A place to practice together
One of the greatest gifts of yoga is the freedom to become the purveyors of our own peace and wholeness.
It’s a wild time in our world, from the collective traumas of a global pandemic and the tension of perspectives, to the everyday complexity of navigating this human experience. It can be a challenge to find the resources and community to practice. I am deeply devoted to sharing these teachings because I believe they can help us access our inner well of resilience, compassion and collective liberation. My hope is to make this accessible to our community - near and far.
Live Practice Together: Community Yoga Ritual
Practice Together is a 60 minute all-levels yoga class offered by Gaby Colletta, E-RYT, YACEP, AHC. Join for a mindful vinyasa via Zoom, designed to cultivate emotional and physical resilience, strengthen intuition, inspire self-discovery and ground one's presence. Class incorporates a blend of poses, breathwork and deep intention and is often taught from Nature.
Variations are offered for greater ease in the body. Optional challenges are provided for those who wish to explore their growing edges. This is a donation-based offering - join our weekly community yoga ritual.
Join the global sangha
Join for “Practice Together: Community Yoga Ritual,” our LIVE Zoom yoga practice.
Wednesdays
60 Min Vinyasa - All Levels
9:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM EST
a donation-based offering
Donations are deeply appreciated. Offer what feels best for you or if finances are tight, please consider this practice a gift.
Paypal paypal.me/gabrielacolletta or Venmo @gabriela-colletta
On Demand Classes
Wherever you are, whatever the time, this is your practice. Enjoy any of the donation-based asana classes below to reconnect to your breath, body and heart. You can also find all these classes on YouTube.
35 Min • Nourishing Ojas is a mindful vinyasa flow designed to increase vitality through postures that invite grounding, stability & strength. Expect hip opening postures to Earth & Water elements that support our Ojas or "immune boosting life force."
55 Min • A mind-body cleanse, a sacred maintenance practice of cleaning & clearing as we explore the yogic observance "Saucha." Twists for digestion, heart openers for increased circulation, breathwork to release toxins and more. Some hip openers to invite apana vayu - downward and outward flow of Prana. Working towards: Camel & Optional Camel Variation.
55 Min • A fun, unexpected vinyasa flow embracing transition and inviting oneself to stay grounded in presence as change occurs. This creative flow incorporates air and ether elements {the concept of movement} through playful transitions, while working hip opening and balance poses to cultivate Earth element, grounding and stability. Working towards Vasisthasana variations - side plank variations.
45 Min • Enjoy a 45 minute slow vinyasa flow to nourish your nervous system and replenish your internal resources. This practice is intended to help relieve anxiety and other common Vata imbalances such as worry, overwhelm, fear or lack of grounding. Working towards Cow Face Pose - Gomukhasana.
45 Min • Slow mindful movement intended to bring the lunar qualities of the moon or Soma into one’s personal practice. "Soma" is the Sanskrit word that pertains to the nectar of life. It has cooling, nourishing, and revitalizing benefits that are associated with bliss and contentment. Hip opening sequence working towards bird of paradise.
60 Min • Nadi shodhana alternate nostril breathing, followed by a mandala - circular flow. Embody the word ‘sahaja’ or spontaneous natural flow as we awaken to each moment. Expect hip opening, shoulder opening with binds, hamstring stretching as we work towards Bird of Paradise.
50 Min • Cultivate wise fire element to invite clarity of awareness, discernment and perception through a heating vinyasa practice that includes hip opening, balance, core, and options for arm balance play.
40 Min • Nadi shodhana alternate nostril breathing, followed by a heating flow. Explore core work to support and stabilize for standing balance poses such as eagle and headstand inversion practice. Expect shoulder opening, hip opening, playful movement and headstand sirsana variations. All level variations offered with play opportunities for level 2.
45 Min • Build strength by embracing the totality of your experience - this is a backbending, heart opening vinyasa yoga flow, which explores balance and the integration of welcoming all parts of our selves to the mat.
60 Min • Break up stagnancy and inertia in the mind and body through a vinyasa practice to clear “tamas.” In Sanskrit, “tamas” is the quality of darkness and ignorance. Move through twists, forward folds to help digest and assimilate accumulation in mind and body. Hamstring and IT band stretches help prepare for Baby Grasshopper Pose - an arm balance.
