This month we're focusing on IDENTITY - a story WE write about ourselves but then promptly forget we are the authors. We can re-write the story anytime we choose. So I let curiosity be my muse in crafting this class. What if? Could I? What happens when?

We head towards mermaid so of quad and hip...

Identity is the story you tell yourself about who you are… and then forget you’re the one who wrote it. In this month's Satsang, we explore Identity from the Yogic Perspective (Ahamkara + Asmita), Neuroscience and life patterns in general. I feel with my whole being that this is one of the most i...

Live Meditation - 4/27/25 - Root To Rise - A bit of preparatory movement followed by a guided meditation that includes breath awareness, body awareness and visualizations.

Time stamps:
0:00 - 8:05 - Intro + context
8:05 - 19:10 - gentle movement
19:10-45:00 - guided meditation

Audio-only versio...

Live Asana 4/13/25 - Root To Rise practice. As it is on the mat, so it is in life! We start with wide legged stances to support a feeling of groundedness, then play with bringing that grounded centeredness into balance with a feeling of rising and opening.

Playlist:

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Live Satsang 4/6/25 - Root to Rise - Apana + Prana, Samana + Vyana Vayu

This month we're exploring Root to Rise, or the balance of energy required for growth. To rise and expand, we must also contract and ground.

I came up with several journal prompts for you to explore this month on this topic...

A guided meditation on shifting anger into energy that you can choose how to use. And the Soul Circle we didn't have earlier this month! At first glance, you may decide you don't need this because you don't feel angry but this meditation and our conversation that follow uses Yogic perspectives an...

Live Asana 3/16/25 ~ a practice for working with Anger or Krodha. Anger isn't bad per se, it's our relationship with anger and how we work with it that can be regressive or out of alignment with our values. We often try to talk ourself out of emotions - maybe sometimes it works. But using your bo...

Part 1 of our Satsang on Anger (Krodha) and how to work with it skillfully from a Yoga perspective. I recorded this since I'm in a very different time zone and a live session would be tough but we will have our Soul Circle on this topic in conjunction with our Live Meditation on 3/23 to see how t...

Based on a Yoga Nidra, this guided meditation includes several different techniques for getting focused and grounded including a very powerful mantra. We begin with some simple movement to prepare to sit and then dive in and use several different techniques to cultivate focus. My great hope is th...

Emphasizes the tool of FOCUS on breath, alignment + balance in support of working skillfully with vishāda or emotional overwhelm. Your focus cannot be controlled by anyone but you, despite near constant attempts to control it. We flex focus like a muscle. Hone it and tone it by focusing in the fl...

Live Satsang 2/2/25 - Vishāda - Working Skillfully with Emotional Overwhelm

Vishāda is the Sanskrit word for despair, dejection or emotional overwhelm to the point of paralysis or collapse. (please note, spelling of Sanskrit words in the auto-captions is almost always incorrect)

In this Satsang...

This kicks off with a short talk with examples on Flow State challenges, a reminder that our community is a refuge in challenging times, some gentle stretches to discharge stress and tension and then a guided meditation that starts with a body scan, then breath awareness, then focus on Flow State...

This month we explore what constitutes a "Flow State" or the states called Dharana and Dhyana in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

Audio-only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15EA3EI4fv9jg5brtFUnzb-ZVztZ8D5bJ

I reference an important book in my life and personal evolution that I read in college,...

Kicking off 2025 with a ritual practice of 108 cycles of prostration - a more reverential version of Sun Salutations. In each one we take a pranam, or a prostration with the spirit of reverence.

Playlist on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/yoga-mala-2025/pl.u-YmbEg5Mcq1EyPY

Spot...

Live Movement + Meditation on MATI or Self-Reflection/Perception 12/29/24

Time stamps:
0:00-5:00: Welcome & intro
5:00-21:00: Gentle movement & mobility
21:00-42:00: Guided meditaiton

Audio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nVh0_EEglJWrLIeABl6SwCHvxk_uE-yW/

Live Asana 12/15/24 ~ MATI ~ Self-Reflection ~ Turning your attention inward towards Self with Eagle inspired postures, balance work, forward bends and hip mobility enhancers.

Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh's quote "Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. The wounded...

This month we explore a niyama from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika: MATI or self-reflection. Mati invites us into the practice of deep self-inquiry: a commitment to exploring our values, questioning our unconscious patterns, and aligning our actions with our aspirations.

It challenges us to pause and...

Live Movement + Meditation 11/24/24 - Grounding ~ Apana Vayu with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Glorious, simple, grounding movement followed by a beautiful nature-based visualization meditation.

Time stamps:
Opening: 0:00 - 4:45
Movement: 4:45 - 31:00
Meditation: 31:00-52:00
Closing: 52:00-53:35...

Live Asana 11/10/24 A grounding practice from New Zealand

Lots of technical difficulties but we finally made it happen using my phone and cellular so please excuse both the blurred background and the lack of music for this one.

Includes breathwork, kriya (purification), opportunities to dischar...

In this live Satsang Soul Circle, we focus on Grounding, what it is and how to support it physically, mentally and energetically both through the lens of Yoga + Ayurveda and general Wellness principles, both evidence backed and experience backed!

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yVDc...

A meditation on time (kala) as cycles, inspired by breath waves. The breath is the greatest teacher of all of time as cyclical, of impermanence and the connection of all things.

Audio-only of meditation + soul circle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H_M71y9371knql1FKRRe38CWVbR74oW7/view?usp=sha...

Live Asana 10/13/24 - Time, Cycles, Kala - a big fun Progressive Namaskar sequence. A progressive Namaskar is a big cycle made up of smaller, repetitive cycles but each new cycle brings a new movement. We get to bear witness to what remains similar in each cycle of our lives and how there is alwa...

Live Satsang Soul Circle 10/6/24 Time / Kala

In this Satsang we explore our relationship with TIME. Most Westerners think of time as LINEAR, while the source of Yoga considers time to be CYCLICAL. We explore the differences between the two and the potential benefits of seeing time as cyclical vs...

Live Movement + Meditation 9/29/24 - Kindness & Compassion

Audio-only version:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T841_qLCYWYXHBc9BYQmYwR5vfM1srJV/view?usp=sharing

Intro: 0:00-2:41
Movement: 2:42-17:40
Guided Meditation:17:41-45:51