Yoga for the Heart and Chest

This class is apart of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Libra. It works to balance the dual nature of the self-positive and negative. This is the equilibrium of desire vs devotion, postures will work to strengthen the lower and upper back and work the kidneys.These forces create balance through presence and help to neutralize external seeking, while stabilizing the regenerative pranic (lifeforce) line (meridian).

It can be practiced when the moon is in Libra, each month, or if your birth moon is in Libra or if you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

This morning class is designed to help you connect to your body, allowing you to experience a deep sense of presence, wholeness, and inner awareness that can last throughout your day. You will mindfully flow through Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) variations, hold backbends and twists, and finish with grounding postures to help you feel balanced for your day.

There is no music in this class so you can enjoy the silent background, use your own playlist, or play Jackie's Spotify Playlist.

Spotify playlist for Good Morning Flow 2: Embodiment

This class is apart of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Leo. It works to empower the heart. This is the center of the self, postures will work power from the core and expand from the heart. These forces strengthen sense of self and personal abilities from inner confidence.

It can be practiced when the moon is in Leo, each month, or if your birth moon is in Leo and you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

"Freedom arises from a heart that is ready for anything." - Tara Brach

This warming and dynamic vinyasa flow class is designed to help you connect to your inner strength and heart power. On a physical level, you will practice postures that stretch the muscles in your chest and heart area, simultaneously strengthening the muscles of your back and legs. On an energetic level, you are invited to soften and open your symbolic heart as you connect with the strength within, so that you can live with more courage and trust. You will flow, hold balancing & backbending postures, and then wind down with half pigeon and forward folds so that you are left feeling strong, free, balanced, and more ready for what lies ahead. Enjoy!


Spotify playlist for Inner Strength Flow 3: An Open Heart

Before you start your day, join me for a morning flow! In this class, we’ll explore chest openers and backbends that will help us to create BIG energy to move through our day feeling our best. We’ll ease into the practice to gently wake up the body and move through some transitions to keep us on our toes and wake up the mind. The final build will take us into Dancer’s Pose before we wind down with a little bit of core work and a self-guided savasana. Hope you have a great day!

Explore mantra, pranayama, and gentle vinyasa in another installation of the Yogic Way series. This class aims to offer up opportunity to soften into the subtleties of full spectrum yogic practices. Observe cosmic sensations through your physical experience on the mat, and drop into your own expansive and eternal nature through this slow moving, feel good practice.

Join Katy for a 40 minute practice to release neck shoulders and chest. Learn how your daily posture can create tension in your neck and what you can do to prevent it!

This short & effective practice will create a lot of space & stability in your upper body. It's the perfect antidote to a desk job. There are opportunities for inversions & alternatives are offered.

This class is designed to help you bring awareness to the pelvis and its role in supported backbends. While this class is focused on accessible backbends, the work required to create structure is detailed and precise. While the first half of this class is slower moving, the second half picks up its pace and is certain to get the heart rate up.

This flow class will get you moving and open your heart physically, and energetically. Expect to move rhythmically with your breath and enjoy a full-body opening with an extra emphasis on heart-openers and backbends. Opening the heart and chest region in yoga not only improves posture, it can also give a boost to our joy and capacity to love.

Spotify playlist for Heart Opening Flow

This 35 minute yin class is all about cultivating the fire energy that is inside us. True, we don't always think of fire when it comes to yin, but keep in mind there is an element of yin in yang and yang in yin.

As we open up our hearts and connect to that active energy, we think about joy, peace, enthusiasm and self-esteem. How wonderful that we can passively cultivate this active energy!

You can expect to open you heart, stretch your chest, neck and shoulders and come away with a wonderful grounded energy.

This FREE class will open, stretch, and relax your upper body in just 20 minutes. Your shoulder, neck, and upper back region can accumulate stress and tension and this practice is the perfect antidote. Expect deep stretches, time to breathe and unwind, and time to open into postures.

Spotify playlist for 20-Minute Shoulder & Upper Body Love

We are, if nothing else, an overly hunched culture. This short but energetically delicious Intensive focuses on a handful of potent camel pose variations (among others) to really open the chest, invigorate the upper spine and bring space to the heart and head, so real devotional energy can swirl and inspire. Move slowly. Don't get dizzy. Stop analyzing everything. You'll be fine.


Spotify playlist for Devotion Intensive IV: Smoking Camels

Wake up, stretch, breathe deep, and get centered for your day in this short beginner morning class. This gentle class is perfect for those who are brand new to yoga or those looking for a slow paced class with extra guidance. You will practice basic accessible postures with options to customize each one to work for your body. Enjoy!

It has been said, "no mud, no lotus." In yoga (and in life), I think about "no rain, no rainbow." Our practice can serve as an opportunity to train ourselves to make it though the storm. The poses can be tricky or uncomfortable and our job is to find our best alignment and stay connected to our breath. Beyond weathering the storm (of a challenging pose, class, or life), we can also learn to see the rainbow - to train the mind to see the good even though the tough. In this class filled with side bends and heart openers, we will work on both the rain and the rainbow.

