Mindful Yoga
Practices to build strength and flexibility with mindful movement and breath. Hatha, vinyasa, slow flow.
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New Moon Live Yoga & Breath Practice | REFLECTION
As we close out another summer and enter the Autumn, it's a beautiful time to pause, slow down, and process what has happened this year.
Join me for a gently flow to open your heart, release tension, and bring awareness to our breath.
Props: optional blanket (Blanket: https://amzn.to/40vhOXS...
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Simple Daily Grounding Yoga for Morning and Evening
We could all use a practice that is grounding, simple, and moves at a steady pace - helping us reconnect to our intention for the day, our bodies, and help us be fully present. This practice is all about that - moving slowly with intention, holding poses for a few breaths each, we move through ...
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Yoga for Lower Legs | Calves, Shins, Feet & Ankles | Stretching & Strengthening
We don't often think about building strength and flexibility in our lower legs, feet, and ankles but this is where both can truly enhance your practice and make you more comfortable in your every day life. We could all use a little more love in the lower legs, right? Join me for this slow and s...
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Yoga for Shoulders & Upper Back | Deep Stretching & Strengthening
Yoga is a balance - a balance of strength and flexibility. In this practice we will be focusing on creating a balance of both, using poses to strengthen the muscles in the area as well as opening up some space and building more flexibility. Slow, steady, mindful. Enjoy!
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Core on the Floor | Deluxe Edition | Hands Free Core Workout
Our core helps support our health and wellness in SO many ways; but, like me, you probably don't love core work. This is a hands free, non weight bearing on arms/shoulders/wrists, 15 minute full core workout where you fire up your core with small, intentional movements. Lots of creative methods...
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20 Min Evening Yoga | Deep Back Stretch
For all of you who sit for hours on end, are on your feet carrying heavy weight, working outside or in the yard - this practice is for you! Many people, near the end of the day, have back pain and/or discomfort from living our lives the way we do. Here's a little evening yoga practice to help s...
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Upper Body Stretch & Weight Training Practice
Many of us have less upper body strength and as we age, we lose this muscle tone faster. To keep our bones and muscles strong and our bodies toned, we need to use light weights with higher repetitions of exercises.
This is my own personal 3x a week upper body weight training practice. You can ...
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Yoga for Graceful Transitions
Throughout our lives we will face uncertainty, transitions, changes, and challenges. How can we face them with more grace? Our practice is a place of learning - not just physically but mentally, emotionally, and energetically. We learn the beautiful skills we need to move through our lives wit...
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Yoga to Reignite Your Inner Passion
Whether it be passion for a relationships, project, situation, event - whatever your bliss is, sometimes our passion wanes, gets stale or we feel lackluster. Reignite your inner flame of passion with this sacral, heart, and throat chakra practice meant to bring greater flow, energy, and opening ...
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Yoga for Compassion Fatigue | Honoring Your Energy
Many of us will face days where we want to practice, need to practice, need to move our bodies somehow but we feel depleted, exhausted, and deeply fatigued. Whether that be physically, emotionally, or mentally (or all of the above), we can practice self care by honoring our energy as well as bal...
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15 Minute Bedtime Yoga for Hips
At the end of a long day spent sitting a lot or really active can make it hard to settle down and sleep comfortably. But, if you take just 15 minutes on your bed, you can unwind tension in your hips - allowing you to sleep soundly with less back and hip pain. Join me before bed for a little unw...
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Connecting to Our Ancestors | New Moon Yoga
How can we honor our ancestry better? By being good ancestors, by acknowledging the lessons, skills, gifts, talents, abilities that we have been gifted and by knowing that we are born from love. We explore this and more in our breath and body.
Props: 1 blanket or towel or anything you need to...
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Yoga for a Beautiful (re)Start | Full Body Yoga for New Beginnings
You have come so far and worked so hard to get to this place - a new beginning! Whether it's a new home, career, relationship, way of living...you are finally HERE. Take a moment to congratulate yourself and feel good about how far you have come and then, join me on the mat to shake off any old...
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Mindful Yoga for a Beautiful Day
Who doesn't want to embrace a beautiful day full of sunshine, light, bird song, and potential? Join me for this slow, mindfully connected full body practice where we move intentionally and gently to begin our day.
Props: blanket for knees if needed
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Full Body Morning Yoga for Presence
Grounding and centering with breath and movement we take a little time outside in my garden to slowly, and mindfully open the entire body. Need a standing yoga flow to start your day and get your body ready? Join me on the mat for some sweet birdsong and my backyard flowers!
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Balancing Your Energy | New Moon Yoga
Summer is here and our energy is peaking - not only upwards but outwards. We may feel pulled to "do" everything at once, start a bunch of new things, share our energy everywhere but is this sustainable? There is time - time to enjoy, savor, explore, experience the summer with mindfulness and at...
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Yoga for Hip Flexor Opening & Deep Release
Whether you are an athlete, weekend warrior, spend long hours sitting in a chair or seat - this practice will help you open up this space that can get super sticky. It can also release your back a bit and may relieve back pain.
Perfect for every week to deepen your yoga practice OR just feel mo...
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Yoga for Energetic Grounding | Full Body
Ever feel as if you have picked up too much of others energy or situations in your life have you feeling overwhelmed with nervous energy? Sometimes emotional energy can get stuck in our bodies and the best way to discharge it is to move, shift the energy and ground it. In this practice we are w...
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Core on the Floor | Side B | Core Strength & Awareness
The core is one of THE most important areas of our bodies - and one of the spaces we don't love working out. The core helps hold us up, protect our back, support every movement we make, hold our organs in place, and more. Today we are working the Side B or prone positions for core where we are ...
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Core on the Floor | Side A | Hands Free Core Strength & Awareness
Our core is a powerhouse that keeps us upright, supports our back, allows us to move in so many different ways, and holds our organs in place. And, it's often one of the weakest areas of our bodies - especially as we age. Whatever your core condition - this class is for you. We stay on the flo...
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A Beginners Mind | New Moon Spring Prep Yoga
Welcome to the New Moon in Aries - energy rising for Spring and the fiery energy of Aries! Today we are working with building a bit of heat to burn off what is no longer needed, and focusing on balancing and supporting the liver/gallbladder meridian organ systems as we move into Spring. What se...
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Full Body Standing Yoga | Air Element
Need a full body flow to open up space for deeper, fuller breaths? How about no wrists, hands, shoulder weight or step backs?
Perfect for anyone, anytime - this little "flow" practice is slow movement to connect to your breath and the element of air all while releasing tension and tightness t...
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Yoga Stretches for Rotator Cuff Strength & Mobility
Rotator cuff injuries are one of the top injuries as we age - whether it be because of overuse, changing bone structures, or hauling a suitcase overhead (and yes, I know some who have injured it exactly like this). To protect our shoulders, we can build some basic movements into our lives to mai...
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Rotator Cuff Yoga for Strength & Mobility
Rotator cuff injuries happen more often than we would like to admit - often from acute injury (lifting overhead of swinging a heavy object overhead), repetitive use, or the simple fact that as we age sometimes our bones grow little "spurs" that can make the shoulders painful. So, let's keep this...