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.

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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...

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...

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

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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...

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...

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...

This practice will liberate your upper back, neck, shoulders, chest and sides - if your heart is the epicenter of kindness, compassion and all forms of moral beauty then we gotta set it freeeeee.

Practice playlist: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlists/70310-september-2024-servic...

Live Asana with Tracey Garcia 8/18/24

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...

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!

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...

In this solar Vinyasa practice, I focused on poses that support determination as well as opportunities to explore cognitive distortions arising.

This month we continue Making Friends With Our Minds by identifying, naming and then confronting MAYA, the veil of illusion, often in the form of the c...

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...

Live Asana February 2024 - Focus on Connection of self to Self - conditioned self to True Self

Includes flow, heart openers, side bends, twists and even a little arm balancing + tips.

Contemplate: How does asana practice support the union of conditioned self to True Self? How do all the moment...

A gorgeous ritual practice of whole body prayers. 108 prostrations (Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutations) as an act of devotion and reverence. We practice the Sun Salutations in a different way that embodies their origin, the full body prostrations of spiritual pilgrims traversing from home to holy ...

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.

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...

Sublime Live Slow Flow To Restorative (LunaRest) Practice with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Focus on gratitude, our theme for November 2023.

Live Asana 10/8/23 - Impermanence - Anitya

This practice opens with an extended "warm up" before we dive into opportunities to weather the storms of challenge and savor the sweetness, all in the spirit of embracing IMPERMANENCE. You can do hard things my friends!

You'll want a block and a strap...

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 - Practice

Invitation to free-write after your practice about if you felt present and focused, challenges you faced, opp...

Live Asana 8/13/23 - Compassion - Live from Portland! We explore Effort + Ease with standing balance poses and a beautiful soundtrack

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
13:00-End - Practice

Summer Solstice and International Day of Yoga Bonus Live Practice! Nicely balanced SolaLuna practice with dynamic flow and hip openers alike!