Mandi Garrison

Prana flow

Move with the uplifting current of prana to breathe deeper, expand your heart frequency, and elevate your subtle energy. This practice includes reclined and seated warm-ups with a prana-boosting arm flow, cobra vinyasas, low lunge, melting heart pose, gate pose, side bends, high lunge, warrior 2 flows, and camel variations. End with a mudra meditation to let the energy circulate.  

Level: 1/2 Flow  

Props: blanket or cushion to sit on  

Benefits: prana vayu, c...

Prana meditation

Uplift and brighten your energy with this quick and effective meditation using arm movements, focused breath, and mudra.

Apana yin

Cultivate a sense of steadiness, nourishment, and grounding in the lower body with this deep-tissue yin sequence. You’ll practice butterfly, spinal flexing, winged dragon, crocodile, sphinx, square pose, constructive rest, and meditation. Let the downward current heal your vital systems and help you be at peace.  

Props: 2 blocks and a bolster  

Benefits: apana vayu, grounding, hips and pelvis, lower body circulation, meditative mind, steadiness and presence

Last call to restore tonight! <3

The moon is on its way to meet up with the sun in Scorpio, and it will be “void of course” beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET for 2 1/2 hours. Basically this means that before the moon transitions into a new sign, it doesn’t come into contact with any other planets and opens up a portal of stillness before embodying the energy of the next sign (in this case, Scorpio). So we will be IN the void during our restorative workshop this evening. When we have a new moon, the moon and the sun are traveli...

Apana meditation

Ground your energy and connect with the apana current, the winds that travel down and out. This practice includes breath techniques, arm movements to direct life force or chi, and mudra.  Great for calming, healthy digestion, immune system support, purification, and stress-relief.

Honoring the need for rest ❤️

This Samhain brought a lot of purging and releasing. So much so that it manifested physically, and I went *full stop* to rest, heal, and allow everything to recalibrate.

The body knows.

When we stop — even if for a day — it becomes very clear how much we are constantly stimulated, how much we respond to on the day-to-day, and how much we expect from ourselves. In rest, I was free to explore ideas, insights, shadows, and authentic desires without the external world constantly t...

Death and rebirth

Happy Samhain! This practice can be enjoyed anytime you feel yourself transitioning/rebirthing into a new cycle. Release the old and invite in your greatest dreams and manifestations. You’ll hold just a few postures for a long period of time, using your breath to transmute and transform. Postures include a simple forward fold, simple heart opener, and simple twists with guided awareness, energy healing, and breath.  

Props: bolster, 2 blocks, blanket (substitute with household it...

Autumn tune-up

Nourish your body in these colder months with a practice consisting of joint movements, stretching, breath awareness, and chakra exercises to clear and tune-up the system. Begin on the back with a series of leg, hip, and spine movements and then enjoy some seated chakra exercises with alternate nostril breathing and meditation.  

Level: Gentle all levels  

Props: optional strap  

Benefits: joints, flexibility, circulation, releasing tension, warming, energy cl...

A moment of stillness

Feeling restless or antsy? (I know I was!) Then you’ll love this practice that begins with gentle movements to awaken the chakras before exploring a spacious moment of quiet and stillness.

Exploring the five Prana Vayus

Hi everyone! Beginning in November, I will be offering themed classes for the five Prana Vayus. These are currents of subtle energy (vaya = wind) that nourish the body and its systems with life force and vitality (see included chart from SequenceWiz). On the first week, we will connect with the energy of Apana Vayu, the downward (grounding) current of energy. Apana Vayu supports healing in the lower body, which includes the first and second chakras, pelvis, b...

Heal the hidden layers

Welcome in Scorpio season by going deep into the layers of the body for a healing purification. This practice works primarily with the urinary and bladder meridians. When out of balance, this energy can create too much “holding on” or the opposite effect of an inability to focus, get things done, or show up for commitments. In balance, there’s a perfect harmony of being and doing. You’ll go deep into the hidden layers with postures such as bridge stretches, happy baby, caterpillar wit...

Empowered to heal

This practice focuses on energy healing and immune system nourishment using visualization, affirmation, asana, flow, and meditation. Begin with reclined hamstring and hip stretches with a strap and then move through a flow with downward dog, tree, side bends, wide-legged forward fold, warrior 2, triangle, low lunge, low lunge splits, and vinyasas. Finish with a chakra clearing meditation to raise your vibration and align with your highest self.  

Level 2 Hatha and Flow

Props:...

Full moon energy cleanse

Breathe deep and clear your energy centers with intention and awareness. This meditation practice uses gentle arm movements and energy healing.

Reminder! Full moon walk tonight on the Sterling Rail Trail

Hi everyone! Just a reminder that tonight is the full moon and I’ll be bathing in moon light on the Sterling Rail Trail for those who would like to join. The registration/invitation says 5:45, but I recommend getting there as close to 5:30 as you can so we can start walking at 5:45. The sun sets very quickly these days. It will be dark for part of the walk since it’s in the woods, so please bring a flashlight or headlamp, some brighter clothing if possible, and supportive...

Clear the congestion

This is a practice that focuses on clearing and nourishing the lungs and heart. It will help you move through congestion, melancholy, and grief — while awakening love, clarity, and healing. Grief has been an energy affecting many of us lately. By witnessing the process and energy of grief, we can receive its gifts of healing and feel the love that’s always moving through us. Begin with a seated meditation and some acupressure massage, followed by gentle yet potent stretching in melting he...

Tomorrow’s Shakti Empower Hour

Hi everyone,

I apologize for the last minute notice, but I will have to cancel tomorrow morning’s live Shakti Empower Hour class to attend a family memorial. Those who have signed up for class tomorrow will also receive a cancellation email. All other classes, events, and appointments are still running as planned, so I’ll see you soon. <3

All my love,

Mandi

Pause and ground

Feeling unsettled, anxious, or fearful? If so, this meditation will help you connect to the earth to feel safe, supported, and receive a root chakra healing.

Save the Date! Harvest moon walk on the Sterling Rail Trail

*UPDATE* Here’s the registration for the rail trail walk! Looks like we will have beautiful weather. https://mandigarrisonyoga.as.me/harvestmoon 

Please register so that I can have an idea of how many people to expect, and take any safety precautions that you feel is appropriate for you. I estimated 90 minutes, but it may not be that long....