#PracticeWithClara Podcast

A slow flow yoga class featuring prostration namaskars that works with back strengthening and side waist lengthening to prepare you for backbends from lunge and on your belly.

Style: Slow Flow

Duration: 40-minutes

Level: open

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: back strengthening, prostration namaskar, backbends.

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: Evolve or Die Spotify Playlist 

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A smooth, full-body vinyasa class with leg balancing and backbends, this class features hamstring stretching and strengthening. A great option for runners and cyclists.

Your class opens with a prompt from Chögyam Trungpa’s Myth of Freedom.

Read more about Trungpa’s thoughts on boredom here.

Style: Vinyasa

Duration: 44-minutes

Level: open

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: leg balancing, hamstring stretching and strengthening, full-body class

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: None; breathe and listen to your breath

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A slow and strong vinyasa practice that opens with Prostration Namaskars, this class features core and back body strengthening to prepare you for backbends.

Leg balancing, twists, and Forrest-inspired core work are featured as you progress toward salabhasana (locust) and dhanurasana (bow) pose.

Style: Vinyasa

Duration: 60-mins

Level: intermediate/advanced

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: backbends, hip flexors

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: True Love Spotify Playlist 

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A slow flow class to stretch the hips includes glute and inner thigh strengthening as you work toward low-flying Dekasana II (low-flying airplane) and Ardha Chandrasana (half moon pose). The peak poses for this class are Tarasana (star pose) and Kurmasana (turtle pose).

Style: Slow Flow

Duration: 60-minutes

Level: intermediate/advanced

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: hip flexors, hip openers

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: Earth and Ether Spotify Playlist

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Style: Vinyasa

Duration: 60-minutes

Level: intermediate/advanced

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: hip flexors, arm balances, side crow pose

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: Secret Lovers Spotify Playlist

Poem to anchor the class:

“The light of consciousness illumines the world.

The world reflects this splendor.

Energy and matter, essence and manifestation,

Reveal each other to each other.

Individual soul and cosmic energy,

Pulsing heart and infinite awareness—

Are secret lovers, always merging in oneness.

When the secret slips out, there is laughter

And a flash of brilliance in the air.”

— The Radiance Sutras translation by Lorin Roche.

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A strong vinyasa, this class features leg balancing, glute strengthening, and backbends to create a full-bodied and well-rounded experience. Core work, psoas release, and shoulder opening are featured to prepare the body for bridge and wheel pose.

Mantra for class - may you connect to the wisdom that is not seen; may you connect to the wisdom of what is felt.

Style: Vinyasa

Duration: 60-minutes

Level: intermediate/advanced

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: core, leg balancing, backbends, shoulder opening

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: Our Raft Spotify Playlist 

Meditation

Come to a seat of your choice and close your eyes. Notice what you are arriving to your mat with. How can you honor what is felt over what is seen?

Questions to sit with:

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Style: Vinyasa

Duration: 60-minutes

Level: open

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: Inversions, forearm stand, hamstrings

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: Acceptance Spotify Playlist

We are constantly evolving and changing throughout the course of our lives. Consider how your relationship to movement has evolved over the years, in comparison to how you enjoy moving today. This strong vinyasa practice includes hamstring opening, shoulder opening, and core connection in order to build towards pincha mayurasana (forearm stand). This class is ideal for anyone who works at a desk and wants to open up the muscles that become tight from sitting. Inversions such as forearm stand can help remove fatigue from the body and mind and leave you feeling energized.

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A vinyasa class focused on the hips and hamstrings, you'll move through twists and leg balancing poses, including Garudasana (eagle pose) and floating tree.

Style: Vinyasa

Duration:40-min

Level: open

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: Hip openers, hip flexors, hamstrings, leg balancing, twists

Location: Vancouver, BC.

Poem from Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche:

There is a holiness permeating everything.

The senses cannot grasp it and

Images cannot represent it.

It is totally free -

Free to appear as form,

Free to be beyond form.

Heart and body, and mind in unison,

Attend to the this unimaginable realm.

An awakening will be born in you

As you join with That,

Which you already are.

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A smooth vinyasa sequence that builds heat with twists before taking you into variations of Dhanurasana (bow pose) and Camatkarasana (wild thing).

Style: Vinyasa

Duration:38-min

Level: open

Props: 2 blocks

Focus: Hip openers, heart openers, twists, shoulders

Location: Vancouver, BC.

Music: As You Are Spotify Playlist

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A strong vinyasa class featuring oblique and hamstring strengthening, this class moves through twists, leg balancing, and heart-opening postures.

Style: Vinyasa

Duration: 61-minutes

Level: intermediate/advanced

Props: 2 Blocks

Focus: backbends, hip flexors, hamstrings

Location: Vancouver, BC

Music: Renee Razteria Spotify Playlist 

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