Mindful Yoga
Practices to build strength and flexibility with mindful movement and breath. Hatha, vinyasa, slow flow.
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Quick Grounding Yoga Flow + Guided Meditation
Everyone has days when you just don't have a lot of time - busy schedule, early morning demands or just feeling the pressure of things to get done. Even if you only have 15 minutes, you can ground, center, breathe, move and bring greater focus to your day with this 10 minute yoga flow and 5 minu...
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Sunrise Full Body Yoga Flow
If you need a little mobilizing full body yoga flow to start your day right, then this 20 minute flow is for you! We move the entire body through held poses with focus on the breath. Great for when you first wake up or whenever you need a short, focused practice to restart.
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15 Min Yoga for Low Back Release
Low back tension and tightness can come from a number of places - feet, legs, hips. In this 15 minute practice we explore opening up these spaces and releasing to get deeper into the lower back. Perfect for when you need a short lower body stretch (with a little bit of strengthening) to release...
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Hip Bliss | Yoga for Happy Hips
Need a little hip opening? This practice is all about sweet grounded hip openers using the floor to help settle into the poses. Perfect for the start of your day to improve mobility or at the end of the day to release back and hip tension from work! Just 10 minutes and you will have happy hips!
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15 Min Back Yoga Flow | 4 Movements of the Spine
Ready to flow? Join me for this mindful flow focused on moving the spine in all different directions: lateral, forward fold, back bend and twist. Build a little heat and some strength throughout the body in a full body flow!
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Water Element Yoga | Nurture & Flow
The element of water is often seen as the great flow and while that is one way of looking at water, there are others - such as nurturing, healing, mothering, purifying, cleansing.
In this ground bound, mindful yoga practice we work with the hips and legs as well as the bladder/kidney meridians...
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Calming Yoga for Empaths | Anxiety & Stress Relief
As an empath, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the energy of the room, of others, and of the world. When feelings become intense, empaths need to slow down, ground, and mindfully practice self care to support themselves.
This ground bound practice incorporates meditation, breath, slow and...
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Standing Yoga Flow | Earth Element
Our practice today is focused on earthing - using our connection to the earth through our feet to feel stable, nourished, connected so we can grow upwards and reach our faces to the sun...just like a sunflower! No chaturanga, no wrist weight bearing, no step throughs...just simple, slow, breath ...
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20 Min Daily Intention Setting Yoga
In just 20 minutes you can set the tone for your entire day! Moving with intention and breath awareness can change the way your day unwinds and help you remember to ask yourself - "what do I need right now, today, in this moment?" Listen to the answer and use it as a guide to help you move thro...
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Mindful Yoga Flow | Aparigraha | Releasing Attachment
Aparigraha, the 5th of the Yamas (8 Limbs of Yoga), is often translated as nonattachment. In this practice we explore releasing attachment through opening up to possibility, listening to our bodies and what they need in this moment, letting go of expectations and allowing the present and our pra...
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Mindful Yoga Flow | Brahmacharya | Energy Management
Each day we awaken we begin with new energy - what will we do with it, how will we use it, how long will it last, how do we conserve it for emergencies? Some will use all of their energy in a big outpouring and others will trickle it out as a precious resource and others will vary between one en...
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Water Element Nurturing Yoga Flow with Meditation
The human body is made up of 60% water and water is found in every part of our bodies from the bones to the lungs to the heart to the brain. Water is a powerful element - an element of soothing, nurturing like the mother figure - and an element of strength, power, and change. Tap into the eleme...
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Morning Wakeup Yoga Stretch in Bed
Join me for this short little in bed morning stretch to unwind your body, bring fluidity to your joints, and connect to your feelings of gratitude - a BEAUTIFUL way to start your day with intention.
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Mindful Full Body Yoga Flow | Asteya | Nonstealing
No matter how grounding we feel or how true to ourselves we are, we will find a point when we will compare ourselves to someone else. In this practice we are letting go of comparison, moving our bodies and honoring where we are at in this moment, connecting to our Root Chakra for support and gro...
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Balancing Yoga Flow | Fun with Blocks
Yoga often seems so serious and while sometimes that's what we need in our practice, we have to "balance" that out with a playfulness and curiosity. We will fall, we will bobble, we will feel silly but that's okay - we are "practicing" and allowing ourselves to open up to the lighter side of lif...
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Salute the Sun | Full Body Yoga Flow
Sun Salutations have traditionally been used to warm the body for yoga practice and often can be found at the start of a Vinyasa or Ashtanga practice. They can also be used by themselves for a full body awakening and to bring mind and body into harmony.
In this practice we begin slowly, mindful...
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Yinspired Yoga Flow | Satya | Truthfulness
Satya - our second Yama asks us to explore honesty, truthfulness, authenticity in our lives. In this practice we ask the question, What Is True Here Now? as it applies to our practice, our thoughts, our emotions, and our actions. Reminding us to be fully present in this moment to bring more "tr...
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Yinspired Yoga Flow | Ahimsa | Nonharming
Ahimsa is the first Yama in the Yamas and Niyamas in the 8 fold path of yoga. The Yamas are the basic tenets for our relationships with the world and this first Yama is the guide post for all that follow. This Yama is often interpreted as nonviolence or non-harming and can include refraining fr...
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Bedtime Yoga | Unwind, Relax & Rest
It's time for bed but you feel some tension, tightness, stiffness still lingering throughout the body. You don't want to get out of bed to your mat and you don't have a lot of time - that's okay! You can do this practice right in bed, no props, no fuss - just unwinding the body from head to toe...
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Moon Salutation Flow | Chandra Namaskar
Chandra Namaskara or Moon Salutations are a slightly different, more Sacral Chakra flowing practice than Sun Salutations. In this practice we explore that flow with lunges, side stretches, crescents, and Half Moon pose!
Props: None required but grab what you think you might need to be comforta...
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Sacral Chakra Mandala Yoga Flow
Today we are working with a mandala flow tying perfectly into the sacral chakra. The sacral chakra is all about our flow, our sensuality, our creativity and the related element is water.
By moving with our breath around the mat, we move with the flow and embody the element of water as it fl...
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Yinspired Sacral Chakra Yoga Flow
A balance of myofascial release for the sacroiliac joint and glutes, Yin Yoga poses for Kidney/Bladder meridians and hips, and mindful yoga flow meant to release tension in the hips and open up the space of the entire hip complex.
Yinspired practices are a combination of myofascial release tec...
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First Aid Yoga Kit | Midday Stretch at Your Desk
You don't have to get on the floor or have a yoga mat to benefit from a midday yoga stretch! Just 10 minutes in your chair - breathe, stretch, release tension and refocus!
Props: a chair!
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Yinspired Yoga for Evening Transition | Yin Yoga Flow Fusion
The work day is over and now comes this period of transition from work life/business to home/evening life. This can be such a challenging time as you still have the energy of the day, the thoughts, things replaying in your head while your body is tired, stuck and tense.
This practice is to he...