Into Embodiment: This is a meditation that explores the movement of formless into form via attention moving in a particular way in relationship to the breath and the base of the heart. A short, sweet micro practice.
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Into the Center: A micro meditation supporting us to find a sense of the continuity between the world beneath the skin and the world beyond it as we explore the two ways in which “center” is interpreted philosophically in The Recognition Sutras.
Vibe Check: This is a practice from The Recognition Sutras that explores receiving a bit of the ‘vibe’ we are currently emitting out into the world. It’s super interesting! And helpful for noticing, processing and digesting how we currently are feeling as a gateway into awareness.
Objects & Awareness: A meditation to explore object predominant attention and awareness predominant attention. The practice is about building capacity for both, and being able to move in between with a little more familiarity and ease.
Meet yourself as your are: A meditation to meet yourself as you are, and become interested in the sensation of how you are doing - going underneath the language we might use to describe how we are to meet ourselves in the truth of the moment, welcome ourselves into presence from that place of honesty, and explore gradually shifting attention to awareness itself.
Gravity Flow: Gravity, like water to fish is easy to miss until we challenge our habitual relationship to it. This practice explores gravity, our vestibular system, proprioception & balance. We work with stabilising and destabilising incrementally as an exploration of the question: where am I? We play with weight shift as a language, head support in free movement, and gently challenge our balance along the way as we build familiarity with gravity as a foundational ground of shared belonging.
Circumference and center: In this practice we explore the relationship between the sternum, the ribs, and the thoracic spine. Woven with fluid movement exploration to embody the ribs and find clarity in their articulation, we move from the ground, through circular standing movement, into a flow that integrates asymmetrical balancing postures, twists and lunges before closing with a restorative posture to offer space through the thoracic region to close.
Front, back and middle body - differentiate and integrate: In this practice we establish clarity around the front, back and middle body and how they integrate to give us a full sense of multi-dimensionality, depth and volume. It’s a calm, simple practice that starts gently and becomes progressively a little stronger with options to add spice where desired. We play with twists, balance, and backbends. A calm way to build precision, fluidity, awareness and strength.
Backbend flow: In this practice we explore cultivating a spacious and yet supported backbending practice. Drawing on specific pathways that integrate upper and lower body, and front and back body, we play with finding balance, elasticity and fluidity in motion.
Gentle Hip Specificity Flow: This is a practice that stays close to the ground and explores specificity of movement through the hips, whilst exploring the relationship of the limbs to the centre of the body. Through multidimensional hip movement, gentle strength building and rest and release we tend to our sense of centre, and cultivate grounded spaciousness. Props: You will need a bolster or blocks and a strap for this practice, but can improvise if you don’t have them.
Decelerate - earth body meditation: a somatic meditation waking up awareness in the bones of the body. An invitation to decelerate, find quiet, find slowness and re-source. Begins with some tapping to wake up the sensory landscape before settling into stillness.
In the round: A practice that supports our discovery of circles within circles within circles as we breathe, move, and rest. We all begin in the round, and from that place weave ourselves into being through a process of differentiation and densification. In our yoga postures, how can we connect with the space around us to find ourselves once again in the round, with all the support that that might offer as we move and rest?
Ganesha Heramba Tutorial: A lovely little chant for ganesha as heramba, the protector. The opening line was inspired by Ajeet’s dance of ganesha, and I added the rest in a moment of wanting so much to invoke Ganesha’s protection for those in the world that need it the most.
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!
Spacious, strong, grounded: this practice is a slow steady sequence that weaves twists through various postures, with slightly longer holds designed to invite a settling down. We explore the integration of downward and upward flows of energy, and how their meeting invites a sense of space, coherence and groundedness.
Ground: A practice that focuses on downwardness, settling agitation and grounding through finding strength in our lower limbs. An opportunity to invite doing to rest into being. Builds from a gentle floor based beginning into a spicier balance sequence to finish and comes back to the ground for a rest, and a chant. Props: Two blocks
Before you start meditating: A little note on practices where we invite awareness in, and what we can do to take care of ourselves as we do these practices.
Awareness as process: A gentle meditation practice to meet yourself as you are and spend some time attuning to the rhythms of awareness and tending to yourself and the truth of what is through the warmth of your own attention.
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.