Yoga for Waking Up

This practice will create space & freedom in all the major joints of your body. We start with a spine & shoulder activation, then build into a flowing Jivamukti style Sun Salutation to get us warmed up. Next we open up the hips in both lunge & straddle variations. Concluding with some glute & abs work.

This short but juicy sequence will leave you feeling free & open in no time at all. A wonderful option to wake you up or wind you down depending on what time of day you are craving to loosen up.

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

Get your day started the right way with Morning Flow. This class is great first thing in the morning or if you need a mental/physical reset mid-morning or afternoon. It is designed to wake your body up and get you moving in all directions.

- There is no music so feel free to add your own playlist.

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!

"The most meaningful moments in life don't happen in the when, they happen in the now." - Rachel Macy Stafford

This morning vinyasa flow class is designed to help anchor you into the here and now, so that you can continue to practice true presence throughout your day. You will flow through warming Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) variations, hold twisting & balancing postures, and finish with floor postures to help balance and ground your energy. Enjoy!

Spotify playlist for Good Morning Flow 1: Here & Now

Tap into your own solar nature in this dynamic and powerful Yogic Way class. Explore elements of pranayama, kriya, mantra, mudra, and a hatha-based postural practice. Drop out of the mind and into the body in exploration of some of yoga's subtler aspects. You will be left feeling enlivened, awake, and ready to step into the rest of your day with easeful grace.

Feeling a bit sluggish and blah? This class is like a cup of coffee for your body and mind! We'll tap into powerful breath and quickly get the body moving to increase blood flow, improve your mood, and leave you feeling recharged and ready to take on whatever life throws at you!

Join Katy for a flowing morning practice. Get your body gently moving and mind intention setting to start your day the right way!

Only have 10 minutes but want to get your blood flowing? This quick yoga break will have you flowing through Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations) and a dynamic series of standing postures to wake up your balance, your strength, and open up tight muscles. You'll feel more clear, calm, and prepared for the rest of your day.

Your Morning Quickie is back by popular demand! In just 20 minutes, Elise will guide you through a sequence of postures to wake up every part of your body and prepare your mind for a wonderful day ahead.


Spotify playlist for Morning Quickie 3

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!

Gently wake up with your breath in Vajrasana, then twist, lunge, fly, and stretch out your body on all sides. You will practice some feel-good heart opening postures including Wild Thing, Bow, and Wheel. Ease your transition from morning into day and allow your body & mind to enjoy the beautiful day.

This 55 minute class was designed to assist you in 'getting your day started'! Sometimes we wake up to some stiff or sore areas of our bodies, sluggish energy and or a cloudy or all over the place mind. This class will help to remedy all of those - from the focused and thorough stretching/mobility postures, a consistent reminder of your breath and a mindfulness or awareness of your thoughts and mindset - giving both the body and mind space, relieving stress and tension and starting your day with clarity and refreshed energy! Grateful for another day - let's doooo this :))

Yoga is a perfect tool to get you ready for another type of sport or workout. In this quick session, Elise will guide you through poses which will warm and invigorate your whole body and prepare your mind to work hard.

Spotify playlist for Pre-Workout Warm Up Yoga

You asked for it, finally a sequel to your favorite Morning Quickie class! This class is FREE

You'll start this FREE session on your back, slowly stretching away the stiffness and soreness accumulated in your body overnight. Within a few magical minutes you'll have opened your hips, moved your spine in all directions, flowed through a graceful sun salutation variation, and challenged your balance and concentration.

Take 20 minutes to wake up intentionally with yoga; your whole day will be sweetly improved.

Spotify playlist for Morning Quickie 2


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Sometimes you just need to shake it out. Maybe you've been stuck at your desk too long. Or perhaps you woke up stiff and cranky. Dealing with a conflict or disappointment? This class will help you release any pent up energy and will you leave feeling calm and refreshed.

This Reset Refuge session with Elise starts with full body movements linked with the breath and ends with soft, slow long holds on the floor. In between, you'll explore some variations on 3-legged dog and low lunge, work the core, and even get in a hand massage.

Spotify playlist for Reset Refuge: Shake It Out

If you want to fit a complete and thorough yoga practice into 25--minutes, this FREE class is for you.

This riverside practice wakes everything up, has you move with your breath to start, gives you time to deepen into postures, and increases both your strength and flexibility. This strong, steady and challenging condensed class packs in everything you need in your daily yoga practice, with time to breathe through all of it and not feel rushed. You'll balance, flow, hold poses, twist, go upside down (if you choose to), and open your shoulders, hips, and heart, in less than half an hour. You'll build heat gradually to let go of any stress, and hit the reset button wherever you are in your day, finishing this class feeling strong and relaxed.

