Coming Home: A meditation to welcome every aspect of ourselves, hold and honour our current experience and to sit quietly with ourselves, our breath, listening with our whole body.
Inherent Significance: The idea that our significance is inherent to our existence, and that when we look for our signifance from outside of ourselves, jobs, validation, roles, etc we are looking in the wrong place. We have some sense that we are significant and we ARE but not becasue of all the things we do...
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 :).
Heart Space Meditation: Bring your centre of focus down and out of your head and into your heart in this awareness practice to reclaim heart as an integrated and central aspect of our navigation system.
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.
Self Regulate in 5: A short and potent 3 part breathing practice to soothe and nourish your nervous system.
Ground & Space Meditation: Open to spaciousness in a way that feels rooted and grounded as well as expansive.
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.
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.
Soothe & Integrate: A soothing practice of alternate nostril breathing to integrate and calm our nervous system.
Tiny & Vast: Exploring the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm, the universal and the individual, including a reading of a sutra from the Recognition Sutra's translated by Christopher Hareesh Wallis.
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.
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.
Get out of your head and into your body: with so much of our world moving online and a natural tendency to get ‘pulled up’ into our thinking, this is a practice to encourage awareness to filter through the whole of our body mind. Start on the floor and sneak into a more dynamic movement exploration whilst cultivating moment to moment awareness.