As late winter merges into spring - or at the threshold of any major shift in your life where you’re working with any resistance and your creativity needs encouragement - this almost 50 minute practice helps you attune to your heart-led creativity and step courageously into your sacred heart flow.
Begin seated in pranayama to honour the sacred flow of your breath teacher and harness mudra vinyasa as instruments to come into your natural essence.
Your movement meditation through heart-opening expressions emanating from Chandra namaskar takes you into water and air element pathways that aim to gently release any obstacles inhibiting your natural flow.
Under the Full Moon invite this practice to illuminate and access the depths of your being to courageously reveal your most creative and authentic nature.
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A practice where we move with the three great Shakti Bija (seed) mantras to focus your intelligence and innate creativity (AIM), stoke your vibrant heart energy (HRIM) and magnetise sacred desire (KLIM).
Simple vinyasa and a Prana Flow variation of Chandra Namasakr are infused with the powerful vibration of AIM (pronounced A-EEM) HRIM (HREEM), KLIM (KLEEM).
Feel your connection to these energies that support your creative inspiration as we slowly emerge into spring supported by Shakti in this private practice incubation period of Gupta Navaratri.
A practice to cultivate your heart creativity before any rising cycle of energy in your life’s timeline.
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A 40 minute practice to help you to nurture your subtle creativity from root to crown as it emanates from your unique DNA.
This practice helps you align and water the awareness of your creativity, supported at this natural juncture of a New Moon at the beginning of the transition to spring marked by Imbolc in the Celtic tradition on Feb 1st and Vasant Panchami in the Indian traditions.
We begin with seated meditation and mudra vinyasa and an awakening of the creative forces within you that are encouraged to flow in a natural way starting with an awakening at the root of your being.
You are then guided to move with your creative intentions through rounds of Prana Flow adapted Chandra Namaskar in a half mandala.
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A 35 minute practice that helps you evolve your intentions into an embodiment of stability through strong foundations.
This practice takes you through the four foundational Prana Flow dancing warrior namaskars keeping your connecting vinyasas like a steady thread to weave strength with your intentions for the path ahead.
You can enjoy this practice before or after seated pranayama and meditation. It will help you release agitation and feel a grounded vitality before coming to your seat for reflection or entering back into the world.
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A 45 minute practice that is 30 minutes of movement and 15 minutes of meditation and mantra to direct the auspicious awareness cultivated in your movement and breath practice at the juncture of a new cycle.
There is an option to use light weights as your “vajras” (thunderbolts!) for this Prana Flow “Sacred Training” practice that invites you to invoke the auspicious energy of Ganesha to accompany you for success and for removing obstacles on the path ahead.
This practice through balance and core cultivation helps you to hone your awareness and strength to feel prepared and organised wherever you are in the cycle of time and your life.
The yantra card I show in this practice is from the Yantra Oracle Deck by Sarah Tomlinson.
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A just over 30 minute practice to support you in bringing awareness to your core essence and building solid foundations at the beginning of any new cycle or to ignite focus while you are in process at any point on your journey.
A balanced fire (sama agni) centred practice known as “sacred training” in Prana Flow ideal for the approach of Makar Sankranthi and the invitation to move slowly - in sync with nature - towards more solar focused practice, always with attention to honouring where you are in your life cycle.
The aim here is to lighten and brighten, to dispel doubt or stagnation and to bring in clarity and instinctual awareness through all the layers of your being.
Lean into more solar options or bring lunar wisdom if you need to stay off your wrists or closer to the earth.
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A 40 minute ritual practice of journalling and moving with your inner guidance to help you find completion and release at the end of the calendar year and at the New Moon.
You will spend the first 15 minutes of this practice seated to enter into your movement meditation after journalling on what you want to complete and release for this past cycle.
You are then guided through simple ritual movement to enliven what you have written from your heart and feel a letting go at this sacred juncture of liminal space between the solstice and Makar Sankranthi in mid Jan.
This practice can help you in the tender process of clearing away what you do not wish to carry into the next breath/cycle/year and of honouring all you experienced in the past cycle.
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A practice to honour and retrieve the wisdom of all the seasons of your life and to drink the nectar of Soma for rejuvenation at this last Full Moon of the year.
