Yin Yoga
Practices to help mobilize the body and bring balance to mind and body. Yin Yoga works with the colder tissues of the body - connective tissue, joints, ligaments, and bones - to keep it healthy, strong, and mobile. In Yin we work with these tissues, meridians, seasons, chakras, and elements by integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine into the practices for a more holistic perspective and practice.
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Yin Deep | Intermediate Minimal Cues Yin Yoga | INVITE
Today we are inviting - inviting whatever it is we need or want to make our lives more fulfilling. When we invite...the universe responds energetically. What do you need right now? We will be focusing on the heart meridians/heart center (and the matching Yang meridian pair Small Intestines) to...
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Yin Deep | Intermediate Minimal Cues Yin Yoga | FLUIDITY
Time to soften, release, honor the energy of creativity and the element of water.
Props: 1-3 blankets for support and comfort (optional)
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Yin Deep | Intermediate Minimal Cues Yin Yoga | EARTHING
Connecting to the earth can be powerful and settling in, allowing your body to open slowly, mindfully, and with intention can be very supportive. Our practice today is all about connecting to gravity, the energy of the earth, and allowing ourselves to soften. We focus on the inner leg and tops ...
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Yin + Breath | Grounding
I love to explore in my own practice and I want to offer you some practices that help you do the same! Welcome to Yin + Breath - practices that include pranayama at the beginning and end (as well as throughout), some somatic intuitive movement, and Yin Yoga poses focused on specific areas of you...
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Yin Yoga | Unraveling Emotional Knots
Sometimes we can feel all wound up as if we are a rope all tied in knots. Whether this be mental or emotional this can be reflected in our bodies and a great way to unwind it all is to begin with the physical body. Join Lucy and I as we explore "knotted to unwound" poses in our bodies - making ...
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Yin + Breath | Opening
I love to explore in my own practice and I want to offer you some practices that help you do the same! Welcome to Yin + Breath - practices that include pranayama at the beginning and end (as well as throughout), some somatic intuitive movement, and Yin Yoga poses focused on specific areas of you...
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{Y}integration Yin Yoga | Santosha | Contentment
Today we are exploring the 2nd Niyama - Santosha or contentment. What does it mean? How can we incorporate more Santosha into our everyday lives, our practice, our self care? Enjoy a grounding, root chakra focused practice with lots of Lucy assistance...
Props: 1 blanket but gather any and a...
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Full Body Yin Yoga @ the Wall
Join me at the wall as we use a prop everyone has to ground, center, and explore depth in our practice. Full body practice - upper and lower body included. Enjoy a bit of Lucy and stay to the end for an extra....
Props: a wall and optional blanket/towel (blanket: http://amzn.to/2v0U0eh)
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Yin Yoga | Setting Healthy Boundaries
How do we set healthy boundaries and enforce them? In this practice will be strengthening and balancing our Pericardium and Lung meridian organ systems as well as adding a little fire with our Solar Plexus Chakra to help us set and maintain boundaries for ourselves and others.
Props: 1 blanket...
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Yin Yoga | The Way Out Is In | Full Body Practice
"The way out is in." Thich Nhat Hanh
This is a powerful quote taken from a speech made by Hanh and while it was in a speech related to environmental issues, it holds SO much more.
The answers are inside of us, we begin with ourselves first, know our inner self, explore our inner landscape. Al...
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{Y}integration Yin Yoga | Saucha | Purity
The Niyamas are the basic tenets of our personal growth and development - the practices we should engage in to cultivate our inner self and become enlightened. In this class we explore the first of our Niyamas - Saucha - often translated as purity.
Purity can mean so many things - physically ...
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Yin Yoga | Living a Life of Intention
Life moves quickly and is SO full of activities, demands, duties, responsibilities and choices. What if our lives were intentional? What if our relationships were intentional? What if we made choices based on living our truth - living in our authentic selves with will and intention?
Today we ...
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Yin Yoga | Harmonizing Solar & Lunar Energy
Within Traditional Chinese Medicine and yoga tradition, the concepts of solar/lunar, yin/yang, masculine/feminine sun/moon are intertwined. Recognizing the value inherent in both sides, the blending of a little of the other in each, and the center upon which all of this clings - this is where th...
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{Y}indulge Home
Where is home? What does home feel like, look like, sound like, taste like, smell like? What makes a home? Is it four walls? People? Things?
In this practice we explore the concept of HOME and what the really means to each of us on a very personal level. Come home...
By the way - Lucy is h...
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Yin Yoga to Cool Summer Fire
Bring balance to your body with some water element focused practices to help you feel cooler and fresher. If you have been feeling overheated, hot, or the temperatures are running high - settle down for some cooling breaths and water visualization to cool down. Full body practice.
Props: A CA...
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Yin Yoga | Stillness in the Breath
In every breath, naturally and organically, there is space - stillness - quiet. At the end of each inhale and each exhale there is this sweet space - a place to just be. No doing, no demands, just stillness.
Between each pose, there is the opportunity, especially in Yin Yoga, to just be, feel,...
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Yin Yoga for Kapha Dosha | The Science of Ayurveda
In Ayurveda, we are made up of one, two or all three doshas. Our "base" dosha is what we have been throughout our lives and at times, one or the other doshas will be out of balance.
Kapha is made up of earth and water and is more dense and grounded in nature. Compassionate, loving, stable an...
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{Y}indulge Presence | Being vs. Doing
Do you ever just need a moment of quiet, stillness, breath? As we connect more deeply to this present moment - our bodies, minds, and feelings - we become more grounded, aware, and focused. By allowing ourselves to settle in and soften and take a moment we inspire new thoughts, feelings, energy...
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Comfy Cozy Yin Yoga
Collect your warm socks, some warm clothing, lots of props and join me for this comfy cozy Yin Yoga practice where we listen to our bodies and minds and give ourselves the support we need in today. Light some candles, get cozy! Gentle guided meditation completes your experience...
Props: 1-2 ...
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{Y}ingenuity | Lungs | Prime Minister
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, our Lungs are the Prime Minister or Minister of Heaven for the body - protecting and detoxifying the body through the skin and the breath - taking in fresh prana to "feed" the body, and helping maintain balanced fluid through working with the kidneys.
The Lungs...
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Autumn Equinox Yin Yoga
Here we are at the Autumn Equinox - a time of BIG transition. From the warmth of summer and the fire and earth energy to the cooler temps, change in food, and nature transitioning. Just like the trees, we go through this transition and supporting this transition is pivotal in making it go smoot...
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Yin Yoga for Pitta Dosha | The Science of Ayurveda
Pitta dosha is made up of fire and water elements and is the dosha related to transformation and digestion. Pitta dominant people tend to be go getters, game changers, outspoken, can eat almost anything without concern. Pitta dosha people often have more curves (compared to Vata dominant), have...
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{Y}integration Yin Yoga | Aparigraha | Nonattachment
We are to the final Yama on our journey into Patanjali's 8 Limbs of Yoga - aparigraha or nonattachment. Keeping in mind all of the other Yamas - they all work together and support each other - we explore the idea of loosening our hold on expectations, things, beliefs, thoughts. We explore allow...
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{Y}indulge Grace
From my very first awareness of being, I have always been fascinated by the idea of grace. What does it mean? How do I live gracefully? How do I make myself open to grace? Where is grace?
In this practice we explore what, where, and how Grace exists in our lives and reconnect to our inner ...