A 60 minute hip & heart opening practice to cultivate courage and grounding during eclipse season.
Move at your pace through Hanuman kriya to simultaneously feel a rhythmic sloughing off of anything holding you back as well as cultivating devotion and courage to be your authentic self.
Lean into a solar rhythm that helps catch the energy of spring as long as it serves your life force.
Enjoy embodying Vira - that essence of courage & support - through hip and heart opening Dancing Warrior sequences completing in seated hip openers to seal in an honouring of the earth and muladhara chakra.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice.
This is an energising practice to embody the qualities of strength, courage and devotion associated with Hanuman and which takes you towards hanumanasana/splits in a natural progression.
Feel warmed by your prana and go at your natural rhythm.
Tapas - holding a flame to your highest aims - and Vira - the rasa of courage - are cultivated during this 40 minute Prana Flow practice and you’re invited to tend to your inner fire to bring courage and support to where it is needed in your life.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
A slightly less than 30 minute practice that guides you through 12 rounds of classical surya namaskar/sun salutations.
In Ayurveda surya (& chandra) namaskar are the foundations of all yoga sequences to help us balance the doshas.
In spring we’re invited to practice surya namaskar more swiftly to help balance spring’s rising water and earth forces associated with kapha dosha and growth in nature.
Go at a steady pace with me or move at your own pace - faster or slower.
There is also the invitation to harness the Gayatri mantra to your movement and breath. This mantra - seen as second to Om in these traditions - also invokes and honours the sun/Savitur as a means to realise our inner light as vitality & intelligence.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
Gayatri words and translation
Om bhur bhuvah svah
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dhimahi
Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat
O Supreme one, ultimate reality in which physical (bhur), astral (bhuvah) and causal (svah) worlds exist.
You (Tat) are the source of all, supreme reality, divine illumination (savitur - of Savitri, relating to the sun, or Shakti) deserving of all adoration (varenyam)
O effulgent (bhargo), divine (devasya)one, we meditate upon you (dhimahi).
May our minds (dhiyo - intelligence, tool for attaining higher wisdom) be propelled (prachodayat) towards enlightenment.
A practice ideal anytime you feel you want to catch waxing solar & lunar energies to ignite and feel balanced fire in a tapas-like unwavering inwardly focused way. If the external expression is solar too enjoy that while always respecting your life force and shifting from solar to lunar rhythm where necessary.
This 40 minute practice invites you to follow solar energising rhythms and brings a focus to your core strength both at the site of digestive fire as well as in a Body Mandala way cultivating strength in all directions.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
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.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
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.
Here is a playlist to enjoy with this practice
A 30 minute practice aimed at cultivating balanced fire/tapas with intelligence to bring focus to your day.
This Prana Flow “sacred training” practice combines standing balances and core cultivation to help you to hone an ability to stay focused in both challenges and joy, and to be able to hold your ground in intensity.
Inversions are optional here and a good seasonal/spring addition to send energy to the heart and help balance the spring season’s Kapha dosha.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
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.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice.
A 60 minute Prana Flow practice to cultivate the rasa or essence of love known as Sringara rasa in these traditions.
Move through water & air element inspired fluid flows to bring softness and love to tension in body and mind. Take the invitation to move in a way that dials into your inner current and feel freed of constructs and inhibitions.
Apply the feeling state you cultivate on your mat to your life and see the love-infused ripple effects.
Here is a playlist to enjoy during your practice and anytime
A 45 minute Prana Flow heart opening practice to shift any heaviness around your heart space and invite humble confidence to put yourself out there as the moon waxes to its full brightness.
Honour the breath radiating from your heart and if you like invite in the mantra HRIM (pronounced HREEM) to add positive vibration to the functioning of your heart on physical, emotional and spiritual levels.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice or at any time
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.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
Connect with your essence and retrieve and polish the inner jewel (mani) within the dwelling place (pura) of your being.
This 75 minute practice leads you through a Prana Flow agni and the manipura (the chakra often connected to the fire element) namaskar plus standing balance exploration, all of which aims to bring attention to all aspects of your inner fire (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) to cultivate joy, lightness, peace and a love of the present moment.
Here is a playlist to press play when you begin this practice or to enjoy at any time you’d like to invoke and connect with your inner fire.
A 45 minute practice to help you clarify your path for the first post spring equinox new moon, or at any time you wish to activate your core - the main site of agni/fire in Ayurveda - and invoke the fire element with contemplation on what you’d like to let go, ignite or sustain in your life.
A shorter and simpler version of the spring equinox tending your inner fire practice but which aims for a similar feeling state of clarity, presence and hope.
Here is a playlist to enjoy while you practice
This 75 minute practice to catch the auspicious energy of the equinox invites you on a journey of tending your inner fire and casting your vision for whatever you would like to dissolve/complete/let go, ignite/create/spark and or sustain/preserve/nurture in your life for the cycle of rising light.
Read more on Ayurveda’s concept of inner fire/agni here
When you begin you can press play on this playlist here to enjoy this practice in the way it was shared live on 20th March 2022.
