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...

Live Satsang 5/5/24 - MAITRI - Loving Kindness - Make Friends With Your Mind Part 3. This month we're exploring a loving-kindness centered approach to the Inner Critic, building off one of the Parts (from Internal Family Systems) and the Cognitive Distortions (part of Maya or illusion, that we fo...

Live Movement + Meditation 4/28/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind 2 - Embrace All Your Parts

0-1:30 Intro to Session
1:30-17:30 Stretch
17:30-23:50 Intro to Meditation
23:50-53:00 Guided Meditation
53:00-End Soul Circle

In this guided meditation, I continue the teaching on Maya or Illusion and t...

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...

April 2024 - Making Friends with Your Mind Pt 2: MAYA - The veil of illusion. We explored the major cognitive distortions - the illusions we cognitively participate in.

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rrIepa4-c1JcAyRbfAYlOIK0a7othWgb

No time stamping since teaching and sharing are ...

Make Friends With Your Mind Bonus Soul Circle - Exploring obstacles, reframes and new approaches to the usual tricks our ego mind likes to play on us that keep us from moving through the world sure of who we are. We talk about pleasing, selflessness, boundaries, external validation and seeking ap...

Live Movement + Meditation 3/24/24 - Make Friends With Your Mind - A Self-Compassion Guided Meditation + continued discussion

Time stamps:

0:000-1:40 - Opening
1:40-13:45 - Mindful movement
13:45-29:30 - Teaching on ahamkara, function of ego, how the mind can turn into your enemy
30:00 - 51:45 ...

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...

Make Friends With Your Mind - explore identity, ego and AHAMKARA - the "I-Maker" - just as we and those around us construct our identities, we have the power to change them, expand them and continually challenge them to be sure we're living in alignment, vs on auto-pilot or in an effort to fulfil...

Live Yoga Nidra from Soulshine Bali - This is a practice typically done laying down, in full relaxation!

It's a powerful, guided practice to sink a sankalpa, or powerful affirmation, deep in your consciousness where it can bear fruit.

Audio-only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16oOGV7H...

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...

February Soul Circle on CONNECTION - Yoga - Union. We explore the key connection of self to Self or individual to Divine and the transcendence of conditioning which impacts our ability to CONNECT with all other living things!

0:00 - 41:00 - Teaching
41:00 - 1:18 - Soul Circle

Audio only version...

Includes a refresher on what meditation is, what to expect, how to work with what arises and emphasizes the significance of the balance between effort + ease or sthira + sukha. Intro may be helpful for beginners to meditation. Short movement session into a guided meditation with short periods of ...

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 Satsang Soul Circle 1/7/24 - Sthira + Sukha - Effort + Ease - Strength + Surrender

Audio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FR3wQDeEczyR5t8uP5vc9Nr1IUuptNus

Sthira refers to stability, intent, and strength. Sukha refers to ease, openness and surrender.

CONTEMPLATIONS (for thin...

Live Movement + Meditation - Winter Solstice - 12/21/23. Simple seated sequence focusing on hip and spine mobility followed by a guided meditation in support of this month's theme of Self-Study or Svadhyaya via awareness of space, body, breath and thoughts.

Intro: Start - 3:30
Movement: 3:30 - 3...

Live Satsang Soul Circle from December 2023 - Focus of the month is SVADHYAYA or SELF-STUDY. Please ignore the video glitches at the beginning due to poor connectivity. Luckily the audio is constant (more important) and be thankful it's not your face freezing on the screen 🤣 🤣 🤣

We explore 2 de...

November 2023 Satsang + Soul Circle on our monthly focus: Gratitude or Kritanja

What is the spiritual philosophy behind gratitude?
Why purpose does gratitude actually serve?
What is negativity bias, why do we have it and what are the risks of leaving it unchecked?
How and when are we challenged ...

Live Movement + Meditation 10/15/23

We start with some simple, gentle stretches then shift into seated meditation beginning with a body scan and focus on breath and connection to past suffering and joy. The only constant is change and when something is changing, there is always POTENTIAL. Even ...

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 Satsang 10/01/23 - Impermanence - Anitya - Anicca

Impermanence
Anitya in Sanskrit – Anicca in Pali

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14uAflgnTRM-4LNn0Ou74ctLwwtlrlZxO

One of the kleshas, the 5 oot causes of suffering – AVIDYA – ignorance
For example, ignorance of the connection ...

Mellow movement and stretch before a guided meditation on the 5 Layers of Being or the Pancha Koshas to support your capacity for focus (DHARANA) and presence.

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sjI1mDCK9jz-ocvtJSWp-T74Ij7CO7fA

0:00-5:00 - Greetings and context
5:00-25:00 - Mellow mov...

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...