Sally Kempton
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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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Nichole Golden
Holiday Hiatus
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.
Steph Schwartz
Climb That Mountain
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.
Tiffany Bush
Keys to an Open Heart
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.
Nico Luce
Give Breath a Chance
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).
Tiffany Bush
Wind Down the Day
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.
Tiffany Bush
Happy Low Back Flow
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.
Tiffany Bush
Keys to Balance
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.
Tiffany Bush
Happy Shoulders, Happy Heart
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.
Nichole Golden
Runner's Relaxation for Knees and Shins
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.
Nico Luce
Just Say Yes
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.
Jafar Alexander
Listen to the Hips
A practice of gratitude that offers a step-by-step exploration into the relationship with our hips to appreciate all they offer us. Begin with variations of legs up the wall then move to the ground for frog, swan, dragon, and square pose.
Uma Ashleigh Sergeant
A Tender Tonic
A slow, supportive practice for when you’re feeling tender and need a few moments for self-care. Find your way back to your empowered, heart-centered space and step back into the world feeling nourished with seated spinal movements and a moving twist from lying on your side.
Nico Luce
Land In Your Body
Long travel days often involve hours of sitting still. Work through shoulder and hip openers and a short standing series of poses to decompress and find ease in your body.
Steph Schwartz
A Lifted Heart Practice for Gratitude
Lift from the heart to connect with gratitude while releasing stuck patterns. Begin seated, move into supine movements, then come up to standing variations of binds and hip-openers.
Uma Ashleigh Sergeant
Quick Hips for Cyclists
A practice for cyclists to quickly and effectively release the quads and hip flexors including the psoas, a deep hip flexor. Find options for lunges, a twist, and a restorative supported bridge with a block. Practice before or after your ride!
Gina Caputo
Lower Body Recovery
Did you go hard with the weights? Bravo! Now use this lower body sequence to support your recovery and range of motion. Explore all four major muscle groups of your legs — quads and hip flexors, hamstrings, glutes, and adductors (inner leg) for a well-rounded stretch!
Nichole Golden
The Great Balancing Act
Enliven your practice as you flow through a spectrum of foundational to more advanced balancing postures. Begin with a warm-up to prepare your legs and hips for the strength and flexibility required to balance with ease.
Steph Schwartz
Shakti Flow for Empowerment and Vitality
Connect to your breath and move your body in this dynamic flow designed to tap into Shakti, the force and vitality behind all creation. Begin with the mantra “om aim hreem shreem” with Kali mudra (hand gesture), then move into the physical flow starting slow before picking up momentum into fluid, continuous movement. Explore variations of backbends, arm balances, and standing balancing poses.
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