A 50 minute practice to move like love to align your heart rhythm with your brainwaves to bring about your most creative expression.
As Mahashivratri approaches we can be reminded of the power of the union of opposites and the ultimate expression of creativity in that love union.
This Sringara Rasa Prana Flow practice brings heart opening and freedom to express as love fluidity to where anywhere that needs compassionate release, or anywhere we might be feeling resistance to our natural flow on physical, emotional or mental levels.
Immerse yourself in love for self and the power of polarities to bring balance and the expression of you highest creativity.
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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 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 35 minute practice that helps you evolve your intentions into an embodiment of stability through strong foundations.
This practice takes you through the four foundational Prana Flow dancing warrior namaskars keeping your connecting vinyasas like a steady thread to weave strength with your intentions for the path ahead.
You can enjoy this practice before or after seated pranayama and meditation. It will help you release agitation and feel a grounded vitality before coming to your seat for reflection or entering back into the world.
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A winter solstice practice that guides you catch the energy of stillness to honour your life force and all the elements that comprise your nature as a miraculous microcosm of the macrocosm.
Honour and feel the integration of your life experience this past cycle through Surya Namaskar in the four directions mirroring the seasons and the life that breathes you.
Move and breathe as you are through namaskars that help you embody the stability of Earth, the love and nourishment of Water, the transformative power of Fire and the mystic heart breath of Air all embraced by cosmic Space around you and held by your sacred spaces within.
Solstice blessings of peace and returning light
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A practice to honour and retrieve the wisdom of all the seasons of your life and to drink the nectar of Soma for rejuvenation at this last Full Moon of the year.
Every Full Moon brings an invitation to drink its Soma to both nourish our inner spaces and to perceive your Self more clearly.
Moving with a simple heart opening sequences in a mandala you will invite Soma to infuse every cell for reflection, wisdom retrieval and nourishment for the journey ahead.
Pauses give you an open canvas to move freely so you can realise that all you are searching for is within you as natural flow and lived experience.
You’ll complete in a hip and heart opening mandala of Soma namaskar to catch the classic embodiment of the Moon in its dance with the light of the Sun.
Feel your devotion to your practice and to your natural evolution.
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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 45 minute practice to help you circulate love to heal division and conflict within yourself and in your relationships.
In rasa sadhana - the yoga of the emotions - the rasa or emotion of love is seen to have the qualities of water and earth that are associated with Kapha Dosha.
Love grounds and nourishes and is especially effective in cooling and soothing excess fire - that manifests as anger - and in caressing the agitation associated with fear and stress.
This heart and hip opening practice allows your body to take you to your natural loving state with tenderness and grounding. It will guide you to love yourself from within every cell and to radiate that love to those around you, even those with whom you disagree.
Sending love to you all ways.
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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 50 minute practice that aims to help you connect with the elements that can most stabilise and soothe us in times of great change and disturbance, which can be felt more in autumn and during eclipses.
The earth and water elements are key to balancing the effects of an excess of Vata Dosha's dominant space and air qualities that rise in autumn.
The energy of eclipses through their placement in Rahu & Ketu's shadow planet space also brings potentially erratic and sudden changes, adding more Vata into the mix. And if you are being heavily influenced by Saturn Vata pacification is key.
This practice guides you through some of the simplest movements of yoga, beginning with pranams in both standing and prostration form.
You will then move through rounds of an earth embodiment Prana Flow sequence that evolves into a lunar pathway of the water element to seal in a sense of being able to flow in your life from a grounded place.
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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 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 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 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 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 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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A 40 minute practice to help you (in the words of Bruce Lee) “be like water moving through cracks, adjusting to the objects” and find your instinctual flow to navigate obstacles and frustrations presented by a combustible cosmic climate.
You will be guided through Soma namaskar to invite the flow of Soma’s life-giving nectar to free your spine and cleanse and purify inner pathways in a soothing way.
These hip and heart opener movements are interspersed with space and time on the earth to be moved from within and express your inner rhythm and flow.
