Welcome to the START of our weeklong adventure together! In order to START, we’re first going to STOP. Our first STOP is to take a look at how paralyzing tension can be with Andrea’s signature “tension exercise.” We untangle this tension with a meditation that v...
Today we START to become present to what is instead of trapped by the tension of what isn’t. In our meditation, we’re introduced to Andrea’s ABCs (Awareness, Benevolence, and Calm) and weave these ABCs into our asana practice where we move from tightly-wound react...
In yoga philosophy, chitta vritti are whirlpools of spinning thoughts and distractions in the mind. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra states that yoga is practiced to “still the whirlpools of the mind.” As we START to become more present and aware, we’re diving beneath the...
In this practice, we START to experience obstacles as opportunities to see What’s In The Way Is The Way. At first, we thought our Possibility Pose was a pose we didn’t like or couldn’t do – then we transformed it into a way to witness our personal progress and t...
To truly move beyond Stuckat we have to be willing to stretch from stoic and academic to imaginative and visceral. Stepping boldly into solutions requires adventuring into our heart and getting beyond ego. We’ve been taught to prioritize intellect over emotion. Emotio...
Life brings twists and turns – new Stuckats and more possibility. Our practice gives us tools to STOP, stand in our mountain and find the resiliency to START something with Awareness, Benevolence, and Calm. Emotional weather will come and go and outside frustrations a...
This might be the last segment of our program, but it’s not the end of your practice – in fact, it’s where you START again and again. As TS Eliot said, “The end is where we start from.”
You’ve come a long way from when we first hoisted your sail in our te...