A 30 minute practice promoting the health of the hips and low back through mobilizing the hip joint, developing pelvic neutrality and strengthening the core!
The ayurvedic concept of "agni" is related to the element of fire and its symbolism as the heat that supports our healthy digestion of food and life. This workshop offers breath skills, visualization techniques and specific core-centred movements and twists to enhance our ability to metabolize the food we eat and the life we lead.
An opportunity to intentionally use your practice as a means of helping to integrate life experiences. A core-centered rhythmic flow with an invitation to reflect on what is being processed throughout.
A 30 minute gentle rhythmic rejuvenation that invites you to use your practice with intention to process and metabolize your daily experiences and feel the way you want to feel more often.
Alternate nostril breath can be an effective intervention for anxiousness. In this 15 minute meditation, we sample a manual and a mental version of this skill.
Evidence shows that rhythmic movements from right to left can help us foster confidence and courage. Enjoy this short practice the next time you want to feel authentically you!
Every aspect of this practice is related to balancing your nervous system including alternate nostril breath, joint mobilization, strong muscle engagement for the purpose of eventual relaxation in restorative postures. Suggested prop: bolster or pillows, Spotify playlist: Mantra from the lisaddumas account.
Experience how moving in rocking, rhythmic ways along with your breath can be a calming experience for your body and mind and how present-centered awareness is a balm for states of anxiety or over-worry.
A meditation that invites your awareness and appreciation to various aspects of your entire body, intended to leave you feeling refreshed and connected to the heart.
A selection of therapeutic skills including a compassionate self check-in, a moving mudra, specific winter movement and a meditation for self-love to break up stagnation and warm the heart.
A strengthening sequence for the glutes, core, shoulders and arms balanced by the softening quality of learning to kindly attend to ourselves by regularly checking in with the various aspects of who we are.
A 15 minute practice that invites you to turn your gaze inward and hold space for "what is" in this moment. Check in with your mind, body, breath, emotional tone and energy to get information for what you need through the day.
Yoga and Ayurveda teach us that to break up a stagnant, lower winter mood, we can add a warming element to our movement and create greater circulation in the chest. Find out more in this practice that uses body weight to strengthen arms and the upper back for greater freedom across the chest (and heart).
Gentle neck stretches and calming tools lead you into a meditation that practices the skill of observing body, breath, mind and emotions to cultivate a gentle acceptance of "what is" rather than succumbing to habitual judgement, reactivity and over-identification with thoughts.
In this strengthening sequence I lead you through one set of movements combining conservative squatting (chair pose/goddess) with arm weights. You are invited to continue with 2 to 3 more sets for a deluxe workout!
Both yoga and western science teach us that our inhales are associated with increased alertness, attention and invigoration. This full practice focuses on a deeper philosophy surrounding breath directions and how the inhale is related to opening and clearing the heart of heavy, stagnant (kapha) energy. Expect full body movement that may increase mobility of the upper back and shoulders.
A sequence that gets your whole body moving, but not too far from the floor. For days when you want to practice, but you also kinda don't.
Yoga philosophy teaches that our breath can mobilize our prana and influence its state. Prana is said to be our energetic life force that animates everything from our thoughts to our immune system. This meditation uses breath awareness and visualization and is preceded by standing movement to prepare.
Mindful movement matched with a supine or seated body scan to melt tension of the body and mind. An ideal practice for anxious days.
When we run, walk, or cycle, we are using repetitive motions than can tighten up the hip flexors and other muscles at the front of the body. Gift yourself with this brief series of strengtheners and stretches for balance and sustainability after your workout.