Flow with breath in a dynamic vinyasa class that embraces the water element to celebrate Lakshmi. Open your practice with a mantra to Lakshmi to celebrate abundance, beauty, and prosperity. This sequence builds heat with leg balancing, chaturanga push-ups, and warriors to strengthen the abdominals, glutes, and inner thighs. Move into arm balancing with crow pose, and close your practice with a grounding meditation.
Style: Vinyasa
Duration: 56-mins
Level: open-levels
Props: 2 blocks, 1 blanket
Focus: Embrace the water element to celebrate the Goddess Lakshmi
Location: Lila Familia Production Studio, Vancouver, BC.
Opening Mantra & Meditation
Come to sit and place your hands over your heart. Think of someone or something that you’re grateful for or have been thankful for this year.
Celebrate the power of Lakshmi Goddess with this opening Mantra.
Lakshmi is the Goddess of wealth, abundance, beauty, prosperity, and fertility. We invoke Lakshmi into our lives when we want to invite prosperity into our lives and all those around us.
Mantra to Lakshmi Goddess:
|| Om Shreem Hreem Shreem Kamale Kamalalaye Praseed Praseed Om Shreem Hreem Shreem Mahalakshmaye Namah ||
Opening Sequence
Bharmanasana (tabletop) sway the hips side to side to stretch out the side body.
Marjaiasana/Bitilasana (cat/cows) to express the spine, move with your breath.
Balasana (child’s pose) or 8-breath to do as you like.
Uttanasana (forward fold)
Sun Salutations (2x) move through your own variation or follow Clara’s lead.
Wave 1
Utkatasana (chair pose)
Urdhva Hastasana (hands to sky)
Uttanasana (forward fold)
Utkatasana (chair pose) variation with hands clasped at the back.
Ashta Chandrasana (high lunge) variation with a flow:
Skandasana (wide-legged squat over one leg) shrug shoulders onto the back and lift the chest.
Anjaneya (low lunge)
Ardha hanuman (half splits)
Adho Mukha Śvānāsana (downdog)
Phalakasana (plank pose)
Chaturunga push-ups (x8)
Ustrasana (camel pose) variation with hands on the ground, lift the hips to the sky to stretch the front body.
Adho Mukha Śvānāsana (downward dog)
Virabhadrasana | (warrior 1) variation with hand to elbow to open the side body.
Virabhadrasana ||| (warrior 3) variation with hands on the hips with the standing leg bent.
Tada Kapotasana (standing pigeon pose) variation with options:
Anjaneya (lunge pose)
Ardha Matsyendrasana (seated spinal twist)
Bakasana (crow pose)
Uttanasana (forward fold)
Tadasana (mountain pose)
Repeat the same sequence on the other side.
Backbending Sequence
Setu Bandha Sarvāṅgāsana (bridge pose) hold for 8-breath.
Urdhva Dhanurasana (wheel pose) hold for 8-breath.
Cooling Sequence
Knees to chest, rock a little side-to-side to massage the low back.
Ananda Balasana (happy baby pose)
A hip opener of choice, with several options:
Spinal twist of choice, with options:
A forward fold of choice, with options:
To Close Your Practice
Meditation or savasana.