Elemental Yoga Flows

Yoga, when taught well, transcends mere physical postures—it becomes a holistic practice that connects us to our essential nature and moves us into inner stillness. True spirituality requires discipline; it’s not haphazard, random, or just doing whatever, whenever. In Elemental Flows: 40 Days of Sacred Yoga, I invite you to explore the profound wisdom of yoga as a spiritual discipline through the elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space—and learn how they align with the chakras to deepen self-understanding, healing, and transformation.

Each element—Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space—resonates with specific aspects of our physical and energetic bodies. By aligning our practice with these elements, we can enhance our physical stability, emotional balance, mental clarity, intuitive insight, and spiritual connection. This practice adapts to meet our evolving needs and the changing seasons.

Watch this mini-lecture, which introduces the five elements...

Want to transform how you experience your body and yoga practice? Join me for the Evolutionary Namaskar Introduction and Guided Practice. This innovative yoga flow salutes the grace of your own development. It is a foundational practice for the therapeutic application of yoga, exploring postures inspired by our natural developmental milestones as we learn to walk. By revisiting these foundational movements with a meditative focus, you can gain profound insights into your body and uncover compensation patterns that might otherwise lead to injury.

Presented as a ceremonial reenactment of your rebirth, EvNam is a continuous flow practice allowing personalized modifications and advancements based on your discoveries. Set in a warm room, all you need is your mat and an open mind to engage deeply with your body's sensations. Developed at Circle Yoga Shala in Jasper, Arkansas, where I am part of the advanced teacher training team, this practice promises to renew your connection with your...

We've all been there - falling off our yoga practice wagon. Life gets busy, distractions happen, and suddenly you realize it's been weeks since we last rolled out our mat. But since yoga is a lifelong practice. It's not about being perfect but about showing up again, even when it's hard.

When we fall off track, it is a valuable opportunity for growth and learning. It's a chance to reflect on why we stopped practicing and what we can do to get back on track. Maybe it's a lack of motivation, too busy of a schedule, or simply forgetting how good it feels to move and breathe mindfully or something deeper that you are avoiding.

To gently and kindly get back into your yoga groove, check out a mini-lesson and full-length guided practice, 'Get back in your wagon' below. Remember, it's okay to stumble. What's important is that you keep coming back to your practice with an open heart and a willingness to learn. Yoga is a journey, and every step - even the ones off the wagon - is...

Are you ready to fall in love with yoga and your life all over again? Join me October 20-22 for an unforgettable weekend retreat in the serene beauty of the Ozarks. Fall In Love - Bhakti Yoga Retreat is a unique opportunity to connect with your higher self, nature, and fellow travelers. 

During our time together the essence of Bhakti Yoga will unfold through practice and your learning is designed to be immersive and experiential. Leave your to-do list at home and come ready to (re)connect with your body and Spirit.

Discover Elemental Yoga Flows

During this retreat, you will learn-by-heart five distinct elemental yoga flows. These flows have been carefully crafted to help you nurture your body, open your heart to love, and combine to make a repeatable weekly progression. With detailed breakdowns provided during the retreat program, you'll gain the knowledge and confidence to continue these flows on your own, long after the retreat has ended.

Foundations of Devotional Yoga

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Back in the day, I spent my summers in basketball camps, traveling all over the country to improve my skills and secure scholarships. But times have changed, and now I have more mature goals now like finding joy, freedom, and leading a fulfilling life. That's why I decided to combine the light-hearted feel of summer camp and pack it full of depth and transformative potential. And just like that, yoga camp was born!

Yoga camp is focused on helping you achieve a life filled with less pain, more fun, joy, and freedom. I want to empower you to live a long, rich life, nourishing your mind, body, and soul. Whether you're a beginner or someone looking to revisit the foundations of yoga, this camp offers a fresh perspective through an elemental lens.

In these one-week immersions into a yogic lifestyle through two-hour daily workshops dedicated to exploring the foundations of applying therapeutic yoga to your life. Join me as we dive into practices that can quickly and profoundly...

In this post, I will share the essential elements of creating a joyful holy day ritual and ceremonial celebration. The practices I share here can combine to facilitate a time of focused inward attention to reconnect with who you are at your core, release the past, and become more open with life.

I'll share the essential elements of meaningful ritual below and in the above audio, we do them together in practice with prompts for journaling or facilitating intimate sharing among friends and family. I recommend looking over this once and then over the next few days making time to engage more deeply with creating a personal and meaningful tradition for yourself. 

Listed below are what I understand to be the essential elements of meaningful ritual and the invitation here is to consider them as your personal practice takes shape. I share more about my personal experience with them in the audio accompaniment above. Keep in mind that ritual can take place over...

When is the last time you tried to connect with your own heart and what you truly want for your life? It's harder to do than it seems but it is a powerful practice I hope to help you understand in this one post. Take a moment to ask yourself now in whatever way feels right to you: what is it you want at your core?

Ok... I'll go first, what do I really really want? What is it that keeps me devoted to my practice and aspiring toward my unique purpose?

I want to live in a world with more soul.

I know I'm doing well when I am centering my actions around this deep core desire. Connecting to my heart's desire is how I started to make choices that cleared away obligations and trauma patterning from the past. It's how I cultivated a discernment about right action for me in my life. It's why I teach and work with people to create a life they love on a soul level. 

Maybe you are finding that feeling like 'I should do that'  isn't creating the consistency you expected of...

The above audio is an 8-minute guided breathwork practice from my Establish a Practice: Breathwork and Meditation Challenge. I recommend you lie down, make yourself comfortable, and do it before reading this article or going any further. You certainly won't regret it! 

I hope you enjoyed the pause.

Ok so, as I mentioned I call my month-long breathwork and meditation challenge Establish a Practice and I wanted to tell you why and what it means to be 'established'.

Currently, breathwork and meditation practices are becoming really popular (which I love) but much of the purpose behind these practices is missed or misunderstood. I wanted to create a challenge that helped you understand the deeper meanings of these practices that fuel consistency and give you an experience of my heart-centered and practical approach as a yoga therapist and strength coach.

I share lots of my personal experience in practice so that you might embark on this endeavor with an understanding of what...

In the main yoga text I learned from there are only two teachings about posture practice. 

The first teaching on posture says we should find a steady comfortable posture that is easeful. A way of holding ourselves with exactly the right amount of effort. My experience in embodying this particular type of action in daily practice is that it has helped me to cultivate a sense of inner stability that goes beyond external circumstances. 

When someone is hoping to utilize practices like breathwork and meditation to cope with anxiety and support healing and recovery it is best to take things in a step-by-step way. You could even say this methodology for programming is like yoga's built-in trauma-informed approach.

Each of my online programs takes this step-by-step approach (krama) so that you can embody and integrate at a pace that is right for you. If your yoga practice hasn't stuck before it could be because hopping in on random classes skips a lot of steps in...

This is a one hour experiential and motivational session was specifically for nurse educators in Springfield MO. I customize each talk to be as relevant as possible for the audience!

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