Welcome Dear Community to The Daily Practice!

Here are some resources for you to understand the foundations of the Daily Practice, and support you in feeling safe and welcome in this practice.

Tenants of the Daily Practice

  • Connecting to the place of wholeness within. The practice of self-trust. This is not a practice to fix us, or make us more productive at work, or even "better" people.

  • This is a practice to connect us to our innate freedom and wholeness. To remember the space of refuge within, and generate safety in the body. To grant ourselves permission everyday to tune into a divine remembering of who we are.

  • Choice and safety. This is YOUR time, your morning, your body, your practice. You have choice in each moment of the practice to re-relate to yourself in a loving, non-judgemental and tender way. The way perhaps a loving mother would. You also have the choice to practice something different than what I have offered if that feels most appropriate for you.

  • Rather than a top-down approach of me “teaching” a class - this is guidance and support to move and breathe in a way that is from the inside out.

  • Regulating the nervous system with deep breathing. Deep breathing is inherently balancing. When we first wake up, for most of us our body produces the most amount of cortisol, the stress hormone, early in the day.

  • Cortisol and any related emotions are biological in nature, so it is useful to work with our biology through breath and and awareness of how the body is feeling. To notice your as your experience unfolds moment to moment.

  • Here’s a great article to learn more about why regulating the nervous system is so helpful for us as humans!

  • And here’s another article on the various ways we can regulate the nervous system - including dancing, singing, and making sound!


    Important Points to Note for Physical + Emotional Safety for the practice:

  • It is best to not eat or drink before practice. To remain completely empty, if possible. Particularly with breathwork practice, it’s good not to have food or liquid in the body.

    Breath of fire

  • - If you are more than 4 months pregnant, breath of fire is not recommended. 

    - On the first and second days of your cycle, breath of fire is not recommended. 

    - On the full moon and 1 day before and after, breath of fire is not recommended.

  • Breath of fire alternatives: 

  • Ujayi breath - 4 count in, 4 count out.

  • Nervous system reset breath - 4 count in, 8 count out.

    Alternate Nostril Breath

  • Books to support your practice

    All optional. Some students ask for recs - so here they are. I find connecting to a text that resonates with you very very helpful!

    Yoga of Heart, Mark Whitwell

    The Path of the Yoga Sutras, by Nicolai Bachman

    Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron

    Breath, The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor