The video opens with the instructor drawing a Shamanic Oracle Healing Deck card—a lotus flower—interpreting its symbols as "Grounding" and "Stripping Illusions." She explains how personal beliefs create perceived reality, linking this to neuroscience (hypothalamus, projection) and frames the yoga practice as a way to co‑create with the divine, shed deceptive patterns, and align with the natural cycles of the four seasons. The session then proceeds into a guided 1‑hour yin yoga flow for beginners, featuring a detailed sequence of poses: opening foot‑open, hip openers, twists, mermaid, half splits, mandukasana, revolved John, cow‑face bind, spinal twists, fire log, IT‑band stretches, and a final shavasana. Throughout, the instructor offers breath cues, gentle adjustments, and occasional personal remarks (e.g., feeling tight, humor about falling). The practice concludes with a gratitude closing, reinforcing the intention of illusion‑stripping and grounding, and a brief promotion of an upcoming Strong Nations HIIT class the next day.
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Hello, welcome to this morning's yin yoga. I'm a little bit late. I was gonna start at 11, but I have this issue where I look at something that I know I should look at after yoga, and then I look right before, and then it takes up all my time. So a little habit that I have to change. All right, cool. So let's begin with, um, a pre-intention from the Shamanic Oracle Healing Deck. And this will be an intention for our yoga practice as well as for the rest of the day, an energy to focus on. So let's see what the universe has in store for me and you for the rest of the day and for the yoga practice. Ooh, it's a lotus flower. Very nice. Cool. Mhm, totally. All right, so I got Grounding, um, as well as Stripping Illusions at the bottom as the underlying energy, which is like, absolutely. So, um, I kind of want to start with the Stripping Illusions because you can see here how there's a lotus flower on this Um, card over here. And 7 means usually deception. It also means, you know, lying to yourself or deceiving oneself. But it could also mean, uh, seeing those illusions or deceptions that surround you, that are around you. And with the number 2 here, you're co-creating with the Divine. So the Divine could be showing you, um, the illusions that you may have manifested from within, from a certain belief that you may have held on to. So I'm kind of like seeing it so clearly now. So usually we tend to want to blame our matrix, so our 3D reality for the circumstances or the things that are happening to us. However, when we actually take a look around, we will notice that we manifest our projections that surround us based off of what's going on within. So the beliefs that we have inside manifests in our reality. Why? Because we only see things the way that we have learned based off our— based off of our behavior patterns, our emotions, our fight or flight responses that we have engraved in us since we were young. And this is, uh, like, this is pure like neuroscience. This is exactly how the brain works. So, you know, our hypothalamus creates this projection of our reality So when we believe something, that is what we're going to see and notice in our reality. So at times we tend to actually focus on the things that we believe in, and that doesn't necessarily mean that those things are true. So we manifest many types of illusions in the ethereal, in our matrix, all of these things. So stripping illusions is about, um, Co-creating with the divine to create this type of illusionary matrix that we feel inside, and then looking at that matrix and asking ourselves truly if this is the reality that we feel in our soul. So is that truly the projection of what we feel internally in our intuition when we choose love, or is that the projection of fear? So when we look at our reality, then we can ask ourselves, no, I don't want that. That's when I choose fear, I'm gonna strip that illusion, I'm gonna remove that type of belief system, and I'm gonna shake it off, you know what I mean? Shake it off, shake it off. Um, so grounding— grounding is about really, um, looking at all of the 4 seasons that we align with, with nature. So you can see here how, um, you got the 4 seasons on this card, really looking at the way nature does things. So not attaching ourselves to the expectations of how we wish things to transpire, but instead we allow the seasons to pull us and gravitate us towards what feels right energetically. So in the wintertime, we hibernate and we slow down. We focus on things like internal growth, internal work, et cetera, because there's less light. In the summer, we come out into the light, right? We shine our light as bright as can be. In the springtime, we start something new, and in the fall, we shed what's no longer for us, what's no longer meant to be out on display. So when we focus on those things, we are actually able to ground all of the ethereal communication that we have in our imagination, in our dreams, the illusions that we see, all of those things that are manifested in the clouds of confusion. And we are able to ground those things in our reality when we connect to the earth. So that is when we work with the divine as well as with nature. Let's start the yin yoga.
