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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.
Somatic Asana: Allow Everything
In this series of postures we explore the modes of imagining what it would be like to allow everything to be just as it is, and to move from something other than your mental activity.
Somatic Asana: Yielding
Explore the process of yielding through movement meditation and a series of asanas. Merge with the flow of energy moving through your practice.
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: IT Band
Begin with a short meditation and then proceed through mostly gentle asanas (only 2 standing poses) to bring our awareness into the legs, soothe and stretch them.
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
Gentle: Elemental Water
Beginning with mantra meditation and progressing from free movement to more structured āsana, we invite the water in our bodies and the quality of fluidity to inspire our movement.
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.
Gentle: Earth’s Lullaby
Using the bija mantra for the earth element, meditation, and slow deep stretches and free movement, we commune with the earth. Our experience of grounding, fertility, stability, nourishment and support are invoked, cultivated as well as our energetic connection with the earth below.
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.
Gentle Air & Prana
In this practice we aim to inhabit the body, rather than have awareness of it as a separate object. Includes mantra, breath meditation and gentle poses invoking the air element and prana
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!
Gentle Inquiry
Chant bija mantras of the goddess Om Aim Hrim Srim, energy body meditation and use gentle hips openers to inquire to the body “if you had a message for me what would it be?”
Gentle Kālī: Black Radiance
Using Kali’s mantra, a somatic meditation and poetry, we slip into an energy guided gentle practice on the void within. Please have a strap and a block and set your Spotify Playback to Crossfade 5 sec. In Spotify go to Profile > Settings & Privacy > Playback > Crossfade.
Gentle: Lakṣmi / Desire / Shoulders
Welcome in forgotten or pushed away desires as we work deeply to embody and nourish the shoulders with Downward Dog, Dolphin, shoulder focused sun salutations, and deep floor stretches focusing on the shoulders.
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.
Gentle Winter Solstice – Mantra & Prostrations
Gentle Mantra, Meditation, and Prostrations for the Solstice – Agni and Gayatri mantras, free movement, and devotional prostrations to candle light.
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.
Embodied Yin: MahāŚakti & The Suśumṇa
Honoring the goddess in the central channel, we practice alternate nostril breathing, mantra, and yielding, grounding and balancing poses on the floor.
Embodied Yin: Pose As Prompt
Slow, relaxing and deep stretches with guidance to use the pose as a prompt rather than a directive, and feel into the energy that wants to move through you, even as tiny subtle movements.
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.
Embodied Yin: Gentle Devotion to Lakshmi
Through mantra, prostrations, and gentle yin poses including inversions, we evoke the abundance and generosity of the heart of the goddess Lakshmi in our 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 – Twists & Meditation
Twists & Meditation: Moderate 20 min physical + 10 min meditation. Somatic exploration of energy, blocks, and stagnancy.
Gentle Authentic Flow – Neck Release
Neck Release & Meditation – use slow, explorative movements to release the neck while gently opening the whole body, ending with a meditation on the central channel.
Sacred Stillness
Gentle Embodiment Sadhana: Practice a few gentle stretches, Samavritti pranayama, and a body scan which includes the 3 bindus.
Authentic Flow – Shake, Meditate, Resonate
This practice begins with 15 minutes of vigorous but basic movement to clear energy then moves into a contemplative practice including pranayama, mantra, and blissfully silent meditation.
Authentic Flow – Back Of The Heart
Cultivate awareness and sensation in the muscles between the scapula and spine, as well as the energetic space of the back door of the heart, through free movement, sun salutations, and side planks. Empower yourself and listen to the inner teacher.
Deep Stretch Shiva Practice
Deep Stretch and Stillness Practice – Embodied Yin – Have a strap, block and bolster, or a big pillow and a scarf and get ready to relax, go deep, and allow.
Authentic Flow – Navel Radiation
In this authentic flow practice our access point will be the navel center. Deep diaphragmatic breathing or kapalbhati are your pranayama choices, followed by a navel radiation meditation, and then movement prompts using the navel as our starting point and guide.
Authentic Flow – Sensory Skin
This 60 minute Authentic Flow practice uses the skin as the focal point and gateway to awareness. Āsana, free movement, kriyas, meditation, and stillness are all utilized for an exploration of consciousness through the access point of the skin.
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.
Classical Surya Namaskar – Slow
Classical Surya Namaskar – Instruction and Practice
We’ll use Ganesh Mantras and a Ganesh playlist to help us overcome obstacles and get grounded in some of the basics of yoga. You will receive instruction in this sun salutation so that you can practice on your own whenever you want. And this will be a full sadhana as well including ganesh mantras, meditation and embodiment practice.
Authentic Flow – Shoulders
Shoulders and the weight we carry: Using lakshmi mantras to acknowledge the abundance that surrounds us always as support for accessing, becoming aware of, and releasing weight and responsibility that is ready to be released.
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.
Authentic Flow – Heart Access Point
Access the heart center through movement, stillness, meditation and sound. With music played on your own Spotify.