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Community: Observe Without Judgment
Community classes are Katonah-based classes taught live on Zoom and then uploaded here. You'll see my friends in these videos, which gives you a chance to see more bodies doing the poses, which helps you learn about your own practice a little more effectively. This class is focused on the quote:...
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Community: Create Your Experience
What we tell ourselves is the experience that we create for ourselves. So be conscious of what you're saying and how you say it, whether it's internally or externally, on your mat or off. This is a Katonah yoga practice; props needed: block, strap, blanket (or similar household items!).
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Community: Bend So You Don't Break
In today's class we use the Tummo breathing technique to learn to train our bodies. This breathing technique is used to climb Everest; so after this class, you'll be able to do anything your day throws at you! This is a Katonah Yoga practice--props are always your friend here!
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Community: Seal Those Energy Leaks
Community classes are recorded live with friends on Zoom--come play with us! In today's class we look for all the places we leak energy in our bodies and asanas so that we can seal them more effectively. Contact creates safety and allows us to move currency through our systems. This is a Katon...
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Community Flow: Celebrate Your Successes!
This is a FUN, DANCE-Y, HIGH ENERGY flow! Get your groove on and amp up the self-love and appreciation in this class! Expect some opportunities for shaking your butt, arm balances, and inversions thrown in!
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Community: Leveling Up
This is a Katonah-based class with a bit of flow. We keep going back to "how do we level up?" How do we make choices that will facilitate the next best version of ourselves? Where are we going and how do we think in the way that will take us there? We make space in the lower back, get into the ...
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Community: What do you ACTUALLY need?
This class is a blend of Katonah and Vinyasa--you will get a little of each in today's class--prompting you to better understand your self and your needs. We look for the line between pushing and challenging ourselves, the line between being lazy and giving ourselves a break. How do we get so q...
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Community: Say YES!
Community Katonah practice here to save the day and open you up! Do you need some inspiration to open up to the things around you? To say YES to discovering these opportunities? Here it is!! Expect to get into the hips/hip flexors and lots of backbending. This is definitely a spring (the seas...
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Community: Tap Into Your Supports
This class is a fun one--lots of EXTENDING and REACHING out--to those around you virtually, energetically, and physically. Tap into those networks, b.b.s!! This is a Katonah-based class, and you will need whatever props you have, including a wall if possible. Poses include standing splits, spl...
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Community: Recipe for Life
Wrong place, wrong time; right place, wrong time; wrong place, right time; or right place, right time. Only one of these recipes will work. (Hint: it's the last one!) This class takes the metaphor of the recipe through the practice to get ourselves centered and on-track. Finishing with King o...
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Community: Manifest with the Universe
This community class is truly a group effort. But isn't everything? Coming together with our community is what makes yoga so powerful. Step into this class and see what happens when you really clearly state what you want. Be clear with the universe and with yourself. (Peak pose: handstands)
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Community: Comfortable in Our Skin
How do we find comfort in how we fit into our skin, and how we fit into the world? (Yoga, obvs!) This Katonah Yoga practice really centers us and brings us into our fits. This practice will both stabilize you and get you into your hip flexors and heart openers. (2nd and 4th chakras.) Props need...
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Community: Have Your Own Back
Today we go into the tale of how Kurmavatar (Vishnu in turtle form) put the Mountain Mandar on his back, and how we can be there for ourselves by GOING IN. We practice pratyahara (withdrawing of the senses) today, and find our inner peace. Props needed: a strap (or reasonable substitute!).
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Community: Centering for Patience
When we get stuck in our pasts or stuck worrying about the future, it can be difficult NOT to be impatient. But the moment we come into our centers and breathe and move from our core (self), impatience dissolves. This class is a Katonah/flow class where we do a LOT of core work and find ourselve...
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Community: Dancing With Ganesha
Get ready to get around your obstacles, around yourself, gather all your power, and dance forward! This is a Katonah-based class with a little flow thrown in (and guest appearances from the cutest baby I know!). Props needed: blocks or substitutes; blanket or substitute. Optional wall.
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Community: Put Yourself First
Sometimes our priorities get confused and then we need to go back IN and find ourselves and meet our needs. Take care of yourself. Today we get into some twists and then move into backbends. This is a Katonah based practice; props welcomed!
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Community: Self-grounding and self-soothing
This class gives you the tools you'll need through your day to continue to come back to yourself. This is a Katonah class, including the backbend series at the wall that opens the hip flexors through to the heart. Suggested props: wall, blanket, blocks.
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Community: Using Our Support Systems
How do we both ground ourselves and find grounding in those around us? (Through yoga, obvs! ;) ...This class taps into your own powers of grounding and into your powers of connecting. We use some boundaries to find expansion in this Katonah based class. expect to find your side body, your hamst...
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Community: Flow For The Fifth (Chakra)
Cat got your tongue? Ignoring your body's messaging? Your fifth chakra is all about communication and in this class, we clear that space. We flow, we make noise, we go to the wall for a little bit of handstand work, and we end with a traditional shoulder stand/plow. Suggested props: blanket.
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Community: Breaking Patterns
We identify patterns and then become willing to see ourselves as more than these patterns, making the choice to grow. This is a Katonah practice, utilizing the frame in several instances, including in down dog and headstand. Suggested props: blocks, blanket, wall.
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Community: Triangulating
We use our body's geometry to become centered, to find ourselves. This is a Katonah practice that takes you into your wheel sequence. Props suggested: blanket, blocks, wall.
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Community: Find the Flow
This is a flow class where everyone contributes to create a class where we find circles/cycles/fluidity throughout our bodies to find ourselves in flow. Includes headstand drills at the wall. Suggested props: blocks, wall.
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Community: Deepen Your Awareness
Really, our whole goal is to deepen our awareness of our breath so that we can immediately have information about our bodies and energy and emotions to use in our lives. Today we go deep on awareness and deep into the hips/hip flexors and hamstrings as we explore some variations of dancers pose ...
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Community: Balance Your Center
This is a flow class with some Katonah thrown in, moving us and then centering us. We work the core (both abs and lower back) and work into variations of full locust pose (Poorna-Salabhasana). Suggested props include strap, blocks, and a wall.