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Into the Stillpoint: A return to centre. This practice explores gathering towards where feels like centre, and how our sense of centre can shift and morph during our practice. What does it mean to abide with our awareness in the innermost? Through postures that gather to midline such as eagle variations and tree pose, we play and move through a vinyasa flow practice that begins slowly and warms up into a strengthening standing sequence before returning to the ground for a big chill and chanting. A great practice to focus scattered energy or agitation.
Moving into winter: A practice to support transitioning into the colder and darker portion of the year, that focuses on allowing tiredness and slowly builds into a steady practice with some longer holds to deeply ground and soothe the nervous system to support nature’s call to hibernate :). A good one for if you feel tired but still want to move.
Touch into Presence: A short practice to touch into presence and come home to ourselves. We start with a somatic meditation and continue on to explore contra-lateral movement patterns and integration through the diagonal planes of the body. Open into variations of diagonally oriented backbends with options to play with balances, and quietly build strength whilst cultivating whole body awareness and building our capacity to be present. 36 minutes. Props: Maybe two blocks
Soft Axis - The Gut Tube: Our gut tube runs along the front of the spine, gently tethered and offering support for spinal movement since we were just learning to move in the world. This fluid practice brings awareness to this relationship and explores a variety of movement contexts to find freedom and space to spinal/gut tube movement; not only to facilitate ease in the gut tube, and digestion but so that we can truly open into clear listening of our gut instinct and bodily intelligence.
Weight & Levity: A return to weight to find levity. This practice starts on the ground with practices to release holding and tension from the tissues and opens into a circular flow exploring backbends, side planks, lunges, and strong leg work to find a sense of rootedness as we find expansiveness through the spine, lungs, heart, chest and arms.
Freedom in Backbends: A thorough exploration of spinal extension and twists. We look at the spirality of the upper arms as they come over head to find depth in the armpits and appropriate constraint around the joint as we lengthen the front of the body with arms overhead! Play with over head backbends, twisting balances and wheel pose towards the end. Props: Two blocks if you have them.
Purna - whole, complete, satisfied: A satisfying multi modality practice, with a focus on the felt sense of fullness in our body via embodiment of the lungs. Somatic explorations bring awareness into our lungs and then we flow from there outwards through to the rest of the body, exploring natural breath patterns and offering our system the possibility of moving with more time than we need. Flow and relish expansive side body work, integrate strength and spaciousness, and dive into applied yoga philosophy that you can feel in your own body. Begins and closes with chanting. Enjoy!
Creative backbend flow: This creative, slow and steady practice explores the specifics of arms moving overhead for backbends, finding the natural spiralling of the upper limbs, with just enough space and constraint for optimal join articulation! We release shoulders and upper back, and intersperse backbends with grounding warrior variations, whilst also weaving in a beautiful awareness practice to cultivate a grounded sense of presence. Props: Strap
Sneak into a deep hip practice: We all have a unique ‘bony signature’ that gives us a particular amount of constraint and space. This class explores that range, with a particular focus on external rotation required to move into crossed legs, pigeon, figure of four and options to explore lotus (or not). Starts slow and sneaks into a varied and strong full body flow, with a hippy arm balance exploration and a wonderful, spacious seated sequence before closing with a long rest and a brief meditation. Woven throughout we play with an awareness practice exploring ‘spaces in between’; small windows that can offer a sense of the vast underlying ground of being that all experience arises from, is sustained within, and returns to.
Nurturing & Strong: Moves slowly and steadily from the ground into a satisfying flow practice exploring the relationship between our skin and nervous system, and how our hips articulate as we flow our way towards a spacious axis and half moon pose. A yummy chilled start that sneaks into a stronger practice by the end.
20 minute all rounder: A full practice in 23 minutes for you here! Chant, breathe, move and a little micro meditation to close. Perfect for those days when you want a little bit of everything but you also only have 20 minutes. The movement is an all round full body slinky flows of spinal explorations, neck releases, lunges, hip openers and flowing twists to finish with a short and sweet rest at the end. Enjoy!
Arms & Hands Exploration: Our feet are designed for weight bearing, and our hands are designed for mobility. Yet in yoga movement we seem to be very curious about making our hands into feet! This class is a deep dive into carrying weight through our hands, particularly when our arms go overhead in postures like downward facing dog, handstand and wheel. We harness the natural spirality of our design to move in a way that optimises weight bearing. This is an important class for wrist health and solid groundwork for inversions.
Unfurl: 10 minutes of restorative before unfurling into a steady flow that moves from the ground into standing with twists and triangle variations, and builds some heat as we challenge balance and proprioception in down dog explorations. Settle into stillness with seated forward folds at the end followed by a delicious rest and a little bit of chanting to close. Props: Bolster, block, blanket, strap if you have, you can improvise or do without as well.
Full body tune up: My current go to faves for a full body wiggle! Low impact and yet strong and satisfying, fully following what feels delicious. Ongoing, fluid motion in lots of different directions and with tons of variety. Starts with an upper back and side body release over a bolster and opens into a full body wiggle that cultivates a sense of inner coherence, continuity and presence. Yum.
Rest into Flow: Pure nurturance. This class starts off with some restorative postures and then sneaks into a delicious, well rounded movement practice. It is one of my absolute favourites: slow, steady, utter nourishment for your nervous system, delicious movement explorations and really honing our capacity to attune to presence. Props: Anything resembling a bolster, blocks, strap, blankets - get it all! I do give options for no props so don’t let a lack of props hold you back! I highly recommend practicing using the suggested playlist below.
Fluid Nourishment: A class for when you need to be completely nourished by your movement, this fluid, yummy flow will help you to remember your innate creativity, and will bring you into a place where you can rest and refuel in stillness at the end. A highly nourishing practice.
