Journey Inward

Yoga is a wonderful way to relieve the aches and discomforts of pregnancy, prepare your body for labor, and develop the strength and posture-awareness you’ll need for baby-carrying and breast-feeding!

However, your practice needs to shift during pregnancy - even seasoned yogis have to adjust to meet their changing body’s needs! Your center of gravity shifts, the body experiences new aches and pains, and pregnancy hormones create hyperflexibility that can easily result in torn ligaments and tendons. Prenatal yoga addresses the ever-changing experience of pregnancy and provides modifications and insight to practice safely.

1 hour | beginners welcome | currently not on the schedule - available as a private session - join my mailing list for updates!

When we hear “strong core”, we usually think of 6-pack abs that really pop!

However, functional core strength - the kind that truly relieves chronic tension and pain in neck, shoulders, low back, and hips - means rebalancing the habitual ways in which our bodies have learned to move.

Core Yoga:

• Improves posture and spinal support by releasing the deep hip flexors (psoas) and strengthening weak back muscles, the deep abs (TVA), and other functional core supporting muscles

• Releases overworked, achy, tension-holding muscles in the shoulders, hips, and low back

• Promotes full-body integration, strengthens slow-twitch muscles fibers, and awakens awareness in parts of our bodies that have become disconnected

You’ll discover muscles you never knew you had and leave feeling calmer, stronger, and more connected!

60 min | no experience necessary | currently not on the schedule, but available as a Private Yoga session - join my mailing list for updates!

Qi is the energy or life force that flows throughout the body; qi that’s depleted, stagnant, or excessive impacts every aspect of our well-being, including digestion, menstruation, organ health, mental health and clarity, emotional state, and even the function of the musculoskeletal system. Lifestyle, diet, emotional dysregulation, and season changes all contribute to these imbalances of the qi. Qigong (“moving qi”) optimizes overall health and emotional balance while calming the nervous system.

In this class, we use standing qigong practices, medical qigong, tai chi, self-acupressure, qi/energy awareness exercises, and breath work. We may work seated or standing depending on what we’re addressing that day.

You’ll leave feeling calm, refreshed, and more present - and equipped with techniques to continue your healing work on your own.

30 min | no experience necessary | currently not on the schedule, but available as a private session - join my mailing list for updates!

Release tension in prop-supported poses that gently stretch the body and calm the nervous system. Each class ends with a brief Qigong Self-Massage and 5-minute meditation.

Restorative Yoga requires props that can be substituted with general household items:

• 1-2 yoga bolsters (sub: long couch cushions or throw pillows)

• yoga strap (sub: bathrobe tie, long belt)

• 1-2 yoga blankets (sub: thick towels, cotton blanket)

• 1-2 yoga blocks (sub: small sturdy box, thick book, stiff shoebox)

If you’re missing any of these items, just let me know when you arrive in the Zoom class and we’ll make use of what you do have!

60 min | no experience necessary | currently not on the schedule, but available as a Private Yoga session - join my mailing list for updates!

While meditation is a deeply centering, anxiety reducing skill, it takes persistence and regular practice to get to a place where it’s easy to just sit and drop in - it can be daunting when you first try to get into it!

In this class, we'll explore different styles of meditating so you can learn which techniques work for you. Each class will include brief discussion and a guided 10- to 15-minute meditation.

20 min | no experience necessary | currently not on the schedule - available as a private session - join my mailing list for updates!

Unwind and destress to prepare yourself for the week ahead - without having to leave the house! Winter Self-Care is your weekly mini-retreat of self-massage, gentle stretching, and qigong. Each week we focus on different areas of the body and learn new self-massage and restorative yoga techniques.

Put on some relaxing music, light some candles, roll out your mat - I'll take care of the rest! (A hot bath and tea afterwards is highly recommended...)

45 minutes | no experience necessary - currently not on the schedule, but available as a Private Yoga session - join my mailing list for updates!

Intensity junkies welcome! Journey inward, exploring adventurous yoga postures while honing focused introspection and self-awareness. A stimulating practice for intermediate to advanced yogis seeking transformation, depth, and healing.

This is an intentional, slow-paced practice that assumes a working knowledge of yoga asana and body awareness. The practice is mindfully sequenced to warm and activate the body in preparation for more advanced poses and practices

2 hours | advanced | currently not on the schedule - join my mailing list for updates!.

Lecture, discussion, Q&A

Dive into a detailed exploration of a new pose/family of poses each week! Learn the ins-and-outs of poses, including:

• Alignment Principles: both traditional & modern approaches

• Pose Function: yogic intentions & physiological healing effects

• Energetics: which chakras are impacted and how a pose affects/shifts the emotional body and energetic state

• Anatomy: what's contracting, stretching, and releasing

• Challenges: common difficulties and how to address them

We start with a bit of gentle stretching and pranayama before meditating on the week ahead and creating intentions for being fully present in our lives.

Moderate-intensity, stretchy vinyasa flow to work out the stress of the week, connect to your body, and work up a little sweat.

Each class winds down with techniques to activate the body’s innate Therapeutic Tremoring Mechanism - shaking! - which down-regulates the autonomic nervous system, shifting us out of fight-or-flight (stress, anxiety) and into rest-and-digest (relaxation, calm).

60 minutes | all levels | not currently on the schedule, but can be done as a private session!