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Season 5 - Episode 5

Become the Vessel

45 min - Practice
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Come home to the heart. We begin with a devotional chant to Radha and Krishna before moving into a sweet vinyasa flow practice with an intention of becoming the vessel. You will feel at home.
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Hello. Welcome. Namaste. Welcome to your practice today. Today's practice is all about Radha and Krishna, and it's become the vessel. So Radha and Krishna are known as the embodiment of divine love, the self coming home to the self. And for me, Radha represents this doorway to the heart, and Krishna is this one who shows up. So when we start to show up fully for ourselves, for our practices, for our lives, that doorway to the heart opens. And there's this really beautiful quote from the Bhattisutras that says, love is manifest where there's an able vessel. And so as we work through our practice here today, as we start to open the doorway of the heart, we'll become that vessel. So we'll begin today with a mantra. It's Radhe, which is another name for Radha. Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Shyam. And Shyam is another name for Krishna, and it means like the dark one. So it represents the darker form of Krishna. So we begin in a comfortable seat, and you're welcome to take what we call Hridayamudra, this like simple sweet version where you take your right hand on your heart and your left hand on top, and taking a moment to close your eyes and fully arrive. Stacking the heart over the hips, head over heart, and really allowing the breath to enter. So again, becoming this vessel for the breath. The ribs expand. And we'll take our moment here to set our intention for our practice today, our Sankalpa. And what is calling you right now in this moment? What are you ready to become a vessel for in your life? What are you ready to open to? How are you willing to show up? We'll begin our chanting practice here together, and you're welcome to join me whenever you're ready. So again, our mantra is Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. So calling in your intention.

Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. Together. Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. Together.

Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. Together. Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham.

One more. Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Radhesham. When you're ready, we'll seal in with it all together. Deep breath in. One more. If your hands are still on your heart, when you're ready, releasing your hands and opening your eyes, and we'll begin seated in Sukhasana.

So we'll begin here in Sukhasana, and you're welcome to sit on a blanket that is more comfortable for you. We'll begin with a little pranayama to start to clear the vessel. And so we'll bring our arms up like cactus arms, and we're going to take what we call pranamudra. So the ring finger and the pinky finger meet the thumb, and then your peace fingers come together. So this is pran or pranamudra, and you're going to keep a sense of lift in the arms underneath the armpit.

So we're going to take some breath work here, and so this is sort of how it will go. We'll turn to the left on the inhale, and as we exhale, we look to the right. And so we're going to go back and forth. So we'll inhale, just like that, about 20 rounds or so. So I'll talk you through it, and we're going to want to keep the arms up. So there's a tendency to let the elbows drip here, so we're going to keep them lifted, keep the heart high, until we'll get started. So inhale, turn to the left.

Keep going. If you like, speed it up. We're about halfway there. Eighteen. Let's do one more for good luck.

And then inhale to center, pause here with your pranamudra, lift through the armpits, take a deep breath. Exhale, hands back to the heart. And just take a moment here to feel the effects of the pranayama. So pranayama is a powerful practice. It really helps us clear, activate the energy within. And then when you're ready, you're releasing your hands and open your eyes, and we'll begin in downward-facing dog.

So if you're sitting on something, go ahead, set that to the side. You'll plant your hands, tuck your toes, and we'll make our way into downward-facing dog, autumukaswanasa. From downward-facing dog, ground into your left foot, inhale, take your right leg to the sky, you'll bend your right knee and stack your hips. We're going to take some knee circles here, so this might be a little bit different. You'll inhale, you'll dip your right knee low, and then you'll exhale, take it out to the side three times, low, and then to the side. One more, dip it low, inhale, exhale up and about. Now you'll inhale, extend the leg straight, exhale, step through for warrior two.

So foot between your hands, back foot spins to ground, and then inhale, coming up into warrior two. Knee over ankle, ground through the back edge of your back foot, breathing here. Now for the reverse warrior, we're going to take our left hand to our heart, spin the right arm open, and as you inhale, you'll reverse your warrior, continue to move that front shin forward. As we exhale, the hands go to the mat, plank, step it back, inhale. Knees, chest, chin, exhale, asdangapurnam.

Come onto your belly, inhale, baby cobra, bhujangasana. Exhale, downward-facing dog, you feel like come to your knees to find that transition. Inhaling, left leg sweeps, exhale, bend your knees, stack your hips. And again, we'll take those knee circles, inhale, dip it low, exhale to the side, three times. So creating a circular motion, opening into the hip.

