This week, I've recorded a practice that's good for developing focus and clear attention. It involves bringing awareness to physical sensations.

Giving yourself a chance to notice simple sensations develops the ability to stay alert for longer periods of time. As you get better at this, you may find that the skill transfers to other areas of your life where attention and focus are helpful.

It's about ten minutes long and can be done either sitting or reclining.

A Practice for Focus

Accessible Hamstring Practice

Simple Yoga uses a process that is structured by four supports. They are: simple things, simple awareness, simple states, and simple actions.

Eric Stewart describes how the four supports work in relation to one another, and how they can be used in yoga and in life.

Supports of Simple Yoga

Spatial Awareness Meditation

A free audio recording for you: a meditation that's helpful for focusing attention and letting go of distracting thoughts.


Meditation for Tenacious Thoughts

This audio offering is a sequence of standing poses. This is meant for more experienced practitioners. It requires being able to balance on one leg in poses like garudasana (the eagle) for a sustained period of time. It also involves spending 1-2 minutes per side in wide-footed standing poses such as triangle, side-angle, and revolved side-angle.

This practice needs a certain level of balance and endurance to do skillfully. If you’re feeling up to the challenge it will support the further development of these qualities and is a great way to access the well-rounded benefits that yoga has to offer.

Vigorous Standing Poses

Carrying the Sparks of Practice

Practicing While Injured

Pain Is A Normal Human Experience

How to work with constraints in yoga practice to understand and defuse pain and to help structure practice.

Working With Constraints In Yoga

Today we have an audio exploration that investigates movements of the shoulder blades.
Awareness of the different ways the shoulders can move is essential to freedom and mobility in the upper body. It’s also vital vital for maintaining strength and stability.
This inquiry brings particular attention to the relationship between shoulder movement and arm rotation, which is a necessary skill in asana practice (and handy for life in general).

Shoulder Exploration

General And Specific Intent

This is a basic introductory breath inquiry that investigates the level of effort or ease during breathing. The practice also explores different lengths of inhalation and exhalation as a way to discover more possibility and freedom within the movement of breath.

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