Treat your Self to a gentle Yin sequence crafted to stimulate the Heart + Lung Meridians (increasing energy among these meridian lines invoke less worry, release of grief or sadness, strengthen sense of self-worth). End your class with an extra-long Shavasana accompanied by a mini-Sound Healing—celestial sounds + vibration that encourage relaxation, deep meditation, and mending of connection to our inner divine.

This slower-paced class is designed to specifically help you open your chest, upper back and shoulders. Expect different variations of warrior poses with the strap and puppy pose with the blocks. While some of these movements might feel a bit intense, the reward will be well worth it!

This class gives you a little bit of everything—breath, flow, length, strength, and stretch—while giving you an opportunity to practice deep presence and awareness. Postures include balancing, side bending, and heart opening, as well as a hip opener (half pigeon with options) toward the end of class to help you ground your energy. Enjoy!


Spotify playlist for Flow into Presence

Dancer's Pose is one of the most potent and difficult postures. It's a balancing pose that asks us to stay strong amidst our wobbly times in life. It also asks the shoulder to open deeply into the backplane. We start slow and work steadily towards opening our hips and shoulders through balancing poses as well as taking our shoulders into the backplane. Though it's a slow-moving class we go deep. Jeanie uses a strong and steady tree to balance on for the full expression of Natarajasana with a strapm as this class is offered from the beautiful Eldorado Canyon State Park on a windy Fall day with lots of challenging obstacles to balance. The theme is steady yourself as the wind attempts to blow you off your midline.

Arms aren't just for lugging heavy loads, hanging on for dear life, for shoving away that which doesn't please you. This short but potent Intensive also brings attention to how you may, or may not, wish to truly EMBRACE your life's moments, and with what sort of devotional intention. What, you think it's all just a workout? How boring. Let's get to it.

Spotify playlist for Devotion Intensive II: Arms to Hold

This 30-minute morning yoga routine will boost your energy & will energize you for the day. Enjoy a fun and energetic flow practice with Pradeep, to start your morning!

To practice staying soft when things get hard is one of the trickiest and most valuable skills a yogi practices. In this gentle vinyasa practice, we will do just that. We will fold, side bend, and twist our way into a softer more open heart.

This yin class is all about tuning out distractions, moving inward and becoming so strong that outside forces don't make us react. Lofty goals for a yoga class, right?!

Your mantra throughout this class is:
I have no where else to be.
I have nothing else to do.
I have nothing else to think about.

You can expect to open your hips, your heart and do some gentle twisting.

This class works to relieve low back pain and improve posture. Side sleeping, screen time, and day to day life can close specific lines of the body which leads to low back pain, poor posture, and loss of mobility.

Designed to be both therapeutic and to improve muscular balance. This class opens key reflective points within the body to support back/shoulder mobility and to release: upper back knots, low back lateral 'pulling', tightness across chest and front of the hips.

Recommended to be done daily - few times a week to improve posture, shoulder mobility, and support hip opening. Practice with my video, Evolutions of flow-Seat of Health for a healthy back and hips.

If you need a good stretch and are ready to release any tension in your shoulders or hips, this class will hit the spot. This Hatha class takes several breaths in each pose, to give you time to breathe deeply, and smooth out any kinks in your hips and upper body. This is an excellent class if you sit a lot during the day and will open and strengthen the muscles that get tense from too much time at a desk.


Spotify playlist for 45-Minute Heart & Hips Hatha

Hey you, are you looking for some inspiration to start or wrap up your day? A feel good practice that opens up the heart? You'll begin restoring in a pose to then find a flow that will be sure to get your shoulders flossed and relaxed by the end of class. Pay it forward.

The sequence of this FREE class will twist, open and align your body. You can look forward to stretches for the neck and shoulders, as well as techniques to balance the head in between the neck and shoulders. You will leave feeling centered, open and refreshed!

"We practice to nourish our hope — our hope for a more settled mind, a more stable breath, a more compassionate heart. Our practice feeds our hope, and our hope feeds our practice. In fact, our practice is hope in action." Judith Hanson Lasater

What does embodied hope look like? Is life weighing you down or are you walking with your head high and with an open heart full of hope. This practice incorporates nourishing backbends like sphinx, floor blow and even an opportunity to cultivate Ardha Chandra Chapasana (half-moon bow pose). Backbends energize and help us counter and strengthen our modern and chronic postural patterns. You can take this slow or customize with vinyasa transitions to build heat.

Start your day off with this energetic flow that will warm and awaken you. You will flow, balance, strengthen, and stretch as you connect to your inner spark. When we connect to what lights us up we can live in alignment with our highest purpose and inspire others to do the same.

Class begins with flowing Sun Salutation variations (Surya Namaskar), followed by balancing, heart openers, and twisting postures. You will finish with grounding postures to leave you feeling centered and balanced. Enjoy, and have a great day!

In a world full of Yang energy, one of the best things we can do is Yin yoga. I know it's hard to slow down, but your body, your mind and your community need Yin energy right now.

This Yin class is focused on the hips and the heart which makes is perfect for any athletes or desk jockeys out there. Remember, with Yin we are focused on long holds that may not be challenging in execution, but challenging due to the stillness. For a lot of us, this slowing down is more challenging than any power or vinyasa flow.

Spotify playlist for Yummy Yin: Hips and Heart