Yoga with Clara: Recent Episodes
Clara Harris
Are you a creative person looking for a way to connect more deeply and freely to your creative flow? Are you a creative person seeking a community that supports and encourages you in your creative endeavors? Join Clara - a professional actor, writer, and producer - in these compact practices of yoga and mindfulness to support the creative flow by creating more ease in body, mind, and heart.
There's still time to join me for Yoga & The Artist's Way, beginning September 13th! Learn more at https://doyogawithclara.com/artistsway/
Get a Taste of Yoga & The Artist's Way at https://doyogawithclara.com/artistswaytaste/
There is a corresponding yoga practice on my YouTube channel. Add the yoga asana (poses) practice to this mindfulness practice for a full experience! Watch the video at https://youtu.be/ef3yHA_RaOM
This week, we explore how to stay open-hearted, especially when it is difficult.
I'd love to hear how the practice is going for you. Let me know!
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Join me for Yoga & The Artist's Way beginning September 13th!
Get a taste of what's in store for this 14-week journey to rekindle your creativity at https://doyogawithclara.com/artistswaytaste/
This week, we look at tools to cope with being highly empathic creative individuals in a world with heavy news that just seems so sticky.
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Dealing with self-doubt is something that creatives have to learn how to compartmentalize and cope with. This week, let's take a look at strategies that yoga in mindfulness offers us for dealing with self-doubt.
Practice with the follow-along video at https://youtu.be/1-fyU_AmoZw
Here's the song from [title of show] that I mention early in the episode: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jdjzn2YDarrZYjogvRelM?si=2d52cf031fa7414b
Also, you'll notice the sound's a little different. I recorded this while waiting outside my son's school to pick him up, so there is some road noise. And at 91 degrees and the car windows rolled up, there's some extra mouth noise as I got progressively dehydrated!
Yoga & The Artist's Way
a 14-week journey to rekindle your creativity
Begins September 13th
http://doyogawithclara.com/artistsway
Vocal Rx
a 5-week exploration of practical tips for a healthy & dynamic voice
Begins September 8th
http://doyogawithclara.com/vocalrx
Do you feel like your voice is stymied?
Maybe it feels that way because of physical challenges with our voice.
Maybe we feel like an external or internal force tamps down our voice.
Maybe we are at a loss of words to express a big or complicated feeling or emotion.
Let’s look at three ways to address how to unblock your beautiful voice.
Be sure to check out the special modified sun salutation I created just for this episode!
Want to learn more about your voice and how to keep it dynamic for a lifetime? Join me for:
Vocal Rx
A 5-week journey to fall in love with your voice.
http://doyogawithclara.com/vocalrx
I’ll be doing The Artist’s Way beginning in September, to finish up by the end of the year and start the new year with a renewed creative spirit. Join me for:
Yoga & The Artist’s Way
http://doyogawithclara.com/artistsway
This week, from the floor of Podcast Movement in Nashville, TN, we play with the practice of The Sacred Pause. It's a mindfulness technique that takes just a moment - a pause. Practice with me!
Upcoming Workshops:
Vocal Rx - Practical Tips for a Healthy & Dynamic Voice
A 5-week course to cultivate understaning, awareness, and practices to speak freely and with more ease. Whether you have a vocal concern or just feel like your voice is stymied on the mental or emotional level, we will learn about how the voice is produced, what impacts it, and what we can do to support a healthy & dynamic voice for a lifetime.
Register today! http://doyogawithclara.com/vocalrx/
Yoga & The Artist's Way
Join me on a journey of rekindling your creative spirit with Yoga & The Artist's Way. Following the program outlined in Julia Cameron's book of creative rediscovery, The Artist's Way, we will gather - virtually - each week for a gentle yoga practice to support our creativity, and to chat about that week's progress.
Learn more and register at:
http://doyogawithclara.com/artistsway/
Join me for feel-good stretchy yoga and mindfulness to feel more at ease in body, heart, and mind, so you can tap more freely into your creative flow.
I'm Clara, an actor, writer, producer...oh yes, and a yoga teacher. I offer compact practices that support creative people to find more ease and joy in their creative flow.
