Hips+Legs+Feet
These home practices emphasize strength, stretch or mobility in your hips, legs, feet and ankles. While these home practices also include movements and postures that touch other areas of your body, they accentuate our roots.
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Warm Up
By your request for a pre-strength training practice!
Warm Up is a well-rounded flow practice that supports mobility at all major joints. It is designed to be a way to drop into awareness of your body and breath either prior to a strength training workout or simply on its own!
Dynamic stretch o...
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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...
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Embrace
Embrace is a practice that liberates your heart center, frees your shoulders and even releases your hips. We start with a tension relieving sequencing to help you truly embrace the moment.
It’s an embodied practice of self-love to remember and honor who you are, just as you are.
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Live Asana 12/15/24 ~ MATI ~ Self-Reflection
Live Asana 12/15/24 ~ MATI ~ Self-Reflection ~ Turning your attention inward towards Self with Eagle inspired postures, balance work, forward bends and hip mobility enhancers.
Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh's quote "Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. The wounded...
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Live Asana - 11/10/24 - Grounding
Live Asana 11/10/24 A grounding practice from New Zealand
Lots of technical difficulties but we finally made it happen using my phone and cellular so please excuse both the blurred background and the lack of music for this one.
Includes breathwork, kriya (purification), opportunities to dischar...
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Enliven
This practice is full-spectrum and supports the activation of your life force so it’s great for when you’re feeling a little stagnant or sluggish and you want to stir things up!
It’s a flow practice with elements of core strengthening, upper body strengthening and even multiple hip openers to le...
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Gathering
This practice highlights SAMANA VAYU, or the energy that flows from outer self to inner self, a gathering in of energy if you will
We’ll start with a grounded simple flow that leads to a creative, midline energy specific sequence into some supportive hip openers.
You might like to have a block ...
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Root To Rise
Inspired by the mighty trees and their ability to bend but not break, this class includes a few different tree variations and its offshoots for you to explore steadiness and ease both on and off your mat
Don’t hesitate to practice near a wall or a chair if you want a little extra balance support...
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Live Asana 10/13/24 - Time, Cycles, Kala
Live Asana 10/13/24 - Time, Cycles, Kala - a big fun Progressive Namaskar sequence. A progressive Namaskar is a big cycle made up of smaller, repetitive cycles but each new cycle brings a new movement. We get to bear witness to what remains similar in each cycle of our lives and how there is alwa...
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Lucky Stars
Inspired by the positions we usually take for stargazing, this sweet practice is largely seated and on your back.
In spite of it’s grounded nature, we’ll still explore all 4 movements of your spine and several different hip openers for a full spectrum hip tension release.
And of course we’ll fi...
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Chillax
A sweet, low to the ground practice to help you wind down and give a little gratitude to your body.
We explore all 4 movements of your spine and hip stretches to give you a chance to discharge any stress from the day and to leave you feeling absolutely chill.
You might like to have a block for ...
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Slow Down Restorative
Grab your pillows and blankets, this deeply relaxing restorative yoga practice will help take you from NO CHILL to GLORIOUSLY STILL.
If you have yoga bolsters, blankets and blocks, you’ll want to use them and if you don’t, bed pillows, throw pillows and blankets or beach towels will absolutely w...
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Sunshine Flow
This practice is all about RISE and SHINE!
It’s a flow practice designed to get your energy moving and the light in your eyes burning bright again!
Though it’s made for morning, it’s a great practice for anytime you’re feeling a little flat!
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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!
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Regulate
Enjoy a sweet return to nervous system homeostasis.
Life often has us amped up, pedal to the metal and gentle, mellow practices like this help us tap the brakes and return to that perfect balance.
Simple and sweet wind-down practice to regulate your nervous system and return to balance.
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Live Asana 7/21/24
A playful practice emphasizing the WONDERousness of our spines and hips! It includes some opportunities to push your growth edges or release into a hip opener! Have some fun, be curious, that's what feeds WONDER!
Links to the playlist are here: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlis...
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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.
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Slow Build
This is a progressive flow in rounds where each round includes a new pose that builds on the last. Really efficient for when you have short time and want to move some energy!
Not only does it allow us to use more of our body in each round, but it can have a meditative quality when you drop into ...
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Recuperate
This nourishing practice focuses on three main areas for a full spectrum recuperation and rest after any kind of activity.
We start with a focus on shoulders, then spine, then bring it home with hips.
And the whole thing has a mellow vibe for the downshift you need.
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Live Asana 6/15/24 ~ Virya ~ Vigor ~ Inner Warrior
Live Asana 6/15/24 ~ Virya ~ Vigor + Inner Warrior
This practice opens with my Thoracic Freedom flow to stoke the heart fire, then goes into the Agile Warrior sequence I've been doing, some seated breathwork bookend a sequence of warrior poses followed by hip openers and rest!
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Live Asana 5/12/24 ~ Maitri ~ Loving Kindness
An evening live practice with focus on cultivating loving kindness. Includes Gina's Thoracic Freedom Flow. Emphasizes water and earth elements and has some fabulous hip openers.
Playlists available here: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlists/68569-may-2024-focus-maitri-loving-kind...