This 21-day series of short classes (15 minutes or less) will help you relieve holiday stress, stay grounded and steady, and practice self-care in a community of friends from around the world.
We will explore and delight in a variety of stress relief practices including yoga, journaling, pranayama (breath work) and meditation.
This series will help you happily get through the holidays in good company. No need to go it along, or to be overwhelmed by this time of year and the pressures and obligations that come with it. Instead, let’s move through the Holidays together.
Participants are invited to say “hi” and share comments of their experiences throughout the series, creating a feeling of community and connection. Even if we are on different sides of the Earth and watching the classes at different times, we can still be connected and feel support from each other.
Let’s help each other make it through the Holidays with simple practices, positivity and community. I hope you’ll join us.
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This 21-day series of short classes (15 minutes or less) will help you relieve holiday stress, stay grounded and steady, and practice self-care in a community of friends from around the world.
We will explore and delight in a variety of stress relief practices including yoga, journaling, pranaya...
Today is the first day of our series! Today we have an easy physical practice along with a seated meditation.
For our second day of the series we'll do a bit on journaling with the prompt "how I'm feeling now is."
For or third day of the series we'll do a nice visual mediation and our own light.
We have a nice meditation today to remember that there really is ever only one thing we can do at a time....particularly during the holidays. :-)
Today we do some positive journaling with an assignment at the end of class...so watch until the end. :-)
Today we enjoy a meditation yoga practice.
Definitely the holiday season can be a time of being ungrounded. Today we work on being more grounded during the physical practice, followed up by a bit of balance with a pranayama exercise.
For today's helper class, we focus on letting go of thoughts of the past and the future, and do our best to find right now. :-)
Today we think about adventure in our lives and journal about it.
We enjoy a deep meditation with a body scan using the chakras.
Today we find connection to our legs and feet to experience the feeling of "being home."
We enjoy the pranayama practice of "Three Part Breathing" today...it always feels so great. :-)
This is a recording of the special group class that we did. If you weren't able to make it, you can still do the class. Something we did is share a gratitude, and if you wanted to do that in the comments, awesome!
Gratitude is one of those practices that you really can't enough...so we'll continue with the theme from our live class, and practice gratitude with some journaling today.
We do a nice practice of "Loving Kindness" for today's meditation.
For today's practice we open up our hips to connect more deeply to the flow of life and the flow of our emotions.
Enjoy taking your time and being in your body in today's class.
The whole universe is moving to a rhythm, let's join in!
As a final takeaway for the series, it helps to remember that the light that you see by is the light that comes from insides. We'll share a practice and meditation with this focus.
