This practice is all about stretch and release. After you exercise and exert yourself, it's essential to make time for recovery.

This class emphasizes both stretching those hard-working muscles as well as encouraging your nervous system to downshift from activation into a more balanced state.

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In Yoga, the energy of grounding, soothing and releasing is considered lunar energy.

This super-chill practice that focuses on hip and leg stretches was designed to embody lunar energy for letting go of stress, anxiety and worry.
It ends with a series of affirmations to support a healthy headspa...

HIPnotic is one of my signature hip-centric practices and I absolutely LOVE teaching it.

Your “hip muscles” are actually quite diverse and as a very mobile ball-and-socket joint (second only to your shoulder!), it’s important to acknowledge all the muscles that act on the joint, not just the one...

Focus on the present moment has been an effective technique for getting grounded since time immemorial.

This practice emphasizes legs and hips and your relationship to the solid ground beneath you to support your feeling of presence and stability.

You might like to have a block for this practice.

Yoga Nidra is a powerful guided meditation in which you enter into deep states of conscious meditation. It translates as "Yogic Sleep" where you feel the depth of rest afforded by actual sleep while staying awake. We shift focus from the outer world to our inner landscape and through focus, visua...

Moonbeams are rays of light reflected from the moon. Unlike the sun’s rays which are associated with heat and action, moonbeams are only visible in the dark of the night, a quieter and cooler time.

Their energy is that of grounded radiance and this practice embodies that same energy.

This inten...

This is a practice created in celebration of Earth Day but is great for any day that you want to activate grounding energy.

The poses all share qualities of the earth element and emphasize rooting, steadiness, and stability.

The overall effect on your body-mind-spirit complex is calmness with a...

This is a spin on a Yin practice in which we settle in to a pose gradually with mindful movement, pulsation or body vinyasa before enjoying the stillness of a static hold.

The fluid movements leading in support a downshift in your autonomic nervous system and allow you to move tension through be...

Live Meditation (Tonglen) - Taking In and Sending Out - A Tibetan Buddhist practice to awaken compassion

Good sleep hygiene is essential to your wellbeing.

This short, downtempo practice can become a part of your routine to support a down shifting of your nervous system and prepare your whole body-mind-spirit complex for a good night’s sleep.

Dropping in is about becoming present and bearing witness to yourself in the moment. Where your attention is, your mood, the sensations happening right now in your body.

It’s often harder than it sounds. Some of us need to clear out a little physical and mental clutter first and this practice wi...

One of the lunar phases is called the New Moon, when the sun and the moon are on the same side of the Earth, giving the perspective that the Dark Side of The Moon is facing us, or that the moon has turned inward, perhaps to regroup and reboot so she can shine again.

We’d do well to allow ourselv...

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...

Did you know bison walk INTO a storm, unlike other animals like cattle? They instinctively know the fastest way out of a storm is to go directly through it rather than to drift with the winds of the storm.

Walking into challenges, both those we choose and those we don’t, requires steadiness and ...

Nectar is a rich and sweet liquid produced in the depths of a flower. As such, I’ve always associated it with essence and the sweetness of our life experiences – like we savor the nectar of our experiences so we don’t miss them.

Today’s practice is nectarian in that it is slow flow leading to re...

If better and more sleep is one of your self-care priorities right now, Deep Sleep can help.

This practice emphasizes downward moving and grounding energy to support your body and mind’s transition away from the busy-ness of the day and into quality sleep and recovery.

Between deep stretch, con...

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...

Sweet Simplicity was inspired by those times of excess, when everything feels complicated and we just yearn for something in our lives to be basic and simple.

As I crafted this practice, I realized it felt a bit like practices I did when I first started practicing asana, before the evolution of ...

This is a sublime lunar slow-flow practice that supports a deceleration of your whole body-mind-spirit complex.

It is an embodiment of the earth and water energies with several different types of hip openers from the more fluid to still.

It’s meant to leave you feeling both more grounded and re...

Patience requires the dual powers of stamina and softening.

In this home practice, we’ll explore and embody both through repetition, which requires stamina, and hip openers that require softening.

We’ll also have some well-timed check-ins on our current patience levels as well.

This fruits of...

Wind Down is a lunar practice that supports you in doing just that – decelerating and releasing the burdens of the day.

It’s a combination of flow and stretch with just enough activation to help you discharge any pent up vibes that could be released.

You will want a block or something that coul...

This home practice is a RESILIENCY supporting practice informed by the Earth and Water elements.

In Yoga’s sister science Ayurveda, your inherent resiliency is called OJAS and a practice like this supports healthy ojas to meet the challenges of life head on with strength and competency.

It’s a ...

Whether the temperature outside is high or you're reaching your boiling point on the inside, this home practice is meant to help you cool down and chill out. Emotions like anger, frustration or irritation are all associated with the fire element in Yoga's sister science, Ayurveda. And when your c...