Subscribe in your favorite podcast app, and be sure to check out the Yoga with Clara YouTube channel for more feel-good stretchy yoga & mindfulness.
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Tapping into our sensory experience is an essential part of the creative process. This week, we explore a practice that helps us notice our sensory experiences more - and a few practices to help deal with when those senses get overwhelmed.
How is this supporting your creativity? Let me know how it goes at clara@doyogawithclara.com.
Mentioned in the Episode:
EMDR - Here's an article that explains it...thoroughly!
https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
This Moment in America - the big project with my audio drama podcast
Check out the website here: http://swampwitchstudio.com/thismomentinamerica
And listen to the announcement here:
https://swampwitchstudio.libsyn.com/site/013-a-special-announcement-we-want-to-hear-your-story
In this unique podcast, I share why I “disappeared” for two months and what you can expect to see in this space going forward. I hope you’ll join me!
Following a major personal loss, I have made the choice to lean in more fully to my practice of yoga, its junction with creativity.
Coming in September: There will be two opportunities to join me in the practice of yoga and creativity - and I need your feedback!
Yoga & the Artist’s Way - a 14-week journey through yoga and Julia Cameron’s seminal book
Question: What is on your wish list for this offering?
Vocal Rx: Practices for a Healthy & Dynamic Voice - a short course to learn about your voice, common vocal issues, and practices to keep it vibrant and healthy for a lifetime. Including a few moments of me geeking out over anatomy and the beauty of our human bodies, and a lot of yoga and mindfulness to help you learn to love your voice.
Question: Would you prefer a 4-, 5- or 6- week course?
Email me your thoughts! clara@doyogawithclara.com
Join my mailing list so you’ll be the first to know about registration for these offerings.
Also discussed in the episode:
Curious Universe: Interpreting Our Universe: https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/interpreting-our-universe
Apod: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod
Artist’s Way Book: https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/
Podcast Movement: https://2021.podcastmovement.com/
Night Owl Theatre: http://swampwitchstudio.com/nightowltheatre
Great Monologues Coaching Call Podcast: http://greatmonologuescoaching.com
Continuing to work with the 3-part breath, this week we use a visualization technique and notice what arises - and how we meet that.
Want to practice with me live? I record the mindfulness and meditation podcast episodes on Wednesdays at noon Eastern on Facebook & YouTube.
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As we encounter an ever changing world, how can we embrace the qualities of a warrior - the ones you choose to inhabit - as we explore three Warrior variations: Warrior I, Reverse Warrior, and Humble Warrior.
And for those of you curious about the Jekyll & Hyde song I mentioned, you’re welcome. This is Colm Wilkinson’s performance on the 1990 concept album. You can listen to the Broadway Cast Recording on Spotify, or your favored music listening app.
You can view photos of the poses at http://doyogawithclara.com/68
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What is my response? That is the question you are invited into this week as we continue our exploration of the 3-part breath, this time exploring a longer exhale.
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Gently invite your hips into more ease with some movement and stretching.
There is an extended introduction offering variations and adaptations for the squat. If you prefer to skip straight to the movement, skip to 06:42.
You can view photos of the poses at http://doyogawithclara.com/68
Want to practice with me live? I record the movement podcast episodes on Wednesdays at noon Eastern on Facebook & YouTube.
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This week, we continue our practice of the three-part breath and tune into the connection between the breath and how we feel in body, mind, and heart.
Want to practice with me live? I record the mindfulness and meditation podcast episodes on Wednesdays at noon Eastern on Facebook & YouTube.
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While breathing may be involuntary, often our breath can feel held, difficult, or just not natural. There are many times when an easy breath may not feel available to us. On the other hand, there are times when our mental or emotional state feels stuck, difficult, or just not natural. Often, being able to take a moment to connect with our breath can impact our mental and emotional state positively. The mind/body link, as relates to the breath, is powerful. You are invited into a practice to notice the breath in three parts as it moves in and out of the body. Even if you find your breath is held, difficult, or just not natural, you can join in by just imagining the breath moving in the three places we’ll explore in this episode. It is my hope that with a gentle invitation to explore the breath, we can all find our way to a natural breath and settled mind.
