An embodied practice of staying grounded and staying open, loving kindness as resistance. Think heart openers, but the grounded type with emphasis on not just stretching the spaces that surround our hearts but also tending to other muscles that shut down in freeze, fight or flight.

May you feel ...

Live Satsang Soul Circle 8/3/25 - Metta or Loving-Kindness when it feels REALLY REALLY HARD!

Time stamps:
0:00 - 34:30 - Intro, context and teaching on Metta Bhavana
34:30-1:19 - Soul Circle shares

Audio-only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eotBixxTR0TcVmbseAltXyGipO04Lkke/view?usp=sharing

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Live Meditation 7/27/25 - Ananda or Your Joy Is Not A Betrayal talk, movement and meditation

Audtio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3Jtua0AEZh3yiGCfyVZhlJyvBpTOtRX/view?usp=sharing

Video time stamps:
0:00-21:40 - New teaching on Joy in hard times
21:40-30:00 - Movement
30:00-50:00 - Med...

After an opening context on Joy and the purpose of asana (posture practice) in the broader scope of Yoga, we dive into a embodied Joy practice with several different types of embodied joy opportunities. It's a fun one!

Opening context: 0:00-9:00
Practice: 9:00-1:05:00

Practice playlist: https:/...

Live Satsang Soul Circle 7/13/25 - Ananda - Your Joy Is Not A Betrayal. In today's Satsang we explore that friction some of us are experiencing between engaging in our own joy while others are sufferings, our privilege and joy as resistance. Juicy stuff here and in the shares that follow the dhar...

According to Hindu mythology, the universe itself is a divine play—Lila—not a punishment or a test, but a creative unfolding. This meditation isn’t about escaping reality. It’s about reconnecting to the part of ourselves that remembers how to wonder. To imagine. To feel. Even, and especially, in ...

Live Asana 6/15/25 - Lila or Play and this class has plenty of opportunities to be curious about what's possible today - curiosity is the root of play!

Silly balance poses, funky hip openers, and a challenging side arm sequence all designed to stoke your curiousity. As it is on the mat, as it is...

Lila — Reclaiming Divine Play -- What if life wasn’t meant to just be endured? What if life isn’t a task to complete but a adventure to join in? This Satsang Soul Circle is about reconnecting with the spirit of play not as a luxury or escape, but as a vital, sacred, and even scientific necessity ...

We wrap this month's exploration of IDENTITY or AHAMKARA with this guided meditation that reminds us that we are the authors of our identity story, we just forget that we're the ones who wrote it, so can always rewrite it. We are the observers of the story, not the story itself. This month has fe...

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/