That last one, you'll inhale, extend the leg, exhale, step through. Warrior two, back foot spins to ground, inhale, rise. Virabhadrasana two, spinning the knee towards the middle toe, equal reaching between both arms. Right hand to the heart, left arm spins open, inhale, reverse your warrior. Even look down towards the back edge of your back foot if you like, inhale.

Exhale, hands to the mat, vinyasa, asdangapurnam style. So inhale to plank, exhale, knees, chest, chin. Come onto your belly, inhale, bhujangasana. Exhale, downward-facing dog, tuck your toes, lift your hips. Couple of moments here, really engaging through the arms, inner thighs back, becoming the vessel.

And as you inhale next, you'll land your knees to the mat. And you'll untuck your toes and you'll sit on your heels. So these are little baby camels, and they're a little different. We'll place the hands behind our feet on the floor. And it's almost like this little lift of the heart that we'll be exploring.

So my hands are down, and as I inhale, I lift up through the heart. You can gaze up or gaze forward or even gaze to your own sternum if that feels good for you. So inhale here. As you exhale, you'll release and take your hands to your hips, and then we'll come onto our shins. And this is another version of a baby camel.

So we'll inhale, lift up, elbows can go back. As we exhale, it's going to take a little tiny baby camel. I'm going to gaze towards my sternum. So there's a sense of lift in the heart. Breathe.

Inhale, come up. You'll sit back down and we'll do that one more time. So that same sequence, hands behind you. Inhale, baby camel, lift the heart. Exhale, hands to hips, rise onto your shins.

Elbows back, inhale, lift up through the heart. Exhale, curl back, gaze to your sternum. Top of the shin, top of the foot is where all that prana movement starts. Beautiful. Inhale, come up.

Go heads down to your heels, and we'll come onto all fours. So these are called scapular push-ups, and they're a little different. We're going to keep the arms straight, and we're going to bring the chest towards the mat and then almost find like a Halloween cat shape in the shoulders. It's going to help us create space and free the shoulders. So as I inhale, my arms stay strong.

I'm going to sink my heart between my arm bones. Now as I exhale, I'm going to push the floor away, find the U shape in the upper back. Yeah? Keep going. So inhale, heart towards the mat.

You're going to feel like you're squeezing the shoulder blades together. Maybe you're squeezing the skin of your back together between the shoulder blades. Exhale. A couple more, sinking the heart. Oh, yeah, pushing away.

So freeing the shoulders frees up a lot of old energy. So we're again becoming that vessel. Heart down, push the floor away, find that U shape. One more. See if you can really allow the chest to move down.

It's subtle work, but it's good work. Beautiful. And then from here, you'll tuck your toes, lift it up, down our facing dog. And simply walking forward to the top of your mat. So as I inhale, I'll lift my heels and start to walk forward.

And then we'll set up for padagusthasana or padahastasana. So the feet are about two fists width apart. Bend your knees a lot. And for padahastasana, we slide our hands underneath the feet. Now, if this isn't really that available to you, you can also have the top of the hand on the mat, knees bent.

But ideally, we're sliding hands on your feet, toes to wrists. You can massage your hands and your wrists. Knees can stay bent. Or we inhale, lift and lengthen. Exhale, fold.

Elbows to the sides and slightly back. But allow the shoulders to relax. So it's not so much about what's happening in the lift of the shoulders up today. You just want the freedom for the scapula. So free the scapula, the shoulder blades.

Inhale, find your halfway lift. Exhale, let's take padagusthasana. So peace fingers, hug the big toes. Same position in the legs and feet. Again, bend your knees if you need to.

Inhale, halfway lift. Exhale, fold. Elbows can pull back. I like to gaze up towards my navel here. That's available to you.

Inner thighs roll back, shifting towards balls of feet. Then inhale, halfway lift. Exhale, take your hands to your hips, your belly to your spine. Shoulders on the back, flat back, inhale. Come all the way up.

Nice work. So tree pose. Left foot down, right foot lifting. For this version of tree, we'll have our hands on our heart. So finding a nice connection to your left leg, your right foot will lift.

Hands to the heart. And just coming back home to this home of the heart, right? The self, meaning the self. This idea of Radha and Krishna. If you like, you can stay here with hands and heart.

