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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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 recording of our live 60 minute solstice practice.
A practice to catch the energy of this potent sandhya (juncture of more easily directed energy) to tend to your inner fire through breath practice, mudra and movement to cultivate peaceful presence and empowerment for the cycle ahead.
Enjoy 15 minutes of seated opening breath and meditation practice before moving through a lunar Prana Flow Agni namaskar to ignite awareness and dissolve dissonance.
Complete in Shanti Rasa namaskar for longer marinations in pigeon and forward folds to practice quieting outer rational mind to deepen your soul connection and live from a place of trusted instincts.
Solstice blessings - may you feel the support and love to be your magical Self!
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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.
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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 mantra mediation practice to enjoy at the full moon and throughout ancestor fortnight to honour lineages and nourish and purify ancestral pathways.
Begin with pranayama and meditation preparation mudras and dedications before circulating rounds of the mantra SHRIM (pronounced SHREEM) to bring healing and rejuvenation.
Follow this with rounds of a mantra Om Pitara Shundha Tvam aimed to help purify your ancestral channels and connections and also to help circumvent or heal any obstacles in those connections including letting go of inherited negative patterns and conditioning.
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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 seated meditation practice that invites you to bring inner focus (dharana) and sound (mantra) to experience and deepen the connection with your life force.
This 30 minute practice takes you on a journey through the subtle energy centres of the chakras from root to crown.
And it invites you to bring sound vibration to open and enliven the chakras like sunlight opens flowers and circulate at these points of focus the elemental bija/seed mantra of earth, water, fire, air and space (LAM, VAM, RAM, YAM, HAM & OM) .
Enjoy this practice at the beginning of any new cycle - moon, season or day - to feel reconnected, rejuvenated and aware of the elemental spectrum of life support you can access through your subtle energy soul soil.
This practice can be done on its own or before or after the next movement meditation practice to bring this awareness into your embodiment and your life off the mat.
Here is a playlist to help you set the tone when reciting your mantras
This 50 minute practice begins with 15 minutes of pranayama and inner reflection followed by 35 minutes of movement meditation aimed at helping you clear space and pierce your heart for clarity about the path ahead.
This is a predominantly standing asana movement practice to help to ground and honour sacred space while catching the energy of the new moon and at this point of Karka Sankranthi when the sun is seen to begin its 6 months of southward movement (dakshinayana).
Move with a dedication to simply listen and find the auspicious current or with the aim - with your astral arrows of clarity - of asking questions aroud ntnat which you wish to sustain, deepen, initiate or let go of on the journey to the full moon, next new moon or all the way to the point when the sun begins its rising cycle again in mid-Jan next year.
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A recording of the live practice at the solstice that invites you to celebrate the peak of solar energy, while also applying a soothing soma/lunar balm to ease any tension or stress associated with the peak activities & excess Pitta/fiery energy at this time of year.
Enter your movement meditation practice through classic Prana Flow breath & meditation rituals to bring forth the qualities most healing to your system and for positive evolution.
You’re invited to use moments of pause for your own expressions of instinctual movement and stillness as you flow through rounds of Soma, Chandra and water pathways to gather sunlight-infused regenerative nectar and apply it for optimal freedom and flow in your body, mind and spirit.
Here is the playlist we enjoyed as we practiced live.
A 50 minute practice to catch the effulgence of the full moon and also cool and soothe by cultivating soma - the nectar of regeneration synonymous with the moon.
Begin seated and enjoy settling into your movement meditation before you are guided through rounds of heart and hip opening soma namaskar followed chandra namaskar in a half mandala to honour the 14 phases of the moon.
In the in between moments embrace the invitations to move with your instinctual body’s cues embodying the water element and deepening into following your creativity and how things are vs how they should be.
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Join me for my favourite practice in the waxing sun’s light cycle for both setting foundations as well as getting clear about the moments/day/cycle ahead.
Begin seated for opening nadi shodhana pranayama & mantra meditation practice with space for writing down/tuning in to what arises for you.
Rise for centring, opening up the back and front of the body before a few prostrations/pranams lead you into the Dancing Warrior sequences to open hips, awaken the space around your essential organs & embody the 5 great elements within you and around you.
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p.s. this is my dream time practice but I dont always have 50 minutes. If I only have 20 minutes (perhaps to get outside after for a walk in sunshine) I might do the seated part especially if i feel i need to get grounded and circulate mantra. I might then do the 30 minutes of movement later in the day.
A fire and earth embodiment practice to lean into the rising sun’s light for clarity, discipline and letting go of that which no longer serves you.
This practice begins with pranams to help you feel grounded during the final eclipse of the season and to honour your earth connection.
Enjoy the lightening and brightening of agni kriya at each of the chakras.
Complete seated with nadi shodhana pranayama, followed by sound attunement of the chakra’s subtle energies to feel grounded and clear from root to crown.
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During eclipse seasons you can be met with unexpected disruptions and challenges and also realisations and innovation.
This 45 minute spring eclipse season practice begins ings with intention gathering at the new moon and aims to help to stay grounded and full of courage and openheartedness to receive any incoming wisdom and navigate change, however disruptive it may be.
Be guided through a Prana Flow hip opening namaskar that is connected to Vira rasa in a grounded way that connects us to the earth, our muladhara chakra & the instinctual energy, strength & courage of a tigress (viagri). All in a way that helps you feel protected and supported within and without during this time and any time life throws challenges & uncertainty your way and ground presence is most required.
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A 60 minute live practice at the equinox and coincident new moon juncture to help you feel empowered to catch auspicious energy and direct it towards positive transformation in the causes, work, lifestyle and relationships that are most aligned with your heart’s calling.
Start with honouring the sun and moon in nadi shodhana and the flow through fire and air/breath of the heart embodiment namaskars and sequences.
Hone your focus with the fire element and listen for what it can help you dissolve/let go, ignite and or sustain/keep warm for the coming cycle. Heart opening vinyasa follow to help you feel open hearted towards this fire-inspired transformation.
Honour where you are on the journey of flowering into the new season - composting/tending the soil, germinating seeds or fully blooming.
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Attune to your energy body in this (one of my favourite) seated meditation practices that invites your inner gaze and sound vibration to activate and bring awareness to the chakras’ subtle energy centres along your spine and towards and above your crown.
This 35 minute meditation can be done every morning to honour and enliven your life force and invite auspiciousness into every cell of your body. It can also be enjoyed any time you want to tune into your body and go on a journey of embodying your wisdom relationship to your life force.
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A 50 minute practice to catch the auspicious energy around the new moon, the first (at time of recording) of the new year. You are invited to begin seated with pranayama, mudra, invocation and reflection.
But if you feel you need to move first before coming to a seat, go to the around 18 minute mark and enjoy clearing the path for the cycle ahead and honouring the moon in movement meditation guided through rounds of Chandra namaskar. You can then come back to the beginning for the seated meditation if that is a better flow for you.
A practice for any new moon or beginning to feel your way into the pathways of your inner wisdom to guide and support you off for the living yoga off the mat.
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A 30 minute classical surya namaskar practice to honour Makar Sankranthi on 14th Jan, the point in the Vedic calendar when the sun is seen to begin its uttarayana northward movement, and heralding the beginning of the rising light cycle in the Northern hemisphere.
Begin with nadi shodhana/alternate nostril breathing pranayama and seated dedication before moving through several rounds of classical surya namaskar with invitation to circulate the solar bija (seed) mantras HRAM. HRIM, HRUM, HRAIM, HRAUM, HRAHA.
Enjoy this practice anytime to want to inspire humble confidence, clear any stuck feelings in body and mind and honour your life force.
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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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