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...

This month we explore a niyama from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika: MATI or self-reflection. Mati invites us into the practice of deep self-inquiry: a commitment to exploring our values, questioning our unconscious patterns, and aligning our actions with our aspirations.

It challenges us to pause and...

Live Movement + Meditation 11/24/24 - Grounding ~ Apana Vayu with guest teacher Tracey Garcia. Glorious, simple, grounding movement followed by a beautiful nature-based visualization meditation.

Time stamps:
Opening: 0:00 - 4:45
Movement: 4:45 - 31:00
Meditation: 31:00-52:00
Closing: 52:00-53:35...

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...

In this live Satsang Soul Circle, we focus on Grounding, what it is and how to support it physically, mentally and energetically both through the lens of Yoga + Ayurveda and general Wellness principles, both evidence backed and experience backed!

Audio only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yVDc...

A meditation on time (kala) as cycles, inspired by breath waves. The breath is the greatest teacher of all of time as cyclical, of impermanence and the connection of all things.

Audio-only of meditation + soul circle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H_M71y9371knql1FKRRe38CWVbR74oW7/view?usp=sha...

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...

Live Satsang Soul Circle 10/6/24 Time / Kala

In this Satsang we explore our relationship with TIME. Most Westerners think of time as LINEAR, while the source of Yoga considers time to be CYCLICAL. We explore the differences between the two and the potential benefits of seeing time as cyclical vs...

Live Movement + Meditation 9/29/24 - Kindness & Compassion

Audio-only version:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T841_qLCYWYXHBc9BYQmYwR5vfM1srJV/view?usp=sharing

Intro: 0:00-2:41
Movement: 2:42-17:40
Guided Meditation:17:41-45:51

This practice will liberate your upper back, neck, shoulders, chest and sides - if your heart is the epicenter of kindness, compassion and all forms of moral beauty then we gotta set it freeeeee.

Practice playlist: https://www.yogapotluck.com/forums/monthly-playlists/70310-september-2024-servic...

September's focus is service through the lens of yoga and the concept of "moral beauty". We discuss general service, karma yoga and seva (or SELFLESS service) and the idea of liberating ourselves and others from the suffering that comes from human conditioned consciousness through acts of moral b...

Spontaneous Soul Circle just because! This Satsang is on kindness and compassion and a quote I couldn't stop thinking about all week:

The faster you're moving, the more you're in fear.
The more you're in fear, the more you're only thinking about yourself.
The more you're only thinking about your...

Live guided Movement & Meditation on Auspiciousness - cultivate the qualities of devotion, empathy, equanimity, truth, acceptance, compassion and gratitude.

Subtitles available and audio-only version of the meditation is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aFKPvUxBqkWp4fCcOzH0o8EAL2kUxdo-/vie...

Live Asana with Tracey Garcia 8/18/24

For August we explore AUSPICIOUSNESS - those moments in life that are most favorable and likely to bear fruit. These are excellent times to explore growth. In this video I talk about ways to tune towards your own intuition and included several journal prompts for how connected you are to signs of...

Live Movement + Meditation 7/28/24 on WONDER. We begin with some context for the sit, go into about 12 minutes of gentle movement to prepare to sit and then a 20 minute guided meditation with prompts to elicit a connection with WONDER in your life.

Time stamps:

0:00-6:15 - Context
6:15-18:00 - ...

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...

Live Satsang 7/14/21 - Wonder or Adbhuta Rasa

This month we explore the concept of WONDER or, in Indian Classical Art Adbhuta Rasa, one of the 9 human emotional states. We explore its roots, what it's key features are, what evokes it, why it's challenging as adults, its benefits and practical ti...

A short, gentle movement practice sets the stage for acknowledging and caring for your inner warrior. We explore two ways we express our warrior vigor - in crisis and in personal evolution. Our warrior is always within, but not an unlimited resource. Self-care, discernment and boundaries are esse...

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!

Tap into your vigor to face the challenges of life with intention and empowerment. This Satsang was LIT. Give it a listen and explore what is calling for your vigor to rise up right now.

Audio only version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTp2ynBfReYjMO7BEg-htW6f5XVgnzkQ/

Time stamps:

Greetin...

Live Movement + Meditation 5/19/24 - Maitri Meditation - Loving Kindness

A little movement practice to support your mobility (every day my friends, a little bit every day goes a long way!) followed by a classic meditation: Maitri Meditation. We generate loving kindness in rounds beginning with o...

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...

Live Satsang 5/5/24 - MAITRI - Loving Kindness - Make Friends With Your Mind Part 3. This month we're exploring a loving-kindness centered approach to the Inner Critic, building off one of the Parts (from Internal Family Systems) and the Cognitive Distortions (part of Maya or illusion, that we fo...