February 2025 Practices

February 2025 Practices

February 2025 Practices

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February 2025 Practices
  • In Focus: A Classic Practice

    Flow is fun but there’s something so powerful about a classic practice that invites us to sharpen our focus and hone our awareness in the individual postures.

    This alignment-centered practice creates an opportunity for you to make some refinements and reconnect with the activations within postur...

  • Low Back Express

    A healthy, high-functioning lower back requires a lot of attention and care. Our backs, especially our lower backs, are major workhorses!

    The more we ask of them, the more we need to give back to them!

    This express practice includes both low back and side body stretches and strengthening movem...

  • Dial It Back

    When stress is rising, sometimes you just need to simplify, ground yourself and dial things back.

    This low to the ground practice keeps things simple but thorough so you can restore balance to your nervous system.

  • A New Dawn

    This practice supports any new beginning and an alignment with the energies of activation and expansion into possibility!

    A standing flow culminates in an accessible backbend before grounding down into a hip opener that inspires steadiness.

    Now is your time!

    You might like to have a block for ...

  • Move It Through

    Whether you feel physically stiff and stuck or mentally unable to break out of a rut, this dynamic practice will help you move things through.

    We’ll especially liberate your hips, chest and spine to get energy flowing again!

  • The Sunrise Within

    This lively practice emphasizes twists as a way to ring out anything that would dim your inner light and leaves you with a sense of rising up into a fresh start.

    We’ll combine flow with core work, balance and standing poses before we wind it down and ground ourselves with a couple well-timed hip...

  • Slow & Low

    Sometimes the best antidote for stress is simplicity.

    This practice is just that, simple and effective with hip openers and spinal flow with an overall feeling of gentleness and kindness for yourself.

    It can be just what you need for working with anxiety, grief, the blues or anytime you need a ...

  • Uplift

    What the body does, the mind follows and what the mind does, the body follows.

    This truth means one way to hack your mood is to move your body in the ways that are more in alignment with how you want to feel.

    Uplift is a practice to elevate your spirits with side openers and heart openers with ...

  • Live Asana 2/9/25 - Vishāda - Emotional Overwhelm

    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...

  • Go With The Flow

    This efficient practice is a progressive flow, incrementally building from simple to complex.

    The standing pose progression winds down to a little hip-opener, heart-opener sequence before dropping into rest.

    It’s a perfect practice for when you’re short on time but want to move mindfully and br...

  • Emerge

    Sometimes we feel a little shut down or bound tight and Emerge supports us coming back into our true selves.

    Side bends, heart openers and quad stretches all activate a feeling of re-opening the front gates and stepping fully into our lives once again.

    You might like to have 2 blocks and a blan...

  • Higher Love

    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...

  • Quench - Find Fluidity

    Have you ever thirsted for that flow state when your body's fluid power and intelligence take over and we cease micro-managing everything with our minds?

    If you know what I mean, this practice is for you. From start to finish we synchronize breath and movement into, out of and within postures as...

  • Heart Warming

    This is a practice for ventilating your heart center – to clear away any heaviness or stuckness in your chest, upper back and shoulders.

    It begins with a progressive vinyasa flow, evolving one element each round and culminates with a beautiful and accessible heart-opener before settling back dow...

  • Release

    Wouldn’t it be nice if when we decided to RELEASE something that was troubling us that it simply disappeared?!

    But we all know that’s rarely the case.

    What we CAN do though is choose to RELEASE the CHARGE surrounding whatever it is, to clear the emotional path a bit for resolution or forbearanc...

  • Trinity

    Asana – Breathwork – Meditation – the Yoga Trinity

    In this practice we’ll move through a hip-centric flow before grounding ourselves with some relaxation inducing breathwork and then settle in for a short meditation practice.

    I crafted this for those days when you want it all but have short tim...

  • Live Meditation 2/17/25 - Vishada or Working with Emotional Overwhelm

    Based on a Yoga Nidra, this guided meditation includes several different techniques for getting focused and grounded including a very powerful mantra. We begin with some simple movement to prepare to sit and then dive in and use several different techniques to cultivate focus. My great hope is th...

  • Fired Up

    Action often precedes motivation. Sometimes you just need to get the body moving and the motivation follows!

    This practice ignites with twists, core work, expansive standing poses and breathwork.

    We move at a workable pace to tend to your heart fire!

    You might like to have 2 blocks for this pr...

  • First Light

    This is what I’d call a low-key fire element practice. Not blazing, but more like the sun just rising or just about to set.

    The energy and activation are there in the form of twists and expansive postures but it’s tempered by a feeling of calm and groundedness.

    This is a great practice to get ...

  • Activate

    Activate is a practice designed to be an auspicious BEGINNING.

    This could be as simple as the beginning of a day or maybe it’s your go-to New Moon practice. Any time you’re beginning something new whether it’s starting a new program or committing to a new attitude.

    It is inspired by the Hindu ...

  • Fresh Air

    This practice is like stepping out for a breath of fresh air.

    It supports you in activating your life force and reinvigorating yourself.

    I included expansive movements within poses, just the right amount of flow and simple heart openers to lift you up.

  • Stay Grounded Stay Open

    This Integrated Vinyasa practice is a sweet combo of hip openers and heart openers to support feeling steady, stable and grounded without losing your sense of open-heartedness and receptivity.So helpful in stressful times when we start to shut down.

    Suggested prop is a bolster or folded blanket ...

  • Balanced Energy

    Sometimes you need to rev up to balance yourself. Sometimes you need to downshift to balance yourself. And sometimes, you need to maintain the balance you’ve got!

    This is one of my SolaLuna practices that is a balanced blend of solar, or active energy and lunar, or receptive energy. We start out...

  • Solid Gold Core

    Your core is the hub of your body and the main power source for the movements you make.

    It's a 360 powerhouse, that runs from your armpits to your knees.

    In the chakra model of Yoga, it is associated with your 3rd chakra called manipura, roughly located around your solar plexus. This energy cen...