feel powerful!
feel powerful!
presence — humility — power — focus –rejuvenation — pleasureful release! 
Located in Nob Hill, Albuquerque NM
January Special: Bring a friend new to the class for FREE!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Yoga for Hot Sex // Relaxation for Pleasure and Orgasm
Yoga for Hot Sex // Relaxation for Pleasure and Orgasm
Join me for 2 special mini-workshops at Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center!
Wed Oct 30, 2013: YOGA FOR HOT SEX
Wed Nov 13, 2013: RELAXATION FOR PLEASURE & ORGASM
Both classes are 7:30-9pm at the Self Serve Store in Nob Hill, Albuquerque. Preregister HERE or call 505-265-5815.
Yoga practice can create access to your ability to feel what is happening in the body, strengthen your confidence in your body/ mind ability, balance hormones, build awareness, tone, and ability to relax the pelvic floor muscles and pelvic & abdominal organs, increase circulation and oxygen to various vital systems, including the endocrine and sexual/ reproductive systems, neutralize the nervous system, which enables increase of both mental/ physical/ emotional relaxation (parasympathetic nervous system response) and simultaneously, sexual excitement/ tension (sympathetic nervous system response), build emotional stability, give insight to what and where are your “edges,” increase feelings of vitality, vigor, and enthusiasm to experience new things, and help support feelings of gratitude, selflove, compassion, and connection, and creativity.
Guiding Principles
Relaxation opens the gateway to pleasure and orgasm.
Mental Distraction takes us away from our bodily awareness, out of the present moment, and dilutes the intensity and availability of feeling turned on/ pleasure, and challenges out ability to connect with intuition, and our partner(s). The mind habitually will wander; Focus/ Awareness takes practice. Be compassionate with yourself and, as possible, be entertained by the mind, rather than get critical/ frustrated with it.
Sound (especially when long and low toned) helps release the throat/pelvic floor, lengthens exhalation and therefore quiets the nervous system, channels focus/ energy, intensifies pleasure sensations, helps release endorphins, and can assist orgasmic release. Also great for claiming space and giving positive feedback to partners!
Playful Curiosity is a great way to deepen into sexual discovery. Don’t confuse Sincerity with Seriousness. Let what feels good and fun guide you. Keep shifting back into the body’s feedback loop and away from the narrative of the mind.
Stability and Freedom are 2 sides of 1 coin. The more we feel stable, safe, organized, and grounded, the more we can truly let go, get vulnerable, expand, and get ecstatic.
~Stabilize with:
~ Presence building practices, Yoga practice, and physical support (inside: strength, body awareness. outside: props, pillows, walls…)
~ Pelvic Floor Work: healthy tone, awareness and strength
~ Femur grounding to support gentle release of the psoas, pelvic organs, and pelvic floor muscles.
~ Alignment (in our bodies, as well as with our partners)
~ Slowing down to feel what is there.
~ Good, Clear Boundaries and Agreements
Ahisma: Non violence Santosha: Contentment
Bramacharya: Respectful, Healthy Utilization of Sexual Energy
Svadyaya: Self Study (internal learning) Samadhi: Total Freedom/ Bliss/ Self Realization
(from Yamas & Niyamas, the foundations of yoga: in our minds, bodies, and with others)
Exploring embodied sexuality may bring up fears or triggers, yet the very techniques of presence, breath, and feeling through what is there, can be effective ways to release layers of tension, trauma, heavy emotionality, or resistance.
#yogaforhotsex #yoga #queeryoga #averykalapa
Fall News: Partner Yoga and Some New Classes!
Fall News: Partner Yoga and Some New Classes!
Emily and I will be teaching a fun, playful, yummy Partner Yoga Workshop Saturday, Oct 19th 2-5pm at High Desert Yoga. 
What could be a better way to spend an afternoon than with nourishing, grounding, playful, delicious assisted poses? Practicing with a partner is one of the most effective ways to experience the aim and meaning of yoga – union – union of mind and body, of self and others, and with the eternal Self that resides in each of us.
In this playful workshop, partners will learn to assist each other in going more deeply into a variety of asana, including standing postures, forward folds, backbends, and twists. The practice will be at turns invigorating, playful, and restorative. Find a partner at the workshop or bring your friend, lover, or yoga buddy. Expect to challenge your limits, connect with your inner self, and connect with the people around you as we continue together on the path to unity.
A partner’s touch can provide strength, awaken insight, invite release, or simply bring a deeper awareness of the present moment – awareness of breath, body, and mind; awareness of habitual patterns, attitudes, and emotions. You and your partner will help each other expand beyond the limits of habit, challenge assumptions, and perhaps move into postures that might otherwise seem inaccessible. Working together, we will cultivate compassionate trust in ourselves and each other. All levels and body types welcome, queer friendly, beginner friendly. Ages 12 to 102!
Price options: Pre-registered: $35 per person, $65 for two. Day of: $40 per person, $75 for two. Preregister in person at the studio, call 505 232 9642 or at highdesertyoga.com
Check out the flier with all the info here: partner yoga flier
Also, I am teaching a NEW CLASS!! … Starting next week, I will be teaching an ALIGNMENT based VINYASA class at High Desert Yoga 10$, one hour. Rich, deep, muscular, lots of pelvic floor work! Plus a nourishing, full savasana. Thursdays 5:30-6:30pm. AND! North Valley students please note: My 5:30-6:30 Wed Level One class at Dragonfly Yoga will be shifting to be on Mondays. Two great evening classes… hope to see you soon!!
Slowing Down
Slowing Down
When we slow down we can focus on alignment not only anatomically but energetically: moving prana in a different way from our habit patterns. In this comes real freedom and transformation, in the body but also emotionally, psychologically, we experience ourselves and the world differently, more harmoniously. As the goal becomes not performing poses, but rather stability, organization, and intensity of presence and awareness, strength and flexibility are pleasant side effects, while the true depth and potential of yoga become our reality. Meanwhile, the body is safe, and trust, healing, and the development in self-trust begin to unfold.
Favorite Teachers
Favorite Teachers
In the next month or so two of my most beloved teachers are visiting Albuquerque. In my experience it is a rare and profound opportunity to study with truly great teachers, and even if the Iyengar method isn’t your route into this work, I sense you’d get a lot from any amount with Francois, or Ramanand. It’s crazy they are both coming here within a month of eachother! I love studying with both of these teachers, and have done so whenever I can, in the last several years. I invite you, since it’s a great opportunity. It would be fun to share yoga space with you!
Here’s a link to the High Desert Yoga site. You can get info and sign up there, though Ramanand registration is through Wellspring.
Francios Raoult, originally from France, has a ruthless genius way of accessing depth, and has a great sense of humor… he is doing a special session for teachers this Friday afternoon, then Pranayama (lots of asana, too, etc) intensive all weekend.
Ramanand Patel< originally from India, studied from boyhood with BKS Iyengar; he is in his 70s now, a retired engineer. Brilliant.
Both of these teachers are advanced, challenging, profound, wonderful to study with…
I’ve had some of my most deep, life altering yogic experiences with these two. I’m so excited for more… maybe see you there!
http://www.highdesertyoga.com/workshops.html#theAnchor317
High Desert Yoga | Workshops and Class Series
http://www.highdesertyoga.com
Workshops and Class Series