I was feeling sluggish when I sat to lead this class, full from dinner and sitting in front of a screen all day so I worked with the breath to enliven and shift my state. Guess what? I feel great and I trust you will too! You’ll explore new ways to work with the breath and activate the beginners mind, full of curiosity and inquiry paired with compassion and gratitude for doing something new. The techniques shared here are ones I use throughout the day in any location- work, home, surrounded by things that I want to shift and change….Yes. I still have those desires AND I know that the only thing I can change is me. This practice does just that, it shifted my state. We have the ability and capacity to do this. Are you willing? If so, I’ll meet you here. Let’s go!

*This practice is enlivening, grounding, stabilizing and expanding all at the same time.

Reset, cleanse and remove cellular memories that impede, holding us back in this ever repeating known. Make and hold an inner commitment to yourself to reset the mind and body. Let us use the patterns that are here towards our elevation, growth and expansion. Move the cells from place of stagnancy to awakened, from dense to light.

*This practice is activating and strong. It works with the navel center. There is pumping of the navel center, work with the akasha mudra and movements of the arms paired with strong breaths.

**One of the techniques I name as Prana Shakti 3 and it is Prana Shakti 2.

This practice explores activating and calming, elevating and grounding, teaching the nervous system to be with the natural fluctuations that come from living. We all have choices on how we respond to the peaks and valleys of life. Bring yourself to center, into alignment, access this inner space so you can be with the intensity of life.

*This practice has pumping of the navel center, strong breathing and internal and external breath retentions (holds). We are really working with the manipura chakra, the seat of will, volition, steadfastness, the place of our inner fire.

This practice was recorded when the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn were together in the night sky. In the beginning I speak to these planets, the relevance their gaze has on us through the lens of Jyotish. This practice invites us to bring the light in and access the insight within.

*This practice uses a technique where we hold the breath in after the inhalation and hold the breath out after the exhalation. We also explore matching the breath with movements of the arms as we lift them up and bring them down, open them and close them.

When we drop out of the stories of the mind into the silent space, the space of love, grace, compassion. The space at the heart center. May we continue to be guided by our inner voice that flows through this space. This voice that is always here, when we drop out of the mind and into the heart.
*This practice is activating and enlivening. It involves pumping of the navel, kriyas that increase the heart rate and movement of the arms.
-You can access Desert Dwellers’ Union (Groove Mix) to accompany this practice.

This is a slower practice with more coaching and guidance through each technique. We bring our attention to the Chakras, energy wheels within the body.

*This practice uses mudras. There is also a circular breath and you are invited to support your body if you need to by placing your hands on the floor in front of you. It is a slower, subtler practice that brings us to expansion and stability.

What do we have a tight grip on, what are we holding on to, what is holding on to us? Let us bring our focus and attention on this which wants to move, allowing it to move and offering it back to cultivate newness. This practice was recorded on a Full Moon in Capricorn, inviting us to bring light to the darkness, opening up space for that which we are calling towards us.

*This practice includes pumping of the navel center and activating the inner fire. Also included here is a mantra based practice paired with an internal and external breath retention or hold. While gazing up at your third eye center, the space between your eyebrows holding the breath in we chant Om Namah Shivaya, while placing our chin down, towards the neck holding the breath out, we chant Sri Shakti Namaha.

Access this place of expansion, ease and effortlessness, this silent space within. When you remember who you are, that is when and where life meets you, exactly as it is meant to be.
*This practice invites us to work with internal and external retentions, holds of the breath. There is also navel pumping.
-You can access Mt. Wolf’s Tucana to accompany this practice.

Access your inner light, the light within and spread this light. Share this light out into the world to a space, place or being who could benefit from receiving some extra light!
*This practice includes a technique that expands and restricts the chest and places pressure on lymph nodes under the armpits. It is not suitable nor recommended for anyone who has recently had chest or breast surgery.
-You can access Henrick Lindstrand’s Dungen to accompany this practice.