IF YOU WANT TO RELAX: RESTORATIVE RX
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May 28: Rx for Hips, Spine & Fatigue (31 min)
A practice to release, relax the spine, inner groins, low back and glutes. Helpful for burnout or fatigue.
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May 23: Deep Rest Chakras Body Scan (38 min)
This is an audio-guided practice for rest, bedtime and deep relaxation. We work with subtle-body energy centers (chakras) in a guided body-scan meditation.
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May 20: Rx Hips, Spine & Inner Groins (31 min)
This is a restorative/yin for inner thighs, hamstrings, hips & spine + 4-8 down-regulating breath
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May 6: Four Hip Openers with 4-8 Breath
This is a restoration practice for your hips done with down regulating breath
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Apr 29: Four Relaxing Poses (audio glitch)
A feel good practice for the ribs/spine/hamstrings. Heads up my mic battery died (echos)
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Apr 28: Two Poses for Quads & Hips (21 min)
This is a short simple practice of my two favorite main poses for tight hips and quads.
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Apr 22: Rx for Low Back & Sciatica (35 min)
If you have lower back issues or sciatica - this may be a helpful practice for you. We use 4-8 breathing for hip flexors, low back, hips and spine.
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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.