Photos of the poses from today’s practice are available at: https://doyogawithclara.com/66
Want to practice with me live? I record the mindfulness and meditation podcast episodes on Wednesdays at noon Eastern on Facebook & YouTube.
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65 - Breathing with Ease
While breathing may be involuntary, often our breath can feel held, difficult, or just not natural. There are many times when an easy breath may not feel available to us. On the other hand, there are times when our mental or emotional state feels stuck, difficult, or just not natural. Often, being able to take a moment to connect with our breath can impact our mental and emotional state positively. The mind/body link, as relates to the breath, is powerful. You are invited into a practice to notice the breath in three parts as it moves in and out of the body. Even if you find your breath is held, difficult, or just not natural, you can join in by just imagining the breath moving in the three places we’ll explore in this episode. It is my hope that with a gentle invitation to explore the breath, we can all find our way to a natural breath and settled mind.
Want to practice with me live? I record the mindfulness and meditation podcast episodes on Wednesdays at noon Eastern on Facebook & YouTube.
YouTube: http://bit.ly/yogawithclarayoutube
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doyogawithclara
Join me in moving with more ease in our everyday life with this simple yoga practice. At just over 10 minutes, it’s an easy practice to fit into the nooks and crannies of your life.
See photos of the poses at https://doyogawithclara.com/64/
Want to practice with me live? I record the movement podcast episodes on Mondays at noon Eastern on Facebook & YouTube.
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We are using our five senses as a way to anchor more fully in the present moment. This week, we'll use our sense of smell to learn how to pay better attention to what it's like to be ourselves right now, in this moment.
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Opening Music: Adventures by A Himitsu https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFwu-j5-xNJml2FtTrrB3A Creative Commons Music released by Argofox https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8
It's fall! (Well, in the northern hemisphere, anyway.) Let's use the prompt of nature in her changing season to explore our senses, and the stories we have about those sensory experiences.
Pumpkin Smoothie Recipe
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1 serving vanilla protein powder
1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
1 inch fresh ginger root
5 ounces milk/milk substitute
spices to taste: cinnamon, nutmeg, clove - or use a pumpkin spice blend
Place all ingredients in blender and whirl until smooth. To make it more shake-like, measure the pumpkin and yogurt into a freezer-safe container and freeze for a few hours or overnight.
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Do you describe yourself as a "busy person?" I know I do! This week, we look at some strategies for weaving deliberate pauses into our day and we do a brief meditation to practice self-care.
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Self-care can look like a lot of things. Let's look at what works for you, and then choose just one thing. I'd love to hear what that one thing is! Let me know on Facebook or Instagram.
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Stress creates a sense of otherness from ourselves, and from each other. This week, we practice a technique to help us de-stress and settle into ourselves, coming home to our own body. Note: There was a lot of air traffic during this recording session; the audio may be a little more rumble-y than usual, depending on how sensitive your listening device is.
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We continue to explore self-care this week. How are things going? Let me know on social media or email...
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We begin an exploration of self-care this month. This week, we begin to ask the question, "What do I need?"
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Welcome Summer! (or Winter, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere!) We wrap up June's theme "Ease" in today's episode. Join me to be more at ease - physically, mentally, and emotionally.
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From the back yard! With the new month, we have a new theme: Ease. I teach yoga to help people feel more at ease - physically, mentally, and emotionally...okay, but what does that really mean? That's what we're exploring all this month. Join me for a breathing technique & a moment of meditation, and new this month - a creative journaling prompt. Listen for all the details!
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Creating consistency in our practice is the best way to get all the juicy benefits of yoga and meditation. This month, we'll work with a single meditation practice and see how that grows and impacts our day-to-day lives.
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Creating consistency in our practice is the best way to get all the juicy benefits of yoga and meditation. This month, we'll work with a single meditation practice and see how that grows and impacts our day-to-day lives.
