A 30 minute hatha class that invites you to investigate the quality of the tone of voice you use when you talk to yourself. A practice that is strengthening for the arms and upper back to create more freedom in the shoulders and maybe even a more spacious feeling at the heart.
A 60 minute slow and mindful hatha practice that invites you to practice the concept of accepting each moment as whole and enough. Explore your variations of postures as enough, your breath as enough, your body as enough. Nothing to be added or taken away.
When the events of the day ahead feel overwhelming, this short practice is designed to support a shift in perspective and the possibility of doing your day from a place of love and appreciation. Includes invigorating movement and a technique to cultivate more lightness and joy.
Why we meditate, best practices to center ourselves and prepare to "sit" including movement (asana) and breathwork (pranayama) and an exploration of meditation techniques including a restoring yoga nidra.
A 60 minute hatha class that challenges the mind to focus on the different ways the body moves and the visualized paths the breath is taking. A perfect class for grounding your energy and attention back to yourself so you can decide the most efficient places to direct it.
A moderate 75 minute hatha practice designed to get things moving, whether it be difficult emotions, habitual worrying thoughts or lethargy due to time of year. Explore a breath technique to break up inertia and a purposeful quality of movement to focus the mind and warm the body.
A deluxe practice full of therapeutic skills to assimilate the transition of the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Expect to explore the breath as inspiration to receive and release, along with mudras, symbolic movement and reflective self-inquiry.
A special extended class featuring some of my favorite therapeutic techniques for reconnecting with your natural, peaceful place within. Expect a very calming breath practice, an extended guided meditation followed by nourishing movement and a deep, heart centered yoga nidra to close.
A deluxe practice that begins and ends on the ground. Expect to prepare your joints for strengthening in postures that stay close to the mat. Once warm, we’ll move into a few yin and restorative shapes to balance the “yang” energy we experience in most hours of the day. Thoughts are also invited to slow and rest through several cues to “be here now”, an ideal evening practice
Gift yourself the time to move through this inspiring collection of tools to warm you up from the inside out, and the outside in. Feel how devotion, gratitude, and reflection can enlighten. Explore movement to enhance digestion and renew. Be guided through a breath practice and restoring yoga nidra meditation to restore and balance.
Our minds are built to look for what could go wrong, what we need to achieve and what to worry about. For busy modern humans, that can mean a feeling of overwhelm or even anxiety. This 75 minute practice teaches how to ground the mind in what is more uplifting but also very true through a breath technique, visualization and movement intended to create a lighter, more expansive physical sensation.
A 60 minute practice beginning with a breath technique and mantra to rest and focus the mind. We thread the mantra through the movement to continue to protect the mind, while the rhythmic quality of asana is intended to merge with breath and the repeated internal sound inviting us toward our peaceful nature.
An energizing practice to release stagnation. Includes a rejuvenating breath technique and movement to renew. Expect to explore a mudra to ignite clarity and vibrancy and a sweet visualization in Savasana to enhance your glow.
In December's workshop we explored several therapeutic skills for connecting with qualities of the heart. Expect philosophy, meditation and use of mantra. You are also invited to offer your practice to someone you appreciate and to deeply rest in a 20 minute guided Yoga Nidra.
A 60 minute full practice with the intention of supporting posture, spinal alignment and upper back tension. There also virtually no pressure placed on the wrist joints, so it is a relief for an area that can get taxed while it is getting stronger. Expect to explore a mudra said to relax "tightness" in the upper back and a reflection on where in your life to "have your own back"
Start your day with this 20 minute practice that invites the mind to focus on the breath and an empowering mantra rather than the habitual thoughts we wake up with. Expect movement to ready the body and the core for a day of confidence followed by a mudra and short meditation. A reminder of the power within.
This 65 minute practice offers the opportunity to “watch” your thoughts rather than identify with them or react to them, explores how breath and movement can affect the quality of the mind and displays the empowering skill of choosing a thought to create more contentment which may ultimately create a condition where we can open to the truer, softer voice of the heart.
While the practice of gratitude may have become watered down, the power of saying thank you is just as strong as ever. This experience is intended to explore gratitude as a therapeutic technique for lower mood states through mudra, mindset, movement and memory. I hope you enjoy this heart opening, expansive sequence as much as I did creating it for you! Suggested prop- bolster or pillows
This is one of my favorite classes ever. You’ll learn how to relax quickly, 2 breath techniques to calm the body and rest the mind, movement that helps the breath and mind to regulate, a tool that may create a feeling of connection to others and a deeply restoring yoga nidra practice to close. 75 minutes of bliss!
A deluxe practice beginning with a breath technique to center and focus and a softening skill to become intentional with our attention. A stress relieving, yet uplifting and dynamic sequence is followed by a meditation to cultivate openness then, enjoy a yoga nidra to welcome inner knowing. Journal suggested