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Yoga Sesh

Caitlin Rose Kenneywww.caitlinrosekenney.com
A library of Yoga & Mindfulness practices guided by me — Caitlin Rose Kenney! Enjoy Yin, Regenerating, Flow and Meditation. Classes are accessible, creative and clearly instructed. I love supporting people who are navigating thresholds — from creative sabbaticals, to fertility journeys, periods of healing, navigating cancer and transitions into a new season of life. Tell me about your journey, leave a review or write a private note at caitlinrosekenney.com/contact Caitlin Rose Kenney/Yoga Sesh is not liable for injuries that result from practicing along with this Podcast. Take great care.
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Yoga Sesh Transition

I have an update for you. I am changing the way I am hosting Yoga Sesh and I am going to bring new content to the podcast! Please be patient, it may take a little while for me to move through this transition. THE BIG THING YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THAT THE PRIMARY WAY TO LISTEN TO YOGA SESH MOVING FORWARD WILL BE ON SPOTIFY. I am not sure if it's going to exist on other platforms and I hope we don't lose each other! RIGHT NOW, FOLLOW YOGA SESH PODCAST ON SPOTIFY. You will see the usual content there ...

Dec 03, 20242 min

Meditation: Mindfulness of Light

A guided meditation cultivating mindfulness of light. 12-minutes with a short intro and outro. Revisit often.

Dec 22, 202214 min

Yin: Low Back Support Wall Class

Low back discomfort is common. This Yin Yoga practice supports low back health with a wall sequence designed to release tension in various areas of the body that interlock with the lower back. This class can help you prevent low back injuries and may soothe mild discomfort. If you have pain or an injury, consult a physical therapist or doctor before practicing yoga. This practice is accessible and truly all levels. All you need is an open wall space. If you have yoga blocks or a couple of throw ...

Feb 05, 202246 min

Yin: Folded Wing with Poetry

This simple and sweet Yoga Sesh is one Yin Yoga pose, Folded Wing on both sides. Caitlin Rose reads her poem "Cosmos" while you settle into this potent pose. Props: none Visit www.caitlinrosekenney.com to learn about LIVE Virtual Classes, Yin Yoga Training and more.

Nov 23, 202116 min

Regenerating: Strengthening Foundations

Classic yoga poses in a slow, strengthening sequence and a 5-minute meditation. Caitlin Rose guides you into traditional shapes and offers helpful modifications and variations. Return to this class to develop a skillful physical and seated meditation practice. Props: 2 blocks Shapes: Reclined Figure 4, Downward Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana), Chair Pose (Utkatasana), Drinking Bird, Warrior 1 (Virabhadrasana 1), Pyramid Pose (Parsvottanasana), Forearm Plank, Sphinx, Warrior 2 (Virabhadrasana 2), Exte...

Oct 21, 202156 min

Yin: Digestive Practice

Yoga combined with the wisdom of Chinese Meridian Philosophy to promote healthy digestion. Calming shapes support your Spleen and Stomach meridians and awaken your senses. Props: Several pillows (or yoga bolsters) and blocks. Shapes: Reclined Butterfly, Pigeon, Seated Twist, Half Butterfly Stomach Meridian Variation, Saddle and Legs Up the Wall. Visit www.caitlinrosekenney.com for more Yoga & Mindfulness

Jul 30, 202159 min

Yin Yoga — Discernment Short Practice

This practice is designed to bring you back into your body so that you can recalibrate your inner compass and allocate your energy wisely. Caitlin Rose weaves Chinese Meridian Theory into this practice by illuminating a simple map of the Gallbladder Meridian. The Gallbladder, according to Chinese Medicine, is responsible for your discernment. Take this practice whenever you need to step away from distractions and come back to your inner knowing. Props: Grab several pillows (or yoga bolsters) and...

May 31, 202159 min

Yin Yoga — Discernment Long Practice

This practice is designed to bring you back into your body so that you can recalibrate your inner compass and allocate your energy wisely. Caitlin Rose weaves Chinese Meridian Theory into this practice by illuminating a simple map of the Gallbladder Meridian. The Gallbladder, according to Chinese Medicine, is responsible for your discernment, which includes how and with whom you spend your time with. Take this practice whenever you need to step away from distractions and come back to your inner ...

May 31, 20211 hr 14 min

Regenerative Yoga: Exhaustion & Resilience

Let us "Dwell with reverence before our exhaustion and our resilience... ponder how we want to live..." This quote from Krista Tippet is the inspiration for this slow and deep practice. To read the entire quote and wise words of Krista go here https://engage.onbeing.org/20201215_the_pause_m Steep in poses that regenerate your exhausted and resilient body. This class opens with psoas release and carefully attends to the body in unique and gratifying variations of Extended Side Angle, Eagle, Warri...