30 Min • A gentle, yet energizing flow to reclaim presence when the mind is scattered or attention is fragmented. Focus is on breath and somatic sensation to bring oneself into being. We work towards dancer pose, nataranjasana. Optional Crow Pose.
25 Min • Flow through a mindful vinyasa aimed to dissolve built up tension in the shoulders, melt away stress and to welcome allowing over forcing, and release over resistance. Can we invite greater sukham - a greater sense of ease and comfort - into our body, mind, and practice? Expect shoulder opening, heart opening, neck releases.
55 Min • Yoga For Climbers classes are created to support rock climbers’ physical and mental longevity on the rock. All practices are nested in the greater teachings of yoga and encouraged for everyone to join. In this flow, we explore hip mobility with open hip postures and increase stability through standing balance postures working towards tree pose. Energetically, this is a grounding practice for mind and body. There is an optional crow arm balance here too!
60 Min • Enjoy a pitta balancing (pacifying) vinyasa yoga flow, designed to help calm excess fire in the mind and body. This practice is ideal for summer season, for folx with a fiery constitution, or for anyone who simply feels intensity of emotions such as impatience, frustration, anger, criticism and judgement.
50 Min • Enjoy a yoga flow for softening, surrender and slowing down. Emphasis on breath, deep hip opening sequence with IT band stretches and lateral side stretches. This flow is for refilling your reservoir of resources, supporting your nervous system and pacifying excess Pitta Dosha, ideal for moments of burnout and depletion.
60 Min • A Tridoshic Vinyasa flow intended to cultivate grounding through standing balance postures and invite play with perspective shifts, spontaneous transitions and optional inversions. Expect hip opening, hamstring stretches, inversions and more. Modifications for all levels.
50 Min • An energizing vinyasa flow perfect for awakening energy in the spring time or addressing any kapha imbalances. Consider this a “pick me up” practice to energize, inspire and shake up stagnancy in body and mind. It is designed to increase digestive capacity, invoke fire element, enhance circulation and help shift perspective.
55 Min • Enjoy a flow to re-align with your self. This practice is inspired by the teaching from The Bhagavad Gita: “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” We live in a world that often dictates how we 'should' be. Yoga is the practice of burning away the layers of indoctrinated self / false self / or illusory self, to reveal what is beneath it all at the heart. In working towards compass pose, this practice is all about re-attuning to your true North.
35 Min • In moments of self-doubt, comparison, or feelings of lack, we can get stuck in our small self. This is a practice of remembering one’s unbridled and limitless essence, in reclaiming our Self through the mantra of So Ham., which translates to “I am that,” reminding us that we are the Universe in all its infinite and unconditional wonder. Expect hips, heart, working towards chapasana with a surprise arm balance!
35 Min • It's a simple equation, gratitude creates abundance. Can we cultivate the gratitude muscle, continuing to discover the wealth of each unraveling moment? When we are in a state of gratitude we are open to deeper connection, relationship, empowered choice of where we want to place our attention. The forearm balance pincha mayurasana requires deliberate heart opening and can energetically connect us to a place of gratitude.
30 Min • An invitation to set the tone of the day with the juicy fullness of being in one's body. Through luxurious breaths and generous attention, we invite what yoga and Ayurveda refer to as "rasa" or the juice and essence of practice. Savor the slow movement working towards dancer pose; in embodying rasa we invite fluidity of expression in the body.
40 Min • An invitation to return to what Ayurveda and Yoga call “Svastha” or seated in oneself as perfect health. When you are feeling fragmented, anxious, and ungrounded, these deep hip opening asanas will help return you to your roots. Join on the mat to integrate mind and body, welcome all parts of you into the present and reclaim to your whole self. Peak pose: Eagle Garudasana.
50 Min • The rhythm of society, and it’s achievement oriented ethos can make it easy to sink into mindless grasping, to tightly bound expectations, a dry well of ways to improve, to better, to achieve…this orchestra of over-effort is something like trying to catch the wind. Can release striving to get into a specific pose, and recognize what is complete moment.? Enjoy hip and deep twisting as we work towards the peak arm balance of Dragonfly Pose.