#30daysofyoga Info & Email Sign-Up http://doyogawithclara.com/30-days-of-yoga
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Creating consistency in our practice is the best way to get all the juicy benefits of yoga and meditation. This month, we'll work with a single meditation practice and see how that grows and impacts our day-to-day lives.
#30daysofyoga Info & Email Sign-Up http://doyogawithclara.com/30-days-of-yoga
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Private Online Yoga: https://doyogawithclara.com/private-yoga-sessions/
Opening Music: Adventures by A Himitsu https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFwu-j5-xNJml2FtTrrB3A Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music released by Argofox https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8
Creating consistency in our practice is the best way to get all the juicy benefits of yoga and meditation. This month, we'll work with a single meditation practice and see how that grows and impacts our day-to-day lives.
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Feel like you need an attitude adjustment? This mindfulness & meditation practice is designed to support you in finding a better mental & emotional space to occupy.
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Can we find a place of stillness and quiet, and accept that just for now? Can we accept that there is the possibility of more - more compassion, more tenderness?
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As we continue the April 2020 theme, Bud to Blossom, we breathe space into the bud - those tight spaces we have physically and emotionally - and allow for the possibility of opening.
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How do we deal with uncertainty and the discomfort it can cause? This week, we explore a practice that helps us better deal with those times of discomfort so we don't become so emotionally unpturned by them.
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While we are learning how to cope with living in the midst of a pandemic, can we get into the tight spaces and get curious about that sensation - whether it is a physical or emotional tightness? Let's explore this together.
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Sitting in the Not Knowing, the final class in our theme of Planting Seeds and Leading with Trust. May this practice be a balm for you now, in these uncertain times, and going forward, towards a brighter future.
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A mid-day one-minute meditation check-in and morning pages help us to Tend the Garden, as we continue the theme of Planting a Seed and Leading with Trust.
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Continuing this month's theme of "Planting Seeds & Leading with Trust," this week, we consider "What Can Grow." What is ready to grow during this season of our lives?
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This month, we investigate the theme of "Planting Seeds & Leading with Trust." For this week, we begin that investigation by Preparing the Ground, practicing becoming an observer of our mind.
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Create expansiveness from within in a practice of allow and accept/notice and acknowledge. It can be a powerful practice to create more internal expansiveness and a more peaceful daily experience.
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Tap into a moment when you felt truly authentic and whole to cultivate an awareness of how that feels to the very atom of your being, so that you can recall that feeling and tap into its energy.
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As we continue to create space to love ourselves and our lives through mindfulness and meditation, we explore the image of a radiant heart to crack open the shell and shine brilliantly.
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Yoga for Bodies Tired of Sitting
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This month, we'll look at creating space to love ourselves and our lives through mindfulness and meditation. Today, we use our breath to create internal strength
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To grow the spark of creativity into the flame of transformation, we must provide oxygen - air - space - to the mind and heart. A practice in mindfulness and attention.
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How do we deal with creative blocks, a stifling of our creative spark? A mindfulness practice in dealing with discomfort and moving past it with acceptance.
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What Feeds the Spark of Creativity to Fan the Flame of Transformation?
In the busy-ness of our day-to-day lives, how do we find the air - the space - to feed the spark of creativity, to help it grow? The answer rests in our attention.
Yoga & The Artist's Way begins February 2nd
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Welcome to January 2020! A new year, a new month, a new opportunity to find the spark of creativity, to fan the flame of transformation. Over the Yoga with Clara podcast hiatus, some changes have been made, including a new YouTube channel and a new website!
Join me this month as we explore how the spark of creativity fans the flame of transformation. Today's meditation invites you to inquire, "Where is the spark?"
Links:
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Short practices in feel-good stretchy yoga to help busy people live a life of more ease and more everyday creativity.
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Yoga with Clara - new website!
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Yoga & The Artist's Way - beginning February 2, 2020, in Louisville, Kentucky
Learn more and sign-up today!
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Cranky, achy hips? Check out my 5 Days to Happy Hips at: http://bit.ly/5daystohappyhips
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This month, we are exploring the theme of Opening to the Flow, and in today's meditation, we practice being an observer of our thoughts and emotions so that we do not become tossed about when the winds and waves are strong.
