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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.
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Jan 21: Core & Detox Flow (Moderate 49 min)
Grab a pillow or a block. We begin with kaphalabhati breath and hips, do core work and then stand up and do a moderate standing practices with twists and deep breathing. We end with virasana and a big backbend.
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Jan 17: Express Flow Practice (34 min)
This is a quick to the point, moderate flow practice. Nothing fancy, to the point - integrating warriors, one legged balancing pose, one arm balance, one big twist and ending with two sets of backbends. Enjoy!
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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!
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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.
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Jan 14: Detox Flow (46 min)
This is a condensed detox flow beginning with a repetitive low lunge with breath sequence, warriors and heat-building poses - followed by some static poses with the focus of cleansing.
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Jan 10: Quick Power (34 min)
This is an express power practice that will include hops in down dog, classic warriors, twists and a few back bends. This is a quick sweat in a mostly standing flow practice. The "power" part are the hops.
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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.
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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.
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Jan 7: Moderate Detox Flow (48 min)
We begin with a 5 min warm-up, followed by a moderate paced flow with the tone of "detoxing" the body. We do a little bit of core work. This is a great practice if you're like me during the filming of this: fresh off of being sick, out of shape due to the holidays and needing a gentle ass kick - ...
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Nov 29: Relaxed Spinal Rx (21 min)
This is a chilled out spinal flush sequence that is easy-going and brief in time. Lateral flexion, twists and forward fold with diaphragmatic breath.
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Nov 28: Power (32 min)
This is a shortened power-flow practice integrating: handstand hops, crow pose, side plank and longer held warrior poses for leg strength - ending with bow pose x 2 and wheel or camel backbend.
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Nov 27: Mid-Week Restore (20 min)
This is a shortened easy-going restorative class into the shoulder, spine and hips.
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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.
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Nov 22: Spinal Tune-Up/Flush (30 min)
This is a therapeutic sequence (less about sweat or a workout) that works with spinal waves and twists. It is important you integrate breath.
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Nov 21: Classic Power Yoga Shortened (33 min)
Shortened power sequence includes: handstand hops, crow pose, side plank, long holds and closing back bends. It's a vibrant, quick hit of a classic power yoga practice.
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Nov 20: Quicke Restorative (12 min)
This is a quickie - for post run, workout and short in time....
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Nov 19: Quick Hip & Hamstring (30 min)
This is a quick hip and hamstring flow ideal for post-workout, run, etc end of day. We work into the flexors, rotators and extensors of the hips.
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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.
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Nov 13: Quick Hips for Athletes (30 min)
This is a floor sequence that includes longer holds for the hamstrings, deep gluteals, glutes medius/IT band and quads. I recommend you have pillows and towels to pad up sensitive knees.
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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.
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Oct 9: Low back, Pelvis & Hip Release (26 min)
This practice focuses on the pelvis, low back, hips and sacrum in a restorative way.
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Oct 8: Jungle Sessions: Mellow Hips (30 min)
Today's practice is a mellow hip and quads practice. It is moderate, very little flow, long holds and hip openers.
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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...