Mandi Garrison

Meditation Challenge Day 2: Cultivating Concentration with Mantra

(To be practiced on Monday, August 23)

This meditation practice uses mantra to develop your ability to concentrate and withdraw the senses inward to achieve meditative awareness. In yoga, this is the sixth limb, dharana, or concentration. Dh...

Abundance and joy

Get a dose of yin bliss with this practice that infuses healing into your energy body and allows you to stretch and relax the spine. Call in every joyful feeling you can imagine and trust that your wishes will come true. Postures include an energi...

Meditation Challenge Day 1: Calling in what you LOVE

(To be practiced anytime on Sunday, August 22)

Happy full/blue moon! Blue moons are a rare occurrence of experiencing two full moons in the same sign in a row. This is the second blue moon in Aquarius, and it's aligned with expansive Jupiter...

Grounding flow for balance and gentle strength

A slow-paced flow to cultivate grounding, stability, balance, and connection to self. You’ll practice a series of seated warm-ups and stretches, alternate nostril breathing, sun salutation variations, walking meditations, and tree pose. Let go i...

September Moon Events

Hi everyone! I’ve scheduled the moon events for September. I’m doing another extended event for the new moon on Friday, September 3, which is a 90-minute restorative yoga and healing session (6-7:30 pm). Your coupon code MOONLOVE will provide ...

Strong and rooted

A grounding meditation to access your inner strength and expand your energy field. A combination of breath, stillness, and gentle movement will help you remain steady (like a tree) in all forms of wind and weather.

Unclench and breathe

Let go of tension and allow softness and stillness to expand your breath and nourish your body. A series of long yin holds with slow, deep breathing will shift the busyness of your day into a place of acceptance, peace, and BEing. Start releasing ...

Yoga for inner calm

A gentle movement and breath practice that helps to reset your energy and calm your mind. Bookmark this for your sadhana practice if you’ve been feeling the weight of the world or increased fear and anxiety. This is also one to come back to for ...

Full Moon Meditation Challenge

Hi everyone!

For this full moon in Aquarius, I wanted to do something a little bit different. The full moon is exact on Sunday, August 22, and it’s actually a blue moon, which means it’s the second full moon in Aquarius ...

Pranic bliss

Shift your vibration with a dose of pranic bliss. Cleanse your energy and practice some pranayam techniques that will expand your luminous field from the inside out.

Relax into the portal of the heart

A restorative yin practice that expands energy from the heart space, sending that healing to the rest of your body and energy field. You’ll practice an opening meditation, dynamic breath work, supported heart opener, supported melting heart, sup...

Lion’s Gate heart-opening restorative and healing

(Tiers 2 and 3)

The restorative segment of our recent 90-minute new moon circle. Experience powerful heart activation and healing with this nourishing restorative practice.

Length: 1 hour

Props: bolster (or substitute), blanket, ...

Elevated frequencies

Get a dose of panic infusion with this yin/hatha combo practice! Make space for new and elevated frequencies. Breathe deep and feel the energy flow into the heart space. Glow from the inside out. You’ll practice breathwork, seated heart openers,...

TONIGHT! New Moon Lion’s Gate Restorative Workshop

Happy Friday, everyone! We’re in the peak of Lion’s Gate, Lughnasadh, and the moon in Leo this weekend. Tonight I’m holding a virtual workshop that I was strongly called to offer just for this energy. We’ll have 90 minutes of restoration a...

The healing heart

Connect with the energetic heart and the earth beneath you and allow your wishes and manifestations to bloom. This practice uses focused breathing and heart-centered awareness for activation and healing.

Energy Update and Lion's Gate Portal

Leo season is all about the heart. Ruled by the 5th house and the sun, the energy of Leo leads with love, self-empowerment, and the gifts in life that bring happiness and joy. This is how we awaken our authentic truth and soul expression. And ofte...

Finding bliss in the here and now

Cultivate gratitude and bliss by experiencing the offerings and energy of the present moment. This practice uses healing violet light and focused meridian practices to clear your energy and invite acceptance and joy. You’ll practice dynamic recl...

Breath to awaken your energy

Discover that blissful feeling of pranic infusion with a guided breath that is both uplifting and awakening. Breathe into your energy centers and feel amazing.

Yin/vinyasa practice to ride the waves of change

Hi everyone! I’m unable to teach/record my regularly scheduled Shakti Empower Hour class tomorrow because I’ll be teaching at a private event. But I went back into the vault and found this class from July 2020, which may be a nice way to feel ...

Out from under

As Mark Nepo writes, sometimes we have to “drop it all and walk out from under everything that is covering us.” This practice incorporates postures and breath work that will allow you to step away from your worries, release tension, and feel l...

Healing meditation to activate your cosmic self

Experience deep relaxation and healing while connecting with the essence of what you love and the expression of your authentic self.

Enter the doorway of light

(Apologies, I got sidetracked and completely forgot to upload this on Wednesday!)

This is a powerful meditation that I channeled in the moment, guiding you to a doorway full of light and healing so you can connect with your higher self and i...

Awaken your prana

This class taps into your focus and strength to awaken your energy and feel amazing. Spend time in each posture to feel it in your body and notice the prana awakening within you. This is a Hatha-inspired class that includes seated warms-ups (forwa...

Full moon forecast with your event coupon code

The journey of the mystic begins with an idea and an exploration into the unknown, followed by an unveiling of the illusion, a death of what was and an awakening of the self as creation itSELF. The light shines on us as the human being having an e...

Clearing the fog

This practice targets meridians in the body that support clarity, confidence, and determination. This is a great practice when you feel uncertain, cloudy, or if you’re doubting yourself. On a physical level, you’ll get a deep outer hip stretch...

Expand like a butterfly

Reawaken your body and energy with this expansive combination of hamstring/hip openers, and gentle strength/core work. This is perfect if you’ve been feeling a big stagnant lately or disconnected with your practice. You’ll practice cooling bre...

Access the field of possibilities

Let go into the void and access the quantum realm where all possibilities and potentials exist. Bring your wishes back to the physical plane where they can be made manifest.

Sunset yoga on the lawn for Lughnasadh!

Hi everyone!

Just a heads up that I’m going to share the event link in my newsletter tomorrow morning and there are only four spots left — so register soon if you want to ensure a spot. <3

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Hamstring bliss

Stretch out stagnancy with this feel-good hamstring and hip-opening practice. Grab a strap and enjoy this mostly-reclined sequence that will help you unfurl anything that has been making you feel stuck. Postures include reclined butterfly, happy b...

Reiki healing for self-love and expanding your light

A 40-minute distance Reiki session that will facilitate relaxation, full-spectrum healing (with the water element), and a remembrance of self-love. This session is a segment of the new moon circle on July 9, 2021.