Endorphins: Awe + Play

Endorphins: Awe + Play

The Physical Trainer. This is that glorious rush of a runner's high. Stimulating your endorphins through movement energizes you and acts as a natural painkiller. Nicknamed the “feel-good” chemicals, they work similarly to opioids and cause a full-body sensation of euphoria and levity. Activated most potently by lengthy, vigorous exercise (like dancing with reckless abandon), but also by any form of physical activity that gets the blood flowing, endorphins are a natural reward for the work you’ve done. Recent research has also highlighted that giving—volunteering, donating or acting in service of your community—boosts endorphins through a natural “helper’s high.” And, regular meditation and yoga practice has been shown to contribute to the release of endorphins. Laughing, eating spicy foods (from the mild pain they prompt on the tongue) and treating yourself to dark chocolate (from its flavonoids) give a little boost too.

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Endorphins: Awe + Play
  • 33 Min Yoga with Ally | Play | Endorphins

    For all those moments when you don’t want to get up and sweat — come play with this all-levels (modifications aplenty) vinyasa flow. Join yogi Ally Bogard to move your body, blood and breath into a bliss state with 33 minutes of endorphins practice. The more you move, the better you’ll feel. Unlo...

  • Day 4 | 11 Min DOSE with Viva | Play | Endorphins

    Our girl Viva is back in the Matrix to take your senses on an adventure. Feel the beat drop in and tap into your awareness practice as you stimulate all your senses with an 11 min microdose endorphins supercharge. This one is spicy and gets you feeling Big Friday Energy.

    Featuring select tracks ...

  • Day 12 | 11 Min EFT Tapping with Jennifer | Awe | Endorphins

    Rewire your brain’s automatic fight-or-flight response and understand the messages behind your physical pain with an 11 minute endorphins elixir of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) therapy. Join 15-year Tapping expert Jennifer Partridge to bring release to every uncomfortable emotion and physic...

  • Day 8 | 11 Min Meditation with Luna | Awe | Endorphins

    Soothe pain & trauma by tapping into an organic endorphins high with this 11 min sound meditation. Join Luna Maye in an energizing practice to get a euphoric surge. This journey will fill your endorphins prescription by naturally soothing pain and discomfort while releasing trauma and bringing yo...

  • 33 min DOSE with Viva | Vitality Play | Endorphins

    Our original DOSE joy practice | Cultivate energetic vitality and translate your life force into action. Join Viva Soudan with a potent fusion of breathwork,visualization affirmation, body tapping, chakra-opening and self-expressive dance to stimulate your endorphins release. Tap into your strong...

  • 11 Min DOSE with Viva | Play | Endorphins

    Feeling stressed? Shake out and shed anything that doesn’t serve you with an 11 minute endorphins pump up. Join Viva as she guides you to enliven your body through Functional Happiness exercises, chakra opening and juicy body rolls. This one cleanses the system and helps you heal from the inside ...

  • NEW | 33 Min DOSE with Viva | Play | Endorphins

    Turn on your own personal spotlight. Be bold now and join Viva for a 33 minute vitality practice to feel the power of your life force. Feel capable, healthy and energized as you strengthen your mind and body with a fusion of Functional Happiness exercises, chakra opening and self-expressive dance...

  • 11 min DOSE with Viva | Femininity Play | Endorphins

    There’s a little feminine inside all of us—give yourself permission to cultivate all that is wise and wild with some endorphins-boosting movement play. Join Viva as she guides you to enliven your body through Functional Happiness exercises, chakra opening and juicy body rolls. Discover different ...

  • 33 Min Yoga with Karine | Power Play | Endorphins

    Find your inner power and feel mighty as you build self-esteem, confidence and release endorphins with a 33 minute vinyasa yoga flow. Join yogi Karine Plantadit as she guides you through a dynamic set of poses designed to cultivate your strength and endurance. Bring in supportive mantras and just...

  • 11 Min DOSE with Viva | Awe | Endorphins

    Our girl Viva is back in the Matrix to take your senses on an adventure. Feel the beat drop in and tap into your awareness practice as you stimulate all your senses with an 11 min microdose endorphins supercharge. This one is spicy and gets you feeling Big Friday Energy.

    Featuring select tracks ...

