Lunar ~ Relaxing
Grounding, relaxing and nourishing slow flow, Yin style or Restorative style practices with emphasis on stretching and tractioning tissues with emphasis on breathwork and letting go.
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Recalibrate
Nothing happens in your mind that goes unnoticed by your body and nothing happens in your body that goes unnoticed by your mind. And largely, that’s because of your autonomic nervous system.
Recalibrate is a practice that addresses some of the common freeze-fight-or-flight spots in your body – s...
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Open Hips
Open Hips is a mellow energy, hip liberating practice that emphasizes your inner hips or adductors and the back of your hips, your hamstrings and glutes.
This practice can stand alone for when you’re simply feeling stiff or have been sitting for long periods OR it’s a fantastic recovery practice...
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Tune In
Sometimes life calls for us to assess the balance of the energy we’re putting out into the world and the energy we’re focusing inward, on ourselves and our needs.
This practice includes postures that emphasize that turning inward and a drawing of energy from the perimeter to your center. Sometim...
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Embrace
Embrace is a practice that liberates your heart center, frees your shoulders and even releases your hips. We start with a tension relieving sequencing to help you truly embrace the moment.
It’s an embodied practice of self-love to remember and honor who you are, just as you are.
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On The Road - PM Practice
As the name would suggest, this practice pair is designed for travel! Sometimes you’re in tight spaces, sometimes you don’t have as much time as usual.
The AM practice is great for daytime, wherever and whenever you can squeeze it in. In addition to some well-rounded postures, it includes a litt...
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Gathering
This practice highlights SAMANA VAYU, or the energy that flows from outer self to inner self, a gathering in of energy if you will
We’ll start with a grounded simple flow that leads to a creative, midline energy specific sequence into some supportive hip openers.
You might like to have a block ...
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Lucky Stars
Inspired by the positions we usually take for stargazing, this sweet practice is largely seated and on your back.
In spite of it’s grounded nature, we’ll still explore all 4 movements of your spine and several different hip openers for a full spectrum hip tension release.
And of course we’ll fi...
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Chillax
A sweet, low to the ground practice to help you wind down and give a little gratitude to your body.
We explore all 4 movements of your spine and hip stretches to give you a chance to discharge any stress from the day and to leave you feeling absolutely chill.
You might like to have a block for ...
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Slow Down Restorative
Grab your pillows and blankets, this deeply relaxing restorative yoga practice will help take you from NO CHILL to GLORIOUSLY STILL.
If you have yoga bolsters, blankets and blocks, you’ll want to use them and if you don’t, bed pillows, throw pillows and blankets or beach towels will absolutely w...
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Regulate
Enjoy a sweet return to nervous system homeostasis.
Life often has us amped up, pedal to the metal and gentle, mellow practices like this help us tap the brakes and return to that perfect balance.
Simple and sweet wind-down practice to regulate your nervous system and return to balance.
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Dial It Back
When stress is rising, sometimes you just need to simplify, ground yourself and dial things back.
This low to the ground practice keeps things simple but thorough so you can restore balance to your nervous system.
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Recuperate
This nourishing practice focuses on three main areas for a full spectrum recuperation and rest after any kind of activity.
We start with a focus on shoulders, then spine, then bring it home with hips.
And the whole thing has a mellow vibe for the downshift you need.
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Live Asana 5/12/24 ~ Maitri ~ Loving Kindness
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...
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Heavenly Hips
Whether it’s caused by our stress holding patterns, activities or good ole aging, sometimes our hips feel tight and creaky, especially that elusive outer hip including your gluteus medius, minimus, tensor fascia lata and IT band.
In this practice we’ll take a slow journey into some much needed s...
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Surrender
Some days we just need to surrender the cognitive and emotional load we’re carrying and this practice can help.
It’s a short Yin style practice that emphasizes nervous system downregulation, breath awareness and dropping into a state of calm.
You will need either a bolster or a rolled up blanke...
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Moon Drops 4
This is another short and sweet lunar energy practice in the Moondrops series.
Each practice is made up of a combination of simple slow flow and hip openers, each with a primary focus on a different quadrant of your hips.
This Moondrops practice focuses on the front of your hips: hip flexors an...
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Trinity
Asana – Breathwork – Meditation – the Yoga Trinity
In this practice we’ll move through a hip-centric flow before grounding ourselves with some relaxation inducing breathwork and then settle in for a short meditation practice.
I crafted this for those days when you want it all but have short tim...
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Cherish
This slow flow practice leads to deeper pauses and holds in hip openers to support a need to move energy through your body and then cherish yourself in stillness.
It focuses on hip mobility and centering balance poses while cultivating nervous system equilibrium.
You might enjoy being near a wa...
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Charging
Charging…we see it when we plug in our phones and other devices but do we give ourselves the same opportunity to restore your energetic charge?
This practice aims to do just that – we start with some very simply flow to discharge any energetic debris and then settle into a seated hip opening seq...
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Live Asana 11/12/23
Sublime Live Slow Flow To Restorative (LunaRest) Practice with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Focus on gratitude, our theme for November 2023.
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Replenish
This practice emphasizes simplicity along with hip stretches and forward bends to support a downshifting of your nervous system to replenish you and sustain your capacity for action.
We’ll end this practice with a few potent affirmations to help you feel grounded and safe.
You might like to hav...
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Bless Up
Bless Up is an opportunity to ground yourself in gratitude, to connect with our many blessings, even when life feels hard.
This practice is mostly low to the ground with emphasis on the four quadrants of your hips.
It culminates with some full-spectrum gratitude affirmations and a blissful sava...
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Nurture
This practice creates an opportunity to slow down and turn your awareness inward to take stock of what you NEED right now to feel your best.
A little bit of simple slow flow plus a couple longer holds in hip openers may be just right for getting right with yourself.
You might like to have a blo...