Every Full Moon brings an invitation to drink its Soma to both nourish our inner spaces and to perceive your Self more clearly.
Moving with a simple heart opening sequences in a mandala you will invite Soma to infuse every cell for reflection, wisdom retrieval and nourishment for the journey ahead.
Pauses give you an open canvas to move freely so you can realise that all you are searching for is within you as natural flow and lived experience.
You’ll complete in a hip and heart opening mandala of Soma namaskar to catch the classic embodiment of the Moon in its dance with the light of the Sun.
Feel your devotion to your practice and to your natural evolution.
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A 40 minute flow at a juncture that reminds you to take the cues from nature and the New Moon to slow down and befriend yourself.
Mitra means “friend” and is the name of the deity associated with this New Moon placement. It is also a name given to the Sun as “the great friend of all”.
This practice takes you on a journey to your soul soil to feel a deeper connection - a friendship - with the earth and with yourself by slowing down movement and elongating your breath through an embodiment of “living earth” - Bhumi - namaskar.
The journey continues by honouring the New Moon in a variation of Chandra namaskar with space for you to explore deeper hip opening with curiosity and love for your seat here on Earth.
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A practice to celebrate life with me as I turn 50 and honour the cycles that bring us to where we are and guide us to where we are going.
This 40 minute practice begins with pranayama to first honour the rhythm that breathes us all and acknowledge with gratitude all that has brought you to this moment in your life.
There is time here for reflection and feeling into the seeds and intentions for the journey ahead.
You will then move with me in a mandala clearing the way in the four directions before we enjoy 12 rounds of Surya Namaskar in a cyclical path to honour the source of life within us all.
A deep bow of gratitude for your presence with me at this juncture in my life.
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A 40 minute practice to catch the energy of the Full Moon to invoke Soma - the regenerative heart nectar associated with the Moon - and to honour your inner fire to move with intentions towards positive creativity and transformation.
Soma and Agni - the sacred fire - are the eternal pair, like Yin and Yang. Apparent opposites that compliment each other and are an essential balance for us to thrive in life.
This practice guides you in a mandala to first drink in the power to regenerate - the fuel for your fire. And then to invoke Agni to light your way in life whether you are at a juncture of letting go, sustaining what matters most or igniting your creativity - or all at once!
This movement meditation includes seated pranayama, meditation and mudra vinyasa to best direct your intentions illumined under the Full Moon.
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A 45 minute practice to help you circulate love to heal division and conflict within yourself and in your relationships.
In rasa sadhana - the yoga of the emotions - the rasa or emotion of love is seen to have the qualities of water and earth that are associated with Kapha Dosha.
Love grounds and nourishes and is especially effective in cooling and soothing excess fire - that manifests as anger - and in caressing the agitation associated with fear and stress.
This heart and hip opening practice allows your body to take you to your natural loving state with tenderness and grounding. It will guide you to love yourself from within every cell and to radiate that love to those around you, even those with whom you disagree.
Sending love to you all ways.
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A 35 minute practice to invoke and feel gratitude for wisdom, prosperity, sustaining power and the potential for positive change, especially in times of challenge and change.
This practice aligns you with the energy of the Gaelic New Year at Samhain and of Diwali - the festival of lights and helps you cultivate an attitude of shining your light into the world.
Honouring Ashta Lakshmi at Diwali- the 8 forms of Lakshmi - through movement and mantra in 8 directions helps you to direct this energy at the juncture of this New Moon.
This is a practice I received from my teacher Shiva who passes it on from her teacher, the great hugging saint Amma. Please honour its roots.
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A 35 minute rhythmic and grounding Surya Namaskar practice to help you connect with the energy of letting go and clearing out old patterns like the fallen leaves of autumn before the beginning of the new cycle.
This time after Navaratri and before Samhain and Diwali is considered a potent time to remember and release as we prepare to call in the light for the New Year.
Sun salutations/Surya Namaskar helps you to connect with the the most important cosmic rhythm for our life here on Earth - the rhythm of the Sun.
Practised in a steady way this rhythmic sequence can be a supremely calming to autumn’s dominant Vata dosha.
Enjoy 12 steady rounds of classical Surya Namaskar to exfoliate what’s no longer needed and connect with your inner Sun before coming to the earth for pranayama and mantra meditation.
