In part three of this series of 30 minute practices, you will guided through a four part breathing exercise, joint freeing movements and mindfulness meditation to transform your body and mind’s response to stress, leaving you with more steadiness and ease to continue through your day, or a good night’s sleep. Yoga relieves stress by stimulating a relaxation response in the nervous system, therein lowering your heart rate and blood pressure, calming and focusing the mind, and reducing feelings of anxiety.

Journal

Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.

These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.

November 16, 2020

Yoga for Stress Relief • Part Three

In part three of this series of 30 minute practices, you will guided through a four part breathing exercise, joint freeing movements and mindfulness meditation to […]
November 14, 2020

Restorative Yoga with Sound Healing

A beautiful pairing of gentle, yet powerful practices, the class will intersperse sound healing with restorative postures. The vibrations of sound healing bring inner harmony, balance […]
November 5, 2020

Lust to Move Flow

Who doesn’t lust to move? In this practice we weave through a smooth thread of movement twice, building upon our foundation and adding playful elements. Always […]
November 3, 2020

Yoga for Stress Relief • Part Two

In part two of this series of 30 minute practices, you will guided through breathing exercises, gentle hip openers and present and listening meditation to transform […]
November 3, 2020

Yoga for Stress Relief • Part One

In part one of this series of 30 minute practices, you will guided through breathing exercises, gentle yoga postures and mindfulness meditation to transform your body […]
October 11, 2020

Whole Body Yoga Practice • Part 6 • Strong Back, Open Heart

In this class you will build a stable back body, to help you meet life in your full capacity, with a clear mind and open heart. […]
October 10, 2020

Steady Moves Flow Yoga

In this short and sweet flow practice invites you will awaken your body to movement with the steady pulse of the breath. Stretch, fold, bend, twist, […]
October 1, 2020

Foundational Flow #3 • Working to Headstand

Set a strong foundation and prepare your body and mind to practice headstand, sirsana pose. Working with movement and flow, you will open your shoulders, tone […]
September 30, 2020

Whole Body Yoga Practice • Part 5 • Focus On Forward Folds

Folding forward brings heightened attunement to inner sensation, feeling the body, the breath, our state of mind and heart. It also expands and releases tension in […]
September 10, 2020

Yoga for Digestive Health

The link from your digestive system to the health of the rest of your body and mind in a strong one. Support your gut (and whole […]
August 9, 2020

Therapeutic Yoga for the Spine, Hips and Shoulders

In this short and sweet yoga class, mobilize your hips, spine and shoulders, moving gently and rhythmically to the pulse of your deep breath.
August 9, 2020

Firefly Core Flow Yoga

In this flow practice we move from our core, stoking our inner fire through movement and rhythmic breathing. One warmed up, we work towards an arm […]
August 6, 2020

Dynamic Quick Flow for the Shoulders

Your shoulders, the most mobile joints in your body, but those long days in front of a computer tapping away can leave your shoulders feeling anything […]
July 31, 2020

Whole Body Yoga Practice • Part 4 • Hip Openers

This practice meets your whole body, with a special focus on opening the tightness in your hips. When our hips are stable and open, we can […]
July 27, 2020

Foundational Flow #2 • Steady Rhythms

Open your hips, stretch out tightness held in your chest and between your ribs, warm your body from the core out to your skin, breath deeper […]
July 23, 2020

Foundational Flow #1 • Flex and Extend

In this series, we will weave postures through rhythmic movements and mindful postures; grounding our experience in the body, and circulating energy from the power of […]
July 23, 2020

Mindfulness Meditation #41 • Make Nothing of These Thoughts

Thoughts are like threads, coming into consciousness as if they are discreet “things”. Our mind seeks to weave them together, to make sense of our experience, […]
July 23, 2020

Bend and Balance Flow

Move with powerful grace towards Lord of Dance Pose, natarajasana, a posture that stirs latent energy in a culmination of refinement and balance.
July 10, 2020

Movement Therapy

We move continuously, our breath keeps it that way. Even when sleeping we move, some of us more than others…Karen :D . In this class you […]
July 7, 2020

Breathe in the Support • All Levels Yoga

Breathing, simple right? Well, maybe, but perhaps there’s more intelligence you can bring to your practice by revisiting the fundamentals of this process. Move slowly and […]
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