FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
10:00-11:00 AM ET
Easing Back
For many of us, the lower back tends to "act up" during times of change and transition. As we come back home to our core, we'll focus on activating the parts of the body that tone and support stability, helping to establish a balanced alignment needed to relieve excess tension in the low back. We'll explore the foundational psoas, tone the core, open the hips, and create space in the low back.
STRONG BACK, SOFT FRONT, WILD HEART
PRACTICES FOR TRANSITION & CHANGE
FULL SERIES
FRIDAYS AT 10:00-10:45AM ET
SEPTEMBER 15-OCTOBER 27
8 total practices
6 live & recorded slow flow classes (45 minutes)
1 BRAND NEW on-demand yoga nidra (1 hour)
BONUS! 1 on-demand mini-retreat (90 minutes)
Recordings available through Thursday, November 2
$125 OR INCLUDED IN MEMBERSHIP
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ABOUT THE SERIES
The transition from summer’s expansion into autumn offers us the opportunity to return to our center—to balance strength and openness and power and grace. With a centered, stable core, we can grow stronger and more at ease in our bodies, clear and calm in our minds, and open and present in our hearts.
This series is designed to help you optimize your time on the mat. Each 45-minute practice will weave together breathing practices, mindful meditation awareness, and movement to help you balance, strengthen, and open your entire core.
Through core, hip, and spine strengtheners, we’ll cultivate the capacity to return to ourselves. Rooted and grounded, we’ll set the intention to flow along with change; and open into the present moments transition.
As we come home to our center, we'll have more resources to journey through transition and change that the autumn brings. Each class in this series will build upon the previous practice, inviting us to return deeper into our bodies, and a sense of belonging, at home, here now.
Plus, pair each practice with my FREE Friday Deep Listening Meditations at 9:30am ET.
FULL SERIES SCHEDULE
Friday, September 15 at 10:00-10:45am EDT: Back to Earth — Supple Psoas
Friday, September 22 at 10:00-10:45am EDT: Autumn Equinox
(PRE-RECORDED ON DEMAND DROP) Saturday, September 23: Grounding in Groundless Times Mini-Retreat
Friday, September 29 at 10:00-10:45am EDT: Back to Center
Friday, October 6 at 10:00-10:45am EDT: Easing Back
(BRAND NEW ON DEMAND DROP) Friday, October 13: Falling into Support: Taking Refuge In Constructive Rest
Friday, October 20 at 10:00-10:45am EDT: Fill Back Up
Friday, October 27 at 10:00-10:45am EDT: Back Together Again, and Again
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Back to Earth — Supple Psoas
A constricted psoas is known as the “stress muscle,” contributing to feeling irritable, restrictive breathing, and an underlying cause of pain in the low back, hips, and even digestive system. However, when the psoas is in a more responsive and malleable state, this same muscle can leave us feeling grounded and centered as well as buoyant and spacious. This is our starting point. We'll use the principles of this class to help us progress through all of our other practices.
Autumn Equinox
Join us to welcome the first day of autumn and walk through the doorway from the expansiveness of summer and into our most transitional and transformational season. With the acceleration of change on the horizon, it is an essential time to ground—to come back to center—and the perfect opportunity to draw in, retreat, reflect, and reconnect. We'll flow through a mindful series of balancing poses and then release deeply in yin and restorative poses to bring us home to our own center while creating a deeper sense of support as the winds of change blow through. Be sure to couple this with our Autumn Equinox Meditation!
Autumn Equinox Mini-Retreat — Grounding in Groundless Times (Previously Recorded On Demand Class)
In this 90 minute practice, we’ll weave together a slow mindful flow, yin yoga poses, and deeply rejuvenating restoratives that will bring us home to feel held in our own inner center, creating a deeper sense of support as the winds of change blow through.
Back to Center
This practice is all about consciously returning to a deeper connection at your core center. We'll alternate activity with receptivity—engaging strength and releasing tension—as we work into our deeply supportive muscles of the entire core. As we enhance our awareness to our own center and relate to the support around us (the earth and our breath) we can expand our sense of comfort and ease in our bodies and our lives.
Easing Back
For many of us, the lower back tends to "act up" during times of change and transition. As we come back home to our core, we'll focus on activating the parts of the body that tone and support stability, helping to establish a balanced alignment needed to relieve excess tension in the low back. We'll explore the foundational psoas, tone the core, open the hips, and create space in the low back.
Falling Into Support: Taking Refuge In Constructive Rest (NEW On Demand Class)
In this deeply restorative practice, we'll release tension through a short gentle supine warm-up movement and then settle into an extended variation on Constructive Rest, which is a position that comes from the Alexander Technique. This variation may be more comfortable, and less straining, for some of us than Savasana. Some of us may just prefer it on some days. After all, it offers us the rest and reset we are looking for, as it positions us in such a way that passively lengthens and relaxes the psoas muscles, as well as releases tension through the back, neck, and head.
Fill Back Up
As we grow more centered, we will release deeper tension, create a dynamic relationship to stability and fluidity, and replenish energy reserves. We'll explore a foundational psoas series with extra twists and side leans to expand our breath and replenish our energy finishing with a deeply nourishing restoratives.
Remembering: Coming Back Together Again, and again.
Breathe and center yourself at the core to welcome mental and emotional stability as well. Getting grounded isn't so much about controlling things, or keeping things the same. Rather, we are learning to remember ourselves. To find our own center, to return to ourselves—again and again—in our "groundless" and ever changing times. This heart-centered compassionate practice will explore our foundational psoas series with an extra focus on lovingly opening the chest, shoulders, and neck.