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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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...
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Steady & Strong
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 ...
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Nectar
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...
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Deep Sleep
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...
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Change of Pace
Today’s practice includes 3 distinct and cohesive segments: Activation, Transformation and Completion. It’s a well-rounded mobility practice that includes strength work as well stretch.
The emphasis is on moving and breathing not on auto-pilot but with total awareness. To support this effort, we...
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Like A River Flows
Like A River Flows is based on a popular workshop I teach and is inspired by the Earth and Water elements.
The earth provides structure and the water flows. It winds its way over, around and through obstacles because its nature is adaptable and flexible based on what it has to work with.
This p...
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Onward
This practice was inspired by the grasshopper, a symbol of good luck and abundance. Grasshoppers are blessed, in my opinion, with the power to only move forward – they can’t go backwards or sideways. So they must always call on their courage to gather the resources of the present and charge onwar...
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Meditation In Motion
You can simply DO yoga poses to stretch or strengthen your physical body OR you can fully inhabit yoga poses to cultivate extraordinary focus and awareness as well.
In Meditation in Motion, we embrace the opportunity for sharpening our focus and even up the game by challenging our focus in motio...
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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...
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Lit From Within
This practice reminds us of what Ayurveda calls TEJAS or the expression of solar energy in our body-mind-spirit complex.
Tejas is associated with our intelligence, discernment, enthusiasm, digestion and capacity for transformation.
This practice ignites your inherent solar energy, like lighting...
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Sweet Simplicity
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 ...
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Moonlit View
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...
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Trust
This is a practice to help you establish or reinforce your inner trust of Self.
This self-trust is an unshakeable foundation on which you show up in the world and is especially valuable in tumultuous times and when others may be looking to you for how to act or respond.
Throughout this practice...
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Patience
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...
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Wind Down
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...
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Isle of Calm
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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Run With It - Pre Run
These 2 home practices were designed to bookend your run! The pre-run practice includes dynamic stretching and flow for you to warm up your hips and legs and cultivate focus.The post-run practice combines fluid movement and deeper stretches to support a restoration of range of motion and drop you...
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All In A Day's Work ~ Morning
These 3 short home practices were designed to support you throughout the day.The first practice is sensitive to your body and mind's needs in the morning before you get rolling.The second practice can be a mid-day pause at home or at work to hit the reset button.And the third practice supports de...
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All In A Day's Work ~ Midday
These 3 short home practices were designed to support you throughout the day.The first practice is sensitive to your body and mind's needs in the morning before you get rolling.The second practice can be a mid-day pause at home or at work to hit the reset button. And the third practice supports d...
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All In A Day's Work ~ Evening
These 3 short home practices were designed to support you throughout the day. The first practice is sensitive to your body and mind's needs in the morning before you get rolling. The second practice can be a mid-day pause at home or at work to hit the reset button. And the third practice supports...
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Basecamp ~ Stoke Your Fire
This home practice was inspired by the natural elements Earth and Fire. It starts out with postures that support a feeling of groundedness and evolves into some fire stoking core and standing poses and then shifts back to earthy hip openers.
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Chill Out
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...