Steph Schwartz
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Steph’s power as a teacher resides in her ability to weave yogic storytelling into feel-good flows that unlock hearts and inspire souls. With 10+ 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, certified BASE flyer, and dog parent to Boogie and Diggit. Discover more about Steph: https://www.mandalamonkey.com/.
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Yoga Every Day
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.
Yoga Every Day
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.
Yoga Every Day
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.
Yoga Every Day
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.
Yoga Every Day
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.
Yoga Every Day
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.
Yoga Every Day
Challenge Your Stance to Transform
Cultivate tapas (discipline and focus) as you activate your lower body with standing and balancing postures.
Yoga Every Day
Open Your Hips with Intention
Let’s lengthen and strengthen our hip flexor muscles to create more space in our body for our intention to manifest.
Yoga Every Day
Set Balanced Intentions
Cultivate intention (sankalpa) in the spirit of confidence and strength in this flow focusesd on balance postures. Stabilize your center, open up your hamstrings, and build up to the balance posture half moon (ardha chandrasana).
Yoga Every Day
Set Heartfelt Intentions
Discover your gratitude with chest-opening postures. Begin with a short gratitude practice to help you connect with your sankalpa (intention), then move on to a sequence on heart-expanding postures that peaks with one-legged camel. Close with a beautiful chant that honors the love emanating from the divine mother.
Yoga Every Day
Set Intention and Ground
Plant the seed of your sankalpa (intention) through this grounded practice of floor-based twists, forward folds, and hip openers.
Yoga Every Day
Garuda Mudra Flow
Garuda, half man, half eagle, was the carrier vehicle for Lord Vishnu. The inspiration of eagles, known for their clear vision, will help us clarify our vision for ourselves. Using the Garuda Mudra in your vinyasa practice with Steph today, you will circulate wind energy that will also cleanse and balance your system.
Yoga Every Day: The Beginner Series
Balancing Poses
One-legged balance postures not only build lower body strength, but also cultivate a centered mind, body, and spirit. Develop solid ground and stable focus by stepping through the alignment fundamentals of core balance postures.
Yoga Every Day: The Beginner Series
Put It All Together
Experience the joy of movement in action, flowing through sun salutations, warrior postures, balancing poses, seated folds and twists, and of course, breath. Finish this practice with how you will finish almost every class, lying on your back, witnessing the calm that follows the practice of yoga in what many would consider the most important posture: savasana.
Yoga Every Day: The Beginner Series
Forward Folds and Twists
Learn the fundamentals of forward folds and twists by practicing poses slowly and intentionally with a focus on properly supporting the spine.
Yoga Every Day: The Beginner Series
Warrior 2 Poses
Bring your attention to your lower body with the warrior 2 family of poses, otherwise known as “open pelvis” standing poses. Learn some of yoga’s most popular postures, including triangle, extended side angle, and reverse warrior.
Yoga Every Day: The Beginner Series
Breath and Movement
Ground in the present moment with breath while supporting mobility and flow in this efficient yoga tutorial. Explore the fundamentals of ujjayi pranayama (victorious breath) and spinal motions with gentle cat/cows and forward folds.
Yoga Every Day: The Beginner Series
Sun A Flow
Experience the simple calm of syncing breath and movement while integrating the previous Beginner Series classes into a flowing sun salutation.
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