Awareness Plays: A 20 minute meditation playing with how awareness can be given direction, moved, condensed expanded: and how awareness wants to play and express itself in different ways.
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Handstand Practice: A short and sweet handstand practice for when you want to get upside down. Works through some wrist warm ups, a little bit of flow to activate legs and find integrated tone, some whole-body-core work and handstand holds at the wall to finish. Happy Handstanding!
Gentle shake up & release: A short and gentle practice to shake things up and shift stuck energy. Helpful for moving things through, processing, and releasing pent up stagnation or agitation, so that you can soften and release. Shake it out and rest in pockets of stillness for an energetic refresh in a short amount of time.
Mini power flow: A 15 minute movement snack that gets going straight away building into a mini power flow with opportunities to balance, shake things up, ground with standing postures and build strength through your legs, and if you like, opportunities to practice handstand. Find a sense of strength at your centre, and to drop into a continuous flow.
Baby Flow: A short and short and sweet yummy flow you can do with your baby, playing with the simultaneous movement of awareness inwards enough to nourish you, and outwards just enough to tend to babe. We wiggle through the whole body and bring baby in for some moments of play, too.
Wanna practice but just so tired: A slow floor based practice to support you when you are tired. Starts with a chest opener on blocks to invigorate and massage the upper back, moves into some breath awareness to rest and open the lungs, and closes with a twist and childs pose. Short, sweet, potent. Could be lovely to unwind before bed or to release after a long day at the computer or feeding a baby etc. A class for all and appropriate post natal practice. Props: 2 blocks
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.
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!
Yummy shoulder & spine release: One of my favourite ways to release my shoulders and upper back. We will work from a cross legged seat for a section of this practice, if you are uncomfortable sitting on the ground, you can also change this to sitting on a chair and working with a table in front of you, or you can elevate your seat with a block or firm cushion. Props: A few blocks or books.
20 Minute movement snack: Let your mind rest as you attune to movement, sensations and presence. Revitalise your whole body with neck, shoulder and spine releases, a little bit of flow, a little bit of strength, some forward folds and a micro meditation to close.
20 minutes to revitalise: A simple and steady 20 minute practice to revitalise when you are short on time. Settle in with child’s pose and a little self massage before moving into your short flow and closing with a yummy hip release.
Shoulders & Heart Flow: A short and sweet flow focusing on freeing up space in the shoulders and the back of the heart.
Sitting in the Synapse: a brief overview of the nervous system and the space between stimulus and response as taught by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, followed by a meditation to get ‘out of your head’ and into your felt experience. Also a useful tool to bring into daily life, to process stress, or during times of information overload, decision making or overwhelm.
Cellular Breathing: an exploration of internal and external respiration. Sink beneath the surface and be soothed from the inside out. Can be done seated or lying down.