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 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 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 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 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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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 1 hour practice that takes you on a journey of stability and fluidity towards heart opening to meet the invitation in this month of Shravana to feel the support to let go of unwanted attachments and to remove obstacles to living in your natural most-aligned state.
Beginning with rounds of Chandra Namaskar this practice invites you to work to your evolutionary edge in supported and standing heart-openers that allow your heart to feel supported to open naturally.
Feel the freedom and support at this New Moon to receive your primordial heart wisdom to be your most authentic embodiment of all the elements within you.
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A practice to support you in finding your centre and reclaiming your space at the juncture of the New Moon as the solar season peaks.
Move through a mandala version of the space element embodiment namaskar to feel freedom to be and to set good boundaries especially after times of intensity.
Embodying and honouring your inner and outer spaces is vital in times of intensity and when trying to get good clarity and fresh perspective especially in Pitta season when the extended light may leave us overwhelmed.
This practice ends with pranayama and New Moon intention listening plus space for meditation at the end.
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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 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 1 hour practice that is about half and half seated meditation and simple grounding movement.
A Solar Eclipse at a new Moon can feel more intense than a full Moon so this practice invites you on a more inward journey of remembering who you are and restoring your sense of Self.
It will help you both set new moon intentions & stay grounded through intensity and unexpected events.
You will be guided through a mantra meditation circulating the seed (aka bija) sounds of the elements to enliven the chakras like sunlight on flowers.
This attunement meditation and honouring of your life force is followed by elemental pranams - prostrations to invoke the qualities of the elements in ways that support your evolution.
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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 45 minute practice to enjoy at the new moon to bring greater connection with your heart rhythm and heart essence and syncing with that to live more fully according to the wisdom of who you truly are.
You will be guided through 4 different heart focused namaskars and feel an evolution from the simplicity of the reflective and receptive energy of Chandra namaskar to Sringara rasa namaskar embodying love.
The emphasis on the heart space and air element in these practices helps to balance the end of winter rise in Kapha dosha energy that peaks in spring.
This movement alchemy helps restore your heart essence to guide you to embrace your unique microcosmic rhythms and feel them synced with and supported by the great macrocosmic heartbeat.
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A just over 50 minute practice to catch the energy of this Celtic cross quarter juncture that reminds us of the quiet quickening in nature and the potentiality for rebirth and rejuvenation.
This practice is inspired by and embodies Soma - the nectar of vitality connected with the moon and with nourishment of our inner and outer landscapes.
We begin with pranayama honouring the sun and moon and the respective vitality and regeneration their light and rhythms bring to our own embodiment.
Move through lunar namaskar and sequences to feel hip and heart opening to receive wisdom and nourishment at this juncture.
Complete circulating or receiving the bija/seed mantra Saum connected to Soma to seal in your practice.
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A favourite meditation and reflection practice of mine for the beginning of any new cycle, this one coinciding with the first new moon of the year and Makar Sankranti which begins the sun’s northward movement.
Based on the invocations from Agni Namaskar which we moved through at the Winter Solstice, this gives you an opportunity at this juncture to dive deeper into the 3 aspects of Agni/Fire in helping you clarify the path ahead and bring in your personal dedications.
Reflecting on these 3 aspects of fire - samhara (dissolution/completion/liberation) - sthithi (sustaining power) and - sristhi (igniting/initiating power) - you are invited through reflection and mudra vinyasa to listen for your heart wisdom dedications.
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This practice can support you at the beginning of any new cycle, especially at the new moon and at Makar Sankranti, the point in mid-January when the sun shifts into Capricorn (Makara) and is seen to begin it’s 6 months of northward movement.
This 60 minute practice invites you to embrace the power of invocation at the level of your physical body (annamaya kosha), your energy-in-motion/emotional body (pranamaya kosha) and your mind/intelligence body (manomaya kosha).
You will be guided through warrior 1 based standing asanas in a half mandala to circulate what your dedications and invocations at the level of body, heart and vision.
In completion and integration there is space for you to gather the heart wisdom you receive to reflect upon and or journal.
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Wishing you infinite blessings for this new cycle.
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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An almost 40 minute practice to activate and connect with heart wisdom energy to take into your day to day life and radiate around you.
Enjoy this lunar Prana Flow Anahata chakra offering in a half mandala for both a embodied and mystic heart connection experience.
Deep hip opening combines with gentle side waist opening and backbends to fill your space with and be receptive to your - and our collective - heart wisdom.
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A practice to catch the energy of Diwali - the festival of lights - that celebrates the victory of light over darkness and encourages us to be a spark in the dark, to find the light within to radiate in dark times.
The new moon at this celebration adds a juncture energy where you can direct your practice towards positive evolution for the waxing moon cycle ahead.
This 35 minute Prana Flow namaskar practices embodies the space element and invites you through gentle grounded backbends and hip opening to reclaim your sacred spaces and see them filled with vast fields of light to radiate into the world off your mat.
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A 20 minute practice to ground intentions at the new moon and to cultivate a hopeful attitude towards positive change amidst turbulence around this new moon eclipse.
Enter into meditation with pranayama and honouring your soul soil. Circulate rounds of Om Pitraye Namaha mantra to honour your ancestors at this culmination of this cleansing and grounding fortnight. Feel the balance of a releasing of conditioning and a calling in of the wisdom of ancestors to support and guide you.
Complete with rounds of Om Hrim Namah Shivaya to invoke the potential for positive transformation through the universal mantra adding Hrim to bring in the influence of Shakti as the goddess celebration of Navaratri begins at this new moon.
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A 45 minute ritual practice to help you get grounded and honour your ancestral lineages at this potent new moon/solar eclipse juncture that culminates Ancestor Fortnight.
Moving around the mandala enjoy rounds of simple units of asana to bring a state of steadiness in turbulent times and offer blessings and gratitude to your roots.
Feel liberated through pranams and supported by the earth and those who came before you to feel empowered to walk for positive change and to be a good ancestor.
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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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A 40 minute practice to help you at the start of a new moon or new day cycle to find and follow your auspicious current.
You will be guided through earth and water inspired flow to create a supported foundation for the new cycle and one with the power to be fluid and to find your natural flow.
Enjoy this hip and heart opening sequence at the new moon or any time you find yourself in need of daily inspiration from within.
I love this practice in the summer/Shravana mornings after seated pranayama and mantra meditation.
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