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Deep relaxation to prevail over catastrophe, soothe anxiety and get serious about rest. Get warm and cozy and allow yourself to feel held by the earth.  So while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? -Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" If you breathe, you belong here. Kate Lynch is a meditation coach and inclusive yoga teacher. She specializes in using meditation, breath patterns, mindfulness, relaxation and gentle yoga to build resilience to anxiety.  This is NOT medical advice! Every Friday, I'll send you a free five minute practice to ease you into a rejuvenating weekend. Get on my email list to receive them all:  https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/choices As we do this empowering work together, we will embody self compassion, bringing our families and communities together in deeper truth and healing.  I'm putting this podcast on hold temporarily while I focus on writing my book.  The best way to

Restorative Yoga to Prevail Over Catastrophe   Part of a Series: Restorative Yoga for Better Rest  Grab some blankets and couch cushions and get serious about rest.   The beginning of the class invites you to consider "sleep hacks" which you have tried and they have been successful in your life to remind you that you are empowered to create better rest in your life.    Inspired by a line from poet Amanda Gorman, you are invited in this grounding and down-regulating restorative yoga practice to prioritize rest and sleep.   "So while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?" -Amanda Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" If you breathe, you belong here.    Kate Lynch is a meditation coach and inclusive yoga teacher. She specializes in using meditation, breath patterns, mindfulness, relaxation and gentle yoga to build resilience to anxiety.  This is NOT medical advice!    Every Friday,

When you're overwhelmed it can be it harder to sleep. Yoga NIdra is a deep relaxation practice, and so much more.  This guided practice invites you to toggle between different sensations within your body and scan your body from inner to outer and right to left. Once settled in your physical body, I'll talk you through your energetic centers so you can connect with their associated attributes.  Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

Micro movements of your jaw and tongue can affect not only your jaw and neck, but on a deeper level your vagus nerve, and thus release tension more globally.   This is a very subtle practice, done almost entirely in the restorative yoga posture 'legs up the wall', or viparita karani.  Allow this gentle inversion to reverse blood flow and nourish you as you mindfully focus on the subtle movements of your tongue and jaw. Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

What longing has been living inside you, waiting to be more fully expressed? What intention is bubbling up from deep within you?  Sankalpa is the practice of getting clear on your intention so that you are aligned with your highest potential.  When your body can settle and you feel held, your thoughts and feelings can drop any doubtfulness that might be blocking your intention.  Will you let self doubt cloud your inherent goodness, or will you feel supported by the earth and share your gifts with the world? 

Stress release smorgasbord! We have plenty of practice with hypervigilance. Now we need to practice feeling held. Find emotional balance and mental spaciousness through a variety of techniques. Recall a cherished memory to soothe your stress and change the habit of hyper-vigilance, go through a RAIN meditation to develop self-compassion, and finally receive yoga nidra, a form of guided relaxation. Join a FREE New Year 2021 Celebration Flow!!! Saturday, January 2, 2021 10:30am This is a FREE class, but there are a limited number of spots, so you need to preregister. I can't wait to see you January 2, 10:30am! https://healthyhappyyogascheduling.as.me/FREE2021 Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga

This year has been so stressful! Here's a progressive guided relaxation you can share with the biggest ball of nerves you know. That might be yourself! Or maybe it's not. Think of the most wound up person you know. Send them this podcast.  Release Your Muscle Tension  Squeeze and release your way to a calmer nervous system. Try this before sleep, or any time you feel like you just can't let go of accumulated stress.  Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

This practice begins with a reading from Pema Chodron from 'When Things Fall Apart'. You can find any resting pose. Pema encourages us to find the middle way in order to observe our restlessness and spaciousness. We don't have to identify with victory or victimhood, but instead turn our fear upside down to awaken the bravery that exists in everyone.   Then, begin a breathing practice from your center, to widen your circle of inclusion.  Are you interested in my yoga videos? You can get a 30 day free trial with Yoga International, to try them. There's a practice you might like called Restlessness and Spaciousness: Mindful Backbends to Make Space for Inspiration http://yogainternational.oae6r3.net/c/2194793/839809/10875 Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Bac

Restorative yoga fills your container and expands your ability to hold courageous space and experience ease at the same time.  When our emotional container is small, we feel overwhelmed by everything.  When we feel held in spaciousness, it doesn't feel like a burden to hold space for others.  Please gather cushions and rolled towels or blankets. Begin sitting to tune in before coming into a supported reclined position called Supta Baddha Konasana. Cushions under your upper back and skull, soles of your feet together and knees apart. End with chanting Lokah Samastah Sukhinoh Bhavantu, wishing happiness and freedom to all beings everywhere. Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga

Create a Circle of Protection and Courage Here's a meditation I've been sharing in class. I'm sharing with you, while acknowledging what was offered to me by teacher and mentor, Michelle Cassandra Johnson: social justice activist • anti-racism trainer • author • yoga teacher. https://www.michellecjohnson.com/ Many of these words are hers, and the framework is hers. She has given permission to adapt the prayer.  I am seeking no gains from sharing this but to be in community with you.  Each of us is finding our way to contribute to the greater good. This is my current personal practice leading up to the 2020 US election and beyond, for as long as necessary. This is my way of showing up in integrity right now.  Of course I made a voting plan. When I see injustice, I will be standing up and speaking up. This meditation is how I'm remaining centered and in community despite our physical distance.  Please join us, to add your power and courage to the circle. Free Meditation Download:  

