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Slowly open into movement: This practice starts with a grounding awareness practice and stillness, slowly opens into micro movements and then sneaks into a flow that will get you warm, strengthen your legs, and challenge your balance, with a yummy dose of backbends, twists and stretchy lunges in between.
Upper Body - Activate and Release: An hour dedicated to activating, releasing and re-sensitising through our hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. A nourishing practice that offers the fascia of the upper body a variety of movement flavours - tractioning, loading, playing with weight bearing and springiness and will get your heart rate up in moments to refresh and invigorate. Finishes with a delicious half plough exploration to find space through the upper back and side body.
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.
Bond with Babe: A practice to bond with your babe as you move, breathe and rest together. We start slowly meditative movement and sound, and unfurl into a gentle flow that stays close to the ground but brings movement through the whole body. Finishes with a long relaxation and chanting practice. A lovely way to bond with your baby as you practice.
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.
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!
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
Xyphoid & Tailbone Inversion Flow: A fun exploration of the relationship between the front body and back body via the skeleton and two small bones: the xyphoid and tailbone. This practice cultivates awareness of these two bones as we move and breathe, to find a sense of containment and space through the torso. This can hugely support all of our movement as we find a sense of a ‘middle place’, and is particularly helpful in inversions. Starts slowly and builds into a challenging flow with inversion options to play with (or not!).
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.
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.
Practicing Stillness: A restorative/yin practice to support the possibility of fully resting into stillness. We move through fully supported front body openers, side body releases, pigeon pose, wide legged forward fold and sit at the end. It is a nourishing practice that supports an exploration of rest, stillness and awareness.
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.
Grounding Flow: A fluid but grounding flow to move with steadiness and slow. it. down. Start with an awareness meditation and unfold into a vinyasa practice exploring twists and steadiness in our legs, playing with some variations of half moon pose at the wall. You’ll need two bricks if possible.
Heart Flow & Lower Body Strength: A fun and varied practice tuning into our vascular system and heart, with a focus on waking up the back body and building strength and support in our legs, glutes, feet - basically the antidote to sitting :). Play with yummy stretchy balance variations in supported side plank, handstand hops to get your heart moving and half moon, and close with some seated twists and a sweet rest at the end.
A little bit of everything: A well rounded flow that nurtures a lot, challenges a little, moves between specific and free form movement, and invites options for playful balance explorations. We close with a yummy rest and some chanting. Great for when you need a little bit of everything.
Clarity & Direction: A balanced and fluid flow exploring clarity & direction as we move, in particular though the lower limbs. Starts with a floor based sequence to create space in our legs and moves into a continuous fluid practice with options to make practice stronger if you like, and play with side plank variations and balances as we find clarity, strength and reach through our legs.
Flow & Restore: Start slowly, enjoy rolling movements on the ground, sneak into a little flow and settle into some restorative postures to close. A go to fave when I need to move, rest and replenish in equal measure. Props: 2 Blankets and a bolster or two sleeping pillows/ large cushion.
When you’re not sure if you need to move or chill: A stretchy relaxing flow that starts with a floor sequence and sneaks you into some standing movement to invigorate and get the blood moving before settling into a brief meditation at the end to anchor into the dynamic and alive nature of stillness.
