Yoga with Cha Wilde

In this yoga class video, we'll start with an ecstatic dance warm up to get all the wiggly energy out of our bodies. We'll sit together for a moment and I'll share a story about my paintings that inspires our theme for the day "creating tranquility".    ✭ The YOGA ASANA PRACTICE BEINGS at minute 10:15​ if you want to jump straight in.  I guide you through a slow deep 40 minute yoga flow that focuses on the lower body. These poses are foundational and accessible for most intermediate yogis. Beginners can totally do this practice so long as they modify whenever they need to. This practice will create powerful sensations in the body.   These yoga poses will help with hamstring flexibility, back pain, hip flexors, shoulder and neck pain, and lower back pain. I'm teaching you how to move your body into shapes and breath slowly -- this is a natural healing practice for your body and mind. This is a beginners level instructional yoga video taught my Cha Wilde in Seattle WA.  ✭ POSES we're doing in this class include: Child's Pose Downward Dog Gentle Sun Salutations Low Lunge / Arrow Lunge Dolphin Rabbit Neck Release Cat / Cow Knee to Nose Half Pigeon Butterfly Seated Forward Fold Waterfall (Hips on Block) Reclined Twist Savasana  ✭ MUSIC Played at the Beginning of this class: "Drip Me Dry in Dawn" by Cha Wilde https://open.spotify.com/track/4wmT45...​ Love, CHA🍍WILDE

As creative beings, it is of chief importance that we have support. We need encouragement and a strong foundation in our self care and life circumstances in order for us to express ourselves fully and flourish in our artistic endeavors. You will certainly be feeling creatively blocked if you're so stressed about where your next meal is coming from, if you fear your own survival or if your survival feels threatened by the act of creation. This is a very short and simple yoga class intuitively taught by Cha Wilde, inspired by The Artist's Way. Your yoga practice can become a strong source of support for your art.

Your body is the foundation from which you create everything else in life. We're going to be doing yoga, inspired by The Artist's Way, yoga for artists. This book and this yoga practice today is here to help you get in tune with a more creative and playful way of living. When you're obsessed with making art, performing, creating, it can be easy to neglect your body. As an artist, your body is your instrument and your gateway to free expression. Sex, drugs and rock and roll (or in my case, EDM) is all fun and games until you're struggling to find the energy, your ideas are drying up and you're spiraling into disconnect and depression. Care for the body first. Make art second. Party third. ;)

This week we come to the yoga mat to explore the unknown, to uncover our negative beliefs and discard them. Notice in your practice and your life where you feel uncomfortable, where you fidget, where you distract yourself from what's happening in the present. Ask yourself why. What happens when you don't scratch the itch? What's going to happen when you let it be? What freedom will you find when you let go of perfectionism and explore the unknown. It takes courage. Don't react. Let life climb on you. See what happens in the next moment.

Late night yoga in the studio -- I've got some ladies on Zoom with me and I recorded our time so you can join us in the future. :) We're holding these poses for multiple minutes to sink deeper into our tissue and conscious minds, release deeper tensions and experience the acceptance of intensity. The world is changing my friends and we change with it. LOVE.

This little yoga class is all about feeling pleasure and delight in the sensations in your body. It's inspired by WEEK 2 of the Artists Way in which we get to explore living slowly, doing the work and enjoying the process of creating.  🍍 It feels amazingly liberating to just create compared to how stuck and tight and yucky it feels when we're NOT creating...just sitting there telling ourselves we should be creating. When you finally do start taking action on your creative project, you can enjoy all the small details of how this art form actually feels in your body. This is likely what will keep you going and keep you coming back -- we're just animals with bodies that want to feel good. Your art makes you feel good. *I actually think about this A LOT when making life decisions. I ask myself which options feels the best in my body? Which songs gives my body the most pleasure and joy? Which creative outlet makes me laugh the most? These kinds of questions raise our awareness of how our unique personality is excited to explore and experience this world. I hope this practice helps you guys tap into the playful yumminess! :) LOVE, Cha

Sometimes you just want to lay there on the floor and hardly move. This is a yoga class for that moment. Let's be super chill and breath slow. Come find me online: https://chawilde.com/

Simple all levels yoga practice focused on stretching hips and upper thighs, activating movement in the sacral chakra. The theme is to be fluid and powerful like water, welcoming in intense life giving emotion and sensations to your body and creative life. 

In this yoga class video I guide you through a gentle one hour yoga practice that warms up the torso muscle by moving the spine through vinyasa (flowing) movements synchronized with the inhale and the exhale. These poses will be inviting and restorative for most body types including yoga beginners. These are all gentle poses that release tension and pain throughout your entire back, shoulders and hips. Practicing yoga slowly and mindfully is a natural remedy for many injuries and life stresses, offering you moments of relief from chronic pain and improving your mental health and mindset, and relationship with your body. You're a team. In this class, we are asking our thoughts to please leave the mind for a moment so we can spend some quality time with our bodies, however they feel, look or function. Do whatever you can, following along with me and take it easy. Enjoy.