Prajna Live | Good Friday Class: Rebirth, Regenerate, Renew
we practice regenerating all tissues to bring vitality and longevity to the spine.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Abdominal Oblique
We like to say it is “obliquatory” to stretch and strengthen the sides of the abdominal cavity each day.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Activating Arches: Feet, Hands, and Lower Back
In this class we build strength in the distal “arches” of the hands and feet.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Active Twists to Stimulate Digestion
The spring season is the best time to cleanse, flush, and detox the gut after a long winter. In this class we do poses to stimulate digestion.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Adductor Magnus
Known as the “fifth hamstring,” this muscle is the most powerful of the inner groins. In this class we explore connection to the mid line, while strengthening and lengthening this key muscle.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Against the Grain Breath
In this practice we extend or “sip” the breath by interrupting the flow of breath using both deliberate and non-deliberate pauses.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | All Ears
This class involves the fine art of listening and in practice, when we balance the inner ears, physical equipoise is attained.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Alternate Nostril Breathing
The classic “alternate nostril breath” requires sensitivity and dexterity in the fingers. Like playing a wind instrument, we practice to hit smooth “notes” while regulating the flow of breath.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Backbenders of the World Unite!
In this class we do back arches to build longevity in the spine.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing Breath through the Nostrils
In this class we use postures and pranayama to balance the flow of prana through each nostril.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing Kapha
In this class we reduce sluggishness and lethargy in the body by lubricating all tissues while suffusing the body in feelings of serenity and delight.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing Pitta
Pitta is the energy of fire and transformation, centered in the digestive system. In this class we mobilize the solar plexus while steadying the flow of “fire” through the nerve endings, fascia, and organs of perception.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing Vata
Centered in the lower abdomen, vata governs the path of “wind” through all the channels of the body. It is characterized by movement and activity. In this class, we reduce bluster and agitation in the nerves while opening the hip joints and toning the lower abdomen.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing from Head to Toe
In this class we do standing poses, arm balances, and head balance to cultivate equilibrium of body and equanimity of heart and mind.
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- By Tias & Surya Little
Prajna Live | Balancing the Four Pillars of the Spine
In this class we bring stability, suppleness, and support to the temple of the spine by balancing these four pillars.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing the Hips
This class brings fluidity and flow to your hips joints to increase vitality and internal lift.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Balancing the Three Elements--Tamas, Rajas and Sattva
In this class we weave together deep rest with activity in order to discover a profound sense of equilibrium (sattva) inside.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Beginner’s Mind and the Always New
In the beginning of a new year we come into the practice with fresh eyes, sensing into each movement, each breath and each pulse as new.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Being in Rhythm—Heartbeat, Blood, and Breath
In this class we use rocking, pumping, and wave-like movements to promote flow through the body.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Belly to Earth – Belly Down Backbends
We do variations on shalabhasana (locust), dhanurasana (bow), and bhekasana (frog).
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Bicep
In this class we engage the bicep by pumping, spiraling, stretching, and weight bearing in order to bring freedom of movement to the arm, upper ribs, and shoulders.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Bija: The Stillpoint of the Turning World
In this class we practice focusing the mind like a laser on various points in the body in order to heighten awareness and concentrate the mind.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Blood Flow Arterial
In this class we build the cardio-vascular pulse to nourish all the cells of the body.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Blood Flow Venous
In this class we support blood flow back to the heart by pumping the legs and churning the abdomen.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Blossoming Backbends
In this class we move slowly and safely through a practice of back arches to both rejuvenate and stimulate the spine in order to bloom both heart and lungs.
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- By Tias & Surya Little
Prajna Live | Brachial Plexus: The Shoulders
The brachial plexus includes a highway of nerves passing under the bridge of the collar bones. In this class we increase ROM in the arms while stretching and loosening the shoulders.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Brain Power
The brain is the most delicate organ in the body and it requires exquisite finesse to release the connective tissues that hold the brain into place. In this class we use movement and meditation to optimize circulatory flow through the neck, brain, and skull.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Breath Work & Back Care: Tao te Ching, Verse 36
We practice movements to release the spine by integrating the line “the supple overcomes the hard.”
