FOR BETTER SLEEPS (70 classes)
A series of archival classes with the key word "sleep" and "insomnia" - to help you relax before bed!
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Oct 8: Midweek Restorative (23 min)
This is back by popular demand to ensure a midweek restorative. Expect spinal twists, gluteal and hip tension, inner groins and a restorative camel ending with a child's pose. Enjoy!
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Oct 1: Sobriety Advanced Breath Practice (30 min)
The invitation and dialogue today is in support for those of you choosing sobriety...or if you are working to eliminate any kind of addiction.... this is an advanced breath practice that will get you high naturally.
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Sept 23: Grounding Breath: Sudarshan Kriya
This is perfect for the fall equinox. It quiet, calming and grounding. It is called "Sudarshan" Kriya. It is intense and grounding diaphragmatic breathing, box breathing and three short bouts of bellows breath.
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Sept 17: Quiet Yin (29 min)
This is a restorative practice into the hips, hamstrings and inner groins. I give a lot of space today.
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Sept 11: Becoming Seaweed: Calm Breath & Embodiment (30 min)
This is a "feminine" embodiment practice regardless of your gender - we all have masculine and feminine connections to nature. We do one set of breath of fire followed by one long continuous stream of soothing inhales and exhales with calm spinal movements.
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Sept 10: A Practice for when you're exhausted (35 min)
This is a practice that is useful if you are exhausted and barely feeling like practicing. You are pooped out from your work week or emotionally/physically exhausted and have zero motivation. We do Child's Pose, a gentle backbend, supported bridge, a gentle twist, and a forward fold.
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Aug 19: Digital Detox: Neck, Jaw & Eye Flush (26 min)
I recommend you do this with this practice with your eyes closed (the irony is that you're watching this on a digital device). This is to help counter TMJ, teeth grinding, trapezius tension, headaches, eye strain and tension from laptop life. We increase blood flow and circulation into these hots...
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Aug 14: "The Prana Vayus" Traditional Breathwork (32 min)
The "vayus" is an old, Vedic teaching based on the idea of Prana "energy" moving through your body like "the gods of the wind." We work with the varying directional flows of breath and energy in the mind-body. Prana and the vayus describe the "winds of change." Wind disrupts and in breathwork, we...
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Aug 6: Sudarshan Kriya (For Stress, PTSD & Anxiety)
This is a breath practice that engages deep, diaphragmatic breathing, box breathing and bellows. It is a practice that has also been used in specific research re: PTSD, anxiety and depression.
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Deep Rest + Hips + 30 min Body Scanning Nidra (60 min)
This is a deeply relaxing guided practice using music and a blend of body scanning and nidra (yogis' sleep).
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July 23: Somatic Restorative Release
Today is perfect if you're tired or short on time or stressed. We breathe, stretch, tap, shake and release tension from the body in a non-traditional practice implementing "somatic release" work.
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July 16: Neck, Jaw & Eyes Refresh (16 min)
This is a top down approach moving breath and simple (and weird) movements of the neck, jaw, eyes and shoulders. This is an excellent practice if you have brain-drain, exhausted by screens or are depleted of energy.
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July 9: Laptop Flush: Jaw, Eyed & Sub-occipital Release (20 min)
This is a short practice that integrates neck-up releases for the eyes, jaw, tongue and sub-cranial tension. The theme is to flush out laptop / digital fatigue, stress, headaches and strain. We also do two breath techniques: lions & jivha bandha.
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June 26: Cooling, Down-Regulating Breath (30 min)
This is a newcomer-friendly practice. It is cooling and soothing great for exhaustion, heightened anxiety, adrenal fatigue or pre-bedtime breathwork. We move the spine gently as well.
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Livestream Returns June 9: Yin Poses/Myofascial Release (21 min)
This is a simple, quiet yin restorative practice opening the inner groins/adductors, hip rotators and quads. This is great for the end of the week, post-exercise or for myofascial release.
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June 5: Stability Breathwork (Advanced 31 min)
Stability Breathwork (Advanced 31 min) includes Wim Hof and a longer deeper ujjayi breath.
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May 19: Advanced Breathwork + Wim Hof with Spinal Pulsing (30 min)
This is an advanced practice not suitable for beginners - we pulse the spine - there is a bit of a 3 min anatomy lesson on the nexus of the nervous system, your ribs, thoracic spine and breath.
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May 19: Nooks n Crannies/Easy-Going Practice (30 min)
This is an easy going practice aimed to get into all of your "nooks and crannies" with an unusual sequence into the hips, ribs, spine and energy body.
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May 12: Gentle Breath for Excessive Adrenaline & Stress (31 min)
This practice is perfect if you have a high-adrenaline job or are constantly "on" lately. We two quick sets of kaphalabhati breath followed by gentle movements of the spine and ribs with cooling/relaxing breath. It is down- regulating.
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May 7: Pillars of Mental Health & Radical Positivity: Advanced Breath (30 min)
The invitation in this advanced practice is "how can we invite in positivity and optimism? "How can be on the brighter side of consciousness?" This is not suitable for newcomers or beginners. We do a long set of breath of fire to prepare for longer variations of Tummo breath/Wim Hof.
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May 6: Navigating Challenge & Resistance (Breathwork) 32 min
We begin with focus on your heart - and its relationship to the anatomy of your diaphragm and the theme of resistance. The invitation is "can we turn towards resistance vs running away from it?" My____ is a gift. My "anxiety/tension fill in the blank" as a gift.
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May 5: Traditional Pranayama Set (31 min)
Today's breathwork is suitable for beginners/moderate practitioners. We do three sets of KP breath, three sets of bellows (20, 40, 80) and end with "sitali" cooling breath.
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May 2: Advanced Dopamine-Serotonin Breathwork (37 min)
This practice is not suitable for beginners or those who haven't practiced breathwork for a long time. It is an intense series of adrenaline-enhancing practices with the visualization of green/blue purification of mind/brain connection.
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May 1: Soothing, Calm Breath for Catastrophic Thinking (30 min)
Today is a calming/down-regulating, soothing breathwork for "catastrophic thinking" - if you are in a state of fight or flight "is EVERY thought I have 1000% true?"