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.

This two technique practice invites us to acknowledge all that came before and all that will come after and allow ourselves to commit to the here and now, connecting with our breath. Celebrating the moment, the present moment in which we are in, showing up for ourselves. How do we show up for ourselves while being aware of what surrounds us.This is a shorter practice, one that you may want to take on as a commitment, doing this practice daily for 21, 27, 30 or 45 days.

*This practice works to warm up the spine, filling up the body with breath and exhaling it all out. It also works with both an inner and external retention of breath. This practice is grounding, opening, stabilizing, calming and working with the retentions, it increases the capacity of the breath, expanding the gap between the breaths.

This practice has the song Iris by Roger Eno and Brian Eno in the background.

Turn inwards to access your own inner light. Following gentle spinal movements paired with the breath, we move towards stabilizing the breath while building a little inner heat. We use our breath paired with this inner light to allow the light to access all parts of our inner being before radiating, spreading and sharing it out. Bringing light into our lives, the lives of others and places all around the world.

*This practice is calming, centering, stabilizing while accessing subtle uplifting and energizing state. This last technique in this set is suitable to do laying down, which gives insight into the grace of this practice.

Remove the stuff that is in the way of your inner stillness and ease. This practice involves more coaching and guidance through the techniques. It starts slow, picks up pace as it moves and ends with a calming, stabilizing practice to access inner stillness. This is a shorter practice, one that you may want to take on as a commitment, doing this practice daily for 21, 27, 30 or 45 days.

*This practice uses a moving inner gaze along with a mantra. The mantras practices are Om Namah Shivaya, with the breath held in, when inner gaze is at the 3rd eye center, Agya Chakra and Shri Shakti Namaha, with the breath held out when inner gaze is at the heart, Anahata Chakra.

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 gratitude for all of the steps that have led you here, all of the moments that you have encountered that bring you here, to this current moment.
*This practice has some activation and then it becomes stabilizing and grounding. You may want to stay in the space to integrate and absorb after the practice.
-You can access Aphex Twin’s aisatsana [102] to accompany this practice