Air Element Yoga: Cultivate Gratitude & Lightness of Air

🚧 Feeling heavy in the chest or stuck in repetitive thoughts? This session brings a gentle solution: movement and breath that create space, lift the mood, and reconnect you with your inner wisdom.

This practice is part of The Roots of Feminine Yoga, exploring the five elements through practice, each one touching a different kosha. 🌬️ Here we step into the air element with a warm, devotional tone that supports the heart and the intuitive layers of Vijnanamaya Kosha.

You’ll explore heart opening yoga and air yoga themes through graceful movement, steady breathing, and mindful pauses. Keywords such as Anahata chakra, compassion, joy, ease, and devotion are woven naturally into the practice without forcing anything. 🍃

🫧 The intention is simple: cultivate lightness without losing depth.

Benefits you may notice:

✨ A softer emotional field and easier access to gratitude and compassion
✨ Expansion of the heart chakra through movement, sound, and breath
✨ More freedom in the shoulders, hips, and psoas, supporting trauma release
✨ A calmer higher mind with space for insight, intuition, and perspective
✨ A sense of spaciousness and effortless flow throughout your practice

The class begins seated, easing into Ujjayi breath and gentle circles to wake up the spine and soften the face, chest, and shoulders. 💨

🌪️ As the breath deepens, you move into mindful movement on hands and knees, intuitive exploration, and thread-the-needle variations to open the heart meridian.

Cat–Cow transitions naturally into prostration-based vinyasa, where gratitude becomes part of the movement. 🐈
❤️ From there you transition into hip opening and heart-centered shapes like Pigeon Pose (Kapotasana prep), supported psoas release, and variations infused with sound for emotional and energetic release.

Standing work includes Tree Pose and Dancer Pose (Natarajasana) to cultivate stability, balance, and lightness. 🌲

🍂 You’ll finish with gentle backbends, twists, and a relaxing Savasana to settle the heart, soothe the nervous system, and allow any insights from the wisdom body to rise naturally.

Take your time, breathe with ease, and let this air-based practice remind you of the lightness already within you. 🧚🏻
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⏳ Timestamps:

00:00:11 – Introduction to air element and Anahata chakra practice
00:02:07 – Breathing meditation and body softening with Ujjayi Breath (Ujjayi)
00:05:39 – Gentle head and neck circles for ease and lightness
00:06:43 – Arm movements and gratitude practice with heart opening
00:09:26 – Hip circles and easeful body movements for flexibility
00:11:36 – Cat-Cow Pose (Marjaryasana–Bitilasana) and intuitive spinal movements
00:14:01 – Thread the Needle Pose (Parsva Balasana) for shoulder and heart opening
00:15:48 – Heart-opening movements with devotional gratitude practice
00:20:05 – Resting and reflecting on gratitude experience
00:21:05 – Supported Heart Opener Pose (Setu Bandhasana Variation) for chest expansion
00:22:00 – Downward Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana) for full body stretch
00:22:26 – Lunges with heart opener variations and arm stretches
00:24:51 – Flowing transitions in Downward Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
00:28:44 – Tree Pose (Vrksasana) and Dancer Pose (Natarajasana)
00:35:27 – Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana) for hip opening and heart connection
00:41:45 – Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana) on other side with OM chanting for release
00:47:38 – Locust Pose (Salabhasana) and Bow Pose (Dhanurasana)
00:50:03 – Shoulderstand (Sarvangasana) variations and modifications
00:53:14 – Hip circles and supine twists for spinal health
00:58:27 – Corpse Pose (Savasana) with air element integration
01:00:48 – Conclusion and farewell with open heart meditation


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