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Solstice Sleep Meditation
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Solstice Sleep Meditation

To new beginnings! Winter Solstice feels like an auspicious time to launch my new website samloe.yoga. Traditional Solstice rituals celebrate the energy of transformation, creativity, and new beginnings as the return of the light is welcomed along with our hopes and...

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The Perfect Pause
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The Perfect Pause

Whether it’s enforced or chosen, taking a pause from what you are doing and thinking to feel into your body and breath can bring back the felt sense of your True Nature. This nourishing iRest meditation practice invites you to be with any imperfections that you...

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Breath Awareness vs Breath Regulation
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Breath Awareness vs Breath Regulation

Breath regulation allows us to manipulate various aspects of the breath. This might include controlling the pace of the breath, the length of the inhalation or exhalation, extending pauses or changing the pattern of breathing. In breath regulation we might use visualisations and posture changes to particular areas in the body to shift the qualities of breathing too.

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Chronic Illness + Free Yoga Nidra Class
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Chronic Illness + Free Yoga Nidra Class

It’s been a month since my second dash of COVID, and I am having to be very patient and slow, and continue to pace myself and continue to rest. Anytime I exercise it sets me back. I am so thankful to have many yoga tools to meet me in this place. And so it’s ironic...

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A Venice Souvenir
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A Venice Souvenir

This is a simple Yoga Nidra practice designed for busy times, or during travel, that will take just 20 minutes. It offers a settling and grounding, body relaxation and then an invitation to be with the sights and sounds of Venice as a way of balancing movement and stillness.

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Nest for Rest
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Nest for Rest

Women gathered, rested and connected as I guided a sequence based on the nest painting I made and this beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. It was such a potent gathering and felt like we were laying down the foundations for a year of tuning into the seasons as a guiding...

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Falling Awake
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Falling Awake

There’s a moment when we wake up as well as when we fall asleep, before we are unconscious or fully alert that is a gateway into the state of pure conscious ‘Being’. The trick is to be awake enough to notice it but asleep enough so that the...

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Creating an Island of Calm
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Creating an Island of Calm

What would it take for you to feel calm, secure and at ease in this very moment? In other words the feeling of just being yourself, just as you are. Perhaps these qualities are already present right now? If that is the case notice the sensations and feelings in...

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