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All the resources for this month's theme: Opening to the Flow are at http://clara-harris.com/october2019
Do you have a group, workplace, or event where you'd like to add yoga? Contact me at clara@clara-harris.com. While I am based in Louisville, Kentucky, I am available to travel throughout the USA and worldwide!
Today, we continue the theme Open to the Flow. We'll explore being open through a physical practice of yoga poses, inviting more space into the muscles of the chest and side body.
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All the resources for this month's theme: Open to the Flow are at http://clara-harris.com/october2019
Do you have a group, workplace, or event where you'd like to add yoga? Contact me at clara@clara-harris.com. While I am based in Louisville, Kentucky, I am available to travel throughout the USA and worldwide!
Welcome to October and a new theme! We'll explore being Open to the Flow through physical practices, breathing practices, and meditation. Today, we'll be doing a meditation and breathing practice to cultivate openness in the heart center.
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All the resources for this month's theme are at http://clara-harris.com/october2019
Do you have a group, workplace, or event where you'd like to add yoga? Contact me at clara@clara-harris.com. While I am based in Louisville, Kentucky, I am available to travel throughout the USA and worldwide!
We finish our August theme of: Reinforce, Shore Up, To Support. Today, we'll dive into a meditation to work on cultivating resilience. Throughout, I read several selections from Danna Faulds' book, Go In & In, Poems from the Heart of Yoga
The American Psychological Association's resilience article: https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience
The Mayo Clinic article referenced in the episode: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/resilience-training/in-depth/resilience/art-20046311
All the resources for this month's theme: Reinforce are at http://clara-harris.com/august2019
Yoga Pop-Up at Beagle Ridge Herb Farm & Environmental Education Center: https://www.facebook.com/events/415388602666129/
Do you have a group, workplace, or event where you'd like to add yoga in the Louisville, Kentucky area? Contact me at clara@clara-harris.com. Also available in the Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta areas.
Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga
Upcoming Sessions:
Sweatpants Yoga September 22, 10 AM - Noon
Yoga & CreatiTEA September 21, 9 AM - 12:30 PM
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We continue with the theme of: Reinforce, Shore Up, To Support. This week, we work with practices to support the breath. The breath, which comes to us without thinking, can also support our physical, emotional, and mental well-being. In drawing attention to the breath, we can begin to unlock this powerful force within us.
All the resources for this month's theme: Reinforce are at http://clara-harris.com/august2019
Do you have a group, workplace, or event where you'd like to add yoga in the Louisville, Kentucky area? Contact me at clara@clara-harris.com. Also available in the Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta areas.
Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga
Upcoming Sessions:
Sweatpants Yoga September 22, 10 AM - Noon
Yoga & CreatiTEA September 21, 9 AM - 12:30 PM
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Today, we will do a short, flowing sequence of yoga poses to offer support for the body by strengthening the core and stretching the body. Appropriate for those new to yoga, Clara first walks you through the poses. Then you will be guided through flowing the poses, linking the breath and the movement of the body, three times.
See a video and photos, as well as all the resources for this month's theme: Reinforce at http://clara-harris.com/august2019
Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga
There are still a few spots this fall for Workplace Yoga for your workplace or organization. See more at http://clara-harris.com/workplace-yoga
Upcoming Sessions:
Sweatpants Yoga September 22, 10 AM - Noon
Yoga & CreatiTEA September 21, 9 AM - 12:30 PM
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I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you.
An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.
For the month of August, we are going to be working with the theme of Reinforce. Today's episode asks you to take a moment of reflection to consider where, in your life, you need reinforcement, support, to shore up something - spiritually, physically, or emotionally. See http://clara-harris.com/august2019 for the referred to reflection tool.
View the Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga
Workshops this fall will be held at the Farmhouse at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian. https://goo.gl/maps/hZYsLWnmnUC171NA6
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I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you.
An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.
Today is the halfway point of the Happy Hips Challenge. Sign up at http://clara-harris.com/happyhipschallenge.
In today's practice, I offer a practice to support happier, more supple hips.