Let the soles of the feet come together and open your knees wide. Close your eyes and start to deepen your breath. Begin to arrive. Extend the left leg long and hug your right knee into your chest. Stay here and breathe. Other side now. Extend the right leg long, left knee to chest. Inhale, reach fingers and toes long. Take hold of the left forearm with the right hand. Exhale, C-shape to the right.
Ah.
Switch sides. Hold the right forearm and make a C-shape to the left. And release. Now bring your feet flat to the mat, about mat's width, knees together. Keep the right knee angled in and cross left ankle over right knee. Right knee, then drag the legs left. Maybe bring the arms to goalposts. Slowly unwind. Other side. Have the left foot about as wide as your mat. Let the left knee fall to the right as you cross right ankle over left thigh. Then take the knees right.
Let's go.
Release the twist. Morning stretch. Reach fingers and toes long. Draw your knees tightly up into your chest. Grab behind your Hamstrings and rock yourself all the way up, then find tabletop. Half splits. Step the right foot forward and then straighten the leg and flex the foot. Then take a twist and sweep your right arm up. Lower the hand down and come back to tabletop. Mandukasana. Slide your right knee out wide, then do the same with the left. Try to keep your hips directly in line with your knees, and let your thighs be at 90-degree angles to your shins. Stretch one arm forward and then the other. Maybe rest on your forearms or reach your arms out long. How far she goes, she goes. Slowly rise back up to tabletop. Half split. Step the left foot forward and then lengthen the leg. Then sweep your left arm up. Lower the hand back to the mat and return to tabletop. Hip stretch, right foot to left corner. Inhale. Exhale, gaze out over your left shoulder.
Exhale.
Breathe out, lower the knee back to the mat. Fine thread the needle. Inhale, left arm up. Exhale, left arm threads under. Maybe extend the right arm straight out in front. Rise back up to tabletop. Other side now. Hip stretch. Inhale, left foot to right corner. Look out over your right shoulder. Exhale.
Exhale.
Knee to the mat. Thread the needle. Inhale, right arm up. Exhale, right arm under. Maybe reach the left arm long. Start to rise back up to tabletop. Slowly shift forward and align right knee with right wrist and lay the shin bone down. Stay upright and find Mermaid. Bend your left knee, reach your left arm back, and grab for the inside edge of your left foot with your left hand. Maybe slide your toes all the way into your left elbow crease, or find your balance as you lift your right arm to the sky and start to try to connect the hands by bending the right elbow behind your head and leaning back until you can grab the left hand with the right.
Oh, I'd fall. Ooh.
Release the back foot, back leg long. Take a breath in. Exhale, fold and release completely.
Ah.
Slowly rise back up.
Mm-hmm.
Come back to tabletop. Now shift forward and align left knee to left wrist. Then climb mermaid. Bend your right knee and capture the inside of the foot with your right hand. Maybe wiggle the right toes to the elbow crease, or sweep your left arm up, bend your left elbow, and connect your hands as you lift your chest.
Woo! Thanks for the 90! Thank you!
Now let the foot go. Back leg long. Take a deep breath in. Exhale, fold. Slowly rise up. Sweep your right leg around to the front and have a seat. Feet on your mat. Extend the left leg long out to the side. Right leg bends, heel close to your glute. Inhale here. Revolved John. Exhale, tilt left, right arm by your ear. Stay here for a Quad stretch. Right hand to the right foot, then draw the heel down. I think I'm supposed to be Release the foot and rise back up. Cow Face. Lay your left leg down and sweep your right leg on top. Now find the bind. Left arm up, right arm sweeps behind.
I've never been able. I've never been able to touch my fingers.
What is that one?
The day that I could do this, it would be a major success.
