Welcome to my 'emotional body' series.
Please practice with great respect and honour your body wisdom.
Listen to this - and heed the needs of your body, heart, mind and soul.
Pay attention to your own inner guidance. lovingly and patiently working with your body - never against it. No forcing -Ever.
Select the emotion you wish to work with.
Or what is closest to how you are feeling.
I will meet you there.
When the going gets tough, and things happen that we just can't get around or over - The yogi can go inward. This practice works with a particular focus on the kidneys, an organ of regulation. We learn to take in that which serves and eliminate what doesn't. If only for this time! Quiet and restorative. relax..Relax..Relax.
Practicing to Tony Scotts yoga and other joys - let the music take you into moving meditation.
for the times we don't want a theme but we do want to move some energy.
Is a change coming? Are we within change? Are we grieving the change? or have we been changed? Lets see, as its always good to know where we are!
Exploring change through a nice strong flow.
The bud and the bloom - you are love becoming love.
My emergency stop. Address the tensions in the chest and release the shoulders. take a counter pose to the stuff of life.
Rest and restore. this practice hopes to be an oasis in a busy week. With minimal talking. Lots of props - if you want them.
TIME OUT TIME.
"Work to cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Lets change our baseline to something more upbeat!"
"It takes a lot to learn to yield. we practice a deep surrender with this yin yoga practice."
"A Yin practice to move the spine in all directions. Use gravity to let go and free fall to freedom."
"Enter into the Centre of sensation. To help with 'Feeling' . Feeling is healing after all. Expect Long long holds, practicing remaining 'fair to middling'."
'To surrender means to drop deeply into the heart and be receptive to the light and divinity that is present there.' A practice for the wrists hands arms and shoulders that works with the meridians of the heart.
Focus on the positive patterns, as you practice traditional hatha yoga.
"Dive into your sweet center. Clear, energize and get creative. Lift and twist!"
"Placing ourselves in poses can be confrontational and make us want to RUN!
Today we lean into the pressure or walk toward it understanding it is there to shift us energetically.
Yin For the legs. Expect long holds and maybe a little nap!"
"No theme! just Flow! A practice with more music and minimal instructions.
For those time where you just want to keep it simple."
"Truth happens on the mat, if we are brave enough to see how we really are.
Move beyond the surface layers of ourselves to find the deeper truth of self or SAT NAM. Purify that which you are not."
"Gently does it. We work gently and quietly to allow the deeper feelings of sadness to be seen.
We hold ourselves here, giving the space to allow sadness.
This practice works with mantra, mudra and acupressure points, to help us release this emotion, that can lie behind so much."
"Exactly what it says on the tin folks! Time on the mat is time away from other things."
"We look at discernment as a way to counter balance doubt. This practice works specifically to release the contraction of doubt from the back body. So that we can move forward again with a lot of 'Back bone!'. Lets work to bring health back to the spine. Drawing the right lines for personal discernment of what is true and good for us."
"Cultivate calm. Mantra. Yin. Meditation. The calm is the Balm. Lets wrap ourselves in softness, sleep if you must."
"This practice is for the core. We find interesting ways to connect within and counter feelings of confusion. Working specifically with the solar plexus chakra. May the 'City of Jewels' shine and bring us clarity today."
Today lets work with Marma, Mudra, mantra, asana, and pranayama to counteract feelings of fatigue. With a particular focus on recirculating energy in the junctures of the joints and the softening and spreading of the solar plexus. A practice for those times we think we are too exhausted to practice. May your energy radiate Beautiful one.
A full up practice designed to create space and time for you.
Enter into the inner sanctum.
Readdress the balance of the nervous system - release yourself from tension and stress with a traditional Sivananda practice.
Working with the Green Tara Mantra, we generate love in the body today. Embrace your divine feminine in the garden of the goddess!
A gentle turning of the body and the mantra 'Aham Prema'.
Realise the love that you are!
Today we tackle the unpopular topic of pain! The practice is the petri dish! Looking at how the emotions might contribute to physical pain. Turning our perspective on pain - pain as a vibrational boundary that says 'its time to stop and learn something'.
A meditative practice to RELAX the TRAPS of tension..
Tension that is commonly housed in the shoulders in the back diamond of our trapezius muscles. We send love and healing to this area today