An embodied practice of staying grounded and staying open, loving kindness as resistance. Think heart openers, but the grounded type with emphasis on not just stretching the spaces that surround our hearts but also tending to other muscles that shut down in freeze, fight or flight.

May you feel ...

I'm not a fan of pretending we always experience love and light! Our shadow side is an amazing teacher, if we learn how to work with it skillfully. In this case, anger is something we all experience from time to time and a natural part of being human. When we try to suppress it, deny it or hide i...

After an opening context on Joy and the purpose of asana (posture practice) in the broader scope of Yoga, we dive into a embodied Joy practice with several different types of embodied joy opportunities. It's a fun one!

Opening context: 0:00-9:00
Practice: 9:00-1:05:00

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Stabilize is a practice I created in response to requests for knee friendly practices! It’s the second in the Happy Knees series!

In this one I focus on stability - poses and movements within poses that will strengthen the muscles that support your knee joints including quadriceps and gluteus m...

This class celebrates the ripening of the fruits of our practice.

It is a legs and hip-centric practice, often considered to represent our roots.

As we move through this practice, we’ll begin to feel the embodied wisdom drawn from those roots ripening in our hearts and minds.

Live Asana 6/15/25 - Lila or Play and this class has plenty of opportunities to be curious about what's possible today - curiosity is the root of play!

Silly balance poses, funky hip openers, and a challenging side arm sequence all designed to stoke your curiousity. As it is on the mat, as it is...

This heart-opening flow is uplifting and emergent!

To truly explore your heart center, you’ve also got to invite the front gates of your hips to the party! This practice combines chest expansion with side stretching, shoulder and neck mobility and front of your hip stretches for a playful, expan...

This liberating practice starts slow and grounded before evolving into a dynamic flow with twists to stir things up inside, then gives way into shoulder, chest and hip flexor stretches that leave your heart feeling open and your body-mind feeling strong and free!

This month we're focusing on IDENTITY - a story WE write about ourselves but then promptly forget we are the authors. We can re-write the story anytime we choose. So I let curiosity be my muse in crafting this class. What if? Could I? What happens when?

We head towards mermaid so of quad and hip...

You never know when your inner spark is going to rekindle someone else's light.

This accessible Integrated Vinyasa practice includes simple, rhythmic flows and grounded heart openers that support you in tending your own heart fire and elevating your mood to blaze brightly in the world.

Up And At ‘Em is an invigorating practice that sets the stage for a focused and open day.

We start things off on the right foot with gratitude and open-heartedness and synch breath to movement to infuse our entire beings with positive vitality,

It’s a heart-centered flow that doesn’t neglect po...

This practice starts slow and steady and then gradually blooms into flow. It’s a great practice for mornings or any time you’re feeling stiff or tight like a bud but want to open up and expand your breath, body and spirit.

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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The older I get, the more obsessed I get with ankle and shoulder mobility!

Poor ankle mobility makes it impossible to use our leg muscles optimally and the same goes for shoulder mobility and upper body muscles.

This practice aims to support mobility in your ankles, shoulders and your spine to ...

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...

By your request for a pre-strength training practice!

Warm Up is a well-rounded flow practice that supports mobility at all major joints. It is designed to be a way to drop into awareness of your body and breath either prior to a strength training workout or simply on its own!

Dynamic stretch o...

Higher Love is unconditional and unencumbered.

In that spirit, we’ll show up for this practice just as we are and seek to dissolve any armor that encumbers our ability to both give AND RECEIVE the love that’s available.

An uplifting combination of side openers, heart openers and hip openers te...

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...

This practice is full-spectrum and supports the activation of your life force so it’s great for when you’re feeling a little stagnant or sluggish and you want to stir things up!

It’s a flow practice with elements of core strengthening, upper body strengthening and even multiple hip openers to le...

Inspired by the mighty trees and their ability to bend but not break, this class includes a few different tree variations and its offshoots for you to explore steadiness and ease both on and off your mat

Don’t hesitate to practice near a wall or a chair if you want a little extra balance support...

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...

Honor is a practice with heart. In this flow, we embody the qualities of humility and honor through a series of spacious heart openers followed by reverential bows and forward bends before culminating in a moment of deep gratitude.

Live Asana with Tracey Garcia 8/18/24