Sleep is critical element of human health and wellness and it is a far more active process than most realize! During our sleep cycle we repair damaged tissues and heal the body, regenerate our cellular structures, boost our immune system, clean out our systems and detox, produce large number of anti-inflammatory proteins, rest our heart, consolidate our memories, recharge our brain, balance our hormones, and reduce stress in the mind and body. So what happens when we don't get enough quality sleep? Well, not only do we feel the lack of energy provided by good rest, but we become much more prone to injury, pain, disease, and mental health disorders as these systems fail to receive the time needed for their maintenance and repair. Sleeping better is one of the single best things you can do to improve your over all health! Join me for this class where we experience yogic breathing techniques which calm us down, mindfulness techniques which clear our minds, and stretches and postures to unwind our bodies and get us ready to rest and enjoy a good night's sleep!

In this class we discuss Polyvagal Theory, the nature and process of stress and anxiety, and the role of the vagus nerve in helping to regulate and balance your nervous system, as well as your mental and physical health. Learn to understand the wisdom of your stress response, gain skills to increase your stress resiliency, and discover how to not only recognize when your sympathetic (fight or flight) system has become unnecessarily engaged, but also what techniques can help you to downregulate and get rid of these unpleasant, unwanted, and unneeded feelings.

Join me on the final day of 2024 (or, since this is the video library, any time you'd like!) for a time of reflection, gratitude, and directed evolution as we learn ponder life through the lens of the yogic 'Yamas' and use their ancient philosophical wisdom to help direct us in setting fresh intentions for the will help manifest positive changes in future. Each new year offers us a great moment to pause and reflect on ourselves - physically, mentally, and spiritually, and to determine if there are any changes that need to be made. The only constant in the universe is change, and yoga teaches us to flow harmoniously with the changes we experience in life. Change is also constant on on the level of body and mind, not only over the course of a life time, but also on a year to year, and even second to second basis. Did you know that by this same time next year 90% of all of the cells alive in your body today will have died and been completely replaced by a 90% new body? Over the course of a year, our physical and mental habits add up and exponentially affect the outcomes of our health and wellness, for better or worse. Learning to direct and influence our flow of change by practicing reflection and gratitude help us to bring into focus that which is most important and worth cultivating in life. It enables us to set clear intentions which help us to stay on track in achieving our dreams and living our best lives! Join me this New Year's Eve as we explore gentle stretches, breathing, and meditation exercises that will help us hone our intentions and set a healthy direction for the year ahead!

Restore your energy from the inside out. If you wake up tired, feel drained, or are living with chronic fatigue, this class was created with you in mind. This therapeutic yoga experience goes beyond movement — it's a guided journey into understanding your body's energy systems and how to work with them, not against them. You'll explore gentle practices designed to rebalance your metabolism, restore depleted energy reserves through intentional rest and restorative poses, and learn how to release blockages so energy can move more freely through your body. Leave this session feeling not just rested, but genuinely replenished.

Happy New Year Everyone! In this class we discuss the practice of Intention Setting and how it helps us focus on what’s important and teaches us how to direct our energy towards cultivating the changes needed to manifest a future which is happier, healthier, and more authentic. In this class we will use the wisdom and intuition of our body to help us ponder where our own personal opportunities lie, and to allow us to consider what it is we’d like to create in our lives this year. Although the New Year is a great time to get started on an Intention Setting Practice, please remember that ANYTIME is a good time to get started and you can revisit this class and revise your intentions as often as needed! If you have not already done it, I recommend considering the ‘Gratitude Yoga – New Year’s Special Part 1’ as a precursor to this class. Gratitude is a great starting place when we consider what it is we need as it helps to bring into perspective that which is most important in our individual lives and belief systems. This sets the stage for more authentic intentions and will add depth to the practice!

Join me for this special Year End class based around the powerful practice of Gratitude. Our body will be our guide as we enjoy a series of gentle stretches and celebrate a year well lived! Ending the year with a spirit of gratitude and compassion towards ourselves and others helps us set the stage for great things to come in the New Year! Gratitude Practice has been clinically proven to help people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build stronger relationships with others and self. I invite you for a little break, whether it be the New Year or anytime of year, to take care of yourself and make some space for mindful reflection and grateful appreciation for ourselves, our bodies, and all that makes our life the beautiful gift that it is! Once you’ve completed this class, you might also like to check out ‘Fresh Intentions – New Year’s Special Part 2’ so you can take the wisdom of gratitude and learn to use it to cultivate mindful intentions that fuel a positive future!

What do diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive problems, immune conditions, chronic pain, low libido or sexual dysfunction, stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma all have in common? This spread of disorders covers such a wide variety of humanity’s most common health conditions that it’s hard to consider them all being in some way connected. However, in reality, they all share a common source point – they are all symptoms of a dis-regulated autonomic nervous system! Our autonomic nervous system refers to the part of our nervous system which regulates all of our involuntary or unconscious body processes such as our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, digestion, and sexual arousal, as well as the well-known phenomenon of our stress response / threat detection system which enables us to fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn in response to danger, real or perceived. When our autonomic nervous system is well regulated, we can navigate through life’s many stresses in a way that allows us to stay calm, clear, and in a healthy physical state which allows our organs to get plenty of cleansing and repair time. When we begin to get stuck in mental habits of chronic fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn responses, our internal systems and organs become negatively affected. They rely on calm, safe, and restful moments in order to complete their own repair, cleansing, integration, and maintenance. Whether we’re talking about repairing injured tissues, digesting food, fighting and preventing disease, rejuvenating our energy reserves, or experiencing a state of inner peace and tranquility without a well regulated autonomic nervous system we will face growing issues in one or all of these categories at some point! Join me for this polyvagal theory informed class where we learn to understand how our nervous system functions, how it relates to both physical and mental health, and most importantly, how to improve your own autonomic tone and take control of your health and your life!

Breathing is one of our most essential and versatile functions in the human body. Much confusion exists over the 'right' or 'best' way to breathe, and modern breathing masters seem to all offer different and contradictory definition to what this even means. The truth is, there are hundreds of 'right' ways to breath, and only one 'wrong' way. In this class, learn the differences between belly breathing, thoracic breathing, 3 part breathing, slow breathing, fast breathing, and everything in between. Learn to determine what kind of breath pattern is most suited to which situations, and learn to recognize the only wrong way of breathing - 'paradoxical breathing.' Learn to create more space in your ribs and diaphragm for maximum oxygen flow, and learn how your core and pelvic floor can support your breathing process and bring added benefits to all of your internal organs. We take 25,000 breaths every day, and in this class we will take the time to learn the best choices for the 'how', 'when', and 'why' of choosing the breathing pattern to meet all of life's needs!