The world seems filled with negativity and if that has you feeling weighted down and overwhelmed - remember HOPE.

Hope is that potential inside every living being, filling us up, giving us the desire to move on, and bringing light into the darkest of days. Today we work with hope, sensing i...

Sometimes what you need is a focused practice to reconnect to your Root Chakra and this is just that. We work with the Spleen/Stomach meridians to ground and connect you to your inner sense of stability. Affirmations included! Enjoy!

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Chi, prana, or vital energy has a pathway - intake, assimilation and elimination. We are born with a certain amount of chi which is stored in our Kidneys and throughout our lives, we also acquire Chi through food, breath, environment. This "acquired chi" moves through the body from the Lungs/He...

Welcome to {Y}ingenuity - practices diving deeper into Traditional Chinese Medicine and including long, deep holds to allow you to settle, soften, and become more introspective.

Today we are working with the Shen, or the House of the Spirit - the heart. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Hear...

The Solar Plexus is the seat of our personal will and power and a place many of us feel disconnected from throughout our lives. Sensing and balancing this chakra can help us move forward and manifest our dreams. Today we are working with the Lung/Large Intestine Meridians to bring greater balan...

Freedom is a word we are all familiar with - in life, community, concept, politics. But what does freedom mean for you personally? How do you feel free?

We explore the idea of freedom - of letting go, exploring, examining our long held emotions and ideas and working to find space. Feel ligh...

We are so often told to hide our feelings, bury our responses, control our selves - and while that may be the societal rules we have to live by - there are times where we need and should ALLOW ourselves the time to grieve, cry, be angry, feel all the feelings and have all the thoughts and simply ...

Need a little self love - time to nourish yourself - to ground and connect to your inner earth element? This practice is meant to bring you back to center - to help you refill your cup and practice some self love.

For those of us who are caretakers - people who constantly give of ourselves to...

Ever had a very long and stressful day and when you came home you felt the world just soften and your breath release? That's what this practice is all about. Coming home to yourself. Sensing that perfect part of you that is grounded, soft, nourishing, compassionate. Practicing self love and co...

A short break for your afternoon offering a little recharge, release and rest to conquer the rest of your day with ease, comfort and energy!

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Your heart meridians and thymus gland help protect and heal your heart center and this is especially important when you are feeling sad, depressed or dealing with grief. In this practice we use mudra (hand gestures), essential oils, crystals and Yin poses to help heal this area and bring more lo...

While oftentimes Yin Yoga is intended to focus on specific areas or issues - sometimes it is just a vehicle to feel better in your body and fully stretch out. This practice stays on the floor but gets into every area of the body to release tension and bring a feeling of openness. Enjoy!

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Our practice today focuses on the endocrine system and specifically on the thyroid gland - working to keep it healthy and bring it back to balance. In Western medicine and yoga we work with the chest, throat and neck to bring balance to this area. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, thyroid issues...

We have all had moments of fear, insecurity and worry (and yes, worry is just fear in another form). We fear changes, events, actions and more but what is really at stake here?

I recently heard someone define fear and insecurity as a lack of self faith. This definition has changed my life.
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Everyone has times in their life when digestion gets super slow and even stalls completely - leaving you feeling uncomfortable and even painful. Our bodies naturally cycle through times such as Winter or certain lunar cycles that this happens but holidays, illness, medications, stress can all ex...

Every moment of our lives we are doing something but often thinking of something entirely different - either past, or future. We are torn, fragmented and pulled a million different ways. Taking some time to settle, breathe, focus on bringing ourselves into harmony - we hold our poses a little l...

The heart is known as our seat of vitality, the fire inside. Today we are working with the Heart Chakra - using mantra, breath, poses and mudras - to help bring more awareness to our sense of inner peace and acceptance. Develop your inner peace and feed your inner heart fire!

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Tranquility is SO hard to define but when you are in a tranquil state or feel tranquility - you know it! Tranquility is unique to each one of us and is often found after the hardest, most challenging work. It is a state that resides internally - just like a secret garden that you have to scale ...

Sometimes you just need to deeply release, let go, soften, be supported and let yourself come back to balance. In this practice we mindfully and softly work with the adrenals and kidneys to balance our energy and revitalize. Self care at it's best - like a day at the spa except BETTER!

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Our 3rd chakra, solar plexus or manipura, is associated with our sense of personal power, will, and drive. It is here that we define ourselves and feel empowered and confident. In this practice we are working with the Lung/Lg Intestine meridians to bring balance to this power center of the body...

Our 5th Chakra, the Throat Chakra, is associated with our ability to express our true self, our authentic self - communicating freely and accepting communication freely. It is also associated, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, with our Liver and Gallbladder Meridians.

In this practice we wor...

There is a certain bliss that exists when your chakras are balancing and in harmony and in this practice we blend Indian Chakra theory and Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian theory to explore, connect, heal and harmonize all of the chakras from our feet to the crown of our head.

We use breath...

Our creative side is one of the most important to our overall feeling of satisfaction with our lives. But, every now and then we feel stuck, stagnant, or unable to connect to our natural creative flow or struggle with expressing it.

This practice is all about helping reconnect us to our natur...

Sometimes you feel as if your energy is all over the place - scattered, unfocused, a bit wild. What you need is to ground your energy - balancing the Kidney/Bladder meridians and connecting to the Root Chakra. We use Yin Yoga poses, breath, mudra, and visualization to ground and stabilize our e...