  • 11 Min Meditation with Victorien | Awe | Endorphins

    Realize that yes — you are alive. And that this, on its own, is magical. Connect to your breath, your heartbeat and your body as you surrender to the blissful sounds of Victorien’s Balinese flute. Find a comfortable position and let your endorphins flow. It is when we connect to the most simple w...

  • 11 Min DOSE with Viva | Play | Endorphins

    Take time to delight your body. Get your heart rate glowing and feel the rush of movement and dance with this 11 minute endorphins rev up led by Viva. Access pleasure from your own natural supply and ride the euphoric wave with a fusion of Functional Happiness exercises, chakra opening and self-e...

  • 16 Min Meditation with Haile | Calmedy | Endorphins

    Flex your smile muscles—they like to play. Buckle up for the debut of a 16 minute Calmedy (calm + comedy) journey with Sultan of Sound Haile Supreme (aka your personal laugh coach). This potent endorphins release diminishes your cortisol spikes by inviting the magic of your laughter. Stretch your...

  • Day 13 | Endorphins | 33 Min DOSE | Shaking Out 2020 with Viva

    Our original DOSE joy practice | Having trouble sleeping? Join yogi Karine Plantadit for a potent fusion of yoga + stretching, core work and self-expressive dance to prepare your body for a good night’s sleep. This 33 minute journey will have you feeling calm and at ease, flooding your brain-body...

  • 11 Min DOSE with Viva | Play | Endorphins

    Give yourself permission to play within the energy spectrum and tap into your femininity. Embrace the spiral of masculine and feminine within yourself as you ignite the endorphins that challenge boundaries through the power of dance with us today.

  • 11 Min DOSE with Viva | Stress Release | Endorphins

    You have arrived. Get ready to cleanse your system + allow your body to shed and shift. In this 11 minute stress release, ignite brain - body connection and move into healing from the inside out. Move together with reflect.daybreaker.com

  • NEW | 15 Min Meditation with Noah | Awe | Endorphins

    Drop in and connect with the help of Daybreaker resident drummer Noah Katz-Apel. Bring your mind and body into a state of joy through a sensory experience that creates singular focus on peace in the present moment. Allow the hum of this sound journey to open your sense of self and trust in every ...

  • NEW | 11 Min Dance DOSE with Elliott | Awe | Endorphins

    Allow the stimulating magic of endorphins into the body and mind through a micro dance practice. Soak up the power of music and the cherished guidance of Elliott LaRue to achieve that long-chased “high” feeling movement provides.

    Step into your daily joy practice.

  • 39 Min Yoga DOSE with Linsday | Awe | Endorphins

    Follow Lindsay to higher spiritual ground by expanding your endorphin rush. Move breath by breath and posture by posture into a solid state of connection and expansion while opening to the possibilities of living in awe and taking in life with all 5 senses.

    Step into your daily joy practice.

    P...

  • NEW | 11 Min Accountability with Jasmyn | Play | Endorphins

    Follow Jasymn’s guidance of towards accountability. Conjur memories of a time that might need repair, and courageously ask “what do we need to make it right?” Visualize fertile ground that allows you to receive this invitation and create a new narrative and reality.

  • 11 Min Meditation with Luna | Awe | Endorphins

    Give life to a wider point of view by dropping in with every sound to become more attuned. Allow Luna to guide you into an endorphins fueled bliss on this journey through the tones to joy.

    Step into your daily joy practice.

    P.S. Citizen Scientists — Keep making history after your practice by a...

  • 30 Min Yoga with Alyssa | Play | Endorphins

    Join Alyssa in today’s yoga practice, lesson, and guide in transparent play and joy. In moments of celebration, you're uniquely suited to appreciate all that life has to give; good moments and bad; good mornings and bad. We’re grateful to see you on the mat.

    Step into your daily joy practice.
    ...

  • 25 Min Yoga with Sarrah | Presence | Endorphins

    Just think about how distracted we often spend our lives; in so many places, in the middle of activities, we can often be there but we're never really there. Well, take today as a challenge then, to be present on your mat; giving yourself an unencumbered 25 minutes.

    Step into your daily joy pr...

  • 13 Min EFT Tapping with Jennifer | Move Past Physical Pain | Endorphins

    Rewire your brain’s automatic fight-or-flight response and understand the messages behind your physical pain with an 11 minute endorphins elixir of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) therapy. Join 15-year Tapping expert Jennifer Partridge to bring release to every uncomfortable emotion and physic...