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 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 50 minute meditation and movement practice to embody peace wherever you are in the process of beginning a new cycle as the calendar year turns.
You will follow the trusted pathways to come to the present moment and begin with bowing to the inner teachers in nadi shodhana and seated meditation.
Moving with an intention to be peace we begin with simple movements to circulate the qualities that can guide you on this journey of coming to peace.
You will then be guided to places of deep listening and placing Shanti Rasa through namaskar and inner gaze.
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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 winter solstice practice that guides you catch the energy of stillness to honour your life force and all the elements that comprise your nature as a miraculous microcosm of the macrocosm.
Honour and feel the integration of your life experience this past cycle through Surya Namaskar in the four directions mirroring the seasons and the life that breathes you.
Move and breathe as you are through namaskars that help you embody the stability of Earth, the love and nourishment of Water, the transformative power of Fire and the mystic heart breath of Air all embraced by cosmic Space around you and held by your sacred spaces within.
Solstice blessings of peace and returning light
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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 1 hour practice that takes you on a journey to a deeper heart connection, a practice that is perfect in times of mental and emotional overwhelm (like coming into the winter holidays…) when deadlines and busy-ness run high but we also want to feel connected to ourselves and to others.
You will be guided several rounds in a mandala through simple movements to help ground and open your heart. In these opening ritual movements you can feel into your dedications of where you most need to apply your heart medicine as a healing balm in your body, mind and relationships.
Once grounded and open, you can explore deeper heart and hip opening in a Prana Flow Hridaya namaskar to cultivate the power of your heart to heal in both practical and mystical ways.
Feel your parasympathetic nervous system activated to soothe and take refuge in your heart space to feel deeper soul connection and gratitude for life as we head towards peak darkness.
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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 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 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 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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The recording of a live autumn equinox practice taking place during an eclipse season and Ancestor Fortnight (Pitru Paksha) to help you stay grounded and connected to your roots and intuition.
This 60 minute practice evolves through Prana Flow pathways to embody the earth element so you can better access and cultivate steadiness, strength and presence in times of change and challenge that can often arise amidst the ungrounded energy of rising Vata Dosha in autumn and eclipse season.
We begin with 15 minutes of pranayama and reflection at this juncture of balanced light that helps us direct our intentions for the path ahead and cultivate an alignment with resonance and positive change.
You are also invited to honour your connection to your ancestral pathways to release and acknowledge past karmas and direct intentions towards positive karmas for present and future generations.
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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 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 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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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 55 minute practice that takes you on a journey of embodiment through the elements to honour all that has brought you to peak moments in your life.
This Prana Flow Mandala namaskar practice guides you through all the dancing warrior sequences to both honour all your universal attributes and take pause to feel where you need to lean for support and balance.
A practice I love at the peak of the solar season to feel an integration of all you have grown and experienced and to feel freedom to flow as you are after intense period of work or challenge.
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A one hour movement plus meditation practice to help you catch the energy of the New Moon or anytime you want to clear the way ahead of any inner or outer obstacles.
Staying with the solar season vira bhava to cultivate courage, strength and clarity you will be guided through steady rounds Prana Flow namaskar that seeks to embody the instinctual and powerfully coiled energy of tigers. A hip opening focused sequence that will bring you in closer connection with the earth element.
From that foundation setting you will be guided to direct your instinctual energy and wisdom into your life for the cycle ahead.
We complete with pranayama and mantra meditation.
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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 55 minute practice that helps you find strength, focus and presence especially in soulful times of challenge.
In a combustible climate one of the greatest challenges is to keep your inner fire steady so you can send positive ripple effects into your home and your community.
This practice takes you through an adapted embodiment of agni (fire) namaskar that brings you back to your core and helps you through asana and mudra to transform yourself from within to circulate warm-heartedness and compassion.
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A practice to sync with the New Moon’s transformative energy and any time you want to circulate dedications and intentions towards your evolution.
This Prana Flow Agni Namaskar continues the solar season theme of foundational strength of standing vira/warrior sequences from which to rise and meet life wherever it is for you.
These pathways are dedicated to embodying the transformational power of the fire element and in this practice adapted to circulate your sankalpa - the promise you make to yourself that transforms you from within.
Lean into solar or lunar feeling state/bhava in the connecting vinyasa spaces to cultivate the most potent energy to support your life force.
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A practice that begins with Prana Flow “sacred training” to awaken your life force and embodying the energy of Hanuman - the one full of prana - the universal spring embodiment of strength, devotion and dedication to life.
After this 15 minute “warm-up” you will be guided through a steady evolution of standing warrior sequences to feel the movements of prana in your body and to cultivate courage, strength and focus for where it is most needed in your life.
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A movement meditation practice to support you during eclipse season or any time of uncertainty or disruptive energies when you might want to call in all of nature’s support within you and around you as Space, Air, Fire, Water & Earth.
You will be guided through Prana Flow Namaskars for each of these 5 elements to invoke and embody those elemental qualities in your movement meditation to take into your day.
There will be moments of pause for you to tune in to this elemental wisdom to bring you steadiness and presence of the Earth; instinctual flow and softness of Water; the power of Fire to transform and see clearly; the Air element’s connection to your heart; and the great host of Space’s freedom to be who you are.
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Mahashivratri comes at a time of year when we can feel a natural rising of energy to slough off the remnants of winter’s energy. It can feel more natural to cultivate the kind of one-pointed focus and discipline associated with the great yogi deity Shiva.
This 60 minute practice begins and ends in mantra meditation and takes you on a journey of the Dancing Warrior namaskars. It aims to he help you to melt resistance, dissolve the veils and connect with your mystic heart ti listen fo wisdom about what you’re meant to be doing - your dharma.
It’s a celebration of the universal life force that is encased in the mantra for Shiva - and containing all the 5 elements - Om Namah Shivaya that we circulate in meditation at the start and with breath focus and mediation at the end.
May this practice set you up for auspicious intention setting into the new moon that always follows Mahashivratri.
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A 45 minute practice syncing with the full moon and supportive anytime you want to clarify the sacred vision of your life and illuminate what is most important for you.
This practice invites you to embody Teajs - that principle in Ayurveda that relates to the superfine essence of your inner light, your inner fire in every cell connected to your vision, your intelligence and your ability to clarify and transform your life.
I love this practice for this slow emergence from winter as the sun’s light is waxing ever so subtly supporting you in both building sacred strength and clarity for the path towards peak light in the summer.
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