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A 40 minute practice to support you any time you want to circulate a healing and nourishing feeling state and to catch the energy of truth, healing and rebirth that is deeply connected with this first Full Moon since the end of eclipse season.
This practice starts with 15 minutes of pranayama, deep listening and mudra vinyasa to invite in the healing nectar and clarifying light from the Full Moon that is associated with Soma.
You are then guided through rhythmic rounds of Soma namaskar, a Prana Flow movement meditation that helps you deepen your ability to bring about healing and clarity from within.
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A just over 40 minute practice to catch the energy of victory over regressive energy at the culmination of the celebration of the Shakti - the primordial Great Mother/divine feminine energy that is honoured over the 9 nights of Navaratri.
Move through some rounds of Chandra namaskar to enter into the feeling state of listening to your soul's desires.
Then move through rounds of Prana Flow Shakti namaskar to strengthen your ability to clear the path ahead both of any self-created obstacles or limitations as well as any dissonant energies around you.
The bija/seed Shakti mantras circulated at the beginning and end of this practice are AIM (pronounced A-EEM), HRIM (HREEM) KLIM (KLEEM).
If you like you can expand this to Om Aim Hrim Klim Chamundaye Vicey - Victory to Devi and the forces of prosperity and positive evolution.
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A 35 minute practice to embody the divine feminine as protectress and to awaken courage and inner strength.
After eclipse season and Ancestor Fortnight Navaratri - the 9 nights celebrating the Goddess/Devi - begins and the first three days are dedicated to Durga, the most fierce form of Devi who clears the way for Shakti - and our most authentic selves - to rise.
Enjoy this practice at this time and anytime you need to connect more deeply to your inner stores of strength especially in times of great challenge or change.
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A 30 minute ritual practice to honour your life force and ancestral pathways in all directions.
Move through some of the simplest units of asana in a mandala to get grounding into the New Moon/Solar eclipse, a time of great ritual offerings to ancestors.
This practice can help you clear any karmas from the past and feel confidence and and trust in the path ahead and can help you feel your earth strength in times of change or unexpected events.
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A 50 minute practice that aims to help you connect with the elements that can most stabilise and soothe us in times of great change and disturbance, which can be felt more in autumn and during eclipses.
The earth and water elements are key to balancing the effects of an excess of Vata Dosha's dominant space and air qualities that rise in autumn.
The energy of eclipses through their placement in Rahu & Ketu's shadow planet space also brings potentially erratic and sudden changes, adding more Vata into the mix. And if you are being heavily influenced by Saturn Vata pacification is key.
This practice guides you through some of the simplest movements of yoga, beginning with pranams in both standing and prostration form.
You will then move through rounds of an earth embodiment Prana Flow sequence that evolves into a lunar pathway of the water element to seal in a sense of being able to flow in your life from a grounded place.
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This is a practice to help you get into good rhythms which we know through Ayurveda's ancient emphasis are the foundation of optimal health.
A 43 minute practice almost equally divided into embodying the Sun and the Moon, you will be guided through rounds of Sun salutations in a classical way.
There is also an invitation to marry seed mantra to each of the 12 movements that reflect the 12 constellations in the Sun's ecliptic.
You are then guided through a Prana Flow variation of Chandra Namaskar to help you embody the reflective soul-revealing qualities of the Moon that allows the brightness of your inner Sun to be truly understood.
This practice is ideal for anytime you are at a juncture of change and for the approach of the autumn and eclipse season when good routines are extra-important to keep you grounded.
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A 48 minute practice beginning with movement meditation to help you get grounded as seasons shift.
Simple ritual movement in a mandala lays the foundations for moving through warrior sequences that embody the elements to help you find steadiness in the shift in rhythm from summer to autumn.
This practice rounds out the month of Shravana dedicated to spiritual practice and an attitude of dancing through life with grace and equanimity.
This practice also syncs with the New Moon that comes just before eclipse season with space at the end for pranayama, mantra and intention setting to get grounded into the energy of change.
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A 35 minute practice to help you set down the 10,000 things that can start to build up as the transition towards autumn begins and allow you to feel enlivened while taking a dunk into mystic space.
These short rounds of Soma namaskar invite you to feel the regenerative power of lunar movement with added breath awareness that leads you to your mystic heart.
