Practice Resources
Pelvic Floor Breathing in Childs Pose
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Pelvic Floor Breathing
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Free Floating Awareness Practice
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Body Scan Practice
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Breath Awareness Practice
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Pelvic Clock Somatic Lesson
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Movement Snack for Legs and Core
Just a quick chair practice to get your blood pumping and your lower body reved up. Sitting all day isn’t the terrible sin that the media would have us believe. It’s just important to get moving for 5-15 minutes every hour or so. This little practice will do perfectly.
Standing Practice for Stronger Legs
A quick standing practice to fire up your legs. This practice targets the posterior, anti gravity muscles: calves, hamstrings, glutes and also the quads. These muscles are highly correlated with higher metabolism, so this practice is a great way to rev things up during a day of sitting.
Chair Yoga – Anti Gravity Practice
This accessible practice is a blend of Yoga and strength work using a chair. It’s a great practice if you are new to resistance training but has much to offer the seasoned practitioner as well.
Getting to Know Your Back Part Four
If you are a movement geek like me, you will be blown away by the simple complexity of this somatic experience. Prepare to feel stuff you may not have felt in your back before. We will also be touching on one more important back related topic that can’t be ignored. The influence that society and societal norms has on our experience of our back.
Getting to Know Your Back Part Three
In this practice, we will explore another layer of the experience of the back, the Thoraco Lumbar Fascia. I am fascinated by fascia and have spent a great deal of time studying it. But the TLF is special. The fascia in the low back is unique as you will learn in this practice.
Getting to Know Your Back Part Two
Many who have back pain believe that their spine is unstable. There is a distinct feeling of instability and vulnerability in the back that is reinforced by confusing or misleading messages coming from popular culture and even medical professionals.
Getting to Know Your Back Part One
The back is an incredibly complicated structure anatomically, but even more so when you consider other parts of the experience like the the vascular system and the nervous system. But humans are not just walking talking tissues. We are embodied selves with thoughts, feelings, beliefs and predictions. These parts of our experience are EVERY BIT as important to our experience as the tissues themselves, maybe even MORE important.
Chair Yin for Travel Aches and Pains
I’ve chosen the stretches we all crave when we’ve been sitting in a car or airplane, or just during a day of work as well as regulation practices to help you calm your nervous systems to get some perspective or even relief. This practice is a quick and accessible practice that you can do just about anywhere in a chair.
Deep Hip Learning
The hip is more than a collection of tissues. It’s a unique and complicated element of the embodied self. In this practice we combine a somatic lesson with some of your favorite Yin poses. These will facilitate deep learning for you and your hips!
Chair Yoga: Lunges and Twists
This is a perfect practice for your lunch break at home or at the office, or if you have some movement issues that make it hard for you to get to the floor. You’ll get your heart pumping and stretch all the right places.
Gunas Meditation
This is an incredibly valuable practice. It is a wonderful introduction to mindfulness but also enhances interoception. Interoception is the sense of ones body and it has been shown in research to reduce pain intensity in those suffering from chronic pain and augment self compassion.
Sternal Rhythm
This practice focuses on restoring the rhythm between the sternum, neck, jaw and hip. We will utilize some somatic movements to help you attend to the sternum.
Humming Practice for Neck, Shoulders and Face Pain
This is a slightly unusual practice but it is very effective. If you suffer from face, neck or shoulder pain, you likely spend a great deal of time re-adjusting your posture and position to reduce pain. You have likely found that it doesn’t really work. This practice is designed to enhance awareness and provide compelling evidence of safety to your brain and nervous systems.
How to Stretch Your Neck
One really irksome myth is that if your neck is tight, some stretching will help bring relief and over time, this stretching will fix the tightness and the pain it is “causing”. Total horse$%I$. Sorry to all of those influencers who are peddling this myth.
Chair Yin: Your Nervous System and Your Neck
This is a go to, short practice to relieve neck and shoulder tension naturally. The whole practice can be done from a simple chair. You will engage in some somatic work as well as gentle stretching to increase range of motion and reduce feelings of stiffness.
