Guru Mantra: This mantra calls us into recognition of the teacher in every circumstance, within all and within ourselves. I learnt this beautiful melody from Stephanie Snyder.
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.
Replenish: A restorative practice to replenish your energies fill your cup, and to settle agitation or soothe fatigue. Use a bolster or a couple of pillows to gently compress & support the front body to offer your system utter nurturance.
Replenish: A restorative practice to replenish your energies fill your cup, and to settle agitation or soothe fatigue. Use a bolster or a couple of pillows to gently compress & support the front body to offer your system utter nurturance.
Get started with your harmonium: You just got your harmonium and you are not sure where to start? Here is a basic introduction to some of the functionality of your harmonium and how to create a basic drone so you can start chanting straight away :)
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.
Easy Harmonium Jai Ma Mantra: A good one to start your harmonium journey with! An absolutely beautiful mantra with very simple harmonium. Calling to Ma, the Devine mother, the goddess that is awareness itself, and the ground of being in which every possibility exists. This is an adaptation of Nicky Slade’s beautiful Jai Ma mantra.
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.
Tiny & Vast 2: A follow on from Tiny & Vast, sharing a short and sweet poem that speaks to the relationship between the individual and the universal.
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.
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.