Courses
Individual Courses
This mini course teaches you how to find alignment in 9 foundational poses which will all support you in the process of relieving your tension, aggitation, pressure, inflammation and discomfort. After learning 9 poses, the final video teaches you yoga through the vinyasa format of linking different poses to one another. At the end of this course, you WILL NOT be healed of your discomfort. HOWEVER, you will feel better AND you will have learned all the information necessary to continue your own journey of creating your own relief, on a daily basis. Back relief is not a trophy that you can put on the shelf and keep forever. Back relief is a process, you will have good days and bad days. This course will teach you how to have predominantly good days, by being consistent.
Back Relief
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Learn how to sort through the contrast of all of your sensations for the purpose of clarifying the subtle adjustments you can make to your posture that feel good. Simply put, you'll learn to stop doing the the things that hurt you.
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Daily practice develops your discipline. When you learn to trust your discipline and apply yourself to it, you begin to notice the relief that you're seeking. Getting your desired results from your discipline creates confidence. Disciplilne and confidence together create momentum to help you change your habits and establish new beliefs.
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Once you identify the way that you want to feel and you start to get glimpses of the relief you're seeking, alignment becomes your soul concern. With discipline, you will require less effort to get you greater amounts of relief. Alignment is the embodied sensations of harmony.
(Not So) Chair Yoga
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With heavy attention to our movements, breath and heartbeat. This course guides you through the process of becoming aware of the things already present within you, but often going unnoticed.
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Alignment comes in two forms. The first is the physcial alignment understood in the way we align our joints to one another, the way we align our hips with our shoulders, knees to ankles and wrists to elbows.
The second is the alignment we hold to our desires, expectations and beliefs.
Coming into total alignment happens when we cultivate an experience of harmony.
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This course illuminates how most of the work needed to be done in developing basic mobility is in the mind.
What exactly are you allowing yourself to experience in any given moment? If you don't like the way you currently feel in your body, this course will teach you how to allow new feelings and new thoughts to take hold in your mind and body, allowing you to move in the direction of hope, belief and excitement.
Get anytime access to an intuitive step by step guide to get you up and down off the floor and in and out of a chair. This is the work you need to do to start enjoying your life again.
(Not So) Chair Yoga is a step by step instructional course guiding you through the process of yoga for the purpose of attaining the most essential abilities to move in and out of a chair and up and down off of the floor without great effort. This course has 11 lessons illustrating the fundamental movements hidden within the transitions we all take from sitting on the floor to standing on our feet, and finding a comfortable chair in between.
The Inner Space Portal includes all 6 of these courses.
Yoga
Level 1
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The main goal of Level 1 is to get you to be able to move up and down off of the floor without pain. The ability to move as you wish without pain will grant you freedom.
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Before embarking on any journey, you must be grounded and stable. This course will teach you the fundamental skills to build up your stability.
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You will practice daily at a level that is available to you. Practicing daily will help your body build the muscle memory it needs to start to make a change. Practicing daily will build discipline and that discipine will give you confidence. With patience, you will be confident enough to join a group yoga class in a studio, if that is a goal of yours!
Yoga
Level 2
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Level 2 is where you will notice the changes you are making in your life. There is no more chair practice in Level 2. You will develop a growth mindset as you continuously surpass old barriers and continuously expand your capabilities.
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Growth does not come easily, you will be under constant tension throughout this process. You will be guided in and out of many new poses and each transition will be done with great effort. It is this effort that you help you make the transition from your old pain filled self to your new strong self.
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The truth is that yoga is all about balance and harmony. You will only be able to use effort to change your life because you also created enough space to relax. You will learn to blend effort and ease and develop an intuitive understanding of your yoga practice.
Yoga
Level 3
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Having advanced this far in your yoga practice, you must already have a considerable amount of strength. You will continuet build upon this strength as you encounter more balancing postures, arm balances and inversions.
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Flexibility is the reward you get for continuous effort. This lengthening of your muscles comes at a cost though, it will require you to build up your strength to balance you out. Your flexibility will be challenged here in new advanced poses.
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Balance is the core of Level 3. You will gain balance as a by product of first building your strength and earning your flexibility. Balance is the natural harmonization of this process.
Yin Yoga
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In stillness, you will be able to feel a bit deeper. Yin yoga puts you into the depth of a pose. When you become still, you find harmony with the energy that pose creates
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The edge of your comfort zone is where you aim to stay during Yin yoga class. As you start to figure where you are comfortable and where you are not, you more clearly define where your limitations are. The purpose of ths is to practce regulating your nervous system at the edge of your comfort zone.
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Your breath helps you to override the stress your body is experiencing in the depth of a pose. If your body is telling your mind that you are uncomfortable, but the breath is calm and smooth, the mind will respond to the breath, not the body. Practicing this skill helps you to gain autonomy from your body and teaches you to communicate with your mind.
Meditation 101
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One of the biggest obstacles to overcome in establishing a meditation practice, is finding comfort in your body. Once the body is comfortable, you can begin working with the mind.
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You will learn to increase your level of inner awareness by heightening the sensations of the body. This sensitization process will connect you with your heart, your breath and the present moment.
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Learning to regulate your nervous system is quite possibly the most valuable skill that yoga enhances. In this process, you will learn to differentiate between pain, discomfort, tension and resistance. When you learn to control your reaction to your environment, whether internal or external, you become the master of the present moment.
Guided Meditation
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It is a common experience in meditation that people fear the experience of being separated from their bodies. Meditation seeks to bring balance to the body and mind for the purpose of focusing on your energy. Learning to ground yourself in your body helps you to stay connected to your body.
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Exploring your mind and all of its different facets is a fascinating process and an extremely valuable side effect of meditation. In this process, you will become aware of the deepest darkest corners of your mind. This is often the place where people confront the parts of themselves they refuse to accept. Integratng your whole self is an essential step in the meditative process.
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Clarity is often misunderstood to be associated with the mind. In reality, it is more about getting beyond the mind and connecting with your energy, or spirit. Understand this as the sun shining on to your skin. The mind perceives and understands the warmth but is not the source of it.