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Authentic Flow for Yogasana Practitioners
There is some kind of magic that happens with a combination of evocative music, a bit of guiding language and space holding (but not too much), and movement which can bring you into an altered state of awareness that often yields insight and/or a direct experience of reality, unmediated by your thinking mind. It does take practice. And it takes trust, and surrender to the process. It takes willingness to move out of the comfort of your beloved asanas and into the unknown.
Authentic Flow – The Third Act: Dissolution
Samhara – The Third Act – Invoke the process of dissolution or reabsorption through your embodiment. Start with guided sequences and dissolve into free form movement. Begins with Kāli mantras and ends with silent savasana.
Somatic Asana: Simple Practice
Sit in silence for a few minutes before diving into a guided asana practice with lots of space for exploration and free movement. Moderate
Somatic āsana: Spine, Ribs, Breath
In this twisting practice we focus on these three elements: spine, ribs, breath, especially where the spine and ribs come together when taking a breath to create space and free the spine and ribcage for fluid movements.
Authentic Flow: The Alchemy of Water
We’ll be using WATER as our gateway into sensation, this includes the fluids of the body, the blood, and the fluids of the earth. We will also chant bija mantra for the element of water.
Authentic Flow: The Alchemy of Earth
We will use the EARTH element as our entry point to the embodied experience. The bīja mantra for the earth is LAṂ and we’ll start by chanting this and then go into somatic explorations grounded in the earth, our bones and invoking the red bindu which symbolizes EMBODIMENT – our bodies are made of earth, after all.
Authentic Flow: The Alchemy of Air
We will use the AIR element as our entry point to the embodied experience. Using the mantra YAṂ to invite the experience of air into, through, and all around our bodies, we’ll then go into both structured and free movement to explore and invoke air, sky, and change, all set to some pretty awesome music!
Authentic Flow – Desire
Cultivate willingness to feel all your desires fully. We invoke Lakṣmi with her mantra Om Shrim Mahalakshmiyai Namah and use hip openers and free movement to explore our energy of desire.
Authentic Flow: Agni & Bakāsana
We’ll invoke Agni with a mantra, then using the access point of Navel radiation we’ll activate the energy lines and release the blockages that prevent Bakāsana or Crane pose.
Authentic Flow: Mahāśakti & The Suṣumṇa
Use the seed syllable mantras of Mahashakti to worship the goddess in and as the central energetic channel or nadi. We do mantra practice, nadi shodana pranayama, and then keep our attention focused on the central channel throughout our movement practice.
The Source of Movement
An authentic flow practice that is ‘advanced’ due to there being no demonstration, however the poses are simple and can be practiced moderate to vigorously. Go deep within to sense the source of movement within yourself.
Mini Practice: Standing Poses & Meditation
Standing Poses & Meditation – Moderate practice 20 min physical + 10 min meditation.
Mini Practice – Twists & Meditation
Twists & Meditation: Moderate 20 min physical + 10 min meditation. Somatic exploration of energy, blocks, and stagnancy.
No Wrist Modified Sun Salutations
This is a modified sequence that can be used in substitute for sun salutations if you are wanting to give your wrists a rest, or just try something new. Work on legs and backbends, with careful attention and awareness.
Classical Surya Namaskars with Tantrik Bīja Mantras
Take part in this ritual practice. The first 15 minutes is instruction in the movement patterns and translations of the mantras. The rest of the practice is pranayama and steady namaskars, with mantras to guide our movements. Please note that first mantra in each namaskar is in stillness with hands in namaste.
Tantrik Embodiment Sadhana – Kali & Slow Sun Salutations
This Tantric Embodiment Sadhana works with Kali’s mantra, meditation, asana and exploratory movement to open the body and release attachment and resistance.
Build Your Own Practice
Learn some short sequences and then take time to bring them to life in your own body. You will be given enough guidance that you are glad you came to class, and enough freedom that you start to feel what your own yoga feels like in your body – not my idea of yoga, or any other teacher. Start to find your own embodiment!
Intimacy With The Breath
A Gently Moderate practice with focus on intimacy with the breath and with our present experience, we work slowly to open the front of the thigh and hip flexors, with pulsation and breath.
Foundations of Asana & Embodiment Practice 1
This is the practice session that goes with the Foundations of Asana & Embodiment 1 session.
Foundations of Asana & Embodiment Practice 2
This is the practice session to go with the workshop “Foundations of Asana & Embodiment 2”
Listen To The Flow
Cultivate the ability to listen inside to how your body wants to move as we practice breathwork, sun salutation variations, and savasana.
Ease Into Slow Flow
start with deep hip stretches, move into a slow lunge flow, end with seated meditation
Tantrik Gratitude Practice w/ Backbends
60 min Moderate practice begins with a gratitude contemplation, followed by gentle opening moves and then sun salutations to warm the body for some beginner level backbends.”
Open to What Arises
a 60 minute Gentle class (with moderate options given for raising the intensity level) which will focus on inviting whatever emotions are ready to come up and be seen and holding space for these with meditation and āsana. Options will be given to allow emotion to be fully experienced through stillness, movement, posture, mantra and breath.
Red Bindu – Earth Element
60 minute moderate practice gathering our attention on the lower belly and red bindu in almost every pose, as well as invoking the earthy stabilizing energy of Ganesh with his mantra.
Pure Radiance Retreat Day 3
These practices were recorded for an online retreat and are wonderful all-over practices to support your own home retreat or sadhana.
Pure Radiance Retreat Day 2
These practices were recorded for an online retreat and are wonderful all-over practices to support your own home retreat or sadhana.
Pure Radiance Retreat Day 1
These practices were recorded for an online retreat and are wonderful all-over practices to support your own home retreat or sadhana.
The Vibrational Lower Body
Cultivating sensation of vibration in the body – focus on grounding and awakening the pelvis, hips, legs and feet in this gentle to moderate practice.
Cultivating Heart Awareness
Cultivate awareness of the heart through this series of simple yet powerful asanas including squats, lunges, and cobra.
Flow Through Structure – Hips
Hips- Gentle+ Use this framework to explore your hips and give your body what it needs with a couple optional moderate moves.
Gentle Embodiment Sadhana
Gentle to Moderate 40 minutes of movement and asana, followed by 10 minutes of prāṇāyāma and 10 minutes of meditation with optional movement component.
Authentic Flow – Red Bindu Activation
Explore the lower belly, low back and pelvis with awareness, movement and meditation. Activate the Red Bindu energetic center. With music.
Surya Namaskar A&B Overview
Go over the basic shapes of the poses contained within Sun Salutations A & B, and learn the difference between the two. Frequently in Authentic Flow I’ll say “do a few sun salutations on your own” and this class is meant to give you the tools to be able to do that.