Sally Kempton

Sally Kempton

Sally Kempton is a powerful teacher of applied spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. She teaches teleclasses, retreats, and workshops, appearing at conference centers such as Esalen and Kripalu. Sally is the author of ‘Meditation for the Love of It’, which Spirituality and Health magazine called ‘the meditation book your heart wants you to read.’ She writes a regular column, ‘Wisdom’ for Yoga Journal, as well as a column called ‘Meditation for Life’ on the Internet religious site Patheos.com.

A former swami in a Vedic tradition, Sally’s teachings combine deep knowledge of the texts of yoga and tantra with practical wisdom from contemporary psychology and integral thought.

Sally’s latest book, Awakening Shakti, gives you access to powerful tools for tuning in to the transformative power of the sacred feminine.

Discover more about Sally: https://www.sallykempton.com/.

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Steph Schwartz
Invite strength and courage with a strong mudra (hand gesture), the mantra "I am strong and confident," and grounded standing poses to encourage physical and mental strength.
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Uma Ashleigh Sergeant
A sequence of organic movements by first awakening the back side of the body and then migrate to the front. Release any residual sleep stagnation with gentle shapes and variations of familiar poses. Begin with poses close to the ground before standing up for rooted shapes, then move into bridge and urdhva dhanurasana (upward-facing bow).
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Rodney Yee
A restful practice of long-held postures to help unwind and release tension in support of the immune system. Options to use lots of props, which can be substituted for blankets, pillows, or whatever you have around the house. Drop in, release, and restore.
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Tiffany Bush
Balance means something different from day to day. Today, focus on finding your center through a variety of balancing poses on your hands, forearms, and feet as your foundation. Jump right into the practice with hip openers, forearm planks, standing poses, and one-legged balancing poses.
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Steph Schwartz
Yoga helps us become better friends with ourselves with awareness, kindness, and gratitude. Detox physically and emotionally in this dance between breath and body, and infuse the practice with a personal gratitude mantra. Begin with a mudra (hand gesture) and the mantra “yam” for the heart chakra (energy center), then move into a well-rounded flow full of twists and backbends.
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Tiffany Bush
A practice for climbers to support recovery and preparation for climbing. Flow through seated and kneeling for movements to strengthen and stretch the forearms, wrists, hands, and fingers.
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Uma Ashleigh Sergeant
Play with new ways to move within familiar poses. Break down new ways of movement at the beginning of the practice, then integrate the movements into a fluid practice to break free from habit within your practice to challenge your mind and body.
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Dayna Seraye
An invigorating standing practice to tap into the cleansing and clearing power of the goddess Kali. This is a great go-to sequence for when you’re feeling stuck or heavy, to help bring you back to lightness in body, mind, and emotions. Begin and end with an OM, flow through kriya-inspired movements, and ground into your power with strong standing poses.
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Jafar Alexander
Utilize twists to look through new eyes while creating a perspective of wholeness. Experience the whole body as a unit rather than separate pieces through grounded, long-held poses including variations of sleeping deer, swan, sphinx, and dragon.
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Steph Schwartz
Welcome the new year with new beginnings. Use Ganesha mudra (hand gesture) to establish your intention and flow into an open heart. Explore movements for hips, hamstrings, and spine, culminating in a version of camel pose.
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Dayna Seraye
Clear your energy and emotions from negativity with this creative practice to resource yourself in joy and well being. Move stuck energy with pranayam (breath) practices, mudras for sat chit ananda (truth, pure consciousness, bliss), and grounded heart openers and twists.
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Jafar Alexander
Build awareness with the various movements of the spine. A short and sweet pause to reset ourselves as we transition through life.
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Nico Luce
For yoga teachers, learn the step-by-step biomechanics to teach and practice wild thing, a fun and empowering backbend. Warm-up your body through shoulder integration, an invigorating flow of sun salutations, larger one-legged balancing poses, and a warrior-based flow to find added strength and stability.
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Tiffany Bush
Greet the energy of a busy day with powerful standing poses and slowly move the body and mind down to settle in for the evening.
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Steph Schwartz
The winter solstice is a time for renewal, radical self-care, and regeneration. Learn to flow through transitions with ease through twists, backbends, lunges, and hip openers with intention and breath.
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Nichole Golden
Designed with skiers in mind, this mellow sequence with emphasis to hips and outer leg line is a great compliment to end a day on the mountain. Begin lying down for a restorative hip opener and reclined stretch for the back and sides of the legs, then move into pigeon pose and a lunge to stretch into the front of the legs.
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Steph Schwartz
For yoga teachers, a shoulder reset practice to strengthen and stabilize the shoulders (for all those demonstrations you didn’t warm up for), and stretch around the shoulders and neck to release held tension. Explore variations of plank, down dog, dolphin, and seated shoulder stretches.
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Uma Ashleigh Sergeant
This practice is designed to meet vata energy and take you down to a deep sense of calm and stability. Vata, the air and ether energy, imbalances to feelings of ungroundedness, anxious energy, excess movement, and agitation in the body. Move with steady, strong mindfulness in this slow ojas- (vital life force) building sequence full of lunges, twists, and balancing poses.