Fill your cup: A meditation to truly replenish and receive. Bathe in source itself and allow all of the normally outpouring energy turn in and fill your cup to the brim. Close by purposefully bridging the awareness you have cultivated in your practice into your day. Includes a short chat on meditation at the end. My go to meditation for rest and nourishment.
Suspended Spine: Some of the questions we explore in this practice as we move through a varied, playful flow: What keeps my spine suspended and full of life? What early patterns of movement support freedom in back bending as an adult? How does the pattern of condensing and expanding manifest as our capacity to turn in and gather energy in order to find clarity in outward action? What are the role of our feet in extending our spine? Options to play with varied paces of motion, inversions and backbend variations with a long rest and some sound to finish.
When you’re not sure if you need to move or chill: A stretchy relaxing flow that starts with a floor sequence and sneaks you into some standing movement to invigorate and get the blood moving before settling into a brief meditation at the end to anchor into the dynamic and alive nature of stillness.
Front body support in backbends: How does the front of our body support spinal extension? Explore the relationship between the spine and the soft central axis of the gut tube, and the fascinating role that the hyoid bone plays in cultivating a subtle but powerful support from the front of the body during extension. Also explore how lungs and heart are moved and move you as you practice, starting slowly and unfolding into a fluid sequence of various scenarios for active extension, revolved half moon, and options for forearm balance variations.
Front body support in backbends: How does the front of our body support spinal extension? Explore the relationship between the spine and the soft central axis of the gut tube, and the fascinating role that the hyoid bone plays in cultivating a subtle but powerful support from the front of the body during extension. Also explore how lungs and heart are moved and move you as you practice, starting slowly and unfolding into a fluid sequence of various scenarios for active extension, revolved half moon, and options for forearm balance variations.
Short, sweet, mellow flow: Practice 25 minutes of self nurturance in this mainly floor based flow with a focus on hip and side body release, spinal twist explorations, and a little meditation at the end.
Lung Exploration: A mellow practice to find and move from our lungs. Starts with some sound and breath work and continues into a yummy flow finding the support of these billowy structures in backbends. Opportunities to play with forearm balance variations (or not!) and an invitation to go off piste and continue into your own explorations and self practice near the end should you want to.
Lung Exploration: A mellow practice to find and move from our lungs. Starts with some sound and breath work and continues into a yummy flow finding the support of these billowy structures in backbends. Opportunities to play with forearm balance variations (or not!) and an invitation to go off piste and continue into your own explorations and self practice near the end should you want to.
Time to rest: Rest into the medicine of stillness as we move through postures that support relaxation into quiet, and gently revitalise from the inside out. We will work with awareness cultivation as a way to navigate the sometimes challenging mental aspect of stillness practices. We will use two blankets, a bolster (or a couple of pillows) and a chair.
Time to rest: Rest into the medicine of stillness as we move through postures that support relaxation into quiet, and gently revitalise from the inside out. We will work with awareness cultivation as a way to navigate the sometimes challenging mental aspect of stillness practices. We will use two blankets, a bolster (or a couple of pillows) and a chair.
Innate Wisdom: Inquiring into our innate wisdom drives, intuitive and creative recovery, our relationship to the whole and how over valuing our ‘head intelligence’ can override the intelligence of our bodies. The wonderful podcast I mention is Pain Removed, Performance Improved by Joanne Avison. The book I recommend is Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd.
Innate Wisdom: Inquiring into our innate wisdom drives, intuitive and creative recovery, our relationship to the whole and how over valuing our ‘head intelligence’ can override the intelligence of our bodies. The wonderful podcast I mention is Pain Removed, Performance Improved by Joanne Avison. The book I recommend is Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd.
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.
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.
