Join Mary Paffard for an exploration of yoga and meditation
An Earth Day meditation featuring a poem by Wendell Barry and encouraging rooting and grounding.
Please open up the pdf first to help ensure that my assuredly imperfect audio instructions are a little clearer. This is a 38 minute audio practice that can be taken into a longer practice. The first part of the practice may be enough to get you going into your own entirely unique starfish being. Starfish pdf Permalink
In in-depth hour long interview on the relevance of yoga in today's world and Mary's current projects including outreach to Cuba and upcoming classes and workshops. Some information at the end is cutoff but can be found at www.maryyoga.com/podcasts/
This reflection includes some pieces that I have shared with people over many years from our indigenous elders, questions I have found helpful to ponder, and an invitation to sense embodiment and be heartened by the courage of youth and our own inner potency.
Call on the Goddess when you need a little help getting to the mat to practice!
An active vinyasa honoring the sacred masculine, 60 minutes
Simple breath work and viniyoga, 25 minutes.Very simple breath instructions for your students and friends: Respiration-English | Respiracion-Espanol
Befriend your belly with a little deep abdominal yoga
This practice can be done in sections or as a 67+ minute session. Each section can be done on its own and used as an entry into further self exploration. It was created for women in peri-menopause/menopause and for pre-menses times but is suitable for a wide range of practitioner of any age or gender or in any type of transition, and who needs a little reminder to calm, ground and find their skeleton power!
A Brahma Viharas and bird meditation recorded in Tamil Nadu.
A simple guided savasana that includes gentle muscle release and breath work. Accompanied by crickets and frogs on a warm Mendocino midsummer evening. 18 mins, suitable for everyone, could be used after any practice including Freedom and Balance Vinyasa.
Join Mary and Cyd on a creaky deck on an early June morning in Mendocino County for a series of standing and reclining poses and sun salutes. Active, energetic vinyasa practice focusing on freedom and balance in the groins and pelvis using a block. A one-hour practice designed for intermediate students, it can be used as a lead-in to inversions and backbends or followed by your own short silent savasana or the longer (18 minute) Cricket Savasana podcast. Not suitable for beginners or those with back problems.
You will need a blanket, mat, and a long strap with buckle/clasp, preferably one of the wider straps. This is a simple practice focusing on ease in the hip joints in supine, standing and sitting; it is suitable for most students. The sequence works on the premise that there is an intelligence inside the joints that we rarely listen to! You will need familiarity with yoga pose names e.g.Virasana, Supta Padangustasana, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Garudasana, Trikonasana, Ardha Chandrasana, Uttanasana. It can be used as the beginning to a longer practice of inversions and forward bends. The first part of sitting and supine can also be used for a shorter practice to lead into more sitting or restful asana or just because time is limited.
Exploring our intention in tadasana and the “natural” position/s of the spine...some suggestions. No props necessary just a chair, floor and a little time.
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