Opening to the Abundance

Opening to the abundance within. In this class, we'll tap into our inner flow to find vitality and joy. We've explored how abundance is flowing outside of us all of the time. We've opened our eyes and experienced it. Now, we dip into the realization that the same substance that flows outside of us exists within us.

We'll bring one hand to the heart and one hand to the belly, a gesture of turning into the self and noticing what flows within us. You can allow the eyes to close, a gesture once again, of dropping into the self and noticing. Notice the heartbeat and the breath move, breathing into the belly and letting it rise all the way up to the heart and breathing out, letting the heart release and letting the belly release. Good. The simple gesture of tuning in with the self and noticing all the things that are going right within us. This heartbeat, this breath moving, this arrival into the sacred space of being in our mat with our breath and our intention.

Good. Tapping into the divine presence as our source as our source of abundance. And as we tap into our intention for our practice today, that life is full of lavish unfailing abundance the same substance that exists within me and the very essence of me. You can draw the hands to the heart in prayer and breathe in. And bow into the heart. Gently release your hands.

Let your eyes open. Bring your hands onto the fronts of the knee. And the next time you breathe in, pour your heart forward and inhale And as you exhale, you can tips back through your pelvis, look downwards and round as you exhale cat cow as we are seated, breathing in, and breathing out. Good. You can be as exaggerated as you'd like through this movement, scooping in and rounding, arching the back, coming forward. Really good.

Make sure each inhale is full and complete, and each exhale empties you out. The next time that you come up, we'll switch the cross of the legs. So crossing opposite leg in front, both hands to the knees. This time around, we're going to sweep the chest forward as you breathe in, and over to one side as you breathe out into the rounded shape, all the way over to one side breathing in. And rounding as you exhale, so we're making these big circular motions over the pelvis, combining the cat cow with the movement, sufi circles. You think about the whirling dervish who are are whirling around in devotion and prayer.

And this is our yogic version of that spinning around ourselves. Switching directions as you're ready. You can allow the shoulders to get more movement to get more shouldery in it. You can allow the gaze to start to shift as well, moving the head. And this last one will take you forward and then all the way up, bring your knees in together and start to make your way to boat pose, allowing either the heels to remain on the ground with the hands reaching forward and the shoulders back and down to or to lift your feet up in line with your knees, you could also start to straighten your legs if you prefer.

So finding the boat pose that's most suited for you right now, you'll take a deep breath in. And as you exhale, sweep your left arm back behind you as you breathe out. So you're twisting to the left. Breathe in and come back to center. As you exhale the right arm, we'll sweep over to the right a little twist here. Inhale, maybe a sharp exhale as you twist.

In, out, in, and out. Last few here. And all the way up to center as you inhale, allow your feet to stomp onto the ground, hip distance apart. Lay your hands down with the fingertips pointing towards your seat, put a little bend into the elbows and stay there or start to lift your hips upwards towards the sky in reverse tabletop. Put a little bend through the elbows, let the chest rise up, let the hips rise up, take a deep breath in.

And then in a little bit more, and let it go out the mouth. Slowly lower the hips down to the ground and rise up onto your hands and your knees as we prepare to make ourselves into downward facing dog. The toes curl under, hips move up and back, head releases here. You can lift both heels up and reach them back and down, let the head release dropping into the shape with the breath. You can roll forward into plank pose as you inhale, and then shift up and back downward facing dog as you exhale.

Let's do that one more time. I'm from down dog, lift both heels, bend your knees, look forward, and walk, or hop up to the hands to a standing forward fold. We'll inhale reach your chest forward and up and exhale fold all the way in. Bend your knees and roll one vertebra at a time up to stand. And the head lifts last breathe in.

And breathe out. One hand to the heart and one hand to the belly noticing now in the different pose and the different orientation, the reconnection with the self, the heart beating, the breath moving. Draw into chair. Bend your knees, sweep your arms forward and up. Take a breath in.

And as you stand, extend the arms back behind you straighten the legs. Exhale. Breathe in, chair. Stand tall, crown of the head lifts arms kick back as you exhale. A few more just like this heavy through the heels, the inside of the heel, the outside of the heel, Two more. We drop into chair and pause. Take a breath in as you exhale let your left arm swing down and back into the twist just like boat pose exhale.

