Tag: yoga
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Finding Your Flow at Home — A Letter to My Online Students
The goal isn’t to create a perfectly peaceful yoga studio in your home. The goal is simply to make enough space for your body, your breath and a little time that belongs to you. With that in mind, here are a few small ideas that might make your online practice feel even more enjoyable.
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July Theme — Ayurveda & Working with the Elements
This month focuses on finding balance while adapting to a new life in Portugal and navigating the challenges of summer heat. By exploring Ayurvedic principles, the goal is to harmonize the Pitta energy of transformation and the Vata energy of movement, fostering clarity and creativity while promoting restorative practices during summer.
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June Theme — Abundance & Joy
Nature offers abundance on all fronts and participates in it without restraint or apology. Yoga helps me remember that I am part of that same living process. Again and again, it invites me to meet life with a little more openness, appreciation, and joy.
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May Theme —The Kleshas Rāga & Dveṣa, on and off the mat
In yoga philosophy, these are known as rāga (attachment) and dveṣa (aversion). They’re two of the five kleshas, or afflictions, outlined in Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras (2.3)—the patterns of mind that create friction, restlessness, and ultimately, suffering.
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April Theme — Open & Uplift ~ Finding Space in the Upper Back
What the upper back actually needs is a bit more nuanced and requires movement in all directions, especially rotation. It needs strength in the muscles that support the shoulder blades so the chest can open without collapsing. And it needs breath, not just into the front of the body, but into the back ribs, into…
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March Theme — Reset for the Pelvic Floor, Deep Core, and Hips
It’s natural to turn inwards during the darker part of the year, and sometimes that holding and coiling is not easily released. So it feels appropriate that this month we bring our attention to the deepest centre of the body: the pelvic floor, the deep core, and the hips. We can think of it as…
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February Theme —Grounded in Motion
This month, I’m asking you to listen more closely to where movement begins, how effort flows, and what happens when you trust rather than force. Expect very flowy flows, with lots of little ‘enhancements’ that ask the body to adapt in ways we might not be used to ;)
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January Theme — Heart Over Head
Our theme for this month is inversions. I want to explore them as a practice in perspective, uncertainty, and trust.
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December Theme – The Discipline of Moving Slowly
This month, our theme is The Discipline of Moving Slowly. We are going to work with Tapas, one of the five Niyamas in yoga philosophy, which involves cultivating an “inner fire” through perseverance, focus, and commitment.
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November Theme — Expanding Through the Side Body
Anyone who practices with me regularly knows I have a soft spot for the lateral plane of movement — think all those delightful side stretches that feel like you’re creating space where there wasn’t any before.
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