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 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 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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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 60 minute practice that takes you through all the lunar elemental namaskars on a journey of gathering and integrating the wisdom from the past cycle before the new one begins.
In the Vedic traditions mid Jan at Makara Sankrathi is considered a more natural time to start your year - or even later when the sun’s light becomes more visibly supportive.
So in the liminal space we seek to find completion and gather the wisdom from the past cycle to put that wisdom into action for the new.
At the end of this practice there is space for you to reflect and journal to honour and complete and learn from past experiences from the spectrum of the most difficult to the most sublime.
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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 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 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 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.
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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 35 minute practice that will guide you through all the Prana Flow Dancing Warrior namaskars in a half mandala to embody all the elemental aspects of space, air, fire, water and earth encased in the mantra Om Namah Shivaya.
A practice to deepen your meditation during the month of Shravana dedicated to spiritual practice and walking a life path where that meditation is stronger than any agitation.
This is one of. my favourite morning practices and completes seated taking you through 108 rounds of the mantra.
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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 60 minute practice to help you feel freedom to be your authentic self and to reclaim your space and perspective.
At the peak of the sun’s light it’s easy to feel overstimulated and overwhelmed even while celebration the fullness of this solar cycle.
This practice takes you through rounds of Prana Flow Akash (space) namaskar to clear and tend to your inner and outer spaces and into a standing vinyasa sequence to honour your boundaries and to regain new perspectives.
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A 1 hour fire element embodiment practice that invites you to shine a light of focus and awareness on your instinctual body through the chakras and the rising energy from root to crown.
Enjoy invoking and stoking the fire at the centre of your cellular intelligence, the centre of your body mandala and the element at the heart of the elemental spectrum of space, air, fire, water and earth.
After several rounds of Agni namaskar you are guided to connect the chakra energy in a flow with parallels to kundalini shakti as you embody the instinctual fluid nature of water in a Prana Flow naga/serpentine namaskar.
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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 30 minute practice of the foundational Prana Flow dancing warrior namaskars to invite strength and brightness to begin your day or at any time you wish to cultivate steadiness and cleanse your lens for better focus.
Moving through these namaskars also invites an acknowledgement of the support of all the elements within and around you to help you feel you can find your natural balance should it ever feel lost.
This is a shorter version of the 60 minute new moon/Mahashivratri practice.
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A 25 minute pranam/prostration practice - wonderful when enjoyed after the seated Chakra Attunement practice - to further connect with the chakras via their associated elements.
Feel a deeper connection to your subtle body while moving through a practice of integration with nature’s elements to help you bring whatever you need into your day with grace and gratitude.
Invite an invocation or dedication with each of these 8 elemental pranams from root to crown, pausing to receive the wisdom that unfolds through this connection with yourself and the energies of nature.
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Enjoy a shorter version of the lunar elemental practice offered at the winter solstice and move through the lunar/regenerative earth, water, fire, air and space namaskars to feel connected to nature and to your own unique reflection of nature.
During this 35 minute practice feel all of nature’s elements at your disposal depending on how you feel whether you need to call on the presence and strength of the earth; the fluidity and nourishment of water; warmth and transformation of fire; breath and movement of air; and the freedom and acceptance of space.
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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 Navaratri-inspired practice to access and embody all the qualities of the goddess who in the great Devimahatmya myth was victorious over the asuras (demons) when all others failed.
Experience the embodiment of all these qualities from fierce love and courage to protect and strengthen, to great love and abundance for nourishment, to wisdom and grace for creative and spiritual refinement. All qualities associated with Mother Nature and the five great elements
This 75 minute practice will guide you through Prana Flow Shakti namaskar to feel the full spectrum of these qualities that can serve you in navigating dissonant or negative energies within and without and in finding graceful victory and wisdom in the battles and joys of life.
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An end of summer completion and new beginnings practice that guides you through the elements of earth, water, fire, air and space to embody their qualities within you and feel them as resources to help you bring balance to your life.
This 60 minute Prana Flow and Ayurveda inspired practice invites you to feel a sense of culmination and wholeness at a juncture which can call for grace and wisdom in the dance of change and new beginnings.
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A 45 minute Prana Flow ritual practice ideal for reflection at the new moon that invites you to connect to the elements of earth, water, fire, air & space and cultivate feeling states that can inform your dedications for the waxing moon cycle.
Enjoy Prana Flow elemental pranams to listen to your essential nature and seal them in with a lying or seated mantra meditation connected to the lunar constellation of the new moon.
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In this 70 minute Prana Flow practice recorded on the summer solstice you'll get a chance to honour the sun and catch the energy of this culmination point in nature to honour all you've learned, created and cultivated in the cycle of rising light.
You are guided to embrace and embody space - the host of all the elements - before journeying through all the other elements of earth, water, fire and air, returning to space where we come from, and all will return to
During your practice you are invited to connect with each element and feel how its qualities can bring more balance to your life according to your energy, constitution and moment in time.
I hope it offers you the space to open, acknowledge and reclaim all aspects of who you are to listen, feel and harvest the wisdom from your inner spaces for the next cycle.
Solstice blessings
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A practice aimed at enlivening your circulation and your intrinsic sense of joy.
This 40 minute Prana Flow practice invites you to activate the air, fire and space elements to help balance heavy feelings in body, mind and spirit by bringing greater circulation and joy to all aspects of your being.
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Enjoy flowing through all the elements from earth to space through water, fire and air to feel the full spectrum of your body and mind and tune in to what you need most right now.
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Recorded at the Northern hemisphere winter solstice 2021 a reflection and completion practice which over this auspicious juncture and into the new year cultivates connection to all the great elements of nature and the rasas/emotions of courage, love and peace.
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Bring a greater sense of perspective to your day with this expansive namaskar and flow that invites an honouring of akash/ether/space - the host of all the elements - from which we come and to which we return
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