Inhale rise back up the other side, right arm swings back as you breathe out. To dance, you can shift the weight into one foot and the other. You can become a little more fluid about it like almost a natural sense of moving like yourself, moving like you. Okay. Last one to the right. Share poses as you breathe in.

Fold forward as you breathe out. Inhale to lengthen the spine forward, breathe in and fold all the way in as you breathe out plant your hands, step yourself back to plank pose. In the plank pose, the shoulders are above the wrist. You hold for a moment and breathe in. Lower to the Earth as you breathe out.

COBRA with all 10 toes pressing down and the heart rising up inhale. And as you exhale, up and back to downward facing dog. Your right leg rises up for three legged dog. You have the choice here to open the knee by bending it and sending the heel back behind you. This is a breath in.

As you breathe out, step the foot up and in between the hands, back heel spins down to the ground for warrior one. The back heel down on the ground, back edge of the foot down on the ground, and the back leg is straight as you bend deeply through the right knee. Drop a hand to the heart and a hand to the belly once again. Letting the chest rise up. Good. Mhmm. And you might be able to relax and the shoulders a little bit more, or at least more than we usually do with the arms rising up.

Really noticing how you feel. And slowly start to straighten the right leg. We're gonna turn the toes out to the sides. So both toes turn to the corners of the mat and we'll bend both knees. So goddess pose.

Hands again to the heart, and to the belly, chest lifting up, we'll breathe in, let your arms go wide, and as you breathe out, bring it back to yourself. So inhale opening noticing all of the abundance around you, and exhale bringing it in. Inhale. Good. As above, so below, as within, as outside of ourselves too.

So noticing this exchange. Last two. Good. Sync right on down. Both knees remain bent. Place a hand on the top of each knee.

Slightly towards the inside of the thigh and you'll inhale here as you exhale allow your left shoulder to start to drop towards the center little pressure in towards that left thigh. You are twisting and rotating towards the right. Come up to center and shift over to the other side, so right hand presses into the right thigh you start to twist and rotate the other direction. And now with the breath, center breathe in, twist as you breathe out. Inhale.

Exhale. Good. Slowly start to rise all the way up and out, right toes turn forward, left toes turn in, a brief warrior too to help transition us back to our downward facing dog. You'll breathe in. Hands can come down to the ground, back heel lifts, step back to plank pose.

You have the option to take the vinyasa here, lowering halfway or all the way, shifting into cobra or upward facing dog. And downward facing dog. Left leg rises up to the sky. You can bend the knee, open up the hip, letting the knee be the apex of the pose, the highest point of the pose for the breath in. And as you exhale, step the left foot in between the hands, back heel spins down for warrior one on this side.

Arms can extend up to establish where you're at, and then you drop them to the heart, drop it to the belly, reconnecting with the self. Breathing deeply. Slowly start to straighten that front leg, turn the toes out to the side, bend both knees dropping into goddess pose. You have the hand on the heart and the hand on the belly here. The legs straight and arms fly upwards to the sky, breathe in, and bring it on in, bend the knees, hands to the heart and belly as you breathe out. Inhale, sort of a celebratory movement. Good.

Inward and outward. Last one up. And drop it down. Good. And you'll stay here in the goddess pose. One hand to the one hand to each thigh and you'll breathe in here and dip a shoulder down to the center as you breathe out. Same pattern as the other side, breathing into center and twisting as you breathe out.

Inhale, and exhale. Slowly start to rise up straighten both legs. Warrior two is a transition to the front of the mat, breathe in, hands cartwheel to the ground, step back to plank, moving through your version of the flow here. Cobra, or up dog, or even cat cow is appropriate, and downward facing dog. Lower your knees to the mat, bring your feet together for child pose.

Let your forehead imprint into the mat or the backs of the hands. Slowly start to shift forward downward facing dog. Allow your heels to lift up. Breathe in, bend the knees, look forward, hop or step up to the hands. The half lift to breathe in, and the fold in to breathe out.

Let your arms reach all the way up to the sky, inhaling, Bring it back to yourself, hand in belly, heart and belly as you exhale. Washing it through this flow, breathing in chair pose. Forward fold as you exhale. The half lift to breathe in, fold in hands plants step back to plank. Lower lift, cobra, or up dog, and downward facing dog.

