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Yoga with Babe: A postnatal practice with a focus on regaining a sense of containment through the ribs as we move from the expansion of pregnancy and birth back towards centre. We start standing with movement that can be done with babe in arms, and progress into movements to support strengthening the back body, side bends, shoulder releases, dog pose and a rest at the end.
Attune to Inner Rythms: This practice invites a tuning into the multiplicity of inner rhythms that oscillate and bubble beneath the surface. We work with movement and stillness with a particular focus on opening strength and steadiness through the feet in balancing postures. Find a sense of containment and space through the ribs in a variety of contexts and explore crow pose, half moon, side bends and forward folds, with seated hip releases to settle into stillness before we rest and chant. Less instructions and more quiet time here. Enjoy!
Integrating Flow - Vyana Vayu: A practice that explores a sense of integration and wholeness via the energetic flow known as vyana vayu. This is said to be the subtle movement of prana through our system that organises and connects, and can be sensed most clearly via the vascular system, the flow of our blood. This practice focuses on finding a sense of balance, and begins on the ground with supported bridge variations, supine tree pose and builds towards a strong and steady flow that cultivates a felt sense of continuity and inner spaciousness. Options to play with a variety of balancing postures including tree, half moon, standing splits and handstand should that tickle your fancy. Opens and closes with mantra and stillness. Enjoy!
Core Explore: A movement practice exploring the feeling of whole body core, the integration of our limbs to our centre and the movement principle of navel radiation. Starts with a brief seated breath awareness practice and moves into a flowing and playful sequence to find strength, buoyancy, coherence and integration through the whole body.
Spiral Flow - udana vayu: Exploring the spiral flow of energy in the body known as Udana Vayu, through the spiralling emergence, growth and articulation of our limbs. Udana vayu is said to also spiral up into our organs of perception, and thus connect the inner with the outer world. The practice starts slowly with a restorative posture while we cultivate awareness of Udana’s pathways and moves steadily into a flow practice with hip and shoulder explorations as preparations for inversion practice towards the end.
Radial Flow - Samana Vayu: Exploring the integration of the downward and the upward flows of energy on the body that give rise to the radial flow, and support coordination between our centre and our limbs. Begins with a somatic meditation practice that we then build our movement from, and progresses into a strong and fluid vinyasa practice to support a sense of integration, strength and cohesiveness through our whole body.
Upward Flow - prana vayu: A class exploring the upward flow of energy that is offered referred to as prana vayu. An exploration of how downward becomes the upward movement, a somatic exploration of ascending energy through touch, movement, breath, bandha and imagination. We start slow and subtle and move into a flow to explore how we can find harmonious movement and tone in the body-mind as we lean into ground force reaction/levity/that which ascends.
Downward Flow - apana vayu: A class exploring the downward flow of energy in our body, otherwise known as apana vayu. This class supports slowness, and will massively allow your nervous system to down regulate and sink into rest and digest mode. We start slowly with some somatic meditation, continue into a long floor based hip release sequence and eventually find our way into some more dynamic movements to find strength and support in the legs and hips which will also support our sense of connection to ground. Ends with a yummy rest and some chanting. Enjoy :)
Pregnancy practice - call in your power: A practice to call in your power. We begin with a brief meditation and chanting before moving into a movement practice that takes us through a variety of explorations from the ground to standing postures, with a focus on finding space through the lower back, side body and hips. Closes with a deep relaxation, mantra and cultivating intention.
Unfurl into spring: A practice to support our unfurling into spring, tending to the transition from the curled up-ness of winter into the expansiveness of lighter days. We move slowly and steadily, attuning and processing, and making our way into a softly strong, heart centred flow practice. Embodied philosophy explorations woven throughout as we play with spinal extension in a variety of contexts, dolphin and forearm balance variations and half moon.
Attune & Connect: a short & sweet pregnancy practice to attune and connect to yourself, to presence and to babe. We start with a little bit of sound and open into a varied practice that moves around the whole body with lots of options to explore, stretch and release before closing with a meditation.
Movement that Nourishes: This gentle practice is all about finding a sense of balanced tone through our whole body as we move, to access movement that is truly nourishing, hydrating and integrated. We explore the integration of the vertical axis with the horizontal axis and start small, close to the ground and quiet with legs up the wall variations, before moving into yummy, flowy, stretchy explorations in a variety of contexts. This class is great for when you want something restorative and nurturing but also need to move.
25 minute movement snack: a practice that gets going straight away and brings some movement into your day. Use 2 blocks to create asymmetry and challenge balance, and play with movements that encourage us to find a sense of balanced whole body tone as we move between ground and space. Gets your circulation going and moves through the whole body to revitalise and refresh through motion.
Strong & Spacious Hips: A movement practice that focuses on multi dimensional care for your hips. Starts on the ground with tiny movements to hydrate tissues, opens into a floor sequence to find spacious release through the hips, and moves into creative hip strength work to play with balance and stability. Progresses into a flowing sequence that requires the hips to articulate in a variety of contexts and directions to stay spacious, strong, resilient and adaptable. An important practice if you are sitting a lot!
Heart Flow: A well rounded pregnancy practice for any stage of pregnancy with a focus on the heart, circulation and pulsation. Settle in with some stillness to land and connect with baby, and slowly unfurl info a flowing practice that will release through the shoulders, upper back, hips and legs and ends with a yummy guided relaxation.
Drop into the Pulse: A class exploring the pulsation of heart beat, circulation and fluid movement through a varied sequence that moves around the whole body and introduces key philosophical themes around the relationship between the micro and macro via your felt experience. Starts with some sound, and progressively builds into a flowy, stretchy yummy movement practice before resting with your legs up the wall to close.
Feel good circulation flow: Bring awareness to your vascular system with this fluid flow that alternates between more dynamic movement to get our heart beating and moments of quiet stillness to rest into the pulsation of our fluid inner world. A feel good, full body stretchy flow to revitalise and refresh ourselves, with a yummy legs up the wall rest to close. 40 Minute practice. Props: Optional block
Settle, move, integrate: A short practice to settle your nervous system and find balance through pranayama, movement and awareness practice. Begins with alternate nostril breathing to support a sense of balance through both sides of our brain and nervous system and then moves through a practice that focuses on contra lateral movement to highlight our senes of centre and inner spaciousness. A great practice to self regulate when we are feeling out of balance.
