Steph Schwartz
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Steph Trinidad, formerly Schwartz, weaves yogic storytelling into feel-good flows that unlock hearts and inspire souls. With 17+ years of teaching experience, Steph draws heavily from the devotional qualities of Bhakti yoga combined with the fluid and physical aspects of vinyasa. Steph masterfully translates yogic philosophy through mantra (chanting) and is deeply connected to her kirtan community. She also knows how to move with heat-building mandala flows woven with humor and compassion to maintain presence. Practitioners can expect concise alignment cues delivered with a poetic understanding of the human body and its superhuman capabilities. Her path to yoga started off the mat and on the road as an ultra marathon runner, where she found yoga as an injury prevention tool and mental stamina practice to help her go the distance. Steph is also a skydiving enthusiast, BASE flyer, and dog parent to Boogie and Diggit. Discover more about Steph: https://www.mandalamonkey.com/.
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Harmless Arm Balances
Focus on arm balances such as wild thing (camatkarasana) and side plank (vasisthasana) to connect with the center of yourself that feels unshakable. Your practice of ahimsa (non-harming) thrives when you live with confidence, strength, and sturdiness. As you give yourself permission to be the truest version of yourself, you cultivate the virtue of ahimsa towards yourself and others.
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Harmless Warriors
Explore ahimsa (non-harming) by chanting and embodying the mantra “lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu” and practicing peace as we move through warrior postures as a moving prayer for a non-violent world. Flow through heart-opening backbends, twists, and warrior poses with the mantra in mind: May all beings everywhere be happy and free. May my thoughts and actions somehow contribute to the freedom of all.
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Harmless Forward Folds
To abide by the yogic virtue of ahimsa (non-harming), we can challenge our harmful thought patterns and build a dialogue of self-love with our inner witness.
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Peaceful Binds and Balancing
Cultivate contentment (santosha) by letting go of your expectations. Learn to release your attachment to the outcome as you try new things in binds and balancing postures.
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Make Peace with Your Hips and Shoulders
Find contentment (santosha) by celebrating your small and large accomplishments during this practice that will work your hips and shoulders.
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Make Peace with Your Hamstrings
To discover contentment (santosha), we must first recognize the gifts and talents that we bring to this world. Take time to express appreciation for the offerings you share with the universe as we deepen into hamstring stretches such as Hanumanasana.
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Make Peace with Yourself
Yoga is not just about self-improvement, it’s also about self-acceptance. Find contentment (santosha) with wherever you are in this practice while rooting in ourselves with standing poses.
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Fearless Warriors
Awaken the warrior within as you develop your sense of abhaya (fearlessness) through a balance of strength and softness in mudra (hand gesture), warrior poses, grounded hip openers, and twists.
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Fearless Backbends
Summon the abhaya (fearlessness) of your heart with backbends and the fearless heart mudra (hand gesture).
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Fearless Arm Balances
Embody abhaya (fearlessness) by pushing the edges and facing fears head on. Rather than letting our doubts talk us out of this arm-balancing practice, let’s instead ask the question: why not?
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Fearless Foundation
In this practice featuring root chakra grounding postures, you will build the sturdy foundation to showcase yourself to the world with confidence and fearlessness (abhaya).
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Commit to Your Spine
Elongate all 360 degrees of your spine through twists, side body stretches, and gentle backbends.
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Commit to Your Foundation
Adhikara (path of being a student) requires a strong foundation and an understanding of the fundamentals. Connect with your breath and get grounded through alignment principles, standing postures, lunges, folds, and twists. Incorporate breathwork and chant Om to align deeper in mind, body, and spirit.
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Commit to Your Balance
Practice perseverance - getting back up even when you fall down - with balancing postures. Begin with a slow flow to warm up the chest, hamstrings, and hips. Then move into a balance sequence that builds up to half-moon (ardha chandrasana). Close with floor-based balancing postures and end in savasana.
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Commit to Your Hamstrings
Cultivate competence with strap-supported hamstring stretches and balancing postures. Discover that wherever you are in your path, you are right on track.
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Challenge Your Core to Transform
Ignite your core and and encounter your edge in this practice guided by the principle of tapas (transformative fire). As we lean into the intensity emanating from our center in forearm planks and squats, we will unearth our untapped strength and potential.
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Challenge Your Balance to Transform
Discover your edge of transformation with this sequence that features one-legged balance postures. Begin with a stretch of your hamstrings and calf muscles, then continue on to a progressive sequence that prepares you for balancing postures.
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Challenge Your Torso to Transform
Shake up stuck patterns and free up space for new beginnings in this multifaceted practice that focuses on opening up the side body. In general, our movements are concentrated within the front and back planes of the body. Today, through twists, squats, standing pose and down dog variations, pranayama (breath work), and mantra meditation, we will create space the full circumference of our torso and make room for greater transformation.
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