Suspended Spine: Some of the questions we explore in this practice as we move through a varied, playful flow: What keeps my spine suspended and full of life? What early patterns of movement support freedom in back bending as an adult? How does the pattern of condensing and expanding manifest as our capacity to turn in and gather energy in order to find clarity in outward action? What are the role of our feet in extending our spine? Options to play with varied paces of motion, inversions and backbend variations with a long rest and some sound to finish.
When you’re not sure if you need to move or chill: A stretchy relaxing flow that starts with a floor sequence and sneaks you into some standing movement to invigorate and get the blood moving before settling into a brief meditation at the end to anchor into the dynamic and alive nature of stillness.
Front body support in backbends: How does the front of our body support spinal extension? Explore the relationship between the spine and the soft central axis of the gut tube, and the fascinating role that the hyoid bone plays in cultivating a subtle but powerful support from the front of the body during extension. Also explore how lungs and heart are moved and move you as you practice, starting slowly and unfolding into a fluid sequence of various scenarios for active extension, revolved half moon, and options for forearm balance variations.
Short, sweet, mellow flow: Practice 25 minutes of self nurturance in this mainly floor based flow with a focus on hip and side body release, spinal twist explorations, and a little meditation at the end.
Lung Exploration: A mellow practice to find and move from our lungs. Starts with some sound and breath work and continues into a yummy flow finding the support of these billowy structures in backbends. Opportunities to play with forearm balance variations (or not!) and an invitation to go off piste and continue into your own explorations and self practice near the end should you want to.
Innate Creativity: Move through a creative practice that plays with tree pose, balance, and opportunities to explore twisting arm balances. As you explore movement and stillness, open your awareness to the felt sense of potentiality and source; the ground of being that holds every possibility, and allow your innate movement wisdom and creativity the space to emerge.
Pure Potential: Refresh yourself with a practice that invites us to tap into the pure potential from which all arises. Explore accessing your own innate creativity in movement and slowly unfold from the ground into a nurturing flow practice that builds towards some standing balances and closes with supported backbend variations and a delicious rest.
Strong legs, free spine: A strong and steady practice exploring how our feet speak to our spine via the pelvis! Begin with a juicy hip warm up and find your flow exploring clarity of spacial intent through the legs and feet. Builds towards opportunities to play with half moon balance, forward folds and inversions and an arm balance to finish. Finish with a yummy relaxation and some chanting.
Find your Feet: A foot focused flow to explore how awakening our feet helps us to move our whole body with more clarity and ease. Start slowly and move into a circular sequence of balances, twists and a yummy rest at the end.
Twist & Balance: A simple and strong vinyasa practice moving into twisted balances and side plank variations as well as opportunities for a little handstand play.
Feet & Inversions: A challenging practice that begins with extended foot work to explore how thoroughly preparing our feet can give clarity and direction in arm balances, standing balances, and inversions. Lots of inversions and opportunities to practice press handstand, I like to do this sequence after a run when I am already quite warm, but you could also warm up another way or dive right in :).
Movement Refresher: Spine: A short and sweet movement refresher to breathe some space into your spine.
Shoulders & Heart Flow: A short and sweet flow focusing on freeing up space in the shoulders and the back of the heart.
Tend to the heart: a nurturing and supportive practice in honour of tending to the heart. Embody the heart through sound, movement exploration and awareness cultivation. Ultimate self nurturance.
Re-centre: A steady practice to support returning to a sense of centre. Start on the ground, move into some flowing side standing postures and play with eagle balance.
Energise & Clear: An energetic feel good practice of moving, shaking, arm swinging, sounding, twists and balances to shake it off, move it through, clear space and energise.
Movement Snack: A short movement break to energise and embody in a small amount of time.
Hips & Circles: a fluid flow moving in circles around the mat, exploring side plank variations with hip mobility, balance, and quiet pockets of stillness dotted throughout to drop in. *Archive: an older video with lower resolution video & high quality sound.
Strong from centre: a practice that starts slowly and then moves steadily through to some stronger sequences and options to play with handstand and a twisted pigeon variation whilst exploring moving from and returning to centre.
The Spaces in between: an exploration of joint spaces. What if we could move from the spaces in between? Cultivate a felt experience of spaciousness that we can move from and return to? Move through a flowing sequence of balances, twists, and side plank variations exploring the embodiment of space the spaces in between.
