Yoga For Creating Space & Mobility
These classes will be particularly beneficial for students who are at the beginning of their journey, are in a flare up or who are experiencing higher stress and need to support their nervous system into a more calming state. When you are holding excess tension and tone in the pelvic floor, it creates a slew of imbalances in the pelvis. Bladder issues, leaking, low back pain, SI dysfunction, painful intercourse and nerve pain like with vulvodynia (itching, burning, rawness) can be some symptoms associated with carrying extra tension. So we need to do things to mitigate that before we start to address the tone element.
Even though there may be some engaging poses in these classes, I will invite you to be gentle and intensional with it. When you are ready for more, your body will let you know. And if you do too much, your body will let you know. Remember, your body can only communicate with you via symptoms. So don't get frustrated if symptoms occur after you've made progress. Look at that as information to move forward with. "A wise woman is not cowed by knowledge, instead, she uses it to guide her." <3
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Living Room Release
This class is all about longer holds and creating space. If you don't have a couch you can practice on, you can always use a chair. I encourage you to take your favorites away from this class and in the evenings, add a couple to your nightly wind-down routine. These are all great at addressing...
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Upper Back & Neck Release (Hatha)
This hatha style yoga class is going to take you through a series of postures that will encourage the body to release tension in the neck, shoulders and upper back. All of which affect our ability to breathe deeply and allow the pelvic floor to work with the upper respiratory diaphragm for prop...
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Pressing Pause - Restorative
Restorative practices are incredibly supportive for a racing mind, elevated nervous system and long held tension in the body. They allow the body to rest in positions that offer support and very gentle opening. I know that this type of class is hard for some yogis because we have been so deeply...
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Slide & Glide Myofascial Release: Lower Body
Today we have a different approach to how we release the fascia in the lower body. We have explored manipulating the tissues using props like tennis balls and blocks up to this point and today, our focus turns towards a more "slide and glide" approach where we bring circulation and rhythm to the...
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Foot Focused Hatha Practice
Your body does NOT like concentrated stress. Your feet distribute stress. They cannot do that if they are not functioning correctly. We already know that everything is connected. We know that there are connective tissue lines throughout your body that go all the way from your feet to your tongue...
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Gentle Reconnection
When we think about what the word "reconnect" means in a literal sense, it translates to bringing something back together. Which is exactly what this practice does from an internal perspective. It brings our bodies back to the breath, our minds back to stillness and our nervous system resets. ...
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Holiday Reset : Full body
Time to turn down the noise and reset the dial on our nerves! This is a longer class because we are hitting up the full body today including: glutes, psoas, hips, feet, inner thighs and upper shoulders. I also included the work that helps to reset the sacrum and release low back tension so if y...
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Mindful Mobility
If you're looking for a class to create a deep connection with your breath and body while also working on mobility, you've come to the right place! Mobility movements challenge our muscles & fascia to move within their range of motion as opposed to holding static stretches. While we do some str...
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Ground and Release
Have you ever noticed there are seasons of life where your fuse is shorter, your brain is foggier and people are just breathing too loudly?! These are signs that your nervous system is overstimulated. It shows up physically with tight shoulders often causing tension headaches and even migraines....
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Quiet and Reflective Hatha Practice
Today we explore stillness in different poses that promote quiet reflection and groundedness. This practice was born of a desire to help students calm their nervous system during times of struggle. Anxiety, depression, grief, chronic pain and even just pushing through a schedule that never seem...
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Living Room Restorative Bolster Flow
Grab your bolster and a couple blocks and let's offer our bodies a much needed break from the noise! In todays class we get deeply connected to our breath with the goal of sinking into our muscle and fascia in a way that not only brings space to the body but calm to the nervous system. We hold e...
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Chest & Shoulder Opening Flow
Tightness in the front shoulders and chest restricts the diaphragm by limiting chest expansion, creating less efficient shallow, chest breathing. This forces the neck and shoulder accessory muscles to work harder, creating a cycle of muscle tension, poor posture, and reduced breathing efficiency....
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Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga is a gentle and therapeutic form of yoga that emphasizes relaxation, stillness and down-regulating the nervous system which is incredibly important for long held tension in the body. It involves holding yoga poses for extended periods of time with the support of props such as bla...
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Unwind & Reset
The world offers us plenty of stimulation, no doubt. It's up to us to make the concious decision to slice out time to turn inward. I love yoga for that. Today's class we do that by moving through a flow that will keep our gaze to an inward focus. Today's flow creates space in the pelvic floor...
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Module 8: Upper Body Release
Today's class is all upper body focused. We will doing some more mobility work in the beginning and then graduate to our deeper, myofascial work as we progress. Area's we covered include: shoulders, side body, upper back, lower abdomen, and the sides of the ribs.
You'll need: two tennis balls...
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For Breath's Sake
In today's class, we will move through a flow where we will focus on breathing deeply, create space in the areas that help remove the restrictions of the diaphragm and like always, turn our focus inwards for a beat. Like I always say, when we breathe better, our pelvic floor functions better but...
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30 Minute Reset
I planned with class with all the yogis in mind who might be dealing some extra stress right now, hypertension in their pelvic floor, a flare or are just in pain. Sometimes we can go about that in an intellectual way where we target our movement and have a specific purpose. Today, we are just go...
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Upper Body Release Flow
Join me for 30 minutes of flowy goodness while we open up the neck, chest and side body. This class is mostly low to the ground and then at the end we do a little flow and repeat it 3X so that you can really get a hold of the moves. Enjoy! All you need is a couple blocks!
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Feelin' Strong & Open
This is a full body class that was designed to bring both strength and flexibility to the body. We explore some gentle twisting, psoas stretching, deep core activating and glute engaging movements that will keep you immersed and turn your focus inward. All you need for class today is a bolster a...
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Grounded in the Hips
Overall, this is a more opening type of class but there will be some opportunity to engage and create a bit of heat at whatever level you'd like to take it to! We will do poses like legs up the strap (supta-padagusthasana), internal rotation with the block, strapped bridge, a myofascial release f...
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Quick Little Hip Release
When you've only got 15 minutes and you want to get some solid pelvic work in, this will be a fabulous class to turn to! We hit up so much in 15 minute. (yes I said 10 in the video but I don't think I'm capable of 10 minute classes lol!) We make space for the glutes, hip flexors, inner thighs an...
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Blissful Bolster Opening
If you are dealing with a tired and sore body, tension or stress, this one's for you! Our entire goal here is to open the body, ground the nervous system and feel ourselves into the present moment. We are using a bolster in this one to offer much needed support and we will work on many areas of...
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Knee Pain Relief
If you are experiencing knee pain, be it an acute flare or something that's been ongoing, this is a great class to place on repeat! All the postures today are supporting the muscles that the knee depends on for stability. The outer hips, inner thighs, pelvic floor and calves all being part of t...
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Damage Control for Low Back & SI Joint (Bonus Class)
The reason I'm including this class in Restore Your Pelvic Floor is because all the nerves that innervate down into the pelvis, legs and feet START in the low back. So if you hold tension there then that can create issues down the chain.
This class is appropriate for chronic low back pain, acu...