This class aired live on 7-9-21

Summer Day

Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver

Join us for our 60 minute full body asana practice exploring the concepts of summers past- stillness, and reflecting on idleness in the surroundings of our adult ...

This class aired live on 7-2-21.

Working with HRV (Heart Rate Variability)

We might think of our heart as a metronome, steadily beating at the same pace. But actually our heart rate is capable of being varied- the pace picks up on our inhalation, and slows on our exhalation. This difference is...

This class aired live on 6-25-21.

Strengthening Bone

Our incredible bones grow and get strong depending on how we apply forces across them.

Through specific movements and alignment, we can work to slowly adapt and change the shape and strength of our bone tissue.
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This class aired live on 6-18-21

Finding Fluidity

In our bodies, as we age, we lose precious water. How do we balance this loss of hydration at our fascia? Our discs? How do we nourish the flow of fluid within our bodies and find fluidity in our physical expressions?

Join us for this full b...

This class was live on 6-11-21

Balancing Vata

In aryuvedic medicine, it is believed there are three primary doshas- types: kapaha, pitta, and vata.

The doshas are considered to be responsible for a person’s physiological, mental and emotional health.

It is believed we can work to enhance ou...

This class was taught live on 5-21-21

Breath Focus
Focusing on the breath is such a wonderful tool to work with your body. In addition to bringing you into the present moment, focusing on the breath also offers up a window into how your nervous system is functioning.

Join us for this one hour f...

This class was taught live on 5-28-21

Noticing What Is:

“As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy are:
‘Notice that’ and ‘What happens next’
Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than fear, everything shifts”
- Bessel van der Kolk, MD

J...

This class was taught live on 5-7-21

Supple Mid back, Stable hips

We have places in our body where we tend to move from and places that tend to hold us still.

As I have written before, the area surrounding our mid back is perhaps the stiffest area in many of our musculoskeletal bodies.
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This class was taught live on 4-30-21

Soft Animal of Your Body

One of my favorite poems is “Wild Geese” by May Oliver. I particularly love the opening line of the poem, which goes:

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees,
For a hundred miles through the desert, repen...

This class was taught live on 4-23-21

Stabilize Your Shoulders

Of all the joints within our body, our shoulders have the most mobility. Think about all of the reaching and lifting you do with your shoulder joints throughout the day.

Join us for this one hour full body yoga asana practice focus...

This class was taught live on 4-16-21

Move and Stabilize: Neck and Mid Back

A critical part of learning to care for and work with our spines, is learning how to control the forces we subject them to. Gravity, long hours at a desk, even the wonderful exercise we do can challenge the integrity of...

This class was taught live on 4-9-21

Caring For Your Spine

A critical part of learning to care for and work with our spines, is learning how to control the forces we subject them to. Gravity, long hours at a desk, even the wonderful exercise we do can challenge the integrity of our spines.

Joi...

This class was taught live on 4-2-21

Helping Out Your Hips

The hips are large ball and socket joints. They are deeply seated in our pelvis. In order to keep the hips (and our spines) healthy, we need to work both mobility and strength through our available motion. We especially need strength on...

This class was taught live on 3-26-21

Nourish Your Knees

Working with the knees is a practice in holistic thinking. When we work with knees, we must work up and down our movement chain- at both the ankles and hips.

Join us for this one hour full body yoga asana practice focused on working knee...

This class was taught live on 3-19-21

Lively Up Your Feet

Our poor feet- so heavily used and yet what do we give back to support them?

Working with mobility and motor control can greatly improve the function of our feet- which has a bearing on our posture and our walking.
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This class was taught live on 3-12-21

Awakening Your Back Body

So much attention is paid to creating strength on the front of our bodies. Yet, the musculature that supports our posterior side, is arguably the most important to our upright posture and balance.
Join us for this one hour full bod...

This class was taught live on 2-26-21

Adding Mindfulness

When we arrive on our mat, we bring with us our lives. Our worries, our joys, our hopes, our fears, our anger toward the person who cut us off that morning. All of these swirl together and create our present moment experience.

When we ad...

This class was taught live on 3-5-21

Self Compassion Practice

“Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means 'to suffer with,' which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience...

This class was taught live on 2-12-21

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."-Rumi

Back in 2004 I was swirling from one thing to the next. I was well into the second year of my DPT program, and mid way through a clinical at an inpatient neuro rehab. The moment my rotation ende...

This class was taught live on 2-19-21

Tuning In To the Breath

I start each morning with a period of 10-30 minutes of quiet meditation and breathing. And then the day gets going, and it is as though my internal pacing gets faster and faster. I often look at the speed through which I can move th...

This class was taught live on 2-5-21

Lately, I have been noticing a need for more gentleness in my own physical practices and perspectives. I have been having conversations with several friends who suffer injuries from pushing aggressively, and I see this tendency to push in myself.

Finding rig...

This class was taught live on 1-22-21

Our necks sacrifice stability to give us our big, beautiful mobility. Our necks move in order to help orient our eyes and heads to see where we are going in the world. Caring for our necks requires stabilization of the supple structures around the neck verte...

This class was taught live on 1-8-21

“Enlightenment, peace and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, and if we dig deeply in the present moment, the water will spring forth. We must go back to the present moment in order to really be alive.”-Thich Nhat Hahn

At the beg...