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This expressive yoga sequence explores grounding, strength, fluidity, and balance.

https://youtu.be/erf8CuIf2l0 Standing with legs shoulder width apart, root down with your feet, feel the ground supporting you underneath your feet. Activate your leg muscles as you rise up through your spine, relaxing your shoulders, bringing your shoulder blades together, feeling open in your chest.  From mountain, inhale as you float right leg up while hingingContinueContinue reading “This expressive yoga sequence explores grounding, strength, fluidity, and balance.”

Improve your balance by developing strength, mobility, and flexibility.

Here are some images of me balancing on a see-saw with balancing poses! Notice how balancing in the Warrior 3 yoga pose requires flexibility in your quads, hamstrings, spine, and hips; mobility in your hips and shoulders; and strength in your feet, ankles, legs, back, and hips! If you want to develop your sense ofContinueContinue reading “Improve your balance by developing strength, mobility, and flexibility.”

An evolving personal yoga practice

It’s been 8 months since I made that video of my personal yoga practice, and to be completely transparent, my yoga practice is much more grounded now in daily movement and extended yoga practice several times per week. While I respect and admire traditional yoga lineages (I was actually trained in a post-lineage, post-guru way at Octopus Garden/Studio Be) and strive to continue to teach yoga with respect to the traditions that came before, I’m also open to discovering holistic integrative movement that includes yoga.

Alternate Nostril Breathing balances your nervous system.

I made a short video teaching nadi shodhana, or alternate nostril breathing, which balances both parts of the nervous system–the parasympathetic, which is associated with the rest-and-digest part of your nervous system, and the autonomic, which connects to the infamous fight-flight-freeze response. If you try this breathing technique, let me know how it felt inContinueContinue reading “Alternate Nostril Breathing balances your nervous system.”