Yoga Playlist-Magic

Posted on March 23, 2015
By Clara
In Yoga Music

A playlist inspired by Coldplay…

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👆🏼This was photo was taken 8 years ago on a

👆🏼This was photo was taken 8 years ago on a beach in Ko Pha Ngan in Thailand.
Thank you @bright_photo 💕
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Day 21 - Light Meditation
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I shot this meditation in Thailand 8 years ago. I spent 2.5 months there teaching 2 yoga teacher trainings back to back with a week off in the middle. I don’t know what I was thinking. I remember that by the time the second training had ended, I couldn’t get out of Thailand fast enough.
This meditation was shot at a really cool hotel in Chiang Mai during my week off. The background is a walkway over a small pond. I forgot how green that place was!
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We did the meditation tonight. I love feeling the gold light going through my body. I always imagine it’s clearing away all that is no longer serving from my physical and energetic body.
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What are some techniques you use to clear energy or tension from your body?

Day 20 - Ether Flow 🌫 “Ether has qualities, b

Day 20 - Ether Flow
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“Ether has qualities, but unlike the other elements, ether’s qualities are based more upon the absence of its opposing quality than on the actual quality itself. For instance, ether is cold. It is cold because it lacks warmth created by fire. Ether is light because it lacks the heaviness created by earth and water. Ether is immobile because it lacks the propulsive nature of air. Ether is subtle because it lacks the profound presence of the more obvious elements. Ether is also omnipresent. It is everywhere. It is the substratum from which all other elements are derived. Ether is a part of all other elements. Within any aspect of creation, ether may be found. Ether is the most expansive of the elements. Without form or boundaries, ether has no limits. Because of its expansive quality, ether is the cause of differentiation.”
- Dr Marc Halpern
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Space/ether is the hardest element to describe, because it’s the most subtle. Some describe ether as the individualized soul. Connecting to our own souls is the gateway to connecting to the divine/consciousness/god — which is even more subtle. We can’t explain it, but we feel it.
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Whew. Try to describe that in a 26 minute class!
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When I teach an ether themed class, I play with all the elements and emphasize staying in the feeling body versus the mental body.
I find doing subtle work involves a lot of faith, and not a lot thinking.
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The offering today is to take 5 minutes and drop into a mundane task, breathing, walking, washing dishes, brushing your teeth - try to get lost in the task, taking your awareness out of the thinking and just feel.
Let me know how it goes.

Day 18 ~ Sweet Hips 🤓 This is one of the first

Day 18 ~ Sweet Hips
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This is one of the first classes I shot after giving birth to Karmen. The intention behind this class was to stay on my back for as long as possible AND to have a sense of flow with the movements.
I love creating sequences that defy my standard flow.
When I want to think outside the box, I give myself parameters/guidelines. For this class I wasn’t allowed to do thread the needle or badha konasana. Those are a few of my favorite poses in lunar classes. I wanted to open hips, shoulders and hamstrings.
It was fun coming up with the sequence.
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Taking the class today, I felt my shoulders and glutes singing a joyous song. I forgot how much I talked in this class — if I was to do it over again, I would have put in a few more static poses so that we could settle into ourselves a little more.
#alwaystryingtoimprove
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Shout out to @lululemon, one of our partners for this month’s challenge. They’ve always been so supportive of my projects and community events. We’ll be giving away two lulu gift cards at the end of the challenge.
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Day 17 - Just Be 🐝 Restorative yoga has been on

Day 17 - Just Be
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Restorative yoga has been one of the last practices I’ve added to my life. I was just reading about how some consider it the most advanced practice. Conscious rest, aka doing nothing, is not encouraged in this culture. We uphold busy-ness and productivity. How much we produce, create, do in a day has been tied to our worth as a human. I have bought into this idea so much so that I tend to burn out at least once every two weeks.
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Yoga Nidra and Restorative yoga have been helped me find my center and ground my mind.
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Doing this practice today left me so calm. There hasn’t been much sleep in the house since our little one was born and this practice gave me some much needed rest.
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A perfect way to start my Sunday….

Day 16 - Blossoming Lotus 🌼 "We have such a thi

Day 16 - Blossoming Lotus
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"We have such a thirst for knowledge that we are fooled by our power to know. It focuses on the exterior and deceives us with the illusion that we are going to find what we lack. Divine knowledge doesn't grow by accumulation. The more you try to pile up knowledge and experience, the more you paralyze your consciousness. Let's abandon this knowledge. It only inflates pride. When I say that intelligence is not the way, I don't mean to say intelligence must be rejected. I am simply saying that intelligence which accomplishes anything appears unsolicited. In tranquility, it shines like a diamond. Let us return simply to the source of our consciousness and find there the treasure we sought on the outside. It's enough to sit down, to forget books and discussion, to direct our attention toward the heart. There the divine is found. There is the place of respiration where our breath mingles naturally. The infinite is no more than that harmonious breathing, free of all thought." - Daniel Odier
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I read this in class today. I love love love this passage as I can get caught up in seeking to learn ALL THE THINGS. I love reading and discussing philosophy. That’s all good and fine BUT if I want to connect to and move from the power inside me, I need to get quiet and go inside. This passage is a wonderful reminder that wisdom is not something we seek but something we cultivate. We must sow our own seeds and take the time to get quiet and listen to the whispers of our spirits.
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A big thank you for the 118 people who joined me from around the world. It was wonderful to read your comments and share sacred space with you!
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I’ll see you next week.
xo
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📷: @bright_photo

