Muscle Power! : An exploration of musculature! How do muscles express themselves as ‘individual’ muscles as well as integrate through a broader network of a whole ‘musle body’? What does this mean for accessing power, vitality, strength AND our ability to release and rest? This practice helps us find whole body integration as we move, and builds from flowy floor sequences into a strong, invigorating practice, integrating philosophical contemplation and closing with a rest and one of my fave chants.
Spring loading: A fun and varied practice designed to hep us cultivate the spring in our step! Begins with a settling mini meditation and sneaks into an increasingly dynamic flow weaving balancing, strength, bounce and sensitivity into the mix. A good one to energise and shake. it. out!
Multidimensional Power: A practice that explores building strength through multidimensional movement, exploring ways of distributing weight and integrating forces to access power, and working with balance and unusual ground prints to access strength that is also spongy and resilient. Enjoy! Props: 2 blocks
Move it: A feel good flow that gets you moving in all directions with a few different movement languages to explore as a way to use movement to wake up and magnify sensory feedback of self. A good one to clear the slate, like a giant yawn with multidimensional movement explorations. Enjoy!
Spine release: A short and sweet practice to release your spine, find a sense of space through the axis and simply move. Starts with supported bridge before moving into a flow that sprinkles rotations, side bends and an opportunity for playing with hand balancing towards the end to shake things up.
Continuity Flow: Continuing to explore the continuity between our feet and our core as we re-animate our peripheral intelligence. We explore how when the periphery is wakeful and participating, the ‘core’ at the centre doesn’t have to overwork. We play with different movement qualities and balance. Waking up our feet changes everything about the way we move. Enjoy exploring how!
Our core begins in our feet: A practice exploring the idea of ‘whole body core’ using our feet as a gateway to explore integrated movement dynamics. We look at how our belly can stay soft and responsive in its strength, with a particular focus on a facial organ called the mesentery: a key part of our gut brain that gives a sense of how we feel about what we are digesting (food, information, experience etc). Waking up our feet really does change everything about the way we move. Enjoy!
Front & Back body integration for inversions: In this practice we explore the integration of the front and the back body from the perspective of two pairs of bones. The sternum and xyphoid at the front, and the sacrum and tail bone at the back. We explore the tail bone/xyphoid rhythm, and how attuning to their relationship we can find a sense of spacious support, which we then explore through inversions (dolphin/forearm balance). There aren’t that many inversions in the practice, but this enquiry really supports finding balance in inversions which you can take into your own explorations.
Soft Power: A practice exploring the gentle undulation of the central spine as a barometer through which we can measure accessing our power and strength whilst maintaining spaciousness at the centre. A flow that begins slowly with a long supported bridge and builds into a strong flow with options for balancing (on one foot/in an arm balances) and attuning to the ongoing fluid movement at the centre to support us in our understanding of stillness.
Hip Flow: A practice exploring the relationship between the pelvis and thigh bones, how they can move in a differentiated way, and also as more of a unit, all woven into a flow that builds from the ground into a powerful sequence including standing balances and an arm balance if you wanna.
Space to Breathe: Exploring the world of our ribs, and how attuning to this beautiful architecture can support our understanding of rythms: both beneath the surface (lungs, heart, diaphragms) and beyond in the world around us. Starts slow finding somatic ways into knowing our ribs and builds into a strong flow weaving twists, backbends, balances before closing with a supported bridge.
Integrate Opposite Forces: Sneak into a strong practice that explores the foundational movement principle of yield. How can finding an integration of opposite forces offer us choices? To rest, to move, and how do these opposite qualities exist within each other? A slow and strong movement exploration. Enjoy!
Integrating through the centre: Short and sweet movement exploration focusing on the skull and pelvis and how they meet through the axis. We start with a short somatic meditation finding our sense of centre and then play with a challenging balancing flow, with options for hand balancing and a lovely rest at the end.
Innate Knowing: A practice exploring the sensation of innate knowing. What does it mean to connect with a visceral intelligence that is simple and profound? How can attuning to this felt knowing invite contexts for presence and connection? A practice that begins slowly and plays with harnessing energy and then getting out of the way as we explore clarity of direction and freedom through movement. Builds into a strong flow and closes with supported backbends. Props: 1 block / rolled up towel
Clearing flow and stillness: A practice to find clarity and stillness. We begin slowly, shake things out, and then work into a powerful flow cultivating strength and steadiness in the legs to find a sense of clarity in our connection to ground and cultivate apana vayu (the energetic downward flow). Closes with a long rest and one of my favourite mantras.
Mini power flow: A 15 minute movement snack that gets going straight away building into a mini power flow with opportunities to balance, shake things up, ground with standing postures and build strength through your legs, and if you like, opportunities to practice handstand. Find a sense of strength at your centre, and to drop into a continuous flow.
Grounded & Strong: This practice is slow, grounding, strong and quiet. With minimal instruction, we move through a balanced sequence with slightly longer holds to cultivate steadiness, slow down, find our strength and gather ourselves energetically. There are options to take inversions throughout which you can modify as you please, and key philosophical concepts are explored in a felt-sense way. You might want two blocks to hand.
The domes of our architecture: This practice explores the integration of our limbs through our centre as we move with fluidity and strength. We explore the dome like shapes that repeat within our architecture and attune to what it means to align these domes to find a sense of centre, and of anchored spaciousness. We start softly and sneak into a strong practice with opportunities to balance, backbend and handstand along the way.
Human Sponge: This practice explores the fluid, internal movement patterns that precede movement of our body through space. We focus on the pattern of sponging; the movement of fluid through cell membranes. We begin slowly with floor work and movement gradually emerges into a dynamic sequence weaving in twists, leg work, hops and opportunities for handstands to get our circulation moving.
Mini fascia flow: A 30 minute flow with a focus on finding novel pathways for forces to move through our bodies to keep our fascial matrix intrigued and responsive as we move! Explores circular patters, weight shift, balance and options for handstand practice towards the end.