Jan 15, 20211 hr 3 min

Regenerative Flow: IT Band

This Yoga Sesh sequence I have wanted to record for you for a long time and when I got a request for stretching the IT Band it motivated me to get this class up and available on the podcast. There are poses and flows in this practice that I fell in love with when I was teaching at a Katonah Yoga inspired studio. These poses and the "Water Salutations" involve weaving and crossing your legs which creates a beautiful balance challenge and activates both sides of your brain. (I first learned these ...

Oct 08, 20201 hr 10 min

Yin Yoga: Clarifying Practice

Caitlin Rose opens this Yoga Sesh with an ask for connection, she wants to know who is practicing with this podcast :) You can find her on Instagram @cailtinrosekenney or write her a note via the Contact page on www.caitlinrosekenney.com. She is now leading weekly LIVE virtual yoga classes and would be delighted for podcast listeners to join. Here are the details: www.caitlinrosekenney.com/live-classes. This practice is a full-body Yin Yoga sesh designed to clean and clear the major meridians (e...

Jun 29, 20201 hr 10 min

Yin Yoga & Breathwork For Lungs

This simple and spacious Yoga Sesh offers Yin Yoga poses and breathwork to support your lungs. Caitlin Rose prompts you to take Child's Pose with one arm threaded under (both sides), Supported Fish Pose and the Full Yogic Breath. Enjoy peace and quiet as you expand the tissues around your lungs and practice breathing fully. This Yoga Sesh was recorded at home and Caitlin Rose is practicing while she guides you. You may hear mild background noise in the audio, please let this blend with the noise...

Jun 04, 202020 min

Vin-Yin: Inner Archaeology MUSIC mixed by @disconektar a.k.a. Taylor Phinney

This generous Yoga Sesh has been seriously upgraded with MUSIC mixed by DiscoNektar a.k.a. Taylor Phinney. You will love the musical alchemy as you go on an archaeological dig into your inner landscape and re-remember that you have the desire and capacity for both inner connection and connection with the outer world. Suggested props: 1-2 blocks and a bolster A note from Taylor and track list below! This is a Yoga class from @yoga-sesh with a mix of songs recorded to flow with the class. As a bou...

May 22, 20201 hr 23 min

Regenerative Yoga: Low Back Relief

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: be prepared to hold poses and feel a slow burn of strength and opening in this class! Caitlin Rose focuses on poses that release the psoas and lengthen the inner thighs to relieve the low back. If you've been sitting, running, hiking, cycling or traveling lately this class is for you! Suggested props: a block or bolster can be used to support seated postures and Yin Yoga poses. Moves & poses to know: Temple Pose, Cow-Cat Spinal Movement, Low Lunge (bac...

Apr 17, 202054 min

Horizon Meditation

Caitlin Rose's Horizon Meditation is an exploration of infinite space and the stabilizing form of your body. The horizon represents that which is boundless, hopeful and spacious. Your body, containing your personality and experience, represents that which is uniquely defined in this moment. Together the horizon and your body form a yin and yang partnership: a balanced whole that holds both your connection to spirit and your soul. Caitlin begins with 5 minute talk on this yin and yang philosophy ...

Mar 19, 202017 min

Vin-Yin: Tension Release

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: A thorough and juicy Vin-Yin practice that releases your hips, low back and upper body tension. Beginning on your back, the class progresses into standing poses that both release and strengthen your lower body. You will attend to all angles of your hips, spinal twists, hamstring stretches and core work. Tension release in your shoulders and neck is found through a challenging and fun variation "Funky Dolphin" followed by a sweet release in Sleeping Pigeon ...

Mar 12, 20201 hr 9 min

Vin-Yin: Inner Archaeology

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This generous Yoga Sesh is an invitation to take an archaeological dig into your own inner landscape and re-remember that you have the desire and capacity for both inner connection and connection with the outer world. The class begins with breath awareness and slowly intensifies into a Vinyasa Flow sequence that will open your hamstrings and ease you into external hip rotation. The last 20 minutes are dedicated to yin postures so that you can sink into med...

Dec 05, 20191 hr 17 min

Vinyasa Flow: Connectivity

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: Inspired by her time spent with honeybees and the sacred geometry embedded into hive-life this live-recorded Vinyasa Flow class opens with a meditation practice that connects the right and left sides of the brain. This is a rich practice titrating between intuitive movement patterns and sequences that intelligently prepare you for the peak posture Sun Dial Pose. Suggested props: 1-2 blocks and a strap Moves & poses to know: Skandasana (Side Lunge), Dol...

Oct 12, 20191 hr 3 min

Yin: Release & Renew

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This nourishing Yin practice will encourage you to release stale energy and renew every layer of your being. Caitlin Rose shares insights from Chinese Meridian Theory about how a Yin Yoga practice can support your organs and takes you on a restoring journey through poses that attend to both your liver and your kidneys. Suggested props: 2 blocks, a blanket unfolded across your mat and a bolster Moves & poses to know: Constructive Rest, Supine Twist, Sph...

