SLOW YOGA.

The whole recipe

One practice.
Everything works together.

“To my surprise, I got down on the floor and stretched. I did some simple yoga moves (ie cat-cow, child and baby pose) and even made up a few poses.”
Simone F. - Southern Vermont

Slow Yoga brings together stretching, a dark and quiet room, ingestible cannabis, and your body weight resting on the floor to unload your spine. One rule guides it: follow what feels good. Sensation → movement → new sensation → movement.

Begin with a sensation: contact with the floor, a wish to lengthen, a place asking for a change of position. Let it inform a small movement. A roll changes pressure; a twist changes the angle. Feel the result before choosing what comes next.

Slow YogaThe integrated practice

  • Prepare for the experience

    Shower. Comfortable clothes. Time and room to settle.

  • Ingestible cannabis

    Cannabis is part of the integrated Slow Yoga experience. Why ingestibles fit the practice.

  • Quiet the senses

    Darkness. A blindfold or a dark room. Reduce sound and interruptions.

  • Get horizontal

    Let the floor and gravity support you.

  • Roll and explore

    Shift, twist, linger, and follow what you feel.

  • Self-massage

    Use your hands, your weight, and the floor.

The whole recipe is intended to increase the magnitude of the experience. Sensory management means making room for attention: darkness with a blindfold or a dark room, quiet or chosen music, comfortable temperature, and fewer interruptions. A shower and comfortable clothes are part of settling in.

Where movement starts

Slow Yoga and pose-led yoga.

A pose-led class begins with a posture or sequence. Slow Yoga begins with a sensation. The difference is the starting point and what guides the next move.

Two ways into movement

A pose-led class

  1. Pose
  2. Notice the sensation

A named or demonstrated shape gives you somewhere to begin.

Slow Yoga

  1. Feel
  2. Follow
  3. Move
  4. Notice
  5. Follow again

A sensation suggests a movement. The movement gives you something new to feel.

The starting point

Pose-led yoga classThe pose or sequence comes first

Slow YogaThe feeling comes first

The movement

Pose-led yoga classMove toward a demonstrated shape

Slow YogaLet sensation suggest the movement

What guides you

Pose-led yoga classFollow the teacher or established sequence

Slow YogaFollow changing internal cues

How you adjust

Pose-led yoga classAlignment is often evaluated externally

Slow YogaThe movement is adjusted from inside the experience

When to move on

Pose-led yoga classClass pacing determines when to change

Slow YogaThe sensation determines whether to linger, move, or rest

Where attention goes

Pose-led yoga classEyes may remain open to watch and orient

Slow YogaEyes are often closed to reduce visual input

Cannabis in the practice

Pose-led yoga classCannabis is not part of the system

Slow YogaIngestible cannabis is intentionally integrated

The exchange

Pose-led yoga classThe posture produces sensations to observe

Slow YogaSensation generates movement, which produces new sensation

The sequence

Pose-led yoga classPose → sensation

Slow YogaSensation → movement → new sensation → movement

Shared territory.

These are useful starting points, not two sealed categories. A teacher can invite deeply inward attention; sensation-led movement can arrive at a familiar yoga pose.

Yoga includes traditions of inward attention, breath, non-reactivity and embodied awareness. Somatic movement and other body-based practices also begin with felt experience.

What defines this practice is the combination: ingestible cannabis, sensory management and body-led stretching, connected by repeated feedback. Explore the wider movement context and our Enhanced Biofeedback model.

Sensation first

A feeling can become a direction.

A familiar response can happen before you have really noticed the sensation. Slow Yoga makes room for curiosity: what changes with a little less weight, a smaller movement, or a different angle?

Sometimes the next move is a rest. If a sensation fades, that is information too. You do not have to chase it or make it stronger.

A sensation appears.

The familiar path

Automatic reaction

Repeat the usual response before noticing what has changed.

The Slow Yoga invitation

Notice, then follow

  1. Give the sensation attention.
  2. Let it inform a small movement.
  3. Notice the new sensation.
  4. Follow again—or rest.

New information, next movement.

Stopping and protective responses have a place here. Following a sensation does not mean pushing through pain.

A pronounced urge to stretch or move can be one way in. We call that reported experience the Stretch Impulse. Following the changing sensation is where the impulse becomes a practice.

The oil and the practice

Make time for the experience.

Liquid Stretch Formula is the ingestible oil designed to pair with the practice, with time to settle in.

The oil timeline draws on the original Liquid Stretch oil experience. The 4 p.m. example is one way to make room for the practice.

  1. 4 p.m. example
    Oil option

    Take the oil earlier

    Liquid Stretch Formula is the ingestible oil designed to pair with Slow Yoga. The oil track draws on the original Liquid Stretch experience. Leave time to finish work, eat, shower, and prepare your space before coming down to the floor.

  2. Close out work

    Let the workday end

    Close the laptop, leave the meetings behind, and give yourself time for the experience.

  3. Dinner

    Eat and make time

    Have dinner and tidy up. A meal with some fat is part of this example. Make time for yourself.

  4. Get comfortable

    Shower and change

    Wash off the day and put on comfortable clothes. Feeling clean can make rolling and lingering on the floor more inviting.

  5. Prepare the space

    Make room to move

    Clear enough floor space to extend your arms and legs and roll. Keep drafts off you. Settle pets and let others know you’re taking this time, so you can move without sudden interruptions.

  6. Around 8 p.m. example

    Go dark and get horizontal

    Get horizontal in darkness, using a blindfold or a dark room. Reduce sound and let the floor support you. Rest, breathe, or begin a slow roll—feel your way in.

  7. 2–3 hours to linger

    Follow that feeling

    Roll, twist, shift your weight, and explore. Use your hands, gravity, and the floor for self-massage. Linger where it feels good. Make small adjustments. Do not force the stretch. Reverse, revisit, or rest. A stable piece of furniture can be a handhold: furniture is your friend. The two-to-three-hour window is room to enjoy the practice, not a rep count or required duration.

These times are one example, not a required schedule. Individual onset times vary.

Explore Enhanced Biofeedback