Friday Flow — Shedding to What Is Essential: 45 Min Full-Body Return to the Heart

Описание: Recorded Date: January 16, 2026

I’m sharing one Friday Flow publicly this month as a love-month offering.

A Work In, Not a Work Out
This Friday Flow is a full-body mat based slow flow class set to music intended to tune in and return to what is essential — shedding weight, reconnecting to vitality, and remembering who we are beneath effort, striving, and accumulation.

This is a recorded live community practice, shared in the spirit of presence rather than perfection. For anyone needing a grounded, full-body asana based enlivening.

Rooted in the wisdom that yoga is not a workout but a work in, this practice invites an open heart, steady strength, and a deep listening to the inner landscape. The intention is not performance — but presence. Not pushing — but enlivening. Not fixing — but befriending.

This is a practice of coming home to yourself — alive, vibrant, grounded, and teachable.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Practice Highlights Include:
• Seated arrival with inner landscape awareness, sitting bones, and the gunas
• Mindfulness of the Hands & Straw breath (pursed-lip exhale)
• Gentle spinal flow: seated cat/cow, bound hands, head-led movement
• Child’s pose, broken toe pose, thoracic twists, and grounding transitions
• Standing flow with intention setting in Mountain
• Full-body vinyasa including chair twists, forward folds, lunges, and balance work
• Warrior flows, goddess, five-point star, lateral lunges, and wide-leg sequences
• Steadiness + vitality building through standing work, twists, and stabilizing poses
• Deep grounding through malasana, butterfly, constructive rest, and stillness
• Restorative close with humming exhale and intentional quiet

✨ Core Themes:
Shedding what is not essential
Returning to the heart
Supporting vitality
Gathering inner resources
Befriending the body
Trusting the medicine of quiet
Remembering who we already are

📖 Inspirations:
Rolf Gates & Dana Faulds

An invitation into presence, trust, and the medicine of this moment — just as it is.

🌿 Closing Intention:
Support your full body.
Replenish your reserves.
Soften into softening.
Trust the echoes.
Trust the quiet.
Lay down the weight that is not yours to carry.
Return to what is alive.

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