Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari

Redo! Something happened when uploading this episode. It's fixed now! Enjoy! 15-Minute Vinyasa Flow Yoga | Energy and Flexibility In this 15-minute yoga audio, I'll help you energize your day and ignite your spirit. ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari podcast Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios. In these episodes, you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to join our family! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our yoga and recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery-themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - - Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery-themed yoga practices. This is your one-stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this episode. - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - ⌚ SCHEDULE: ⌚ New yoga and recovery videos EVERY Monday 👉 Subscribe to my channel. And press the bell🔔 icon. Thank you for supporting “ Luminous Recovery Yoga ” you can follow me on the Social Media Links Below: ❤ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3yCNqxe ❤ Facebook: https://bit.ly/3LdrqAN ❤ Website: https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/ ❤Patreon: https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - - - 📧 For Business Inquiries 📧 Mail: kari@luminousrecoveryyoga.com ⚠️ "DISCLAIMER:⚠️ This Channel DOES NOT Promote or encourage Any illegal activities, all contents provided by This Channel is meant for EDUCATIONAL purpose only. ⚠️ ⭐ Thanks a lot for listening

5 Minute Vinyasa Flow Yoga In this short 5-minute yoga video, I'll help you energize your day and ignite your spirit. With 5 simple poses, you'll be able to relax and center yourself, prepare your mind and body for the day ahead, and feel more positive and motivated. If you're looking for a quick and easy way to energize your day, then this 5-minute yoga video is perfect for you! This simple routine will help you to relax, clear your mind, and feel refreshed and motivated for the day ahead. Give it a try today and see how you feel! ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari podcast Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios. In these episodes, you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to join our family! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our yoga and recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery-themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - - Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery-themed yoga practices. This is your one-stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this episode. - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - ⌚ SCHEDULE: ⌚ New yoga and recovery videos EVERY Monday 👉 Subscribe to my channel. And press the bell🔔 icon. Thank you for supporting “ Luminous Recovery Yoga ” you can follow me on the Social Media Links Below: ❤ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3yCNqxe ❤ Facebook: https://bit.ly/3LdrqAN ❤ Website: https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/ ❤Patreon: https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - - - 📧 For Business Inquiries 📧 Mail: kari@luminousrecoveryyoga.com ⚠️ "DISCLAIMER:⚠️ This Channel DOES NOT Promote or encourage Any illegal activities, all contents provided by This Channel is meant for EDUCATIONAL purpose only. ⚠️ ⭐ Thanks a lot for listening

15 Minute | Vinyasa Yoga Flow | Luminous Recovery Yoga ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari podcast Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios. In these episodes you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to join our family! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our yoga and recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery-themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - - Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery-themed yoga practices. This is your one-stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this episode. - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - - ⌚ SCHEDULE: ⌚ New yoga and recovery videos EVERY Monday 👉 Subscribe to my channel. And press the bell🔔 icon. Thank you for supporting “ Luminous Recovery Yoga ” you can follow me on the Social Media Links Below: ❤ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3yCNqxe ❤ Facebook: https://bit.ly/3LdrqAN ❤ Website: https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/ ❤Patreon: https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - - - 📧 For Business Inquiries 📧 Mail: kari@luminousrecoveryyoga.com ⚠️ "DISCLAIMER:⚠️ This Channel DOES NOT Promote or encourage Any illegal activities, all contents provided by This Channel is meant for EDUCATIONAL purpose only. ⚠️ ⭐ Thanks a lot for listening