Check out helpful photos & GIFs of today's practice at http://clara-harris/podcastpictures17
Practice with the Happy Hips Playlist on Spotify or Amazon Music.
Workshops this fall will be held at the Farmhouse at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian. https://goo.gl/maps/hZYsLWnmnUC171NA6
Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops
Upcoming Sessions:
Sweatpants Yoga August 9, 2019
Yoga & CreatiTEA August 11, 2019
I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a life of more ease and more everyday creativity. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you.
An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.
Yoga can be practiced in so many places - for example, at a traffic light, when a gaggle of geese keeps an entire line of cars waiting through two cycles of the light. In this meditation, great for beginners, we practice patience - because patience is absolutely an ongoing practice. It is in a regular, ongoing yoga & meditation practice that we can cultivate more patience, more ease, and more creativity.
Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga
Happy Hips Challenge Beginning July 29th: http://clara-harris.com/happyhipschallenge
Upcoming Sessions:
Yoga & Everyday Creativity 12-week series beginning August 1, 2019
Yoga for Better Sleep 12-week series beginning August 6, 2019
Sweatpants Yoga August 9, 2019
Yoga & CreativiTEA August 11, 2019
Readings from:
Yogi Tea: https://www.yogitea.com/en/
Storyteller by Morgan Harper Nichols: https://morganharpernichols.com/
Limitless by Danna Faulds: https://kripalu.org/about/kripalu/staff/danna-faulds
I travel to lead workshops with businesses and groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a more ease and more everyday creativity.
This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing. Today's practice marks that anniversary through a Yoga Lunar Launch. This gentle physical yoga practice explores side bending and lengthening to support easeful breath, leg strengthening, and balancing to work on our playfulness (and our core). Join me and launch to the yoga moon! You will need a blanket or towel. You may need a chair or a yoga block (or an equivalent prop, like a book). What to do with these things is explained before the practice begins.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Video of Yoga Lunar Launch Practice: http://clara-harris.com/podcastvideo15
Pictures of Yoga Lunar Launch Practice: http://clara-harris.com/podcastpictures15
Current Schedule of Classes & Workshops: http://clara-harris.com/yoga
Be sure to check out how you can practice with me in person at my website, http://clara-harris.com
Upcoming Sessions:
Yoga & Everyday Creativity 12-week series beginning August 1, 2019
Yoga for Better Sleep 12-week series beginning August 6, 2019
Sweatpants Yoga August 9, 2019
Thanks to NASA and ESA for making their audio recordings available in the public domain.
I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a more spacious, more peaceful, more creative life. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you.
This article from Tricyle is the inspirition for this week's practice: http://bit.ly/yogawithclara14
Photos of the poses - aka shapes, aka asanas - available at http://clara-harris.com/podcast-pictures-14
Be sure to check out my website for the fall schedule this Friday, July 12th! Classes and workshops for August, September, and October will also be posted on the Yoga with Clara Facebook page.
Now booking private lessons, semi-private lessons, and other individual appointments for August through December. More information is available at my website, http://clara-harris.com, or email me.
Want feel-good, stretchy yoga in your office or at your event? Holler at me! clara@clara-harris.com
I'm coming to the UK and Ireland in November! I'd love to connect with you and I am currently booking workshops and classes. If you are based there, email me to schedule a workshop in your hometown.
Be sure to Like and Follow the Yoga with Clara Facebook page to get regular tips and interesting articles to support your more calm, more centered, more creative life.
On this week when we, in the United States, are celebrating Independence Day - while simultaneously seeming anything but united in our political discourse - I considered what my role, as a yoga and meditation teacher, could be during this time of conversational crisis. This is a metta-style meditation practice that I have found very supportive of how I want to engage with people in my own life.
Check out Pantsuit Politics for "grace-filled political conversations."
You can study with me in a private or semi-private session at my home studio in Louisville, KY.
I travel to lead workshops in businesses and with groups who want to discover how yoga can cultivate a more spacious, more peaceful, more creative life. Bringing an easy-going, non-dogmatic approach to my yoga instruction, I revel in helping you find the best way to have a yoga practice that meets your needs and grows with you.
