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

This short practice emphasizes energy expanding, like the rays of the sun.

We’ll efficiently explore the front gates of your chest, hip flexors and shoulders to let lightness into your heart center and help you feel luminous inside and out.

You might like to have a block for today’s practice.

Live Asana 6/11/23 - June BLOOM - Heart openers to activate courage to bloom! Per your previous requests, this blooming practice includes heart openers, shoulder mobility, side stretching and a Camel (Ustrasana) clinic to perhaps improve your relationship with this beneficial pose.

This lunar practice is full of glorious static stretches to support a deep feeling of dissolving the stress of the day in your body.

We’ll take a journey through all the major joints and common tension spots in your body and invite your parasympathetic nervous system to the party for deep relaxa...

This is a thorough, mobility-focused practice full of dynamic stretches to help you go from stiff to superb.

This is a sequence that is included in ALL of my practices these days, I love how it prepares me for the day or a workout. I especially love it in the morning to get things started right!...

Live Asana 4/16/23 - A more workshop style practice breaking down chatturanga, side arm balance and variations (vasisthasana) and crow (bakasana). Progressions and exercises for each are included for you to experience the poses in an integrated and more sustainable way. I also include some possib...

While we can’t control the sun in the sky, we CAN affect the sunshine within us.

This practice with heart openers, side body stretches, a little bit of obliques core and some well-timed hip openers will help you amplify the light within to boost YOUR mood and that of the people you interact with...

I think grounded heart openers are the perfect blend of centering and uplifting energy.

Through shoulder and side body stretches and grounded but expansive standing poses and approachable backbends, we’ll aim to liberate the 360 degree space of our heart centers both physically and energetically.

A sweet, short practice for morning that moves your spine in every direction + meditation.

Inspired by the title of one of my favorite songs, Knot Comes Loose is a slow, deep stretch practice to unwind and release the effects of chronic stress and tension.

We’ll lovingly explore some of the most common places for tension knots like chest, shoulders and necks, hips and back and even yo...

Just like a computer that can get bogged down with too many open tabs, windows and apps, so can we when we’re juggling a lot of things at once.

And just like a computer, we also benefit from regular restarts to clear the slate so we can focus our attention where it’s truly needed most and be ful...

Live Asana from Bali 11/4/22 - so fun to share with you a little glimpse outside my window here at Soulshine Bali. While the video quality and lighting isn't up to my usual standards in my home studio, the same love is still there! This is a crow pose class that is easily down-shifted into a hip ...

September 2022 Live Asana - HARVEST - Grounded backbends

For a lot of us, our mid and upper backs lose mobility due to posture, lifestyle and a lot of the same movements over and over again.

This practice aims to restore some mobility and increase a feeling of freedom in your mid and upper back as well as their neighbors, your shoulders.

It combines ...

On our busiest days, often the first things to go are the self-care practices that ground us.

We might think, “I don’t have time today”

That’s why I think it’s essential to have some shorter practices to keep you committed and consistent.

This practice is that, short but still complete with j...

Live Asana 6/5/22 - Our June 2022 Mindfulness Theme is NOURISHMENT. We focus on how we nourish ourselves on the levels of body, mind and spirit and this practice aims to support all 3. Enjoy!

To embody our mindfulness theme of GROWTH this month, this steady strength practice with a focus on growth edges and flow state supports our own hatching of new ideas, creations, perspectives and manifestations of the growth we wish to experience in this one wild and precious life! Inspired by sp...

This practice aims to support your physical and mental recovery through both slow flow and static stretching.

The sequence provides stretches to all major muscle groups while the pacing and vibe give your mind and nervous system a chance to downshift and restore.

It’s a great recovery practice ...

This practices supports you in centering and grounding when you’re experiencing a bout of anxiety!

One point of focus is APANA, or the downward flow of energy so you start to come out of the head-spin and get grounded. The other focus is SAMANA or the inward flow of energy so you regain a feelin...

Self-love is sometimes elusive, even amongst those of us that freely show others love, compassion and kindness. It’s a constant work in progress.

This practice aims to enhance your awareness of the power of your heart and a feeling of warmth for yourself through movement, breathwork and affirmat...

Whether its work from home or at the office, long hours in the car or unbearably long plane rides, it is so nice to have a yoga practice on hand for after long periods of sitting.

This practice focuses on chest, shoulders, core and hips to open you back up and restore some balance to your body a...

This is great for a morning yoga practice or any time of day that you want a little boost.

It’s joint friendly with a lot of room to find what’s just right for you and has just a bit of core activation to stoke your inner fire.

Let’s get you feeling awake and alive!

An embodied celebration of gratitude, both giving and receiving it. Water element practice. Honoring the land, the water, the sky, all living things and the original stewards of the land we now call home.

Starts with context for the sequencing.
Gratitude meditation starts around 5:00.
Asana star...

Today’s practice is perfect for days you may be feeling stuck in a rut or your energy seems to have stagnated.

It’s a progressive flow of simple poses where each round builds on the one before it, all synchronized with your beautiful breath.

It can break up your holding patterns and restore a f...