15 Minute Mindfulness Meditation | Body Scan ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari podcast Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios. In these episodes you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to join our family! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our yoga and recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - - Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this episode? - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me: https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - Sometimes yoga teachers say the darndest things. 🤪 I went to a yoga class this week and the teacher said something that made my butt clench. I understood the intention around it. I get what she was trying to say (perhaps) but it came out in such a way that was kinda triggering. I think what she wanted was for us to be mindful. To pay attention to what we were doing, especially if we started to get fatigued. But here’s how it came out… Yoga teacher: “And even if we take crescent lunge a hundred times, do it perfectly every time.” 😬 A guy in the class actually laughed out loud when she said it. 😂 This brought back old memories of a time where I was so determined to nail a pose perfectly that I ended up hurting myself—physically and emotionally. For instance, I wanted to nail wheel pose so badly, because I thought not being able to do it meant something about me. If there’s one word I do not like to hear in my yoga class, it’s the “p” word—perfect. I am a recovering perfectionist. Hearing that I’m supposed to do it perfectly every time is a recipe for absolute disaster. I cannot not—no, will not—do it perfectly every time. I have practiced my @$$ off to get better at not being a perfectionist. Sometimes, I have to work at not doing imperfect perfectly. It gets kind of meta—and I don’t mean Facebook. Lol Maybe you can relate—I need to throw perfect out the window. Rather than focusing on any form of perfection, I’m reaching for mindfulness. Mindfulness requires my awareness, focus, and attention to the present moment. When I’m practicing being mindful, I can be more accepting of my thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations in the present moment. I will take mindfulness over perfection any day. If I’m being mindful, then I can feel when I’m fatigued and take a rest, rather than drilling through it because I want to be perfect. Do you see the distinction? Some could argue that striving for perfection is a way to improve and grow. While improvement may be desirable, it’s important to remember that yoga is a personal journey, and growth comes from self-awareness and self-compassion, not from chasing an unattainable standard. This week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari is a 15 minute mindfulness meditation. In mindfulness meditation we are sitting in the simplicity of the present moment. In this meditation the focus is on your breath, hands, feet, and the crown of your head. Mindfulness meditation is a way to interact with yourself in the present moment through anchors like the breath and bodily sensation. While simple, these are powerful tools for getting the mind and the body in the same place at the same time—they are happening right now. I do not assume malice on the part of the...

15 Minute | Hands Free Yoga Practice | No Downward Dog | Luminous Recovery Yoga ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari podcast Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios. In these episodes you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to join our family! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our yoga and recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - - Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this video ? - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me: https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class - - - - - - - - - ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY - - - - - - - - - Ever wake up feeling like your body played a game of 'pin the pain on the random body part' while you slept? 🤔 Bodies are like mischievous little gremlins sometimes, causing all sorts of unexpected aches and discomfort. One morning you're feeling like a well-oiled machine, and the next, you've got a thumb that's staging a protest. Body’s are weird, right? Like, majestic, necessary, and strange. As my wise mentor once said, we're all just meat wads on this dirt ball, trying to make sense of it all! 🤷‍♀️ That’s how I felt this week when I woke up with my hand hurting. It wasn’t even the whole hand. It was my thumb knuckle down to my wrist. The other four fingers were fine, but my thumb was throbbing. This week, my rebellious thumb decided to take center stage, refusing to grip or bear weight without causing me a world of hurt. But hey, I'm nothing if not adaptable! Introducing this week's episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari: Hand's Free Yoga! This collection of YouTube yoga practices is designed for all of life's weird and unpredictable moments, giving you a little bit of something for everything. One thing I’ve stopped teaching in the last year is to “stack your shoulder over your wrist.” This is something you commonly hear taught in yoga classes. When you stack your shoulder over your wrist, your wrist is at a full 90 degree angle, and that’s a ton of pressure on the wrist joint. If you place your hands just a bit in front of your shoulders, it removes some of this pressure. For me, that feels a lot better. Next time you’re in a plank or table top position, see how that feels for you. Anyway, the pain in my thumb went away after like three days, but they were a miserable three days. I struggled to unzip anything, and couldn’t get a grip if my life depended on it. There’s a metaphor in there somewhere. 😂 I hope you find this practice useful. Even if your hand isn’t hurting, you can give it a try and see how it feels for you. It’s good to know what’s possible before we need it so we can create variety when we do need it. This 15 minute practice requires zero planking or down dogging. Those poses can place a lot of pressure in the wrists and hands. If you’re curious about taking a longer class with me, I teach several live classes every week. Classes are recorded and put into a library. So, if live classes aren't your thing, you can take the class anytime you like. If you ever wake up with any phantom pains and need some help with how you can adjust your yoga practice accordingly, feel free to message me anytime. I would love to help you troubleshoot your body. Afterall, we’re just meat wads on the dirt ball trying to get a grip, right? 😂 I’m here if you need me. Feel free to...