An avowed anatomy nerd, my own yoga practice is a moving meditation, gathering influences from many yoga traditions and contemporary understanding of the human body. My lessons are infused with creativity, humor, and a grounded calm that comes with being a professional actor, at ease with one person or 1,000. I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, registered with the Yoga Alliance, and currently working on my 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center.
Halfway through 2019, let's take stock of our goals and our accomplishments as we practice peeling off being busy and what it feels like to sit still and listen to our inner wisdom.
Happy Summer! The Summer Solstice, on Friday, June 21st, also International Yoga Day, is a day many yoga practitioners do 108 sun salutations. Traditional sun salutations can be challenging if you are new to yoga. I lead you through two rounds of this beginner- friendly sequence. You can see pictures here & video of the sequence here. Enjoy!
To stretch the back and side body, the pose Janu Sirsasana has been in my personal practice frequently lately. Also called Head to Knee pose, this is a short sequence of three poses for anyone to enjoy the benefits of this shape - whether your head reaches your knee or not.
Sometimes events happen that cause us to stop and see with new eyes what a gift each new day is. What if we could cultivate that same gratitude in our daily lives? A meditation on gratitude.
Finding our deep core with a meditation and breathing exercise to explore the front of the spine.
In a yoga class, everybody's body looks a little different in the shape - the pose, or asana. Rather than comparing your body's shape with the teacher's or students' bodies, learn to tune into the radio station of your body's experience. Cultivating an awareness of what you are feeling within your body, and how it moves in space, helps you to be more present with yourself and with others.
For more information on the workshops mentioned in the episode, or for private and semi-private lessons, go to clara-harris.com/yoga.
Creative Cluster: Flowing & Owning Your Artist's Way, beginning Tuesday, May 28th
Sweatpants Yoga, June 8th
Yoga & CreativiTEA, June 23rd
Beginning May 28th, join me for Creative Cluster: Flowing & Owning Your Artist's Way, a 12-week workshop following Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way; part-book club, part-yoga class,
part-mastermind group. In this episode, I offer a taste of what our practice together would be like in this summer series. Best done without earbuds or headphones.
Register for Creative Cluster on my website, clara-harris.com/shop.
Still in the forest! Join Clara and the birds of the Pisgah National Forest, near Asheville, North Carolina, in a movement practice that is supportive for times of traveling, sitting for long periods, or times of feeling generally displaced. Videos of each portion of the practice are available at http:www.clara-harris.com/podcast-videos-episode-05. This gentle yoga practice is appropriate for beginners and all levels.
Traveling can be stressful, even under the best circumstances, even when you are excited about the trip. Sitting for long periods of time is tough on the body, and being in out of routine and away from your norms can be disconcerting mentally and emotionally. Today a meditation and breathing practice for travelers is offered. Even if you are not traveling, this meditation and breathing practice is helpful for times of feeling displaced - whether at home or away.
This episode brought to you from the middle of the Pisgah National Forest, near Asheville, North Carolina. Birdsong is authentic. Enjoy!
Learn more about Clara and her yoga offerings at http://clara-harris.com/yoga.
In celebration of a week encompassed by Earth Day, on one end, and Arbor Day, on the other, Clara offers a practice that explores how our bodies reflect the natural world. The episode begins with the physical practice, the meditation & breathing practice begins around 19:15. For Tree Pose (Vrksasana) reference photos, go to clara-harris.com/podcast-pictures-episode-03.
While listening to a podcast about photography workflow, Clara noticed a guest make a very yogic observation: by choosing the quick & speedy way of doing things, we force our future selves to spend the time we are unwilling to spend in the present. We're choosing (often unconsciously) to punish our future self for a minor gain in the present. Clara shares a meditation practice that can help us notice that, and begin to shift our way of thinking about "saving time."
Ah, spring! The birds, the blooms, the... pollen. Clara shares three yoga poses and a brief meditation to support you during this time of seasonal allergies.
For the visual learners in the group, see photos of the poses on Clara's website.
A yoga & meditation podcast for people who can't touch their toes...and those who can. Yoga with Clara, dropping every Wednesday.