A perfect practice to round out the month of August and Shravana that honours the union of opposites and of creation with consciousness as our lived experience.
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A 30 minute practice to both catch the energy of the Full Moon and to help you settle into yourself wherever you are.
You will be guided through a short Prana Flow Mandala practice all the Dancing Warrior sequences embodying the elements of earth.water. fire, air and space encased in the universal mantra of transformation Om Namah Shivaya.
This practice aims to help you feel a deeper connection to yourself and to your natural surroundings and to catch the energy of the Full Moon that for some ends Shravana - the month celebrating Shiva and spiritual practices to clear the way of any obstacles for an auspicious autumn season.
A 30 minute practice of simple movements to help you feel a clearing of the way ahead, a letting go, a giving up of conditioning so you can live in your most aligned state with clarity.
Move through rounds of pranams/prostrations in a mandala and enjoy their powerful simplicity to feeling the expression of your life force as devotion in motion.
This Prana Flow Sacred Training gives you the space to move in a solar or lunar way according to what best serves you.
It helps you align with the seasonal and cosmic rhythms of Shravana and August and cultivate strength ahead of the shifts coming in autumn.
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A 35 minute practice that's a core practice within a ritual practice that is ideal for the month of Shravana when spiritual practice is recommended to attune to your core values through the inner danda aka your inner guiding strength.
Bring attention to your core cultivation on all levels through the universal mantra of Om Namah Shivaya - a mantra for Shiva, the great Yogi who is honoured during Shravana - that reminds you of the full spectrum of your being and the power to transform dissonant energies or energies that are not for you.
This mandala practice of evolving pranams will help you cultivate strength in your body and mind and bring clarity and discernment by attuning and aligning your danda - that guiding strength - to help walk your path with grace and wisdom.
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This 40 minute practice syncs with Guru Purnima - the Full Moon right after the solstice/around Karkara Sankranthi when the Sun's light is now seen to have begun its southward movement - where we are invited to honour our teachers, mentors and guides who have shared wisdom, knowledge, insight and love with us on our paths.
Beginning with pranayama to bow to the great teacher that is your breath and life force, this practice takes you through seated dedication and reflection at this turning point and celebration of all the wisdom that has brought you to this moment (have a journal close by if you like).
Taking nature's cues to now begin the gradual slowdown we shift into a lunar feeling state and flow through a Prana Flow Chandra Namaskar in a mandala to move and breathe with those dedications and to drink in the soul-reflecting light of this auspicious Full Moon.
Om Sri Gurubhyo Namaha
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A 25 minute practice to help you reconnect with your home space after holiday travels or to ground in new spaces when you are away.
Move with me in a mandala or on a single plane through simple grounding movements and pauses to come back to your Self after travel to assimilate and balance sensory experiences away from home.
Enjoy these movements any time you need to settle in to new space and feel a sense of connection to the Earth no matter where you are on its surface.
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A 35 minute practice to help you clear and charge your space with the courage to bring wisdom into peaceful action.
Activate this courage through Prana Flow kriya to stoke balanced solar energy and evolve into namaskar to hone one-pointed focus to bring your inner wisdom fearlessly into the next moment/day/cycle.
Embodying Vira Rasa - the taste or emotion of courage - in this way helps you to feel both grounded and clear about the path ahead and to face life's challenges with your heart wisdom.
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A 39 minute practice that helps you to cultivate and circulate feelings of friendship so you can radiate those feelings for mutual benefit in your relationships especially in times of tension.
You will be guided through rounds of Surya Namaskar - the first mantra for which is Om Mitraya Namaha - “bowing to the friend of all”.
This is followed by rounds of Chandra Namaskar to bring rejuvenation and soul reflection to balance and befriend the energy and rhythm of the Sun.
We complete in nadi shodhana pranayama honouring the Sun and the Moon within you to step into your day with greater feelings of peace and balance.
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A 45 minute practice aimed at helping you get back into both your own natural rhythm and inner light as well as connecting with the rhythms and light of nature and the cosmos.
You will be guided through rounds of classical Surya Namaskar followed by a Prana Flow adapted Surya Namaskar in a half mandala.
Feel a natural lightening to balance any heaviness of spring’s dominant Kapha dosha, and feel your life force activated to intentionally return to yourself after any intensity of eclipse season.
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