75 Minute Yoga Practice with Meditation | Power Yoga | Making choices on the mat ❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga YouTube channel! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these audios you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! __________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this episode? =========================== ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me I haven’t done this in a while (that may or may not be true 😂), but this weekend I binged a new Netflix show called Beef. It was 💯 percent binge worthy TV. It starred Ali Wong and was the perfect combination of should I laugh or cry right now. I absolutely loved it and I highly recommend it. The show is about two people who get into a road rage incident that turns into a full-blown obsession. It’s kinda wild. In truth, I’m the person that will spend more time trying to decide what to watch rather than actually watching a show. Being bogged down with a million choices overwhelms me and puts me into decision paralysis. Sometimes Netflix feels like actual hell. Maybe you can relate, {{ subscriber.first_name }} —I love when people make recommendations because at least it’s vetted. Somebody found this show worth watching, and so I can relax into my decision. Until, of course, the show is over and then I have to start the process all over again. 🤦‍♀️ The same is true for me when I’m trying to decide on a yoga class. Whether it’s staring blankly at a live class schedule or trying to decide on a class to take from a video-on-demand service, I become overwhelmed by all the choices. What if I don’t like the teacher or the style? What if I get halfway in and the class is too hard or easy? These are things that can take me out of the moment when I’m practicing, especially with a new teacher. This is what I appreciate about being a one woman (& Katie!) show. If you like my teaching and style then it removes the friction. It takes the guesswork out of the equation so you can relax into the experience knowing you have a teacher that has your back (and your hamstrings and your tight shoulders). You have the option of attending live or on-demand classes. The only decision you really need to make is when will I take this class? In this week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga with Kari podcast— I’m offering you a full length class! Rather than talking about how great it is, I’d rather show you. This is a 60 minute class with about 8 minutes of seated meditation at the end. It’s powerful, and might get you a little sweaty, but you’ll feel focused and calm. If you enjoy this class, consider there’s a whole library of classes just waiting for you! Every class is different, but the important parts remain consistent—the quality of instruction, the clarity of my speaking, and plenty of choices for you to scale the intensity up or down depending on how you feel that day. With five live classes a week, plus a full library of on-demand classes, that’s like the Netflix equivalent of Downton Abbey—you’ll be set for awhile. If you're curious about taking a live class with me, here’s one for free! Click this button and we’ll get you into a live class ASAP. Heck, yes I...

30 Minute Yoga Practice | Yoga Nidra | For Recovery ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari podcast Our mission is to create high-quality yoga audios. In these episodes you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to join our family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! ========================================= ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon 🔥🔥NEW PODCAST ALERT🔥🔥 Since January, I’ve been working at a small day school teaching art and P.E. to children between the ages of 5-11. The school is small, but full of personality. With the weather being very characteristically spring-esque (in like a lion, out like a lamb and all), we had a beautiful day on Wednesday, so I decided to take the children to a nearby park. The first group of children (the eldest of them all) played kickball, fought with each other furiously about the rules of the game, and had a great time. The second group of children (2nd and 3rd graders) frolicked on a hillside plucking grass and daisies and throwing it in the air like confetti—fantastic. The third group of children are kindergarteners and they were a more fickle crowd to please. Kindergartener #1: Terrified to the point of paralysis about the dogs in the park. Kindergartener #2: Wanted to go play with all of the dogs. Kindergartener #3: Refused to play and clung to my hip. Kindergartener #4: “If she’s not playing, then neither will I.” Clung to my other hip. Kindergartener #5: “I have to go to the baph-room.” Kindergartners #6 & #7: Held hands and ran amok. Kindergartener #8: Aloof af. Kindergartner #9: Deeply desires to direct all of the other kindergartners and me too. Wooooooooooof, I was exhausted by the end of that day. That's when I turned to my trusty stress-buster, Yoga Nidra. It's like a magical reset button that helps me find my inner calm after a day of kindergarten chaos. If you've ever felt like you're on the brink of pulling your hair out, Yoga Nidra might just be the mental massage you didn't know you needed. In this week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari, I offer you a Yoga Nidra practice. Yoga Nidra is a powerful technique that helps to induce deep relaxation and facilitate the release of tension and stress from the body and mind. It's often referred to as "yogic sleep" because it allows you to experience a state of consciousness that is similar to the moments just before you fall asleep. During a Yoga Nidra practice, you lie down in a comfortable position and follow the guidance of my voice, which leads you through a series of relaxation techniques and visualizations. The goal is to enter a state of complete relaxation while remaining aware and present. If you find yourself needing a mental break, but don’t want a full blown nap-time, this Yoga Nidra practice is an excellent in-between option. I hope you enjoy this week’s Yoga Nidra practice. If you find yourself needing a break from anyone or anything, it’s a simple practice that you can lie down for. No special equipment required, just a time to rest your eyes and your mind. With love, ~Kari ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⌚ New yoga and recovery videos EVERY Monday ⌚ 👉 Subscribe to my channel. And press...

