IF YOU WANT TO RELAX: RESTORATIVE RX
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Apr 15: Super Chill Yin for Exhaustion & Excess Fire (34 min)
This is a mid-week chill practice for spring, transitions, exhaustion and grounding for excess fire
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The Lake Visualization Meditation (14 min: MBSR script)
By Jon Kabat Zinn: This is a guided visualization practice designed to cultivate mental stillness, emotional resilience, and a deeper awareness of the present moment. By visualizing oneself as a lake—held by the earth, reflecting the sky, and experiencing shifting weather—practitioners learn to o...
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Apr 13: A Quiet, Gentle Practice (45 min)
This is a practice those days when you're feeling fragile, tired and needing space - not sweat.
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Apr 9: Gentle "Get Weird to Feel Normal" Somatic Practice (35 min)
An easy-going practice filled with breath, longer holds, heel thumps, taps ("Neurogenic shakes") Nothing intense - but some easy going movements into your spine, shoulders, hamstrings & movement of holding patterns.
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Apr 8: Four Deeply Relaxing Poses (27 min)
We do four simple shapes to help you deeply relax into your body and nervous system.
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Apr 1: Four Restful Poses (32 min)
This is a soothing, calming yin practices done with 4-8 breath to encourage down-regulation. This is helpful for balancing stress and tension in your brain body.
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Mar 27: Four Deeply Relaxing Pose (32 min)
Four simple, deeply relaxing poses with the integration of down-regulating breath.
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Mar 25: Four Deeply Relaxing Poses (21 min)
We do four deeply relaxing poses into the hips and spine.
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Feb 27: Vagus Nerve & Tension Reset (19 min)
This is a soothing practice using Bhramari to stimulate the parasympathetic wiring & vagus nerve. It is an excellent release for neck tension as well.
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Feb 24: Somatic Flush: Disturbed Stress (30 min)
This is an eased-filled somatic flush practice designed to disturb stress or energetic/adrenal fatigue in your body. We do simple movements mostly seated with breath & sighs, cat cow for the spine, open your shoulders, shaking the arms, integration of the physiological sigh, open the face and jaw...
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Feb 23: Ease & Gentle Flow (60 min)
This is a gentle practice; the first 20 minutes are gentle seated poses, into standing & backbends. It is a perfect practice if you want something gentle, easing into therapeutic breath and body movement.
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Jan 23: Four Deeply Relaxing Yin Poses (25 min)
A heads up, there is glare with light today - but also pretty sun rise. We do 4 deeply relaxing poses with 4-8 breath.
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Jan 16: Friday Restore Rx Stress Release (31 min)
This is a restorative practice + somatic release & breath, helpful for fatigue muscular tension.
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Jan 14: Midweek Reset & Restore (31 min)
This is a downregulating and simple restorative practice with a little bit of breath to help calm you body and brain.
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Jan 9: Rejuvenate & Somatic Stress Release (35 min)
Note: My face is a bit blotched out due to low lighting! This is a rejuvenating stress release practice that integrated somatic movement and yin restorative shapes into deep relaxation.
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Jan 5: Mellow Hip Rx (34 min)
This is a quick practice for circulation and energy in the hips. It is more therapeutic than flow. We do a slow hip sequence and breathe into hip openers, hamstrings and add 4-8 breath into deeper held hip openers near the end.
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Jan 2: Five Poses for the Five Actions of the Hips (28 min)
This restorative includes the hip flexors, extensors, abductors, adductors and rotators. I give anatomical cues and guidance as well as to what these joint movements mean. This is excellent if your exhausted, post-workout, you're short on time or before bed.
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From the Archives: Breath for Headaches, Hangovers & Holidays (30 min)
This is a gentle set for headaches, aggravation/neck tension, bad moods, dehydration/headaches and hangovers, stress hangovers - it is gentle breath for soothing the nervous system: viloma breath, honey bee breath, gentle neck circles, 4-7-8 anti anxiety breath, cooling sitali breath.
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Dec 24: Special Holiday Practice: Activate, Calm, Restore & Music (55 min)
This is not suitable for raw beginners, if you are pregnant, have hyperthyroidism, heart or blood pressure issues or conditions where intense breath may agitate you. We begin lying down and do the physiological sigh x 4 sets of increasing pacing and longer breath holds. We then end with 4-8 breat...
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Dec 10: Headaches, Face & Jaw Rx
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Dec 8: Juicy, Slow Hip Flow (60 min)
We spend a lot of time warming up the hips, there is a gradual peak, ending with longer deeper holds - this practice is more of a therapeutic flow practice vs a workout kind of practice.
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Dec 5: Fluid Restorative for Tension (33 min)
This is a short practice that integrates a bit of fluid restorative practice and longer holds into the hips and hamstrings + releasing of tension and stress via breath. Enjoy!
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Dec 3: Deep Rest & Nidra Set (25 min)
This is a deeply restful practice using intention and breath.
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Nov 21: Rx for Ribs, Scapula & Neck Tension (22 min)
This is a shortened restorative for the scapulothoracic region, trapezius, rhomboids and sub occipital tension that can lead to headaches, migraines, mood disturbances and tension.