Spotify playlist for 25-Minute Full Body Yoga

Start your day with intentional movement, breathing with a positive and inspired mindset. This practice will help in reducing the aches and pains you may feel when you wake in the morning! This practice offers some play in balance, stretches the key sticky areas we all have, works on some strength (something we all need) and will sharpen your listening and paying attention skills. Throughout the practice you will be prompted to breathe, take a few deep and releasing breaths, releasing some surface stress or tensions and freeing not only the body up but the mind too! Have a beautiful day!!

These 5 poses are very accessible, straightforward forward and very useful for keeping your mobility, range of motion and flexibility in your back, hips, shoulders and hamstrings. It's a reminder that you don't have to do a lot all of the time and that a short sequence of postures can be very beneficial! You will learn and practice them individually as well as learn to put them together for a morning flow to get your day started right! These postures can help relieve back pain/discomfort, stretch out your calves and hamstrings and open hips and shoulders. Do it every day and notice how you feel!

Get your yoga in quick. Even a few minutes of yoga has powerful and worthy benefits. Enjoy them in this energetic and opening practice. This class wakes up the entire body and sharpens the mind. Focus, center yourself, breathe deeply, and grow, through this simple and quick yoga class.

No time for to get to the yoga studio before work? Elise has just the thing for you: a FREE quick, easy, effective morning practice to cleanse the aches from your body and energize you. Roll, shake, breathe and flow into the rest of your day!

Spotify playlist for Morning Quickie

This Pre Game class is great for anyone getting ready to play a sport or engage in any activity where the body could use some good warming up dynamic movement, stretching, balance, breathing and focus. It will warm and open the joints, wake up and stretch all the necessary muscles and begin to prep the body for bigger more explosive movements, whatever they may be ... running, jumping, lateral movements etc. This practice could also be used as an 'everyday wake up and get your day started' practice ... the 'pre game' for your day!! We finish seated for a few moments focusing on our breath and a positive mindset.

Ready to hit the slopes? Prepare your body for a great day on the hill with this energizing movement practice. Whether your day entails a few runs on the bunny hill or a full day out in the back country, this balanced flow will get you energized and prepped for a spectacular ski day!

Oh good morning! It is time to wake up and feel the passion, my friends! This class is a positive way to start your day - or to restart if you've hit a midday lull. Flow through inventive sequences with Pradeep. He will challenge you, but the poses are accessible to students of all levels because they are so simple.

Not your typical wake-up flow.

Call this one a semi-vigorous, whole-body call to full consciousness, by way of a reverential bow to Ganesha, the keeper/protector of liminal states, the "betwixt and between," AKA that sweet, supple zone you hover in just upon waking, right after the dream-state but BEFORE the madhouse swirl of your day's tasks, roles and melodramas swarm forth.

It's not for the passive. Morning Badass targets the hips, shoulders, a bit of core, a bit of fire (agni), deep breath-work, always shifting the gaze INWARD, with devotion, all in service of keeping the mind quiet, the emotions slightly less whiny, and your whole being more available to what IS, without the incessant churn of toxic distraction.

Damn fine way to start the day, really. Jai Ganesha!

Mark recommends using the following playlist for this class: Spotify playlist for Morning Badass Flow

Start your day with this vigorous flow. Sun salutations, standing poses, back bends, forward bends and seated spinal twists combine in this inventive sequence designed to awaken the body and move the prana energy. Pradeep builds slowly to allow the body to catch up with the mind. By the time you finish this class, you'll be ready to take on the day and approach your off-the-mat experiences with the confidence that a strong yoga practice brings. Oh happy day!

Upon waking, we are dehydrated, our fascia has hardened overnight, joints and muscles feel stiff. Easing into movement will allow your body to move through its own resistance and open up fluidly.

This class is designed to be practiced at sunrise. Starting with a gentle Suryanamaskar and building from that place, we explore a physical resistance with the affirmation "I am grateful for the resistance I encounter each day." With layered salutations, the class builds into a peak sequence involving strength-building balancing poses.

Let yourself ease into your day by connecting with you breath, finding an easeful rhythm, and allow your body to slowly awaken.

Ease into your day with this gentle flowing sequence. Stretch all the major muscle groups in the body with sun salutes incorporating lunges and interspersed with balance poses, squats and a side bend. The emphasis throughout is on breath-led movement, coming back to the breath at all times.

For all you yogis and yoginis who wake up early for your practice, I have a great deal of respect for you. It takes a huge amount of self discipline to wake up and go straight to the mat. In this flow, I want to make all that effort worth it. This class is designed to wake your whole body up bit by bit, so you can find your breath and bring brightness to your mind. Enjoy!

This class offers a good strong practice that focuses on poses and inspiration to build the warrior strength, vigor, and courage you need for everyday life. It's full of creativity, hip and chest openers, and a perfect variety of standing and seated poses. This short and sweet flow class is the perfect way to start or end any day.

**This class is also part of our Beginner's Journey Series!