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Community Flow: I Am Deserving
We bring in abundance/adoration and our sense of generosity... what does it feel like in your body to be so full of love and be able to offer out so much love to those around you? We start on our backs and get into our hamstrings and hip joints. And then we mirror these shapes sitting and standi...
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Community Flow: Move Toward Space
This is a super fluid class- when you are feeling stuck or when you feel like you are in a rut, this class will help. You ARE able to move between the raindrops, between the cars, between the stars. The dance of this class will set you up for navigating the obstacles of your day. We move around ...
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Community Flow: Situating ourselves in Self-compassion
Choose this class for when you've been a little too hard on yourself, or when you've been feeling stuck in a bit of a pattern. We work on cultivating self-compassion through finding spaciousness in the body and through meditation. Expect some shoulder and hip work, lots of eagle arms, and a love...
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Community Flow: Ganesha guides us to Grounded Lightness
Today we flow, finding grounding, and the lightness in our grounding. We embody Ganesha (the elephant headed god) and work to transform heaviness to grounding in our bodies. All the while, looking for the upward, opposing energy to keep ourselves feeling light. We work some grounded backbends ...
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Community Flow: Practice Handling Anxiety
Anxiety can take hold of us and really control our thoughts and how we are living in our body. Today we practice releasing the worry; inviting a cloud into our head and be in peace. We work through a lot of movement today, get into the hamstrings and hips a bit, and use a strap to feel supported ...
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Community Flow: Sidebody Susie
If you want to get into your sidebody, this is the practice. We do almost every sidebody pose that exists. We get into vulnerability and openness over and over. Oh, and you'll feel like you've grown a few inches after this practice! Suggested Props: blocks
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Here's Your Magic Pill
Looking for a magic pill to make everything better? Great, you got it; here it is! (Hint: it's your breath!!) We work LEGS in this class--there is a lot of standing stability work along with a lot of conscious breath work. And you will feel like you really had that magic pill when you're done...
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Community Flow: Astravakrasana
If you have been wanting to work on your arm balances, here's an opportunity! We prep ourselves well and move toward 8-angle pose. You'll get a few chances to play with it. Expect a lot of twisting on the way--great for detoxing! Suggested props: whatever makes you feel supported!
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Community Flow: An Island Of Our Own
Today we work up to some side crow variations--yes, that means twisting! Plus some lengthening and shoulder opening along the way. Suggested props: choose your own adventure!
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Community Flow: Stability NOW
For those days when you feel like everything is shifting beneath you--we create stability in ourselves. This is the practice we need over and over. Come back to yourself. Suggested props: as desired
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Community Flow: These Obstacles are My Friends
We make friends with the obstacles. We become stronger. We learn. We grow. And then we move into mayurasana (peacock pose) which is an arm balance. You'll definitely want the blocks for this class--we use them in so many ways.
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Community: Make Room/Spaciousness
This class will help you create room internally to create emotional room in your life for what you are desiring. This is a Katonah-based class with a few surprises thrown in (scorpion practice anyone?). Expect some back-strengthening and back-bending as well! Suggested props: wall, strap and bloc...
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Community Flow: Emotional Release
When an emotion gets a hold on you and it just feels like it is controlling your experience, what do you do? This class. Here we identify the emotions we are sitting with, and then work to release their hold on us. Releasing the personal attachment allows us to experience the feeling fully and th...
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Community: I don't have to earn love
Lordy lordy lordy do you ever do things for other people because (subconsciously) you think you need to earn their love? Like I need to help you through all these things so you'll love me in return? Do you say YES to too many things? Do you let your boundaries become lax? I know, I KNOW! Okay, n...
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Community: Authentically myself
There are so many instances in a day where we just shrink and hide our true selves from the world. And we do it unconsciously--because of external pressures or expectations. That means that showing up as our full most authentic selves becomes a constant choice--a constant practice. Today's Katona...
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Community Flow: Ground to Receive
When we ground, we feel ready. When we ground and are open, we are ready to receive. Today's practice creates space internally while continually coming back to the earth and grounding. We do some eagle wrap variations, and move through some balancing work. If you are ready to receive miracles a...
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Community: Your Evolution has Already Begun
If we take the metaphor of the caterpillar and the butterfly, we can learn that what we are evolving into is already within us (practice this class to learn more!). And when we tune into that, we can trust that we are okay. Today we articulate our spines (think rounding up and down in several p...
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Community: Quality of Stillness
Today's class is a slow deep flow that explores how we cultivate a quality of stillness to move from: how do we carry that feeling with us into every movement? We play with pouring our energy and being aware of how we are touching the mat and how the mat might feel with our touch. We play with a...
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Community: Stand Tall
Third and fourth chakras activate to stand tall in who we are. If you are feeling like you need a little more confidence or strength in your day, this is the practice. We start with some pranayama and move through some core strengthening poses (including lower back and twisting!) and keep lookin...
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Community: Breath Awareness is Magic
The gift of breath awareness is the most magical gift we receive from our yoga practice. This is part Katonah, part flow, and we find ourselves in an Archer's pose, focusing attention a little more to our breath to keep honing our breath awareness. We end with some pigeons to round out our magic...
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Community: Sometimes We Don't Know Where we are Going
If we don't know where we are going, how will we get there? (A little bit of trust.) This is a Katonah-based practice. We spend a lot of time with legs wide in this practice, moving toward compass variations to help you learn to trust your internal compass. We end with some pranayama so that w...
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Community Flow: Breathe for Clarity
Declutter your mind to upgrade and make space for what's next. We start with a pranayama practice and then move into a strong flow to bring ourselves into clarity. If you are struggling with a decision, choice, or some uncertainty, bring it to this class and see what comes out the other side! S...
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Community Flow: Choosing what we Become
When time passes, where does it go? It becomes part of who we are. Every choice we make, on and off the mat, contribute to this integration of who we are and who we are becoming. Today we focus on making the choices we want to create the life we want in the future. How can we be so intentional...
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Katonah: Increased Stability
We often talk about stability in the hips in Katonah, but today we move the stability conversation up into the shoulders. We do a lot of work with the strap to bring more awareness to the shoulders and how we are using them. We move toward some compound bows (pictured) and then we end with some i...