4 feel-good ways to winterize your practice

.A winter yoga (and well-being) routine focuses on the stomach, lungs, heart, and head. Combining a warming practice with slow deep breathing and relaxation can keep most systems healthy by balancing the nervous system, optimizing digestive function, and boosting immune response.

Keep in mind—the inner heat of a winter practice is meant to warm, not overstimulate or deplete essential energy reserves. With a relaxed nervous system and revitalized immune and digestive systems, you'll find you have more energy and can feel healthier or recover more quickly from winter's potential to bring you down.

4 winter wellness tips

💚 For nourishing your digestive functions

Try twists, cobra, head to knee, and reclined goddess pose.

🫁 To help keep the lungs clear of excess mucus and to open the chest and heart area to stimulate the thymus gland, which regulates the immune system…

Try right angle, triangle, bow pose, pigeon, bridge, fish, reclined supported backbends.

🧠 To help keep the mind calm, clear, and light, as well as to maintain a more inward focus at a time when it is easy to get overwhelmed by the darker days…

Try a supported shoulder stand, child’s pose, supported savasana, and a gentle sun salute with deep rhythmic breathing.

💞 For regulating your nervous system…

Practice gentle twists, all the restorative poses, alternate nostril breathing, and a long savasana.

Want to join me for weekly feel-good cold-weather practices?

new class series: winter medicine
fire up digestion, lift your energy, & warm your heart

Winter Medicine is an 8-class series will rekindle our inner light to fuel digestion, lift our energy, and warm our hearts.

We’ll weave together mindful slow vinyasa flows, somatic movement, restorative yoga, and deep relaxation—emphasizing internal observation, slow and dynamic movement, rhythmic breathing, and fully supported rest—to help stoke our inner light and harmonize ourselves with the season.

This series is included in my online studio membership, which offers a free two-week trial for new members (cancel anytime). Otherwise you may register for the full series or a drop-in class.


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