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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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.
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Nichole Golden
Take a break during the holiday season to connect to yourself, ground down, and stay peaceful. Flow through heart openers, deep lunges, and hip openers, leading to camel pose and closing with kneeling twists.
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Steph Schwartz
Facing your big dreams and goals can sometimes feel overwhelming. This practice is designed to help you connect with the endurance of your spirit and courage of your heart. Begin with a chant to Ganesha, believed to be the remover of obstacles, before moving through a heart, shoulder, and hip opening standing sequence leading to a bound pigeon variation.
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Tiffany Bush
Explore the possibilities of camel pose through this active, continuous movement practice of mindful backbends. Flow through a well-rounded practice including lunges, spinal movements, and back body strengtheners for the back, glutes, and hamstrings to culminate in backbend variations.
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Nico Luce
Release tension, restore mental balance, and become more grounded with this short pranayama (breathwork) practice. Explore three accessible breathing techniques: ujayi (victorious) breath seated on your shins, nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) in sukhasana (easy seat), and three-part breath in supta baddha konasana (reclined bound angle pose).
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Tiffany Bush
Relax and unwind from your day with a slow, fluid practice to prepare for sleep. Move gently through grounded postures for the hips and spine with influences of vinyasa breath-to-movement within the shapes.
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Tiffany Bush
Stretch the muscles around the low back while also strengthening the core and lengthening the hamstrings. Enjoy moving slowly and gently to help create a happy low back.
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Tiffany Bush
Stand in your power with strong balancing poses! Prepare the body with fluid core strengthening, grounding, and twists to build up to standing revolved hand to foot pose (parivrtta hasta padangusthasana). This heat-building class is a full-body practice with emphasis on the spine and hamstrings.
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Tiffany Bush
Open your shoulders and chest to invite kind heartedness to your world. Begin seated, then move to kneeling shoulder openers, through spine strengtheners, lunges and twists, before closing with a couple of heart opening poses and an option for savasana.
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Nichole Golden
Deep stretching for runners to soothe the impact on knees joints and shin bones. Begin standing with stretches for shins and hamstrings, then move through poses for the IT band and quads before sitting for a moment of relaxation.
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Nico Luce
Backbends ultimately teach us to move forward in life with an open attitude. Work into a variety of squatting, lunging, and twisting postures to build strength in your legs and core in preparation for backbending. Travel to your mat for belly down spine strengthening and a playful exploration of one-legged down dog variations then close out your practice with an expansive heart opener in camel pose.