. Our backs, especially our lower backs, are major workhorses!
The more we ask of them, the more we need to give back to them!
This express practice includes both low back and side body stretches and strengthening movem...
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Lit From Within
This practice reminds us of what Ayurveda calls TEJAS or the expression of solar energy in our body-mind-spirit complex.
Tejas is associated with our intelligence, discernment, enthusiasm, digestion and capacity for transformation.
This practice ignites your inherent solar energy, like lighting...
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Sweet Simplicity
Sweet Simplicity was inspired by those times of excess, when everything feels complicated and we just yearn for something in our lives to be basic and simple.
As I crafted this practice, I realized it felt a bit like practices I did when I first started practicing asana, before the evolution of ...
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Moonlit View
This is a sublime lunar slow-flow practice that supports a deceleration of your whole body-mind-spirit complex.
It is an embodiment of the earth and water energies with several different types of hip openers from the more fluid to still.
It’s meant to leave you feeling both more grounded and re...
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Trust
This is a practice to help you establish or reinforce your inner trust of Self.
This self-trust is an unshakeable foundation on which you show up in the world and is especially valuable in tumultuous times and when others may be looking to you for how to act or respond.
Throughout this practice...
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Patience
Patience requires the dual powers of stamina and softening.
In this home practice, we’ll explore and embody both through repetition, which requires stamina, and hip openers that require softening.
We’ll also have some well-timed check-ins on our current patience levels as well.
This fruits of...