Yoga Every Day

Start with breath of fire to stoke your power center and build some heat in the body. Follow that up with some spinal mobility poses and complete with a cooling breath.

Open the sides of your body to increase and explore your breath capacity.

This 15-minute practice with Steph Schwartz is an all levels hatha flow class designed to explore the full spectrum of the breath.

This practice with Nichole Golden  is an all levels Hatha yoga class designed to challenge us and make room for growth and change.

Create space and ease within the body with chest- and shoulder-openers. Allow spaciousness through your heart beginning on your back, moving to a short standing series, and then to several belly-down chest openers.

Unlock blocks and create space in areas of the body that hold a lot of tension such as the shoulders and hips. Find physical and mental comfort in poses that ask for softness.

Explore broadening the boundaries of your body and mind so that you can physically feel your ability to stretch into your limitations. Practice a series of poses focusing on opening the hamstrings and working towards hanumanasana (full splits).

Focus on poses that physically churn the body to wring out stuck energy and clear out old, un-useful tendencies that tie us down emotionally and clog our inner pathways.

Celebrate your spirituality and have fun with it! Test your balance - and your sense of humor - by culminating your practice a linked series of one-legged standing balancing postures.

Find the comfort in the discomfort through this centering practice that explores your unshakeable self. Embrace the flow through standing balancing postures such as tree variations, warrior 3, and twists.

Most of us have parts of self we haven't made peace with. Use this practice bring compassion and forgiveness to those parts of self as you get an opening on the backs of your legs.

This slow, nourishing practice is a heart-opening flow that asks us to move through resistance, create space, and feel how forgiveness can soften and open the heart. Identify someone to dedicate this practice to, from a place of forgiveness.

What motivates you to come back to your mat? How do we find the discipline necessary to keep practicing? Explore these questions with a core-strengthening sequence using challenging holds in plank pose and ujjayi pranayam (breath of victory) to help focus and endurance.

Apply your integrated inner awareness into the outer world. This whole body sequence encourages us to expand out while keeping our internal connection.

Practice balance, build strength, and open your heart with poses like half moon (ardha chandrasana) and half frog (ardha bhekasana). This practice will help to digest and assimilate newfound insights that have been accumulated through the study of self-inquiry into the body and the mind.

Practice some challenging balancing poses as you reflect on your inner experience.

Work on taking the seat of the witness by using hamstring stretches, such as wide-leg forward fold (prasarita) and twists. Allow observation of “what is” without judgment or attachment to a theory or a story.

Create a container of concentration (dharana). Through a series of lunges, forward bends, backbends, and breath work, allow the practice to become a moving meditation, training our often scattered minds to be held steadfast and improving our ability to focus.

A seated deep hip opening practice including shambhavi mudra (third-eye gaze), breath, intention, and meditation to bring awareness to the deeper wisdom of the body and the heart.

Flow through this mandala practice, opening the hips and dropping into the breath moment by moment. Expand your awareness beyond the perceived limitations of your body.

Release the stories of who we think we are. Use intention-setting as a reminder to lay down old narratives of ourselves and drop into just being, remembering we are a part of something much bigger.

In this focused and intentional sequence, begin with a short seated meditation followed by a slow and mindful whole body flow allowing us to stay aware throughout the practice. Recognize the spaces in between the breaths, the gap between the thoughts.