Day 15 - Unfurl Your Peacock Tail 🍎 I shot this

Day 15 - Unfurl Your Peacock Tail
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I shot this class back in 2014 in New York City. I had just moved back after having lived in Vancouver for 6 years. I wanted a change and thought going home was the right choice. Unfortunately, I had changed. The west coast had slowed me down and NYC no longer felt like home. The pace was too fast. I spent a year and a half in the city and decided to go back to Vancouver.
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This class was shot at a studio I was teaching at called @premayogabrooklyn in bklyn. It was the first floor of a brownstone and had such a sweet home-y vibe. I loved teaching there.
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Taking the class today brought me back to that time in my life. I wasn’t teaching much publicly but practicing a ton. My home practice had never been stronger — I really needed a lot of quiet in order to be able to handle the craziness that is the big apple.
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Today, the practice felt good, simple sequence with a bit of heat. I haven’t done a forearm stand in over a year so that was fun! I was able to hold it on one side and fell out on the other side.
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I’m excited to see you on the mat tomorrow at 11am PST for our live class. We’ll be working towards lotus pose, which means we’ll be doing a ton of hip opening variations. See you then!
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We offer a free 7 day trial if you want to join us. Click on Practice With Clara App in my bio.
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Day 14 - Expand Meditation We decided that last Oc

Day 14 - Expand Meditation
We decided that last October I would record meditations. I was so excited to use my bluetooth earphones, as there would be no wire and I’d have a bit more freedom to be in the moment. Annnnd after we shot this class we realized you can’t link an external mic into the video app.
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I studied film in university and almost every time I was editing video - something would happen to the sound. The lab technicians used to joke that my energy was affecting the video or computers.
The “sound” thing still happens to me today — for those of you who have been taking the live classes, my sound has cut out a few times.
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I love this meditation. It’s cool to start with the awareness at the heart and then expand to the room you’re in, then the house, neighborhood and city. It makes me feel I’m watching/creating my own movie.
What I love about film is that you can break reality rules — you can be inside in one shot and outside in the next. Situations that couldn’t happen in “real” life can be created in film.
That’s also one of the cool things about our imaginations, we can create anything. During some meditation practices, I just watch my thoughts as if they were movie clips or trailers. It’s fascinating how many different places my mind can go in the span of a few minutes. Whoa.
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Lastly, the part of our minds where our imagination lives is also the place where we cultivate empathy - thank you Steph for the reminder!
So visualization helps us develop more empathy - which helps us connect to those around us.
So cool!
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This morning as I sat and did this practice, I imagined I was a bird flying over our neighborhood. And as the meditation asked us to come back to ourselves, I felt lighter from the expansion of my mind outwards.

Day 13 - Space Through Strength 🧩 I am very fle

Day 13 - Space Through Strength
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I am very flexible.
I was born very flexible.
I am very good at “stretching”.
For a long time I enjoyed being very good at yoga asana (poses). Until one day I hurt all over. I went to my friend @theangrybuddha, who is a PT and asked why do I get so many injuries??
He said, you stretch but don’t strengthen.
Wha?? I do yoga, it makes me strong.
Oh no, yoga just has you moving in one particular way. You need to move in many ways to keep your body healthy.
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The band work you find in this class is inspired by the many HIT classes I’ve taken over the past 4 years.
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I have never felt better in my body.
Thank you @theangrybuddha for inspiring me to incorporate strength training into my life. I also try to swim, bike and walk lots.
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The moral of the story, there are many paths — keep exploring.
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What different kinds of movement are getting you excited these days??

Day 11 - Stay Low I shot this video 2 months after

Day 11 - Stay Low
I shot this video 2 months after Karmen was born. We had just rented our office and this was the first class I shot there. All I remember is how tired I was. I also remember how good I felt after the class.
Yoga works!
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@alejandroarceg and I did this class tonight. Such a simple sequence to open up the muscles around the pelvis. It was puuuuurfect...and now off to bed.
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Shoutout to @woodlot!
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Love their candles!
We’re giving away a few of their Glow bundles at the end of the challenge!
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Day 10 - Chill Pill 😴 I shot this about 5 years

Day 10 - Chill Pill
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I shot this about 5 years ago. This was the first yin-ish video I shot for the site. I was having one of those days where I didn’t feel like doing much but I did feel like being in my body. I was still knee deep in grief and was having a hard time doing much of anything.
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I was not into the slower moving practices at this point. I’ve always been a mover - moving because it felt good, moving so I didn’t have to stop and feel, moving because new scenery is always exciting - just moving. I didn’t understand why anyone would want to lie around in yoga - and then…
Grief slowed me the f**k down.
This is when I started to understand and appreciate restorative and yin.
Create a shape, get still and breath. For me these practices are for the rest quality - giving myself permission to just be without having to do or fix anything. Sometimes it’s to change the way energy is flowing through my body. Change the energy, change the mood, change the brain and heart waves.
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We did this practice just before bed last night, after watching the 10 most expensive apartments in the world. I looked around our 650 square foot apartment and couldn’t help wondering what the narrator would say about our house. I wondered who has 430 million dollars to spend on an apartment? Then I was like, oh yeah, I’m doing yoga.
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Sometimes the practice is just a reminder that you could be doing yoga if you paid attention.
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