8 Minute Yoga Practice | Tree pose | For Beginners ❤️Welcome to Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga podcasts for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these audios you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! ========================================= ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY 🔥🔥🔥NEW PODCAST ALERT 🔥🔥🔥 When I was 18 years old, I packed up my purple Dodge Neon and I headed west for Humboldt County, California to attend Humboldt State University, where I would eventually receive my Bachelors of Arts in Religious Studies. My advisor said, “People are going to ask what you’ll do with a Religious Studies degree. Tell them you’ll pray for a job.” 🤣🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Humboldt County is home to some of the planet's oldest, largest trees (and many gorilla farming weed operations, but I won’t get into it 😂). It was there that I discovered the majesty of trees. Trees so big that you can’t see to the top of them without laying your whole body on the ground to look up. In this week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari, I offer you a Tree Pose practice. It’s 8 minutes long and we focus on one single, solid pose. Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga is a dynamic and challenging style of yoga that emphasizes strength, flexibility, and mindfulness, making it a perfect complement to the grounding and transformative qualities of the Tree Pose practice in this week's episode. Most of the time in a yoga class, we’re moving from pose to pose, sometimes rather quickly. In this practice, you’re invited to slow down and ground down like a tree. It’s a grounding practice, almost a standing meditation. This could be a great little practice to start or end the day. Or maybe a way to break up a work block, and get out of your chair. What principles can a tree teach you about yoga? +Roots—Just as trees need deep roots to stand tall and withstand the elements, we too need a strong foundation. +Steadiness— Trees embody the quality of steadfastness, standing tall and firm even in the face of adversity. +Flexibility— Despite their strength and stability, trees are also flexible, bending and swaying with the wind and the changing seasons. +Connection— Trees remind us of our deep connection to the natural world, and the importance of honoring and nurturing that connection. +Growth— Finally, trees teach us about the power of growth and transformation. What would it feel like to pick one of these qualities and bring it into your yoga practice today? With love, ~Kari ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⌚ New yoga and recovery videos EVERY Monday ⌚ 👉 Subscribe to my channel. And press the bell🔔 icon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👉 Don't forget to tell us your opinion in the comments below. Thank you for supporting “ Luminous Recovery Yoga ” you can follow me on the Social Media Links Below: ❤ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3yCNqxe ❤ Facebook: https://bit.ly/3LdrqAN ❤ Website:...