This warming and balancing flow is slow and mindful.  We begin with cat and cow on hands and knees. Please center yourself with breath, and warm up your wrists before coming to all fours.  Activate your warmth from within. Remember that it takes strength to keep your heart open and remain grateful and generous. Love is not passive, it is an action word. Rolling around on the ground, give your nervous system a soothing massage. Pay attention to your senses from a variety of perspectives. Explore nonjudgemental sensory awareness, and bask in loving kindness practice: both giving and receiving.  Nothing here is medical advice.  If you breathe, you belong here. My core values are empathy, integrity, equity and respect. Your 5 star review helps other people find this podcast! Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles.  Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https:

A mindful movement practice for pregnancy. Call on the source of your strength. End with guided relaxation, and a meditation to cultivate trust in your inner capacity. Nothing here is medical advice.  Please join our community at healthyhappyyoga.com  Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

For my peers who are also parenting differently wired kids.  Our culture can be unforgiving, and their future unclear. Here, I’m sharing a process I’ve found beneficial for my peace of mind, while having tangible results day to day. There’s a grounding mindfulness meditation, a visualization, and writing prompts.   This episode has been so popular, we've created our own M-PAK podcast!  Join us there: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindfully-parenting-atypical-kids-podcast/id1530252372  If you’re interested in learning more about growth mindset and my family’s process through many specific examples, there’s a longer version of this podcast, and a companion article on The Mighty by the same name.  Connect with other parents in the Facebook group: Mindfully Parenting Atypical Kids Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/3229904633801703/?ref=share Download the Mindful Meltdown Cheat Sheet & join my newsletter https://www.healthyhappyyoga.com/meltdown If you breathe, you belo

Beginning with a gentle core & psoas awakening sequence on your back, ask yourself what you most want to feel in this moment. Use your breath to connect with that intention. In this slow, gentle flow, please begin in constructive rest: lie down on your back with your knees up.  Breathe from your strong center, expanding your circle of inclusion wider. End with guided relaxation and self-compassion. As you listen, connect with your inner teacher and deepen into the present moment. Take refuge in the rhythm of your breath, and awareness of your body. Nothing here is medical advice.  Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by

Walking meditation is something I can take refuge in right now. Feeling my feet on the earth, one and then the next. Sometimes I’ll simply listen. Sometimes I’ll use a breath pattern. Affirmation and mantra connected to my breath, in rhythm with my steps. I hope you’ll join me on the path of awakening, and experience a sense of gratitude, purpose and mindfulness during your walking meditation.  This podcast has a companion article: https://accessibleyoga.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-path-of-awakening-walking.html  If you breathe, you belong here. My core values are empathy, integrity, equity and respect. Your 5 star review helps other people find this podcast! Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles: Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. he

And now for something a little different! Healthy Happy Yoga Podcast isn't going away. Look for the New Podcast: Mindfully Parenting Atypical Kids My son Ocean suggested we do a podcast to help other kids with ASD who have been affected by the changes due to Coronavirus. He shares his strategies and what has been the hardest. At the end, try a few simple eye exercises, in case you are also experiencing stress and eye strain.  This episode has been so popular, we've created our own M-PAK podcast!  Join us there: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindfully-parenting-atypical-kids-podcast/id1530252372  Connect with other parents in the Facebook group: Mindfully Parenting Atypical Kids Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/3229904633801703/?ref=share Download the Mindful Meltdown Cheat Sheet & join my newsletter https://www.healthyhappyyoga.com/meltdown  If you breathe, you belong here. My core values are empathy, integrity, equity and respect. Your 5 star review helps other people

“It’s not enough to experience suffering. We much also touch peace.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Restorative Yoga, breathing patterns, guided relaxation and self-compassion practice to touch peace within.  Begin in a supported fish position. Lie back over cushions or blocks placed under your upper back and the base of your skull, knees bent and knocking towards each other with feet apart. Make sure you are warm. Nothing here is medical advice. Your 5 star review helps others find this podcast. Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles. Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

Moving our bodies in unison with each other, and with breath, can happen even in the virtual space. After a short standing warmup, send loving kindness to the world as you flow through simple sun salutations. Nothing here is medical advice. Find virtual connection at healthyhappyyoga.com If you breathe, you belong here. My core values are empathy, integrity, equity and respect. Your 5 star review helps other people find this podcast! Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles: Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple tools to build resilience to anxiety, breath by breath. healthyhappyyoga.com

It’s normal to feel contracted right now. Yoga and meditation can help!  On the day the gyms closed in NYC, I taught this down-regulating, calming practice to address the inevitable discomfort arising from Coronavirus anxiety. In this slow, gentle flow, we begin in constructive rest: lie down on your back with your knees up. As you listen, connect with your inner teacher and deepen into the present moment. Take refuge in the rhythm of your breath, and awareness of your body. Nothing here is medical advice. Find other ways to stay connected at healthyhappyyoga.com  If you breathe, you belong here. My core values are empathy, integrity, equity and respect. Your 5 star review helps other people find this podcast! Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awaken your deep core and hip flexor muscles: Free Video: Quick & Gentle Yoga for Your Core & Lower Back https://healthy-happy-yoga.ck.page/022f9cb24b Join Healthy Happy Yoga to learn simple too

Let’s remain kind to ourselves and all beings. Let’s stay connected. In this unprecedented time, leaning into each other and our practice will happen in the virtual space.  In this slow, gentle asana and pranayama flow, we begin in supported fish. You can lie back with your shoulder blades and head supported by a blanket, blocks, couch cushion, or simply lie on your back with knees up. Please don’t worry about perfection in your practice, and only do what feels right for your body. As you listen, connect with your inner teacher and deepen into the present moment. Access sense memories of gratitude, contentment, and joy, to strengthen your neural connections to those emotions. Nothing here is medical advice. Find other ways to stay connected at healthyhappyyoga.com If you breathe, you belong here. My core values are empathy, integrity, equity and respect. Your 5 star review helps other people find this podcast! Has too much stress and sitting tied your back in knots? Try this gentle 13 minute video to awa