We can bring your palms up, elbows can drop. And you can actually create a little bit of this offering moment here, a little bit of a curl back. Stay with your breath. Feel like you can curl back to your degree. Slowly come up, hands together, feet step together.

Let's take a Vinyasa, arms release, inhale, sweep it up. Exhale, fold it in, gazing towards your shins. Inhale, halfway lift. So we're taking that Ashtanga Pranam Vinyasa. So you'll plant your hands, step back to plank.

Inhale here, exhale, knees, chest, chin to the mat. On to the belly, inhale. A little baby cobra, if you like, getting a little bit bigger. Exhale, downward facing dog, push to your knees if you like. Tuck your toes.

Inhale, right leg to the sky. So we'll add on. Exhale, knee to chest, knee circles, inhale to the right, exhale. Two more. Now, on this last time, you point your knee to the right, you're going to stay here.

Engage into your back heel, extend your right leg, inhale. Oh, yeah. Exhale, knee to chest. Step it through, warrior two. Back foot spins to ground.

Inhale, come on up. Nice work. Find your Vira two. Arms are reaching equally, gazing towards your middle finger. Left hand to the heart, right arm spins open.

Inhale, reverse the warrior. Front shin moves forward. Now, as we exhale, we're going to hover towards a half moon, palm up. So again, it's like this offering moment. I'll step my back foot, a half step in.

As I inhale, I'll shift my weight. You can stay here or you'll just start to reach forward with a hand just for a moment in time. And then bending back into the standing leg, you can reverse your warrior. One more inhale. Exhale, both hands inside of your right foot.

Lift your left heel, lizard pose. Widen your stance. Rock it out. And then we'll step it back to plank. So when you're ready, lift from the sacrum.

Inhale, step your right foot back plank. Knees, chest, chin, exhale, a stranga pranam. Come on to your belly. Inhale, a little cobra. Exhale, downward facing dog.

And your thighs roll back. We'll take two big ninja steps to the top of the mat. So when you're ready on your inhale, you can lift your heels and then your right foot steps forward. Left foot forward, inhale, halfway lift. Exhale, fold.

Inhale, rise up, arms reach up. Deep breath in. Hands to heart, exhale. Second side, so standing on your right foot, left foot lifting for tree. Hands to heart.

Coming back to this idea of being the vessel, right? Love manifests where there's an able vessel. You can stay here, or again, the palms might reach out, elbows are low. So freeze the shoulder blades. Now you can stay here, or I like to think of pivoting around the heart.

So it's as if I'm laying back into like the energy behind my heart. So I'm going to inhale, lift up. As I exhale, it might just start to curl back a little bit. You can gaze towards your sternum or shift your gaze. Inhale, exhale.

So it's almost like as if we're pivoting around the energy of the heart. Reversing slowly, back to where you began. And then feet step together. Let's take our vinyasa, arms down, inhale, reach it up. Exhale, fold it in.

Inhale, halfway lift. Step back to plank, hands plant. Big step back, plank pose, inhale, knees, chest, chin, exhale. And shangaparnam, which means like the eight point bow. Come on to your belly.

Inhale, little cobra, bhudangasana. Exhale, downward facing dog. Find a nice clear downward facing dog. Inhale, left leg sweeps. Exhale, knee to chest, up and around to the side.

Three times. Exhale, inhale wide. Exhale, take it low. Now as you inhale, you'll take it wide. Pause here, anchor into your right heel, extend the leg.

Exhale, knee to chest, step it forward, warrior two. Back foot to the instagram, nice work. Inhale, come all the way up, warrior two. Getting strong in the back leg. Right hand to the heart, reverse your warrior.

Inhale. Again, you can look towards the back edge of the back heel. We're looking out past your left arm. Inhale, sitting up for the hovering half moon. Exhale, you reach the arm forward.

Step your right foot like a half step in. Inhale, shifting your weight. And when you're ready, you'll hover here on this offer of the heart. Slowly lower down. Reverse, inhale.

Hands to floor, exhale. Lizard pose, back heel lifts, widen your stance. You can even widen the right foot to really release into the hip. And then we just rock it out. Knee the hands sealed down.

Couple of breaths here. And then the next inhale, we step back to plank, deep breath. You can do it, lift your sacrum. Exhale, knees, chest, chin. A strong apart arm.

Onto your belly, inhale, blue jangasana. Maybe it's getting a little bit bigger now, right? Like we're pivoting around the heart. Exhale, come on down. Downward facing dog.