20 Minute | Flow Like Water | Vinyasa Yoga Practice ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga podcast! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga podcasts for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these audios you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this video ??? ========================================= ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY 🔥🔥🔥NEW PODCAST ALERT 🔥🔥🔥 I’ll never forget my first major winter storm in Portland. It was 2016, and I had moved to Portland from Chicago in 2014. Being a starchy mid-western girl, I understood a winter storm, or so I thought. I learned that snowy winter storms do not happen frequently in Portland, therefore the city does not provide the full infrastructure I was used to having during such a phenomenon. When snow falls in Portland, the city stops for the most part. Chaos ensues, and sometimes, unable to climb icey hills, people abandon their cars on the side of the road. During this 2016 snow-pocalypse, I had been granted early release from work. Ice and snow are water. Water is a powerful force of nature. Water has unusual properties that make it different from other liquids. It is the only common substance that is naturally found as a solid (ice), liquid (water), or a gas (water vapor). Water is malleable and it takes the shape of any container it’s being held in like a cup, bottle, or a riverbed. This is a valuable lesson we can apply to our lives. Just like water, we too can be malleable and adapt to the circumstances around us. Life is full of challenges and obstacles, and it's important to learn how to flow around them instead of resisting them. We may not always be in control of our external environment, but we can control our response to it. It means being flexible and adaptable, and not being afraid to step outside our comfort zones. Just like water can change its shape and flow around obstacles, we can change our mindset and attitude to overcome challenges. This week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari is called Flow Like Water. Maybe you can relate—sometimes I feel like I’m floating down the river of life, completely immersed in the flow and beauty of it all. Other times, I feel like a 1982 Toyota Camry with bald tires trying to get up the icey hill of life, ready to abandon the mission on the side of the road. I love taking this principle to the mat. Water is a valuable teacher. Its malleability and ability to adapt to its surroundings can teach you important lessons about being open to change, finding your own path, and taking care of yourself. I invite you to welcome the element of water into your practice this week. Flow is the absence of resistance. What does it feel like to move like water? The nice thing about having classes on-line is that most of us were still able to gather for yoga this week, despite the weather. I’d love to see you live for class soon. If you have any questions, don’t be a stranger. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⌚ SCHEDULE: ⌚ New...

➡️➡️➡️Check out my *new* video rental library https://momence.com/video/plugin/27863 Here's a 60 minute bonus practice for you lovelies! I started a new video rental library. You can rent individual practice videos or join with an on-demand subscription. I will be adding to this library several times a week. I'm in the process of transferring many videos over from one platform to another, so in the next two weeks it will be chalk full of videos for you!

18 Min Vinyasa Yoga Restore practice ❤️Welcome to Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow yoga podcast! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga podcasts for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these videos you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this video ??? ========================================= ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class Sometimes I can get myself into a real tizzy. A tizzy comes with an entire set of physical, mental, and emotional reactions. Over the course of time, in getting to know myself better, I’ve learned to identify a tizzy when it’s happening in my body. Physically, my body temperature becomes dysregulated and can shift between extreme hot and cold. My body begins to shake and I feel an emptiness in my gut. My breath is shallow, and my heart rate pounds. Mentally, my thinking becomes distorted. My thoughts move really fast and it becomes difficult to follow a train of thought. In fact, my “train of thought” becomes a full on train wreck. Emotionally, things get extreme. Whatever emotional state I’m experiencing in the tizzy will become amplified—this might vacillate between extreme highs and lows. When moments like that arise, the best thing I can do for myself is to stay close to the ground. I mean this metaphorically, but also literally. The closer I can get my body to the ground, the better. Sometimes, putting my body on the floor is the most literal way to get grounded. This week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow yoga with Kari is called Restore. It’s an 18-minute practice that keeps your body low to the ground. Maybe you can relate— being in a tizzy is not a generally comfortable experience. When I’m in a tizzy not much else can happen until I get my body to settle. A tizzy creates a bundle of stress and anxiety. That’s why having a yoga practice has been so crucial for my recovery. Yoga is a power greater than me that can restore me to sanity. I love taking this principle to the mat. Yoga can help to reduce stress and anxiety. When a tizzy settles in, yoga is a way to bring yourself back to the present moment. When the mind and emotions begin to spin, you can restore yourself to presence through the physical body. Putting your body physically on the ground can become a lifeline for generating ease and calm in an upset system. When you increase strength and resilience in your body, you increase strength and resilience in your mind and emotions. What affects one area of the body, will affect the complete system. The next time you find yourself in a tizzy, notice what your body is doing. How does the body physically respond to your thoughts and emotions? The body is powerful and if you’re listening, it will tell you everything you need to know in the moment. I hope you enjoy this week’s practice. It’s available on Youtube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. If you’re ever wanting something specific, hit ‘reply’ and let me know. I love taking requests and might integrate that into an upcoming practice video. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⌚ SCHEDULE: ⌚ New yoga and recovery...