Apr 12, 20191 hr 7 min

Yin: Liver Support

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This short yoga sesh dives right into a Yin Yoga practice designed to support the Liver. Caitlin Rose guides you skillfully into each Yin Yoga pose and offers insights on the organ of the Liver, the Liver Meridian Line according to Chinese Meridian Theory and how to support your Liver through yoga poses, visualizations and breath-work. As a compliment to this Yin practice, try taking Vinyasa Flow for Liver Support before or after this class! Beginning pron...

Apr 15, 201834 min

Vinyasa Flow: Liver Support

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: Support your liver, an organ deeply intertwined with your ability to detox and digest, with this short (30 minute) Vinyasa Flow practice. To stimulate the liver, Caitlin Rose has carefully chosen postures that target the liver and the meridian line of the liver. Using the map of Chinese Meridian theory, Caitlin Rose crafts potent yoga classes aimed at restoring and rebalancing your organs. According to Chinese Medicine, your liver is the organ responsible ...

Oct 02, 201731 min

Vinyasa Flow: Heart Meridian & Lower Body Strength

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This yoga class was designed with caregivers in mind and is a powerful practice for all practitioners. The sequence weaves wrist and shoulder openers for mobility in the upper body with long holds in standing poses for strength in the lower body. The variations offered for the hands and shoulders stimulate a branch of the heart meridian that runs from the heart to the hands. This pathway must be open and clear for the intentions in your heart to translate ...

Apr 14, 201749 min

Joint Release

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This short practice features a joint release series that will help you feel healthy and mobile in your body. This daily practice is beneficial to people during all phases of life and will prepare you for whatever your day holds whether that is sitting in meetings or training for a triathlon. This standing sequence will work sequentially through the major joints in your body from your feet to your neck. Joint release exercises increase synovial fluid in the...

Feb 06, 201720 min

Yin: Daily Practice

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This short (44 minutes) Yin Yoga class is the perfect practice to incorporate into your daily routine or after a long day of work or travel. Yin Yoga is a slow practice of mostly seated and reclined postures that you hold for several minutes to promote joint health and long-term shifts in your physical patterning. Yin Yoga is an excellent bridge to seated meditation as it encourages you to practice stillness, awareness of mind and body, and focus on your b...

Dec 06, 201643 min

Vin-Yin: Good Sleep

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This restorative class is designed to prepare you for a good night's sleep through breathing techniques and quieting yoga poses. Enjoy this practice after a long day's work, before dinner, or when you need recovery and replenishment. The practice opens with alternate nostril breathing, eases into gentle movement followed by poses to focus your energy, and is completed by long holds in calming asanas. Suggested props: 1 Block & Blanket Moves & poses...

Oct 22, 201635 min

Vinyasa Flow: Grounding Practice

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: Are you in a time of transition? If so, this short class (38 minutes) is what you need! Connect with the steadiness deep inside of you as you move through supine poses, breath-to-movement flow, core awareness and grounding standing poses. The calming forward folds and detoxifying twists in this sequence will help you reconnect with yourself and shed the layers that you no longer need. Suggested props: Strap and 2 blocks Moves & poses to know: Supine Ha...

Oct 12, 201637 min

Vinyasa Flow: Reawaken Your Spine

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: In this short class (36 minutes) reawaken the mobility in your spine and reenergize for the rest of your day. You will move your spine in all seven directions and take several supported backbend variations. Backbends are crucial if you seek to find balance in your body and your spirit. Think about how many things you do that collapse your chest...texting, driving, sitting in chairs, typing. Your spine will thank you for doing this YogaSesh. Suggested props...

Oct 11, 201635 min

Vin-Yin: Healthy Balance

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This hour-long class encourages you to find balance in your body and nervous system through breath work, Vinyasa Flow (40 minutes) and restorative postures (20 minutes). This sequence is great for athletic recovery and well-rounded fitness. The practice begins with Sama Vritti (Equal Breathing) and eases into a Vinyasa Flow practice to awaken, strengthen and stretch the whole body. Peak postures include balancing backbend postures like Ardha Chandra Chapas...

Sep 21, 20161 hr 1 min

Vinyasa Flow: Stress Relief

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This 42-minute class is designed to open your hips with poses that relieve stress and anxiety. Through both dynamic breath-to-movement waves and static holds you will find healthy stretches for your outer hips and inner legs. This sequence will take you from grounded poses to balancing poses and back home again to Savasana. Recommended props: 1 block Moves and poses to know: Breathing Pigeon (Supine Figure Four), Skandasana (Side Lunge), Plank Variation "K...

Sep 12, 201641 min

Vinyasa Flow: Uplifting Backbends

Yoga practice with Caitlin Rose Kenney: This hour-long solar practice works towards Upward Facing Bow Pose (Urdvha Dhanurasana). The class opens with a gentle joint release in the shoulders and unfolds into a nicely passed vinyasa flow. Enjoy uplifting yoga poses that emphasize strengthening the back, stretching the side bodies and finding shoulder mobility. This practice will leave you feeling energized and ready for the rest of your day! Recommended props: 1-2 blocks Poses to know: Anahatasana...

Sep 11, 20161 hr 2 min
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