Inspiration
Did you love that poem, book, music or other reference from a recent Uplift Yoga class or retreat? Here are some of my favorite resources.
Music
Replicate the sounds of a retreat in your own home practice with these pieces selected for their entrancing meditative sounds.
Anugama
Peaceful Relaxation Ocean
Shamanic Dream
Baird Hersey
Waking the Cobra
The Eternal Embrace
Glen Velez
Breathing Rhythms
Rhythms of Awakening
Rhythms of the Chakras
Wise Magraw
How the Light Gets In
Poetry
Poems may be used as source of meditation or Lectio Divina. Go deep into one of these poet's verses, and then go deeper. Here are the poems I read in the 2021 retreat.
Mary Oliver
Starlings in Winter
The Waterfall
The Sun
Rumi
Tending Two Shops
Joy Harjo
Remember
Eagle Poem
Wendell Berry
The Silence
To Know the Dark
T.S. Eliot
Little Gidding
Practices
My classes are informed by a variety of generous teachers from many different backgrounds. Some I have trained with and some of I have learned from their books listed here. This is where I get my inspiration.
Lauren Artress (labyrinths)
Philip Shepherd (embodied present)
Sally Kempton (meditation)
Andrew Harvey (devotion/meditation)
Katy Bowman (movement)
Indu Arora (mudra)