Breathing. Going back to our ninja steps to transition. So I like to inhale, lift my heels. This time it's the left foot. Big lunge step.

Then the right. Inhale, halfway lift. Exhale, folding in. And then inhale, rise up. So crown through your feet.

Lift the heart, take a deep breath. Hands to heart, exhale. So we're going to stand here at the front of the mat, but widen your stance. So it's going to be a little standing back bend practice. And the feet need to be a little bit wider than hip width distance to make it kind of comfortable to start.

So we'll begin. My feet are wider than my hips. Hands are on my heart. Just like we did in tree. You can begin here simply anchoring.

Breathing. And then when we're ready, we'll bring the elbows low, palms up. I like to imagine holding like cups of chai in my hands. You don't want to spill your chai. So palms are up, elbows are low.

Inhale, you'll lift up through the heart. As you exhale, you'll curl back. Gaze to your sternum if you like. Inhale, lift up. Exhale, curl back.

Inhale, lift. Exhale, curl. Breathing here for another couple of breaths. And slowly reverse your path. Hands to heart.

Pause. So really opening that vessel of the heart, right? Opening the door. That rata moment. So next phase of this is we're going to bring the hands to the hips.

Fingertips can point down or they can point up, okay? And the elbows are going to try to draw back. Ideally, you would have your fingertips pointing up if you're a little bit more open in the shoulders today. You're welcome to do that. And again, really finding your stance.

And again, you don't have to go far, right? This is new to you. Or if you feel dizzy, don't go that far and look to your sternum because it's something that the body gets used to over time. Inhale, lift up. Exhale, curl back.

I'm just going to look towards my own sternum. Inhale, lift. Exhale. One more. Inhale, lift.

Exhale, curl. Breathe. And slowly rise on up. Inhale. Beautiful.

Hands to heart. We'll step our legs wide. And we'll head into what we call temple pose. So the toes turn out, heels turn in, and you'll bend your knees. And you can take a moment here to also just let your arms go.

Get a good steady stance. If you feel like you're pitching forward a lot, don't sit quite so deep. Come up a little bit. Beautiful. Now from here, inhale, arms out.

Exhale, right arm under left. Eagle arms. Elbows off the chest, hands away from face. Pausing here. And maybe little semi-circles with your head.

So right ear to right shoulder. You can take little circles with your head if that feels good. You might even lift the elbows and lower the elbows. So play with that for a moment. Stay low.

Beautiful. Inhale, reach the arms up. Exhale. Opposite elbow. Candy cane.

Elbows off the chest, hands away from face. Left ear towards left shoulder, maybe. And little semi-circles if that feels good. Breathe. And then when you're ready, on your inhale, we'll straighten the legs.

Reach the arms up. Exhale, hands to heart. So widening your stance for Prasarita Padottanasana. I'm also going to step slightly back to give myself some room here. Arms reach out on the inhale.

Now as you exhale, let's interlace the hands behind the back. Inhale to lift and lengthen. Exhale, Prasarita Sea Arms. They'll come up and over. Now this is a great place to be.

You can stay here, widen your grip. Let the shoulders go. Or hands release towards the floor. And you can set up for a tripod headstand. So Sureshasana II.

Head and hands are like equilateral triangle. So if you're new to this, you're welcome just to stay in a forward fold. You're also welcome just to set up the alignment, but not actually put weight on your head. So from here, I set my hands, and we'll plant the top of the head down. And then on the inhale, legs come up and overhead.

Elbows hug in. And we breathe. This activates what we call a Hedrid Yang Meeting. It's a point at the top of the head. The vessel of Prana.

When you're ready, on your inhale, legs wide. Pivot from the pelvis, exhale. Inhale, halfway lift position. Really create some space. As you exhale, take your hands to your hips, your belly to your spine, and flat back come all the way up.

Beautiful. We'll step to the top of the mat. Hands at the heart, Samasthiti. And then when you're ready, we'll widen our stance once again. So let's just return to this vessel of the heart.

And you're welcome to stay with what we just did. My offering to you here is to head into our camel position with the arms, or you might go a little bit deeper by sliding your hands down the back of the legs. And I'll talk you through it. So if you felt like this was enough first round, you're going to stay here. Our hands will find their way to the low back, or to the hips, or the glutes.