About four to five breaths in this down dog, allowing the heels to anchor downwards, letting the sit bones lift up and pressing your thigh bones back. Allow your knees to gently come down to the mat. Located your two yoga blocks and bring them out in front of you. You can have the blocks on their medium side or their lowest side right next to one another. Bring your forearms and your elbows down to the blocks with the elbows being right about mid block, making a prayer shape with your hands forward. You might want to scoot your knees back as you start to bend or, reach your chest forward, bend your elbows so that the prayer hands reach towards the back of the heart. So we're in this nice, long puppy dog pose. The chest is reaching to the floor.

The head can be releasing and you're deepening the breath into the sides of the rib cage into the sides of the heart. Focus on the deepening breath here and the backbend in the upper part of the back. If you feel any discomfort in your lower back, see if you can tug up through your belly and take some of the curve out of your lower back so that the chest can dive downwards a little bit more. Nice and easy. It's a softening receptive sort of pose.

And when it feels like time, we'll unfold the prayer hands forward. Start to walk your hands in and up. Allow the blocks to be set aside and we'll shift back into child's pose. You can have your hands reaching forward for child's pose, or if you prefer, you can scoop them down by the sides. And gently placing the hands underneath the shoulders will rise up and shift onto our seat, making our way down onto our back.

Allow your knees to hug up and into your chest, letting the lower back release here, letting the head rock side to side. So finding a nice neutralizing position here. Allow your feet to stamp down onto the ground. The right ankle comes on top of the left thigh for figure four. You can stay exactly as you are, or you can interlace your hands behind the back of the left thigh or in front of the left shin if you prefer something a little bit deeper.

The breath deepens here, you could close your eyes as another way of moving inward to the self. We have another half a half a minute or so here. Cathy Heller, an author, writes about the law of resonance. She uses the example of going into a music store to take a guitar off the wall and playing a note on that guitar. When that happens, not only does every other guitar in the store vibrate, but it vibrates at the exact same.

Note. This is the law of resonance. Release this side. You can release the clasped hands, release the right foot down to the mat. And take a deep breath in and in some more and out the mouth.

Left ankle comes on top of the right thigh where you can keep it or you can interlace the hands on the front of or in the back of the right thigh or in the front of the right shin if you prefer. Deepening the breath here in this posture and pose. So this idea of the music shop and the law of resonance shows us once again that we choose what we tune into and that we choose also what we give out. So we can infer from that if we want more love in our life, we have to be love. If you want more abundance in life, be more abundant, be what you are seeking.

Unless he reads. Release, release both feet down to the ground. Let the hands come down by the sides. Let's press in through both feet and lift the hips up to a half bridge or a full bridge. Inhale and slowly lower down as you exhale.

Your right knee pulls into your chest. Allow the left leg to reach long on the mat So right knee hugs up and into the belly up and awesome on this digestive pose of pulling the thigh in. You can gently rock it a little side to side here. And when you are ready, take the right knee across the body over to the left and allow the right arm to reach to the right. Please twist. And if it feels like too much to have the bottom leg extended, you could always stack the knees and dead.

And gently make your way back up to center, giving the right knee a hug into the body, letting the left knee hug in as well to exchange right leg long. Left leg rocks a little into the belly on this side. And then bring it up and over to the right into the twist. The left arm extends. You could look towards the left. Slowly come all the way back up to center.

Left knee hugs in. Right knee hugs in. Little rocking side to side or making big circles with the knees as you release the lower back. And if there's some other posture that you'd like before we rest, you're welcome to take that now. And when you're ready, you'll stretch your legs long on the mat.

And instead of dropping the hands down by the side, let's return to the mudra of connecting with ourselves, putting your hands on your body somewhere. And you can allow the eyes to close the attention to fade away As you allow the body to spread onto the ground, to fully unwind in a sense of trust. Letting go into Shavasana. Take a deep breath in and let it go. Invite life and movement back into the body, through moving the fingers and the toes.

Head moving, Begin to bend your knees, stretch your arms up and overhead. Slowly roll over to one side. And gently press your way back up to your seat. I'm deep in the breath. There's a quote by Wayne Dyer who says we don't get what we want.

We get what we are. So as you bring your hand to your heart and belly and deepen the breath, be mindful, purposeful about the desire you want and what you bring to the world. We have the attunement the realization of abundance that flows all around us. It is the very nature of nature. It is the same source and substance of what we are made of.

And there's a lot of power in the as you shift your hands to your heart in prayer, and take a deep breath in. And bow into the heart. Thank you for sharing your practice.