IF YOU WANT TO RELAX: RESTORATIVE RX

IF YOU WANT TO RELAX: RESTORATIVE RX

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IF YOU WANT TO RELAX: RESTORATIVE RX
  • Jan 23: Restore Spinal Flush Rx (40 min)

    This is a gentle practice using breath and awareness of the thoracic and upper spine & the shoulder girdle. It is a chilled out practice done with diaphragmatic breathing.

  • Jan 22: Restorative Yin (34 min)

    This is a compressed restorative practice into the hips, glutes and hamstrings. I recommend you do this before bed as well or after sports to wind down and restore the body. 4-8 breath is also a way to down-regulate during this practice.

  • Jan 16: Rx for Fatigue: Neck, Thyroid, Jaw & Eyes

    Today's practice focuses on lymphatic massage, the thyroid gland, jaw tension and neck tension. If you've been sitting at a computer all day or experience headaches, tinnitus, TMJ - this might help!

  • Jan 15: Hips & Pelvis Rx (30 min)

    This is a slow, gentle practice into some of my favorite go-to's for decompressing the hips, low back and pelvis - designed to relax and rejuvenate you.

  • Jan 9: Rx Gentle Hip Therapy

    This is very slow moving, simple and for the hips and hamstrings. The opposite of a workout - this is for those of you needing slow, simple and therapeutic.

  • Jan 8: Rx Poses for Uncertainty (33 min)

    This piggybacks the breath practice for uncertainty - we work into hot spots where uncertainty lives: neck, jaw, face and hips... This is a chilled out relaxing practice, restorative in nature. 4-7-8 breath is invited into the shapes you make as well.

  • Jan 6: Post-Holiday Quiet Yin (49 min)

    This is a restorative and quiet practice for a body desiring deep rest and nurturing with breath. We will work into your neck, shoulders, glutes, hips and hamstrings.

  • Jan 2: Post-Holidays Brain Calm

    This is a SLOW, down-regulating practice. If you desire a slow moving minimalist breath practice. If you're beat-down by the holidays, pooped out, have little energy - and need to respect it - and desire a calming breath - this is for you. If you're sick or at the end of a flu/cold - this may als...

  • Nov 27: Mid-Week Restore (20 min)

    This is a shortened easy-going restorative class into the shoulder, spine and hips.

  • Nov 26: Soothing Hips Rx (32 min)

    This is a short sequence fluid and restorative in nature. We focus on diaphragmatic breathing in longer held lunges, lateral stretches with psoas major as focus, pigeon prep, cobras and double pigeon.

  • Nov 20: Quicke Restorative (12 min)

    This is a quickie - for post run, workout and short in time....

  • Nov 14: Do-Anywhere Neck De-stressor (17 min)

    This can be done at your desk, in your car, on an airplane whenever you need a refresh with limited time and space. It will soothe any irritation or stress you are experiencing.

  • Sleep Audio: Tension-Release for Sleep (15 min)

    Filmed with the sounds of Nicaraguan jungle, this audio-guide will move through your body to intentionally squeeze and breathe out extra tension at the end of your day. We end with gentle, calming 'CO2" breathing to help lullaby you into deep sleep.

  • Oct 9: Low back, Pelvis & Hip Release (26 min)

    This practice focuses on the pelvis, low back, hips and sacrum in a restorative way.

  • Oct 2: Stress Rx for Neck, Jaw & Vagus Nerve "Vooo" (35 min)

    This practice targets the neck, face, jaw and throat - C1-C7. These areas are "hot spots" for the embodiment of stress, tension and overthinking. We also use a Somatic Experiencing technique "vooooooo" to invoke a longer exhale and please the vagus nerve, the nerve that "turns on" the parasympath...

  • Sept 25: Rainy Day Restorative (30 min)

    This practice is a handful of poses into the hamstrings, hips, spine and jaw/neck. This is a rejuvenating practice for the beginning or end of your day.

  • Sept 11: Deeply Restorative (28 min)

    This is a deeply restorative practice into the hips and low back. We begin with an abdominal release lying on a folded up pillow with deep breathing, This inadvertently helps release low back tension and hip tension.

  • Aug 21: Neck & Thyroid Release (25 min)

    This a restorative class to release the neck, jaw, throat and thyroid gland. We use a breathing technique as well called "honey bee" breath. You will hopefully feel a sense of deep restoration and stress release from the neck, jaw, eyes and shoulders.

  • Aug 14: Four Poses for Hamstrings & Low Back (30 min)

    This is one of my favorite low back and hamstrings restorative practice. We do four poses into the hamstrings and low back in a deep, restorative way.

  • July 10: Energy Centers Restorative (37 min)

    This is a rejuvenating and inward practice for the body's energy centers and is a compliment to the Osho Chakra Breathing.

  • July 3: Relax & Rejuvenate (30 min)

    This is a dynamic restful practices including inner groins, SI joint and low back releasing, supine poses, cat-cow, lunging with longer holds - it's not as long/sleepy of a yin practice - we hold poses for a maximum of ten breaths.

  • A Practice for When You're Tired (30 min)

    This is a 30 min practice primarily on your back with happy baby pose, restorative hip openers, twists, a restorative back bend and deep rest. If your adrenals feel "shot" or if you're too tired to do anything at all - this might be a good one for you!

  • Restore Express Practice (30 min)

    This is an express practice to restore and relax the body - hamstrings, spine and hips as focal points. Enjoy!

  • Quick Hips (25 min) Restore

    Today's practice is a quick practice for the hips, inner groins and pelvis.