75 Min • In a culture of constant movement, can we find presence in the fluidity of transition. This practice is designed to create more ease in the changes we endure. Can we learn to lean into transition - allow it rather than resist it? Can we open to its unfolding grace? Can we let ourselves be in process, in the presence of becoming? Enjoy hip, heart and shoulder opening in a continuous, mandala flow. Includes detoxifying twists, side bends and hamstring love as we work towards the peak pose of Bird of Paradise.
60 Min • This practice is designed to invoke centering amidst the metaphoric storms of life. Conjure calm and anchor into one’s sources of grounding and stability through deep hip opening. We use breath, mindfulness and metaphor throughout to harness attention, awareness and Prana to strengthen ability to tap into the present. Expect deep hip opening with an element of surprise. Mandala movement. Working towards an optional arm balance of Eka Pada Galavasana or Flying Pigeon.
60 Min • Rather than trying to catch the wind, we learn through awareness and attention to be space as it is - to “be the sky and let everything else be the weather” - as Buddhist teacher Pema Chödron says. Hip and heart opening…working up to Kapinjalasana or Partridge Pose. This is the practice of strengthening presence, and in turn tapping into the spaciousness of being.
35 Min • In Ayurveda, sleep is considered one of the three pillars of life. It is the force of integration, renewal and rejuvenation. Grind culture and championed productivity is the thief of deep rest. To truly drop into a state of rest is a form of resistance to our conditioned nature of capitalism and constant doing. Rest is a radical act of love. Enjoy rest through deep hip opening.
45 Min • In this practice we move in a mandala, exploring a multi-directional, circular flow as a means of stepping into the unexpected. When one is faced with nuance, with navigating grey space, or sitting in uncertainty, discomfort and tension arise. The invitation of this practice is when discomfort or challenge occurs, how do you rise to meet each moment? Enjoy twists, hip openers and an optional side crow arm balance.
40 Min • In Yoga and Ayurveda, boundaries can be understood as an expression of Earth element. Boundaries are the stabilizing and grounding force that enables us to manage our energy wisely. Nedra Tawwab writes “boundaries will set you free.” In this yin practice we will use the wall as a metaphor for leaning into the power of boundaries as a way to explore the structures to safeguard our emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Poses include deep hip opening and heart opening.
YOGA ASANA
All classes offer the intimate opportunity to deepen one’s understanding and relationship to the self. Influenced by the Ancient teachings of Tantra, Tibetan Buddhism, modern psychology and timeless poetry each class is rooted in intention and guided with an emphasis on self-exploration and discovery.
Inspired by the holistic science Ayurveda, the ebb and flow of the seasons and the elements of nature, each class is designed to bring balance to mind, body and spirit. Expect intelligent sequencing and refined alignment for a strong foundation and the deepening of your practice. Form enables freedom and expansion. Through the sacred dance of breath and movement, we move subtle energy in the body to enable cathartic release and inspire opening.
I am trained in Alignment Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Restorative, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, Yoga Nidra and Meditation. Classes may include a blend of Asana, Pranayama, Marma, Mudra, Mantra, Nada Yoga of sound and mindfulness. Whether a beginner or a seasoned yogi, public classes are offered to all levels with modifications for each person to individualize his or her practice.
MEDITATION
Explore the practices of mindfulness and meditation as a lens into self-understanding, compassion and freedom. Discover your well of inner stillness accessible to every human being. Unearth ways to replenish and reset your emotional resources, cultivate stress-resilience, recalibrate your attention and tap into a place expanding your potential.
My personal practice and teachings are influenced by Buddhist wisdom and Tantra. I have received teachings from esteemed guides in the Buddhist tradition both in Northern California and India, including HH Dalai Lama. I have studied Nada yoga, mantra and vibrational healing through the use of Himalayan Singing Bowls in Nepal. I explored the cross section of these ancient traditions with modern day mindfulness through Stanford University’s Compassion Training, a program designed to improve resilience, connection and wellbeing.
Through the tools of meditation, mindfulness, yoga and vibrational healing, I offers a multi-disciplinary lens into the ways in which people may access an inner sanctuary of spacious awareness and discovery. I teach both private, public and corporate meditation courses and guided sessions.
55 Min • A practice to invite yourself into the present moment. This mandala circular style yoga flow invites you to drop into being in process and presence, paying artful attention to the space between poses, the creative transitions and the ability to welcome surprise when we are fully in the here and now.