When you're ready on the inhale, lift up, engage the legs. This is all about the legs. And as you exhale, you start to curl back. What I love about these backbends, it's really this opportunity for us for the self, the smaller self to meet the bigger self, right? We're in this space.

Inhale, lifting, exhale, curling back, of the self, meaning the self. Stay here, or you might turn your hands down on your legs and start to slide the hands down the legs, lifting up through the heart. So you continue to lift. Breathe. And slowly inhale up.

Beautiful work. Hands to the heart, big toes touch. Take a moment, maybe thumbs to third eye, and really ground in. And then releasing the arms. Inhale, sweep it up.

Vinyasa, exhale, fold in. Bend your knees if you need to. We just did some deep backbends. Inhale, halfway lift. This time on your exhale, point your hands, step it back, plank.

Inhale here. Exhale, knees, chest, chin. Vashtanga pranam. Come onto your belly. Inhale, lift the heart, bhujangasana.

It's allowing the heart to really be the vessel today. Exhale. Come down. Downward facing dog. So we're going to add on from our knee circles towards wild thing, and I'll talk you through it.

So on your next inhale, inhale, sweep the right leg up. Exhale, bend the knee. Knee circles. Three times. Inhale down.

Exhale to the side. Two more. Now on this last one, you'll inhale, take it around and about, and we'll land the ball of the foot outside the left leg. So you're strong on the left arm. We'll begin with a hand to the heart.

So here's the key to wild thing. I'm on the ball of my right foot. Now as I inhale, I'm going to lift through the heart and start to curl the chest up. Hand behind the heart. Behind the head, you'll curl back.

Like arm up, plug it in, reach it back. Arm to the sky. Inhale. Exhale, hand to the mat. Plank pose.

Inhale. Exhale, knees. Chest, chin. On to the belly. Inhale, cobra.

Exhale, come down. Downward facing down. It's two seconds side. Inhale, left leg to the sky. Exhale, bend your knee.

Knee circles. Inhale down. Exhale to the side. Three times. Really align the breath to lead the way.

Now this last time the knee stays lifted, you'll shift to the right hand ball of left foot. Hand to heart. Now as I inhale, I lift up through the hips, curl back through the heart. Hand can go behind the head. Curl back.

Inhale. Arm up. Plug in. Reach it back. Vessel to heart.

Inhale. Arm up. Hand to the floor. Plank pose. Step it back.

Exhale, knees, chest, chin. Now the offering here is to pause. You can stay there or fly your hands up. And then the hands come down. Come onto your belly.

Inhale, bhudangasana. Exhale. Nice work. Child's pose. Let's just go straight back.

Reach your arms out in front of you. Knees can be wide. Breathe. Steady your breath. Again, that samavritti pranayama.

And then we'll inhale. We'll kind of sit on our shins. And so bringing the knees together, shins parallel, we'll head back into these camel pulses that we did before. So you're welcome to, again, stay with the hands behind you on the mat here. And then inhale, lift your heart.

The offering here is to actually add a little hip lift. It's a little different. So as you inhale, you'll lift your heart, but also lift your hips. Take a breath. Exhale.

Release. Hands to hips. Come onto your shins. So just like we did before, fingertips can point down. Inhale, lift up.

Exhale. Curl back. Again, the offering here is to slide the hands down the back of the legs like we did in the standing pose. If you like, you can even use your thighs to curl back. Inhale.

Slowly come up. Sit down. Beautiful. One more time, hands behind you. This next round, you'll, again, inhale.

Just lift your heart. If you like, add the hip lift. Inhale. Exhale. Come down.

Traditional camel. You'll inhale. Come up onto your shins. You're welcome to stay with any variation we just took. Yeah?

Or we'll add the traditional release of the hands towards the feet. So inhale here. Lift up and lengthen. Exhale, curl back. Inhale.

Exhale. And maybe your right hand finds a right heel, left hand to left. Shins down. Inhale thighs back. And then see if you can find the pivot of the heart.

Like you're pivoting the heart. It's like rolling over the sweet little energetic spot behind the heart. Inhale. Maybe soul to soul. Slowly come up and sit down.

Nice work. Knees wide. Child's pose. Take your time making your way in. We just did a lot of back bending, so be really sweet.

So Radha and Krishna are in this dance. It's what we call the Leela. Right? This divine play. The self meeting the self.

So thinking of all this as just play. Right? This divine play. And then gently, slowly walking your way up. And we'll find ourselves in a seat here.

So coming to sit down. This is a spot where you might use your blanket to sit on. If you feel like sitting up without slumping into your low back is an issue for you. You'll bend your right knee. Take your right foot in.

And then we'll bend the left knee and draw the left foot back. This foot's in like Ardha Virasana. The top of the foot is down. You're welcome to have the knee a little wider if you need to. Right foot is in front of left thigh.

Option here is for half lotus. If you have a stable, safe half lotus, you can take that variation. Inhale. Lift up through the heart. Exhale.

We'll twist towards our right knee. Left hand to right knee. The right arm's behind you, supporting. Go ahead, twist to the right. And then the final piece of this is to gaze past the left shoulder and anchor through the left shoulder.

And slowly inhale. Come out. Lean to the right. Extend your left leg. Janusasana A.

So from here, you're welcome to sit on something again if you need that sense of support. We'll inhale. Lift and lengthen. Exhale, fold. And I like to here use my right hand on the left foot to find some space and fold in.

You might have both hands on the foot as you bow. Elbows can go wide or they can drop down. Breathing. Inhale, halfway lift. Exhale, walk in.

Beautiful. Now from here, just lift your right knee. Foot is near the left knee. The right hand will be behind you on the mat. Inhale, lifting your left arm.

Exhale, simple twist to the right. And reach Yasana C variation. Inner thigh down, really anchor into this right foot. Breathe. Maybe looking past your right shoulder.

Beautiful. Inhale, come to center to release. And we'll switch sides. So left knee draws in. Right knee bends, right foot back towards right hip.

So we're inhaling, we're creating this space. So we exhale, we twist towards the left. Right hand, left knee. Left hand supports you. And again, you can stay here or you'll look towards the right and really anchor into that right hip looking past your right shoulder on the floor.

Breathing. There's a sense of this regalness of Radha and Krishna in this pose, which I really love. Inhale to center. Lean to the left, extend your right leg. Again, sitting on something if you need that support.

Inhale, lift, exhale, fold. Maybe left hand finds right foot if you like, the right hand can join in. And then we bow. So love manifests where there's an able vessel. Creating that space.

Self, meaning self. Inhale, halfway lift. Exhale, walk in. Beautiful. Left knee lifts.

Again, you can move the left foot closer to the right knee. Don't forget about the right leg. Left hand's behind you. Inhale, right arm sweeps. Exhale, twist towards the left.

Ujjayi breath, anchoring into that left foot. Ujjayi. Beautiful. And then we'll inhale to center. And from here, we're going to take our legs wide.

So just a couple moments in Upavistha Konasana. You can make this more of a restful version of your fold. So knee caps point up. Sit on something if you need that support. We have our blankets for that.

And then you might start to walk your way forward. I'm just pausing here. Maybe palms up. Coming back to your intention, your Sankalpa. Am I in this space in my heart where I can become the vessel, right?

Am I clearing that pathway? And that play of Radha and Krishna, right? The coming together, self and self. And then slowly walking up. Hands underneath for that support.

We'll take a diamond shape. It's like a wide version of Baddha Konasana. You might be familiar with this. So more of like a diamond in the legs. And this is a really sweet fold.

The knees can stay up if you need that. And stay out of the low back. It's just more into the heart. So we inhale, we lengthen, and then we just curl in. Settling into the breath.

And then as you're ready, inhale and unfurl yourself. We'll take our blanket, and we're going to roll the blanket into a shape. It's like a roll. So I like to unfold my blanket a bit and make this roll to support my heart. We're going to take a little heart opening version of Shavasana.

So I've got my blanket roll. And then I'm going to come to lie down on my back. I'm going to place the blanket sort of in alignment with my armpit. So my arms are going to be off the sides. And then we'll have the legs go wide.

You can close your eyes. And you're welcome to rest here for a few moments with a blanket for your Shavasana. You're also welcome to remove the blanket at any time if you feel like you need to do that, to be in your ultimate Shavasana. And you're welcome to stay here. You're also welcome to join me in a seat and we'll return to our chanting practice together.

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We all beings know peace and safety and are free from fear. We'll close together with a big om. Deep breath in, offering it up. Thank you so much for sharing your practice today. Namaste.

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Jasmine T.
1 person likes this.
The back bends were so good!
Emily Perry
Woo hoo! I am so glad you enjoyed them, Jasmine T. ! Thank you so much for practicing with me!

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