22 Minute Chair Yoga Flow with Balancing Poses ❤️Welcome to the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga podcast! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga podcasts for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these audios you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the podcast to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! 📣 Please tell us what you think of this video ??? ========================================= ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class 🔥🔥🔥NEW PODCAST ALERT 🔥🔥🔥 I’ll never forget the time I was frantically trying to get to yoga class. This was a common occurrence for me when I first started practicing in a yoga studio. The class started at 4 pm. I would leave work *promptly* at 3:20, which in theory was supposed to give me enough time to get to the studio, put my yoga pants on, and be in the room ready for class. However, even one snag, like an emergency vehicle passing by, or the average Portlanders resistance to merge into traffic, could put a wrench in my tightly planned schedule. On this one particular day, I was working very hard to get to class on time, but there was traffic over the Ross Island Bridge and things were moving like molasses. I knew I was going to be late, but how late was the question. I took matters into my own hands: Accept the things I cannot change➡️ traffic ✅. Courage to change the things I can➡️ this is where things got weird. I decided that if I could change my clothes right now, it would save me time once I arrived at the studio, thus making me less late. So, I did that. 🤦‍♀️ What people in the other cars saw that day, I’ll never know. Next, I had to change pants—this was the tricky part. Maneuvering my feet on the pedals, while taking off one pair of pants and putting on another (sweating like crazy, mind you) was just an experience I’ll never forget. Without creating a major traffic accident, getting arrested for public indecency, or being a distracted driver, or a combination of all three, I changed into my yoga pants on the Ross Island Bridge. Sometimes, I wonder if a parallel universe exists where I caused a bridge accident with my yoga pants bound up at my ankles and massive amounts of butt sweat on my car seat. I thank Higher Power I’ll never know. Now, all of that to say that if virtual yoga had been a thing at the time, I would’ve just gone home, changed pants, and taken the class online. It would’ve given me the chance to attend class without making a splashy entrance, or sketchy decisions whilst driving over a body of water. I notice that some studios are eliminating their online options now that the “pandemic is over.” (Although, that’s a debatable statement.) Having choices is important. The choice to attend a class in-person and online has been a game changer. Sometimes you wake up with a scratchy throat, can’t leave the house, have a two year old, or need a little extra time. Even greater a choice, is having the option to take a succinct, potent little practice on YouTube/Apple Podcasts/Spotify with Kari. Or a longer practice through a members-only video-on-demand library. This week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari is Chair Yoga with...

Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/integration 🔥🔥🔥NEW PODCAST ALERT 🔥🔥🔥 Did you hear the amazing news that Katie Presley is joining the Luminous Recovery Yoga teaching schedule? 🥳 I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. Wait, yes I can (this is my newsletter 🤣)! Katie and I started practicing and teaching yoga together years ago. She has huge compassion and love for students. One of Katie’s greatest teacher strengths is how radically inclusive her teaching style is. She provides an experience that skillfully harnesses rigor, kindness, and choice. If you walked into class and said your legs and ass were broken, Katie would find you a pose that didn’t include butts or knees. It’s one of her superpowers. It’s my goal to grow Luminous Recovery Yoga. One of the things I’m learning about growth, is that I can grow without having to do all the work myself. Integrating others into the growth process creates opportunity for us all. Asking for help and support creates space for people to give and generate an offering. This week’s episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a continuation of this month's practice theme of integration, is called integrate and chill. Integration is an invitation to create yourself as whole. One way I like to envision integration is through the imagery of an open hand. An open hand is neither grasping (think of a closed fist ✊) or averting (the hand that pushes away✋). An open hand is neither attaching to the experience or shunning it away. The open hand is simply welcoming what is. It is an invitation to integrate all of the pieces. Some pieces I would rather hold onto closely. Other pieces I would rather push away and pretend it never happened. Maybe you can relate—sometimes I talk myself into the idea that I need to do this whole life shebang by myself (grasping ✊). I get confused and think that accepting help makes me weak (averting ✋). Greeting life with an open hand is seeing myself as an interdependent being that is part of a much larger picture. I am one piece of the puzzle, not the puzzle. I am greeting life on life’s terms. This gives me the opportunity to call all the parts of myself and integrate. I love taking this principle to the mat. Yoga can help you to become more aware of your body, thoughts, and emotions, and to learn how to work with them in a constructive way. The practice teaches you to cultivate being present in the moment and being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. A connection with inner self is the path to integration. When you integrate, you can chill and let yourself be, just as you are. I created an interactive PDF to get your juices flowing about integration. You can use this guide on its own or as an accompaniment to the episode. It contains some thoughtful questions for consideration you might find helpful. Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/integration If you’re seeking a kind and compassionate place to practice yoga, consider joining us in the Luminous Recovery Yoga studio. You can attend in-person, online, through the library archive, or a combination of all the ways. If there’s a class time you’re seeking that isn’t being offered, hit reply and let me know what you need. This will help me consider the needs of the community when creating a new class time. I wrote you a haiku on integration: I think you are cute. Integrate and chill, my friend. Today, life on life’s terms. With love, ~Kari ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY

Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/integration 🔥🔥🔥NEW PODCAST ALERT 🔥🔥🔥 One major change that occurred for me in 2022 was finding sobriety. As of writing this, I have 137 days weed and alcohol free. 🎉 On New Year's Eve I had the honor of being the front door ticket taker at a big party where roughly 300 people rang in the new year with upbeat electronic music. It was a full on blast. Bringing my grounded, sober presence to the door was service to the community and to myself. In my experience, this is what integration feels like—I get to invite my whole self to the party without trying to hide, shirk, or minimize parts of myself. 🥳 It feels appropriate to start out the new year with the theme of integration for this week’s yoga practice episode of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari. Integration is about bringing together all the different parts of yourself - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual - and finding harmony within. It's about accepting yourself as you are, with all your imperfections and flaws, and finding a way to be present with whatever arises in each moment. Maybe you can relate—integrating all those parts of yourself can be a real challenge. It's easy to get caught up in the stress and chaos of daily life, and before you know it, you're a hot mess of jumbled up emotions and thoughts. 🔥 But that's where yoga comes in! By taking a few minutes to focus on your breath and body, you can start to untangle all those knots and find a sense of cohesiveness and clarity. One way I like to think about integration is by inviting all the different parts of myself to a tea party.🫖☕ I envision each part of myself as a separate guest, and I invite them all to come together in a space of acceptance and understanding. It's amazing how much can be resolved when you give each part of yourself the opportunity to be heard and seen. So, as we welcome in the new year, let's make a commitment to bring more integration into our lives, on and off the mat. To help you get started, I've created an interactive PDF guide with some thoughtful questions for consideration. You can use this guide on its own or as an accompaniment to this week's episode, which is a potent integration practice. Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/integration And once you’ve listened, consider joining me for a LIVE yoga class in-person or virtually. Come and find out how it feels to bring your whole self to the mat. Join me in ringing in the new year with a little bit of integration, a whole lot of laughter, and an invitation to bring your inner hot mess to tea. Here's to all of you! With love, ~Kari If you enjoy this content, please consider joining my Patreon. ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY

Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/balance Join Tier 3 Certified Baptiste Yoga Instructor, Kari, for a balancing flow sequence. Notice the way your breath moves and flows throughout this practice. This practice is challenging, but as always, find your own way through it. It doesn't have to look perfect, and you don't have to get it right. Feel free to try things even when you don't exactly know what you're doing. We end with a short savasana. If you enjoy this content, please consider joining my Patreon. ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY I’ll never forget the time I was in a hard af hot yoga class with a challenging teacher. I was holding a crescent lunge twist and the teacher kept encouraging us to go deeper. I was deep into this twist, lost my balance, and ran (literally) into the woman on the mat next to me. I knocked her over like a bowling pin 🎳and that's when I hit the wall🤡. Unnecessarily—she apologized to me. It felt very important to remind her that I was the one that rammed her over. I was embarrassed and fortunately no one was hurt. Sometimes when trying to balance, it doesn't turn out the way I had intended. Ah, balance. That S.O.B. 🤣 This week’s practice video is a balancing sequence. At one point in the video, I definitely fell into the wall. Apparently, that’s my thing. Lol. What can balancing on one foot teach a yoga practitioner? That balance is bull💩. We do not have to get it right, look good, or nail the pose in order to give ourselves permission to try something. When talking about the 50/50 work-life balance, my teacher and mentor Amy Porterfield says, it doesn’t exist. However, work-life integration is possible if we’re intentional about it. What does integration have to do with balance? To ‘integrate’ means to combine one thing with another so that they become whole. What if you can give up the idea that balance means we need to get it right? Rather, embrace the willingness to try it, mess it up, and get back up without the feelings of frustration, guilt, overwhelm, and failure. Instead of standing on one foot for the sake of nailing the perfect pose, you can create yourself as whole through your intentionality, focus, and presence regardless of how it turns out. What if learning how to balance is really learning how to fall, dust yourself off, and stand back up? Perhaps the lesson is what you learn by trying to stand on one foot, not the balancing act itself. Maybe you can relate—when I can’t balance on my feet, it’s usually because there’s a lot of shit going on in my head. Balancing on one foot requires presence. Presence can be hard to come by some days. So what if, rather than striving for balance, whether it's work-life balance or physically attempting to stand on one foot—the goal is to stay present in our exploration for wholeness? This is an invitation to bring your whole self to the party, even on days when falling over and hitting the wall is what the universe ordered. 🥳🎉 I created an interactive PDF to get your juices flowing about balance. You can use this guide on its own or as an accompaniment to the episode. It contains some thoughtful questions for consideration about balance in your life and practice. Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/balance And once you’ve listened, consider joining me for a LIVE yoga class in-person or virtually. Come and find out how it feels to practice imperfect balance on your mat. If you hit the wall, I promise not to apologize 🤣😘 With love, ~Kari #yoga #flow #baptiste #vinyasa #breath #beginner

Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/baptisteflow1 Join Tier 3 Certified Baptiste Yoga Instructor, Kari, for a short, relaxed, chill flow sequence. Notice the way your breath moves and flows throughout this short practice. As always, we end with a short savasana. If you enjoy this content, please consider joining my Patreon. ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY Love you, friend! #yoga #flow #baptiste #vinyasa #breath #beginner

To all of my beautiful listeners, please take a moment to listen to this update. This podcast will now be updated bi-weekly. Check out my other creation Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast, which will be produced on the other weeks. You can find that here: https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/podcasts/luminous-recovery-yoga-podcast Please, consider joining my Patreon as it helps to keep the creative content flowing. You can join at any level that works for your budget. https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY Lastly, I teach four LIVE weekly classes. You can attend on Zoom with my stellar audio/visual setup. You can see and me hear clearly, and I even offer verbal assists if you keep the camera on. If you join at the membership level, as a bonus you will receive a recording of each class. https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/class-schedule-and-pricing If you have any questions email: kari@luminousrecoveryyoga.com

➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY Join Tier 3 Certified Baptiste Yoga Instructor, Kari, for a fun vitality and equanimity flow sequence. This practice will take you through a combined sequence of powerful vitality poses blended with some balancing postures. Notice the way your breath moves and flows throughout this short practice. As always, we end with a short savasana. If you enjoy this content, please consider joining my Patreon. Love you, friend! #yoga #flow #baptiste #vinyasa #breath #beginner

➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY Join Tier 3 Certified Baptiste Yoga Instructor, Kari, for a warrior flow sequence. This practice will take you through a sequence of powerful warrior poses 1, 2, and 3. Notice the way your breath moves and flows throughout this short practice. As always, we end with a short savasana. If you enjoy this content, please consider joining my Patreon. Love you, friend! #yoga #flow #baptiste #vinyasa #breath #beginner

➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY Join Tier 3 Certified Baptiste Yoga Instructor, Kari, for a fun vitality and equanimity flow sequence. This practice will take you through a combined sequence of powerful vitality poses blended with some balancing postures. Notice the way your breath moves and flows throughout this short practice. As always, we end with a short savasana. If you enjoy this content, please consider joining my Patreon. Love you, friend!