I’m thrilled to welcome you to a new 8 week online session that incorporates Eden Energy Medicine, Mindful Energy Yoga, Mudra and Yoga Nidra.
Each week I will post a series of prerecorded video practices on this page that blend yoga, energy medicine and mudras to work with each chakra. There will be a brief introductory video, a short (~10 minute) meditation with Mudra for each chakra, and a Mindful Energy Yoga class (45-60 minutes), as well as a short video for essential practices to balance each chakra in the moment.
The first class will be an introduction to the Daily Energy Routine of Eden Energy Medicine, and the final class will be a full length Yoga Nidra (90 minutes).
As we begin our work together, please remember: these practices are offered for you as suggestions. It is essential for you to work with your own body; if you have any preexisting conditions or mental or physical concerns, please check with your own health care provider before beginning this or any other movement based program. These practices are NOT a substitute for more traditional physical or mental health care. If your body says NO to anything offered here, please listen to it. Visualizing the practices that do not feel right are energetically helpful as well. I will include suggested modifications we move through the practices.
Our work here is to learn how to most skillfully inhabit the body/mind/heart and spirit which we have been given in this lifetime, learning to navigate this precious human life with more ease.
Get to know yourself again!
Re-Embody, Self Empower and come to life more fully with increased resilience, vitality and love!
Week 1
Eden Energy Medicine: Introduction to the Daily Energy Routine
This practice balances the energy body and removes stuck or stagnant energy for greater vitality and well being
Practice daily for these 8 weeks and watch your life change for the better!
Here’s a PDF of the basic DER ( I’ve added a few extra things in the video)
There is no mudras or meditation practice for this first week; the essential practice is the Daily Energy Routine! It does NOT have to be done in order or all at once, but you are invited to practice daily and just notice what happens!
Look down at your body and whisper “there is no home like you-thank you”
~Rupi Kaur
Week 2
Grounding and Rooting
The Chakras
5 minute introduction to the Chakras. Learn about their general qualities and associations from the Eden Energy Medicine perspective
Introduction to Mudra
2:44 minute explanation of mudras from the Integrative Yoga Therapy tradition
Introduction to the First Chakra, Muladhara
Learn the qualities and associations of the Root Chakra from the Eden Energy Medicine perspective
First Chakra Meditation and Mudra
8 minute meditation with mudra for the Root Chakra.
We will work with Pala mudra, which is amazing for chronic stress and anxiety.
First Chakra Mindful Energy Yoga
Practice is 52 minutes long. It is helpful to have a tennis ball and blocks ( you may use a stack of books if you don’t have a block!)
Please remember to honor your body and only practice what feels safe and right to you today.
*OOPS-when squeezing sides of feet we are accessing bladder and Spleen meridians (not stomach)~
Essential Practices for the Root Chakra
Work with your feet!!!
“Be strong then, and come into your own Body. There, you have a solid place for your feet. Just think about it! Don’t go off somewhere else!
Kabir says this: Just throw away thoughts of imaginary things and stand firm in that which you are”
~Kabir
Week 3
Flowing like Water
Introduction to the second chakra, Svadisthana
Learn the qualities and associations of the Second Chakra from the Eden Energy Medicine Perspective
Meditation and Mudra for the Second Chakra
7:25 minute meditation with Svadisthana mudra
This mudra is excellent for chronic stress, PTSD, and coming home to yourself
Mindful Energy Yoga for the Second Chakra
44:10 minute yoga practice for the second chakra
For this session, you will need a strap, scarf, towel or belt.
If full child’s pose is not accessible to you, you may do child’s pose with your bottom in the air, or from a seated position, leaning forward to rest on the seat or back of another chair.
Always feel free to make the practice your own
Essential Practices for the Second Chakra
DANCE! LAUGH! MOVE IN FIGURE 8s!
“ It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself, I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to become whole”
~Rupi Kaur
Week 4
Coming into your Power
Introduction to the Third Chakra, Manipura
Learn the qualities of the third chakra from the Eden Energy Medicine Perspective
Here the authentic childlike self meets the judgmental world-I see the second chakra as more right brain-like, the 3rd as left brain. Our work is to encourage balance and not cut off parts of our authentic selves to fit in. Imbalances in the third chakra are indications of discomfort with yourself and the world.
Meditation and Mudra for the Third Chakra
9:53 minute practice using Vajra mudra, which invites self empowerment
Mindfulness Energy Yoga for the Third Chakra
44:35 minute practice to invite in the warrior in you!
Essential Practices for the Third Chakra
Keep the authenticity of the second chakra flowing up to temper the critical nature of the third chakra with the Belt Flow; meet the frustrating days with Blow out, Zip Up, and Hook Up
I will no longer compare my path to others- I refuse to do a disservice to my life.
~Rupi Kaur
Week 5
Opening the Heart
Introduction to the fourth chakra, Anahata
Learn the qualities of the heart chakra from the Eden Energy Medicine perspective
Meditation and Mudra for the Heart Chakra
13:58 meditation for the fourth chakra
Mindful Energy Yoga For the Heart Chakra
52:51 minute practice to open the heart💖
If the backbends are not accessible to you on the floor, feel free to stand against a wall and practice! Or visualize the poses!
Essential Practices for the Heart Chakra
Draw hearts and open chest💖
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
Week 6
Speaking your Truth; Releasing limitations
Introduction to the 5th Chakra, Vishudda
Learn the qualities of the Throat chakra from the Eden Energy Medicine perspective
Meditation and Mudra for the Throat Chakra
7:52 minute meditation with mudras and introduction to bij mantra ( single syllable chants with the vibration of each chakra) for all 7 chakras
Mindful Energy Yoga for the Throat Chakra
41:39 minute practice to integrate the information of all 7 chakras to speak your truth
Essential Practices for the Throat Chakra
Sing the chakras, stretch the chambers of the throat chakra and tie flow!
…May you see with the consummate clarity of nature moving through you, that your voice is not only necessary, but desperately needed to sing us out of this muddle…
~Toko-pa Turner from Belonging
Week 7
Remembering who you are: Integration
Introduction to the Sixth Chakra: Ajna
Learn the qualities of the Third Eye from the Eden Energy Medicine perspective
Meditation and Mudra for the Third Eye
9:29 minute meditation with mudra for the third eye
Mindful Energy Yoga for the Throat Chakra
34:03 Mindful Energy Yoga practice to open the Third Eye
( Feel free to stay as long as you like with legs up the wall-Vipariti Karani-the “great restorer”)
Essential Practices for the Third Eye
Hook up, Legs up the wall, meditation!
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places; I’ve been dissolved and shaken, worn other people’s faces, run madly as if time were there. Now I stand still, to be here, feel my own weight and density….
~May Sarton
Week 8
Connecting to Source with
Yoga Nidra
Introduction to the Seventh Chakra: Sahasrara
Learn the qualities of the Crown Chakra from the Eden Energy Medicine perspective, and a brief introduction to Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra Practice
…for integration and wholeness
I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
And nothing happens!
Nothing...Silence...Waves...
- Nothing happens?
Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Thank you from my heart!
Wishing you vibrant love, happiness and health
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