ADVANCED ANATOMY: HORMONE-THEMED, EMBODIMENT & KUNDALINI CLASSES

ADVANCED ANATOMY: HORMONE-THEMED, EMBODIMENT & KUNDALINI CLASSES

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ADVANCED ANATOMY: HORMONE-THEMED, EMBODIMENT & KUNDALINI CLASSES
  • Full Body Flow + Endocrine System Cueing

    This is a full spectrum practice with a few cues to endocrine system structures being stimulated in certain asanas. Enjoy!

  • Balance Your Brain - From Hypervigilance to Balanced Calm (Sept 7)

    Working with unusual patterns of balance to create more balance!

  • Strong Core, Digestive Detox (Sept 6)

    A short talk on the digestive system - followed by a strong core cleanse and core strengthening practice. Enjoy!

  • Sept 28: Self-Healing Breath Set: Focus Head/Neck/Helpful for Old Head Injuries

    I've had a concussion before and symptoms sometimes pop up and create stress in the body and soul as a result. I feel for you if this is the case. We begin with ujjayi breath with a focus on one hand on the belly, one hand on the head to make a cranial-belly connection, to clear the energy "grid"...

  • Sept 30: Vestibular Asana for fighting Cyber Fatigue & Building Trust (70 min)

    This practice encourages closing your eyes for the development of the eyes/ears/brain connection in balance. Especially if you are someone who gets car sick easily - you might also suffer from cyber fatigue. Many people have this as screen time has increased with covid. Not good! Strange side eff...

  • Lymphatic Asana Flush (Sept 2)

    This is an asana practice with a brief lesson on the basics of the lymphatic system, what it does and asana with emphasis on the three main "highways" of lymphatic vessels: a) the axillary nodes b) inguinal nodes and c) cervical nodes

  • Balance + Half-Moon-Hotel-Flow (Sept 1)

    Several half moons and one legged balancing poses with heat, sweat and cleanse.

  • Jan 13: Twists/ Enteric Nervous System

    Today begins with a 4-min review/visual aid of a previous class on what the limbic system looks like - as well as a quick definition of this class into the nervous system aka. your "gut brain." Expect sweat, cleansing into the GI tract and spine and a ton of twists!

  • Nov 19: A Unique Sequence: CNS, Balance, Pineal Gland

    This is an unconventional practice that begins with five minutes of your own free flow (not good for beginners who have no idea what to do). Into a class where we gradually work into the theme of the prior pranayama practice: the Central Nervous System, cerebral spinal fluid and attention to the ...

  • Jan 4: Feel Good Flow + Hips + Visual Aid on SNS

    I share a 3 min long clip from a teacher (Dispenza) on the sympathetic nervous system + what the HPA axis looks like. The practice is mainly on your feet: a basic feel good flow into the hips and a few backbends near the end.

    Enjoy!

  • Jan 5: Heart, Connection & Neuronal Coherence

    We begin class with a nerdy visual on what neurons look like in your brain, mid-synapses: essentially when something new is being learned, a thought is being re-enforced. The depths of ancient yogic teachings are based on exactly this: the connections we choose to nurture, and the ones we choose ...

  • Nov 6: Feel Yourself Again: Restorative Thymus, Thyroid & Adrenals

    This restorative session is excellent if you feel out of your body, anxious or just needing to restore your center again. We work specifically into the thyroid gland, neck, the thymus as well as restorative supine positions. There is an emphasis of opening and closing into the neck for the thyroi...

  • Soothing the Nervous System: Lecture + Yoga Nidra with Jana Roemer

    Jana Roemer is an LA based teacher and guest friend of mine who taught this past summer during the summer mental detox series. She has extensive experience in the conversation and teaching of yoga nidra, the nervous system and yoga. She is incredibly knowledgeable and gifted at teaching this prac...

  • June 25: Unravel Your Nervous System

    A 60 min restorative practice designed to let your nervous system drop into calm and homeostasis.

  • Jan 15: Relax the Gut-Brain Axis

    This is a 60 min deeply restorative practice beginning on the belly, into the hips and some twists. Extra attention is paid to the belly and relaxing it so to soften the nervous system-gut health connection towards a coherent state.

  • Dec 2: Pranayama: Brief Chat on PNS Cranial & Sacral Nerves

    30 min educational bit + breath work in conjunction with the parasympathetic nervous system response (rest and digest).

  • Breath + Asana - Thesis Homeostasis

    This practice integrates inquiry - listening to all the little cues your body and nervous system is telling you. Sometimes we need to do the opposite of what we think we need in order to achieve balance. Positive turbulence, for example, is helpful on days when we are feeling lazy or low. We do t...

  • Oct 12: Slow Drip Honey Practice

    Long holds, slow movements is the theme of this practice. This is great for dissolving impatience in the body and a gradual release of toxicity, sweat and moving "debris to the side body" as Iyengar would suggest.

  • Sept 21: A Trinity Practice: Good Things Come in Threes (Asana Only 60 min)

    This is a repetitive "threes" practice with the goal of enhancing the rhythm of threes in your life today - off the mat. There is a trinity pattern in many auspicious practices, and in yoga we see it too: three "Oms", the three gunas, the three doshas. When we plug the "threes" into a physical pr...

  • Nov 24: Painfully Slow Burn Hatha

    This practice compliments the prior pranayama practice: how our biology insists perseverance and integrity - why do we sometimes ignore this body wisdom? Expect only a handful of poses - slow steady burn. There are no advanced poses but the longer holds require an advanced mindset

  • 90 min: Vigorous Lymphatic Kriya + Restorative Practice for the Kidney/Adrenals

    We begin with one of my fave Kundalini kriyas for the lymphatic system. It is intense and creates some heat. After this kriya, we drop into a cathartic yin/floor practice with the energy of water and the kidneys in your body. In both yoga and Chinese Medicine, the kidneys behold the element of wa...

  • May 27: Lymphatic Cleanse (Int/Adv)

    The Lymphatic Kriya is an intermediate/advanced practice working with the arms and legs and activating breath practices. When the lymph glands aren't doing their job - we can get sick quite quickly... Enjoy!

  • July 9: Lymphatic Drainage Restorative Practice

    You will need a block or a few sturdy pillows - we will work with some restorative inversions and supported poses to encourage lymphatic drainage.

  • July 9: Lymphatic & Brain Pranayama

    We work specifically with lymphatic system and nervous system, brain hemispheres.