Meditation & Pranayama
Give our guided meditations a try! Meditation can help settle your mind, calm your anxiety and help you feel more grounded, so that you can move through your day with more grace, ease and connection.
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20 min meditation w/ Katrina: body scan
Body scans are a form of meditation that brings attention to the body piece by piece. This is my personal adaptation of a body scan meditation that I use frequently when I have trouble falling asleep or otherwise relaxing. Have whatever props you would like to be comfortable either seated or in s...
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30 min restorative w/ Katrina: yoga nidra
Yoga Nidra is a type of guided meditation that is often practiced in savasana. Have comfortable and warm clothing, pillows - perhaps under your knees - and plenty of blankets for a very cozy setup. (We will be in savasana or your preferred meditation posture the whole time.)
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9 min pranayama w/ Deepthi: brahmari pranayama
Also known as the Humming Bee breath, this practice involves creating a humming sound like that of a bee, very similar to extending the “M” sound in OM. This practice helps build tone of the vagal nerve as well as increase cerebral blood flow. It can be a highly grounding and internalizing practi...
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10 min pranayama w/ Deepthi: sheetali and sheetkari
This is a cooling pranayama, best suited for summer. It helps promote muscular relaxation. This practice involves inhaling through the mouth and exhaling through the nose. Therefore, ensure you are in a clean environment when you practice this.
This practice is contraindicated for those with an...
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8 min pranayama w/ Deepthi: anulom vilom pranayama
Anulom vilom pranayama is also known as alternate nostril breathing. This practice does not focus on retention but rather a seamless flow of breath alternating between nostrils. This helps set the cadence and rhythm for your breath while having a calming and balancing effect on the mind.
This pr...
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33 min yoga nidra w/ Deepthi
Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara (withdrawal of senses) practice that helps turn down sensory input and turn the awareness inwards. This Yoga Nidra is designed to build a deeper awareness of the prana (energy body) and its various manifestations (pancha prana) based on the physiological function and lo...
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18 min pranayama w/ Deepthi: sama vritti
Start the pranayama series with Deepthi here. Sama Vritti also means equal parts. In this practice we re-train our breath to inhale, exhale and retain the breath for an equal amount of time. This pranayama is effective to build clarity and helps regulate the nervous system.You can do this at any ...
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16 min yoga nidra w/ Justicia
Yoga Nidra is also known as Non Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR), and is scientifically proven to make one feel more alert, rested and focused, without sleeping! The practice is a guided relaxation and body scan, and is done completely passive in savasana (corpse pose), or similar. Have any props you use f...
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11 min meditation w/ Jess: focus on heart
Our deepest desires reside in the heart. This meditation will focus on bringing the light of awareness to your heart and allowing love to radiate from your heart center out into the world.
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12 min meditation w/ Jess: focus on mind
Our mind’s can be so busy and it is easy to get caught up with so much thinking and worrying and planning. The goal of this meditation is to try to clear the mind of its busyness and bring it more into stillness, so that your creativity, clarity and true nature can come through.