A 70 minute practice to connect to your muladhara - root support - subtle energies associated with the earth element to help cultivate steadiness and presence in times of change while simultaneously honouring your lineage during Ancestor Fortnight.
Heading deeper into autumn (and eclipse season energies) the counsel from Ayurveda is to balance Vata dosha’s space & air qualities and also embrace nature’s invitation to let the leaves fall and dissolve conditioning and or patterns which no longer serve you.
Move through rounds of Prana Flow bhumi (living earth) and muladhara chakra namaskars towards deeper and gradual hip opening and attention to the base of your spine to feel more grounded and released from anxiety, mistrust and fear.
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A recording of a live practice at the autumn equinox 2023 aimed at helping you direct your energies for positive evolution at this auspicious juncture.
And also helpful at any juncture where you find yourself facing challenges or change and or the ungrounded excesses of autumn’s dominant Vata dosha, which can be well balanced with the elements of earth, water & fire embodied during this 60 minute practice.
Aim to find your auspicious current from a grounded foundation in the opening sequences and namaskar. And feel focused and able to release what no longer is of use as you enter into the autumn/winter cycle of dissolution, completion & honouring the flow.
Complete seated for pranayama, atma puja & meditation & feel yourself as a reflection of nature & empowered with all qualities of the elements.
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A 30 minute movement practice I love to follow the previous seated Chakra Dharana & Elemental Mantra meditation, and a practice I often enjoy as a standalone too especially at seasonal or lunar junctures.
A Prana Flow practice that invites both a firekeeping of where you most need to bring balance and that invites an embodiment of the elemental awareness cultivated seated via the subtle energy centres of the chakras.
At this new moon, enjoy simple rounds of the Dancing Warrior standing sequences to harness and embody the elements from earth, water, fire, air and space.
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Getting grounded is always the advice form Ayurveda coming in to autumn & indeed in any phase of change in your life.
This 35 minute practice aims to help you access all of the elements to find a groove to bring yourself to a place of strength & openness to meet the autumn transition ready to take on new rhythms or challenges.
Enjoy spaciousness to move in a solar or lunar way to tend your inner fire and to relax and listen in to your authenticity and wisdom to know what you are dancing with and how best to navigate the path ahead.
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A 30 minute pranam/prostration practice with space for intentional listening at the full moon or any time you want to retrieve a sense of wholeness.
Embody the elements of earth, water, fire, air & space and retrieve your inner intelligence to get real with yourself, to seal the leaks of distraction and listen, receive, let go and or compost.
Lean into this practice according to your life force, choosing a solar or lunar path or flowing between the two.
Express yourself as you are embracing the changes during your practice as you embody the mantra of Om Namah Shivaya which encases all of the 5 great universal elements.
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A 30 minute practice ideal for maintaining sacred strength and core cultivation in a way that also brings about a meditative state in keeping with the seasonal/Shravana spiritual focus vibe.
Move through a ritual and rhythmic flow of prostrations and standing balances according to your life force, and feel yourself empowered to walk your path with humble confidence as you are.
I love this practice for this time of year approaching the transition towards autumn to still enjoy the inward summer spaciousness but also cultivating a sense of grounding and strength that can stand you in good stead when the rhythm shifts in autumn and Vata dosha rises in the winds of change.
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A 35 minute practice to help you to connect to the grounding and presence of the earth element and the brightness and power to transform of the fire element.
Enjoy this lunar fire practice as the busy-ness picks up in the approach of the last full moon of the year and at any time to feel you would benefit from tending to your inner fire in a more grounded, lunar way.
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A 50 minute practice to help you caress the seasonal stresses and anything else going on in your life that needs some love and compassion.
Embody the water element in a lunar bhava/feeling state to bring softness and gentle opening to any places of tension and stiffness. Enjoy invitations to instinctual movement and time marinading in hip and heart opening forward folds on the earth.
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A 35 minute “sacred training” practice - ideally enjoyed in the morning - to help you to feel alive, connected and resilient through rhythmic earth-focused movement and kindling your inner fire.
