Shoulders+Arms+Wrists
These home practices emphasize strength, stretch or mobility in your shoulders, arms, wrists and hands. While these home practices also include movements and postures that touch other areas of your body, they accentuate our ability for greater functional range of motion in our upper joints. These practices challenge both our strength and our muscle flexibility to be able to both hold and move safely in and out of postures that involve your upper extremities.
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Live Asana 9/22/24
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...
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Move It Through
Whether you feel physically stiff and stuck or mentally unable to break out of a rut, this dynamic practice will help you move things through.
We’ll especially liberate your hips, chest and spine to get energy flowing again!
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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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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 6/15/24 ~ Virya ~ Vigor ~ Inner Warrior
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!
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Freebird
Freedom requires that we break loose of the bonds that hold us down.
For many of us, it’s negative self-perception that keeps us restrained from recognizing our actual potential.
This class challenges you to tap into the courage to believe you’re capable of more than you’ve let yourself believe...
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Heart's Desire
This is a shoulder and chest focused practice with the intention of not only stretching and strengthening these parts of your body but also cultivating the energies of courage and open-heartedness.
Through shoulder mobility, chest expansion, core fortification and a final backbend, we’ll leave f...
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Emerge
Sometimes we feel a little shut down or bound tight and Emerge supports us coming back into our true selves.
Side bends, heart openers and quad stretches all activate a feeling of re-opening the front gates and stepping fully into our lives once again.
You might like to have 2 blocks and a blan...
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Live Asana 2/11/24
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...
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Be The Light
The body-mind feedback loop has a powerful impact on how you feel and show up in the world. What’s going on in your mind is constantly being expressed through your body and how your body is moving is reflecting in your mental state too!
This practice includes strong standing poses, expansive sid...
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Live Asana 12/17/23
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...
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Live Asana 7/16/23
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
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Sunkissed
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.
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Live Asana 6/11/23
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.
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Sweet Release
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...
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Ease Into It
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!...
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Live Asana 4/16/23
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...
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Good Day Sunshine
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...
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Take Heart
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.
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Ritual ~ Morning
A sweet, short practice for morning that moves your spine in every direction + meditation.
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Knot Comes Loose
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...
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Restart
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...
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Live Asana from Bali 11/4/22
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 ...