Mantra

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 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.

The mantras circulated can be found here in the soundscape you can enjoy while you practice.

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.

Here is a soundscape to enjoy while you practice.

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 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 practice to invoke the qualities of Devi in all her forms at the culmination of Chaitra Navaratri springcelebration.

Moving through Prana Flow namaskars you will cultivate the courage, support, fierce love and discipline of protectress Durga; the generosity, abundance and nourishment of Lakshmi; and the subtle wisdom and instinctual creativity of Saraswati “she who flows”.

in the most universal way these namaskars aim to help you feel infused with the qualities of the goddess as Great Mother Nature in all her forms.

And in this innate wholeness may you feel empowered to rise and meet the challenges on the battlefield of life.

We complete seated in mantra circulation of the seed sounds of Shakti as Aim Hrim Shrim

Jai Ma!

Here is a soundscape for you to enjoy while you practice, simply press play when you begin.

A recording of a live practice at the spring equinox 2024 that guides you through Prana Flow namaskar and asana that connect you to your heart & sacred spaces around you and within you.

Beginning with seated breath practice and ending with mantra meditation this 60 minute practice invites you to feel into your heart wisdom and synchronise heart rhythm and brainwaves for optimal functioning of your energy flow.

This air and space embodiment practice also helps to balance spring’s rising Kapha dosha and seeks to liberate the heart and throat space of any winter heaviness or resistance to change so you can step with full freedom to be who you’re meant to be into the new cycle of rising light.

HRIM (pronounced HREEM) is a seed sound of the Sun & supports the heart on all levels - spiritual, emotional & functional. You’re invited to circulate this mantra in meditation and during this practice.

Here is the soundscape to enjoy while you move and breathe

A 35 minute practice to help you dive underneath the chatter of outer mind and journey towards the anandamaya kosha - the body of bliss - that is your essential self.

Evolve inward through rounds of Chandra namaskar towards Hridaya - heart space - namaskar following your wisdom towards a deeper understanding of your Self as a form of bliss consciousness and divine embodiment.

A natural practice to follow Mahashivratri to take refuge at the start of the new moon cycle and feel your innate peace at your core to balance and ease the intensities of life around you.

Chitananda Rupah Shivoham, Shivoham - “I am a form of essential source bliss consciousness”

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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 40 minute practice that begins with 15 minutes of movement to get grounded and clear the space for a sacred circle in which to get settled for 25 minutes of yoga nidra.

In the yoga nidra practice you’re invited to set up your nest to circulate your awareness around your body and receive mantra.

This practice aims to help you both release anything that you don’t wish to carry with you into the new cycle and get grounded and feel more relaxation at this busy time of year.

The mantra we circulate is HUM (pronounced HOOM) and is one of the most important Shakti mantras in the Vedic traditions that invokes protection and also contains the power to transform and dissolve.

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A less than 20 minute mantra meditation to support you before or after your movement meditation practice.

Enter into meditation via pranayama and mudra to prepare your inner pathways to receive bija - seed - sounds connected to Shakti’s wisdom (AIM - pronounced AH-EEM); empowerment & transformation (HRIM - HREEM); and love & nourishment (SHRIM - SHREEM).

Have a mala with you for this practice or use your body mala (with me in the video) to circulate these transforming sounds across all levels of your being.

This 30 minute practice begins with meditation and mantra to circulate the wisdom, empowerment and transformation of the Devi/Goddess seed mantras AIM HRIM KLIM.

Follow this with yoga nidra being bathed in these mantra as a sacred inner and outer armour or shield of Devi to feel a sense of wholeness, support and protection.

Here is a soundscape for this practice.