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 :).
purnamada mantra: this mantra is the opening invocation of the Isha Upanishad, and speaks to the inherent wholeness of reality. This is a Vedic melody, author unknown.
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.
Ganesha Mantra: calling to Ganesha as the aspect of ourselves that knows how to move through obstacles, digest our experiences, learn and grow through our challenges. Calling to Ganesha can also be a calling not only for ourselves but for the uplifting, healing and justice for all. I find this one so helpful in difficulty, and also as a sweet blessing for any new beginning, as Ganesha is also invoked to offer blessings at the beginning of any new venture. This melody is Edo & Jo’s beautiful creation.
Sitting in the Synapse: a brief overview of the nervous system and the space between stimulus and response as taught by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, followed by a meditation to get ‘out of your head’ and into your felt experience. Also a useful tool to bring into daily life, to process stress, or during times of information overload, decision making or overwhelm.
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.
