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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!
Moving from the Middle: This practice explores the navel radiation movement pattern that provides support for our limbs to connect through our centre as we move. Move through a balance focused class as we explore different ways of moving from the middle, differentiating and then integrating our six limbs to our core.
Rhythms of Balance: A practice exploring the relationship we all have to the earth and sky via our sense of balance. What is the sensation of balance? What is the rhythm of balance? How does challenging my balance magnify that rhythm so I might notice it's more subtle expressions in less challenging places? Props: Blocks / Bolster or any items that can support you in a balancing practice.
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.
Skin Intelligence: A practice exploring the intelligence of our outermost boundary, our skin. The resilient and sensitive fabric that provides containment for our form and is in direct relationship sensing the world around us. Move with a sense of continuity and flow, and explore what it’s like to initiate movement from the outermost, and how this reflects and relates to the innermost.
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.
Gentle shake up & release: A short and gentle practice to shake things up and shift stuck energy. Helpful for moving things through, processing, and releasing pent up stagnation or agitation, so that you can soften and release. Shake it out and rest in pockets of stillness for an energetic refresh in a short amount of time.
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.
Cultivate Compassion: A practice focusing on finding diagonals and fine tuning our contralateral movement, in order to support a return to a sense of centre. We start slowly finding diagonals in a variety of movement contexts and then move towards backbends across diagonals, with balancing postures and side body openers to find a sense space and length dotted throughout. We close with a mantra for compassion.
Wholeness comes from wholeness: A quiet and simple practice for your to attune and receive. Starts slowly with spiral movements on the ground and opens into a gentle flow exploring a sense of fullness in movement, and contemplating an ancient poem that is said to hold the power of allll of the teachings within it.
Clear away the dust: In this practice we explore movement through the side seam of our body, as well as spirals - from micro to macro structures. We start on the ground and unfold slowly into a varied flow that moves around the mat and cultivates space and strength. Through breath, movement and a shift in awareness we play with clearing away the dust to attune our perception and receive presence. Please begin this class lying down in a comfortable way.
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.
Soothe your Nerves: In this practice we tend to our nervous system by working directly with he nerves, using a range of different pathways of release and containment. We begin with a basic orientation and grounding, and chant to call in the Goddess as our capacity to navigate challenge and move through density towards spaciousness and wisdom. We then open into some somatic floor work gently open into a nerve flossing sequence before finding rest. The chant at the end of this class class was cut off due to some tech issues, so I have added the Goddess chant for Durga in the recommended videos below for you to close your practice if you wish.
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.
