An enlivening 50 minutes exploring how the practice of being present can offer a wellspring of renewal and rejuvenation. This experience is ideally suited for the morning and closes with a balancing and often energizing technique in the closing meditation.
An opportunity to let go of physical and mental tension. Expect to mindfully move through the body, noticing and releasing tightness and holding. Explore gentle joint warming leading toward a moderate hatha practice focusing on a release of shoulders and hips followed by a refreshing rest.
A 75 minute hatha practice that invites you to experience the warm hearted feelings of "offering" your practice to someone you care about. Expect some challenging moments in this balancing, dynamic physical sequence before slowing things down for rest.
Designed to attend to a late winter mood, this 90 minute workshop offers various skills using the breath, body and mind to lift, lighten and invigorate. Expect a unique gratitude practice, breath-work to enliven, a dynamic asana practice and a restorative yoga nidra guided meditation to refresh.
It's balancing for the mind and body to practice present-centered awareness. This 60 minute sequence features a blend of ease and challenge with encouraging cues to practice the art of awareness throughout. Feel the difference presence can make.
An exploration of a breath technique designed to calm the mind and relax the body throughout this moderate, therapeutic hatha class. The physical sequence attends to sore and "tight" upper and lower backs. 60 mins of breath awareness with movement can equal the ability to truly rest and relax productively.
A practice designed to help you feel more connected to the present moment through purposeful attention to the body and the breath. Therapeutic tools include the calming, freeing experience of joint mobility, followed by a union of movement and breathing and strengthening with an exploration of balance to further focus the mind. Mindful relaxation closes this 50 minute class which can be practiced with the Spotify playlist “Grounded” found on my lisaddumas account
A short experience with the breath intended to help awaken and enliven. Expect to explore a very slight retention of breath on the inhale if it feels comfortable for you.
A 75 minute hatha practice that can be used to energize, or to calm down, depending on which aspect of the breath you choose to focus on. Deepening our inhales can add an additional sense of vitality while lengthening exhales can promote relaxation. A moderate sequence to free your joints, strengthen your muscles and ultimately rest your body and mind.
A short practice to meet a heavier day or mood. Renewing movement and breath followed by heart centered imagery to warm and lighten from the outside in and the inside out.
My most essential practice to cultivate a sense of grounded wellbeing in my body and mind. An experience of warming and freeing the joints of your body, followed by a breath technique and visualization with the intention to leave you feeling calm, present and at ease. Use often!
A practice designed to help you relax deeply and drop off into sleep. Expect gentle movement, grounding and guided relaxation.
Neuroscience tells us we can practice the ability to create internal feeling states anytime we want. This morning practice helps us create a sense of feeling connected to the world around us, and to other people, including cultivating empathy, which has been shown to contribute to our well-being overall.
An experience crafted for a chillier time of year, or time of day. Warming, stronger postures are matched with a warming breath practice, leading to longer stretches, a relaxing breath technique and full relaxation.
A 60 minute practice intended to “lighten” a heavier mood. Includes a breath technique and visualization to create space between thoughts and movements that invite the mind to focus and may create a more spacious feeling in the body.
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.
Brief movement to prepare to sit, followed by a meditation technique that invites us to focus on the sense of touch, and then the awareness of sound. Learning to observe, rather than resist distraction can help us to become more accepting overall.
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.