Soothe Upper Back and Neck Tension
To be an adult is to sometimes struggle with upper back and neck tension and even pain. This is my professional opinion. Though this pain/tightness can really disrupt your life, it’s important not to get too tied up about it. This practice is to give you some go to tools for managing this suffering.
Somatic Yin for Neck and Shoulder Pain
This practice really focuses on the sides of the neck. You know, those muscles that get so tender and tight? When the sternocleidomastoid gets cranky, we can often feel sensitive in our shoulders and even the jaw. This is mostly somatic work to learn to feel sensations here without the drama. Though, you will get some gentle stretches as well.
Thoracic Nerve Flossing
This practice puts the other tissues in a supporting role in favor of mobilizing, and gaining awareness of our nerves. Especially the ones that exit the thoracic region of the spine. We will use somatic movement and a bolster to gently mobilize the nerves and soften the experience of the spine.
Save Your Neck
If you suffer from neck pain (everyone raises hand…) this class is for you. Learn more about pain, why stretching isn’t the answer and what actually may help. This class blends Yin and somatic techniques to soothe your nervous system and re-introduce smooth, pain free movement.
Pelvic Clock for the Neck
In this practice I will teach you how to passively relax your neck by manipulating the pelvis. If you need to calm things down and get to good. This is the place to start.
Core Knowledge
Discover how to load your core system the RIGHT way for greater strength and stability.
Pelvic Clock Practice
This 30 minute somatic lesson will help you to experience a range of movements in your pelvis, hips, spine and neck in a supported way.
Befriending the Hip
For this practice we’re using the healing power of awareness in movement: Yin Yoga, to bring radical acceptance and relief to our bodies. I’ll equip you with practical strategies to maximize your relaxation and release built-up tension not just for today, but more and more over time.
Yinversion
We don’t usually think about inversions in Yin. So to introduce them into a mild practice takes a bit of creativity and, in this case a bolster and a strap. The poses will emphasize the hips but our true purpose is to encounter something new, something novel.
The Hip Flexors and the Heart
This is a practice for the anatomy geek. For someone who learns by feeling and experiencing. We will explore the fabled psoas, the primary hip flexor.
Fire Up Your Hips
This is my favorite kind of practice. I’ll coax you gently with delicious somatic stretches and novel movements into a practice that ends up being quite fiery. We will focus the fire on the hips and use a blanket in some fun ways to facilitate mobility (strength + flexibility).
Resistance and Acceptance
While you marinate in juicy poses targeting the hips, we will explore a the duality of resistance and acceptance. You will have an opportunity to discover how these qualities manifest themselves in your tissues, in your poses and indeed in your entire experience of self.
Collective Amoebic Consciousness
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Thoracic Expression
The upper back is an area that can be a big source of tension and even pain. We also have a fair amount of cultural baggage around the appropriate way to hold our upper back. Even in the Yoga world, we tend to favor a stiff and straight upper back above other shapes. But the upper back is capable of so much more, and I believe we suffer when we get locked in to a specific posture or expression.
In this practice, we explore the capacity of the upper back to generate movements, sensations and even emotions. We will use a somatic lesson adapted from Feldenkrais Method® supported by familiar Yin Poses. Your upper back and neck will really benefit from this practice.
Natural Energy
We usually think of Yin as calming, soothing and down regulating. But with a few tweaks, we can cultivate a calm, natural energy as well. Not the jittery wired feeling you get from caffeine but a gentle boost, without the crash.
Relieve Joint Stiffness and Pain in the Morning
There are so many reasons that pain may be worse in the morning, and we can’t cover them all here, but we will address one reason here. I envision you doing this practice in your bed! Just roll over and hit play.
Hip Flexor Relief
We will explore hip flexor pain and stiffness through the lens of somatics, stretching, awareness, neuro motor training and regulation.
This practice is intended to provide quick relief, but also serve as a framework for ongoing care for this issue.
Heartfelt Good Wishes Meditation
A guided, somatic meditation for you to generate some kind and warm feelings toward yourself.
Yin & Meditation: What About Love?
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