This predominantly pranam practice also includes some rounds of a yoga kriya called agni sar which helps to stoke your digestive fire and bring ease to elimination. It should ideally be practiced on an empty stomach and should be avoided if you are pregnant.
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A 50 minute lunar practice to help you to balance and build stores of your immunity (ojas in Ayurveda) to any static or agitation on the surface of your body or mind.
Feel grounded and soothed by rhythmic Prana Flow namaskar waves during this hip and heart opening flow aimed at helping you feel more connected to the earth, your Self and those around you.
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A lunar practice to help you draw upon all the elements of earth, water, fire, air and space to help you navigate and harness the energies of the full moon and total eclipse juncture.
This c. 50 minute practice guides you through Prana Flow lunar namaskars of each of the elements in a mandala and invites you to reflect on how their qualities are present within you and how they can help you navigate life, especially in trying times.
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A 60 minute fire and earth embodiment practice to catch and honour the energy of Samhain (pronounced Sau-ihn) - the cross-quarter festival in the Celtic wheel - that celebrates both your ancestors & the living.
At the heart of what is more widely known as Hallowe’en Samhain is seen as the most important point in the Celtic wheel as it marks the Gaelic new year. A time when bonfires are lit to allow for the release from the last cycles (solar, lunar and or ancestral) before the new year begins.
During this practice we honour and embody the earth, our roots and ancestors and you are invited to bring anything to the symbolic agni/fire namaskar for the purpose of transformation or transmutation for positive change in your life and for future generations.
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Honour your body mandala and your home hearth - heart & earth - in this Prana Flow Chandra namaskar new moon practice.
Enjoy a 60 minute movement meditation aimed at helping you feel centred and cultivating equanimity - calm & composure even in challenges.
Connect in the 8 directions and to all the elements and feel yourself in a state of wholeness as you enter a new moon cycle and an eclipse season that can stir disruptive and unpredictable energies.
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A 30 minute practice to support a surrendering to what is and embodying the spirit of autumn’s natural progress towards letting go and to help you navigate any unexpected change during eclipse season.
Rounds of rhythmic Prana Flow pranams and gentle backbends aim to take you to a place of peace and absorption in a steady flow of lunar movement meditation.
This practice aims to support you and bring you back to the present moment any time you feel agitation or anxiety and or feeling pulled too far into the future or feel stuck in the past.
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Catch the nourishment and regeneration of the first full moon of autumn to balance the season’s rising Vata dosha.
This 50 minute lunar practice takes you through rounds of a heart opening and extra grounding Chandra Namaskar towards longer marinations in hip opening asana to catch the subtlety of Vata energy to go deeper towards your inner bliss.
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A mantra meditation practice to honour & invoke the energies of Navaratri, the 9 night autumn celebration of the divine feminine.
Enjoy an introduction to the different aspects of Devi/Shakti/Mother Nature in the Indian tradition that birthed Ayurveda and yoga.
Cultivate acceptance for who you are and feel empowered to be liberated from your own “demons” like those defeated by the goddess in her many forms in the ancient mythology.
Circulate rounds of bija/seed mantras connected to the universal energies of these different aspects of the goddess and feel your own access to the fierce love, strength and courage of Durga, the healing, nourishment and abundance of Lakshmi and the refinement, wisdom and grace of Saraswati.
A 1hr reflection and movement practice recorded live to catch the energy of humble empowerment for positive change at the juncture of balanced light at the autumn equinox.
Enjoy movement, reflection and mudra as instruments of transformation at this sacred sandhya/juncture in nature’s cycles and at anytime you need support in tending to the foundations of your inner soul soil and your life out in the world.
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A just less than 40 minute practice to cultivate earth and water element qualities to help you smoothly and steadily shift into new seasonal rhythms with grace and wisdom.
Enjoy three different namaskar sequences designed to help you both catch the energy of the full harvest moon and invite instinctual movement and a sense of freedom in your creative impulses that you can draw upon to balance resistance and fear in times of change.
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