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Breath of Fire
In this class we explore the nuance of the Breath of Fire.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Breath of Fire/Breath of Water
In this class we compliment the Breath of Fire with a soft, fluid, watery breath (the Breath of Water).
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Breathing into Your Skin
In this class we enliven the skin through stretching, twisting, and sliding movements.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Bridge to Light & Space
In this class we build bridges in order to stretch the abdomen, open the chest and nourish the brain.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Bridge to Light and Space
In this class we do multiple variations of bridge in order to rejuvenate the organs, refresh the brain and boost internal energy.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Bringing Greater Wakefulness to the Tissues
In this class we irrigate blood and prana through all the connective tissues of the body to generate elasticity, flow, and wakefulness inside.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Build Fortitude in Your Femurs
In this class we stretch and strengthen the hamstrings and quadricep muscles in supine, standing, and inverted positions.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Building Better Bones
In this class we strengthen the bones while making the soft tissues around the bone—the ligament and tendons—more supple and adaptable.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Building Yin & Yang: 10 Standing Poses on the Floor
In this class we harmonize yin and yang by doing a medley of active poses while on the floor, in order to both energize and restore the body-mind.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Building a Bridge into the New Year
In this class we practice many variations of bridge pose in order to make the spine flexible.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Building a Bridge into the New Year
We practice variations of bridge pose to make the spine flexible and the shoulders supple.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Cables, Ropes, Ties, & Struts
In this class we sense into the tendons and ligaments that hold muscle to bone.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Calcaneus
In this class we press, lift, and pump the heel and ankle in order to stimulate kinetic flow through the entire body.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Celestial and Terrestrial
In this class we do descending and ascending movements, reaching toward both matter and spirit.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Cellular Rhythms
In this class we connect to the vibratory hum within the cells by alternating between filling and emptying, and rising and falling movements.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Centering Attention Inside
In this class join Tias for a journey inward to the core connections in your pelvis and lower spine.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Centering the Cervical
Because the vertebrae of the neck are the most delicate, they are the most easily displaced of all vertebrae. In this class we generate ease in the uppermost spine by mobilizing the strong musculature in the back of the neck while simultaneously making the throat pouch flexible.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Churn, Churn, Churn
In this class, we do revolved positions in the abdomen in order to generate a strong upward flow of prana.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Circles, Ellipses, and Spherical Movement
Join us for this delightful class on circular rotations for the joints.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Clarifying Kapha
In this class we lubricate the tissues of the body - particularly in the joints, lungs, and brain. When we refine kapha dosha, we embody a loving, heart-centered presence.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Clarifying Pitta
When the fire element is refined, it results in good focus, radiance (tejas), steady levels of energy, and clear understanding. In this class we practice to clarify the fire element. We practice “right fire” which is the clear path of neuromuscular flow in both movement and meditation.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Clarifying Vata
When vata is channeled it leads to clear perception, refined awareness, and the subtle flow of prana. In this class we bring steadiness and ease to the nerves and also practice “motionless vata” which is the experience of pure consciousness.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Clavicle
In this class we slide, lift, rotate, and widen the collar bones in order to bring lightness and ease to the entire chest and neck.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Cleansing, Flushing, Rinsing the Abdomen
In this class we side bend, roll, twist, invert and use the breath like a plunger to circulate prana through the gut.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Coils, Kundalini, and the Central Axis
In this class, we practice mobilizing these bands that cross at the joints, wrap along the spine, and attach the legs and arms to the trunk.
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- By Tias Little
Prajna Live | Core Release I, Psoas Muscle
Most physical trainers agree that the iliopsoas is the primary muscle that provides core support for the entire body. In this class, we focus on the upper psoas fibers and engage it as a muscle of breathing due its insertion at the respiratory diaphragm.
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- By Tias Little