A practice to try in the first moments of waking to have agency over how you'd like to feel in the hours to come.
A gentle and restoring 30 minute seated and standing practice offering practical skills like mindfulness, movement and a breath technique intended to soothe your nervous system and bring you home to yourself.
While we can't control the outer world, we can have agency over our nervous systems. Throughout this full body practice, sample a selection of skills to reconnect with your body and the deeper aspects of who you are.
This 30 minute class is intended to not only release physical tension but offers imagery and meditation to free mental and emotional tension as well.
A more compassionate inner dialogue becomes more available when we're relaxed which is the intention for this 20 minute practice that invites you to shake out stress, move to prepare your body for rest and ultimately opens to a kinder inner landscape.
A 20 minute meditation featuring preparatory movement, a breath technique and supportive imagery to help soften and connect with the qualities of the heart.
A practice that invites stronger movements before luxuriating in restoring postures with a focus on freeing the areas of the upper back and the chest, which can be symbolically thought of as the spiritual heart.
A 30 minute dynamic flow to expand the front of the body to move into our more expansive self.
Practice observing sensation related to emotions rather than getting swept away on the waves of our ever changing inner landscapes.
Our July workshop focuses on the ayurvedic concept of "pitta", a fiery part of our constitution that can become aggravated during summer (pitta season). This class explains signs of over-active pitta along with several skills to balance, like sensitizing ourselves to our body heat, an engaging warm up, moon salutations, yin postures and embodied mantra for focus. Enjoy!
A 15 minute practice featuring progressive relaxation, a body scan, breath visualizations and heart centred awareness. Receive it from a seated or supine position.
A short practice intended to deepen the breath through appropriate movement, often allowing difficult emotions to move and change so we can more easily acknowledge them, and maybe even learn from them.
Because movement is so helpful in helping us to clear the mind, this practice with weights in intended to help us process and move life's little annoyances.
Renewing gentle movement begins and ends this body scan to promote presence and tranquility.
Lots of yang and a bit of yin in this invigorating, twisting and strengthening sequence that invites you to use your breath and your mind with mindful intention.
Productive rest: total relaxation for the body and mind to encourage healing and increased energy and vitality.
A special 90 minute experience that offers several ideas for inserting supportive mini practices into your day and options for inspiring you when you have more time for movement, meditation and productive rest.
An invitation to connect to a memory, person or image that feels "opening" for the heart and the warm feelings related to that symbolic place within. Then, flow through an invigorating sequence to feel more expansive outside and in.
A 20 minute class focused on stronger movements to quickly release stagnation and a sense of being "stuck".
In our March workshop we explored an idea of "balance" that invites us to move, breathe and meditate with the intention to better hold and accept all aspects of who we are as we hold so many aspects of the human experience in the world now.