You will be invited to rise and move like water in a way that gets into the tight spots of tension, conditioning and resistance in body and mind.
Here is a soundscape to enjoy while you practice (hit play about halfway through first track).
A 40 minute practice to embody love on your mat and take into your day feeling your breath and heartbeat as a precious rhythm within the universal pulse.
You will be guided through flowing and spacious sequences that invite you to connect to your heart mind and to attune to your natural essence.
These practices are particularly effective in caressing combustible thought patterns and behaviours and soothing and cooling cosmic energies that feel excessively intense (such as a strong Mars/Pitta influence).
This practice is a natural progression from the last and aims to help you feel how even in the most ordinary or challenging moments love - for yourself and others - can awaken spontaneously.
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A 45 minute heart centred practice with pauses on the earth for reflection for when you want to lean into the qualities of love and courage.
In Ayurveda, both rasas (meaning emotion, taste, juice) of love and courage are connected with Kapha dosha with its qualities of water and earth. Qualities that help balance excess Pitta (fire aka inflammation & frustration) and Vata (space & air aka restlessness & anxiety) that can rise in intense times.
Kapha in excess gathers around the heart space and is the dominant dosha in late winter/spring.
So we’re invited to bring attention to keeping your heart space open and receptive at this time of year, especially to receiving your own heart wisdom to love and live your life with courage and freedom.
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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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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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An almost 1 hour lunar Prana Flow practice that begins with rounds of Chandra namaskar to open your body and mind to receive the regenerative energies of soma - the nectar of vitality synonymous with the moon in the Vedic tradition embodied through the water element.
After the opening flow you’ll be guided through grounding seated asana to open your hips and free your heart space to alleviate heavy emotions.
Feel spaciousness to explore open practice in shoulderstand and urdhva dhanurasana if they are suitable for you in accepting the full moon’s invitation to stay in a reflective and meditative state.
Enjoy this practice at the full moon or any time you wish to balance busyness and agitation and dive into your inner depths to restore and renew your body, mind and spirit.
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A ritual practice to help you feel both the abundance in your life and the support of sustaining power around you that in the Indian tradition is associated with Goddess Lakshmi.
This 45 minute practice leads you in a mandala - honouring that indigenous wisdom of the wholeness and protection of the circle to regenerate and honour the cycles of life.
Enjoy simple grounding movement in 8 directions as you receive and circulate gratitude for the qualities and support of Ashta Lakshmi - 8 aspects of Lakshmi - so often associated with abundance but so much more.
Beginning facing East feel a receiving and circulation of wisdom then nourishment, primordial creation, equanimity, strength, victory, prosperity and pure heartedness.
This is a practice designed to support you in dark days and in dark times to regenerate when agitation (Vata) is predominant.
Please respect the roots of this practice I received from my teacher Shiva Rea from her Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).
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A Chandra namaskar mandala practice to help you slow down as the sun’s light wanes and pacify Vata dosha which runs in excess for us all during autumn and early winter, especially after an intense eclipse season.
Vata dosha governs our nervous system and this practice invites you to embrace the power of lunar pathways to be soothed and regenerated.
Enjoy the additional grounding pauses in this adapted Prana Flow Chandra namaskar to connect more deeply with your soul’s calling and innate wisdom.
Feel how syncing with the earth and cosmic rhythms helps you gain more perspective on life in the now and for the path ahead.
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A practice to help you rejuvenate and bring peace to all aspects of your being at the full moon and final eclipse of the year.
Amidst all the intensity in the world move through a few rounds of Chandra Namaskar to invite soma nectar nourishment, healing and grounding from the full moon.
And enjoy many pauses in pranams and deeper hip opening marinations on the earth to journey within to access the wisdom and peace at your core.
Feel yourself better able to radiate peace and goodwill to those around you after this almost 60 minute practice.
Here is a playlist for this guided journey.
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.
Here is the playlist we enjoyed while we practiced live