Release the bind. Let's move on to the left side now. Lay the right leg long and out to the side and bend your left knee, heel towards your glute. Take a deep breath in here. Revolve, Johnny. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Exhale, tilt right, left arm by your ear. Quad stretch, left hand to left foot, then draw the heel closer to your glute.
Oh, this is awesome. I don't really get— I don't really get much of an effect on this.
Let's go up here. Release the foot. Rise back up. Cow face. Lay your right leg. Put your right leg down and drape your left leg on top.
Oh my God.
Now take the bind. Right arm high, left arm behind. Release the bind. Switch legs. Set up for a spinal twist. Extend your left leg long and draw your right knee in. Then step the right foot to the outside of the left thigh. Hook the knee in with your left arm and plant the right hand behind you. Inhale. Then hook your left elbow on the outside of the right thigh and twist right. Exhale. Release and turn to your Left side. Find a counter twist. Gently unwind. Switch to the other side. Right leg long, draw your left knee up and step the left foot to the outside of the right thigh. Hug the knee with the right arm and root the left hand down. Breathe in.
Inhale.
Then hug the right tricep on the outside of the left thigh and twist left. Exhale.
Exhale.
Release and counter-twist. Relax the head down. Slowly unwind. Fire Log. Lay your left shin bone down and then stack the right shin on top. Flex both feet. Now scoop the leg up and cradle the leg. Maybe twist slowly To one side, and then the other.
I'm like really tight today.
Come to a stop and lay the shin back down. Separate your feet wide and lengthen your legs out long. Take a breath in. Walk the hands forward and fold. Exhale.
Exhale.
Inhale, rise up. Fire log, other side. Lay your right shin bone down. And cross your left leg on top, both feet flexed. Then scoop the leg up and cradle the leg. Maybe twist gently side to side. Lay the shin back down. Set up for half shoelace. Left leg long, step the right foot over, then stack the knees. Take a deep Deep breath in. Fold as you exhale. Rise back up. Other side now. Right leg long, left leg over right, knees stacked. Inhale here. Exhale as you fold. Inhale, rise back up, then make your way onto your back. Draw your right knee into your chest, left leg long. Exhale, take the knee to the left, extend your right arm to Twist to the right and gaze right. Stay in the twist for Cat Pulling Its Tail. Left peace fingers to right big toe, then right hand to left foot. Release the twist. IT band stretch. Extend your left leg long and pull your right knee towards your left shoulder. Then hook your right thumb into your right hip crease as you begin to gently straighten the right leg.
Oh gosh.
Switch to the other side. Extend the right leg long and draw your left knee into your chest. Exhale, drape the knee to the right. Send the left arm out to the left side. Gaze left. Cat Pulling Its Tail. Right peace fingers to left big toe. The left hand to right foot.
Gently unwind.
IT band stretch. Extend the right leg long and draw the left knee up towards your right shoulder. Then hook your left thumb into your left hip crease as you begin to gently straighten the left leg. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Release. Now draw both knees up close to your chest. Take one last big breath in. Exhale, shavasana. Extend the arms and the legs out long and settle in. Begin to deepen your breath. Reawaken the body. Thank you for sharing your practice with us. Namaste.
Namaste. Thank you guys so much for joining my yin yoga practice this morning. That was very nice for me. Um, I hope you felt the stripping of illusions, like from today's daily intention from the oracle card. And felt the grounding energy of this yin practice nurturing our feminine energies. All right, wonderful. So tomorrow at 11, um, I will be doing a Strong Nations HIIT workout. If you guys don't know what that is, basically it is like martial arts with some HIIT training, you know what I mean? Squats and all that great stuff and kicks and and all of the roundhouse and all of that awesome stuff with music. So it's a big routine that I'm learning, and then when I learn it, I can give it to clients. So you guys will be watching me learn a routine. However, I'm going to be doing the same routine I did last week, so I will be a lot more aligned, so it'll be easier for you guys to follow along. All right, thanks so much. Bye. Talk soon.
