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MOVE
Neck and shoulder release to wake up or wind down: Roll out of bed and onto your mat with this practice that will slowly transition you from stillness into movement with a focus on releasing and finding space through neck and shoulders. Can also be wonderful as a pre bed practice to slow down and settle before sleep.
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.
Balm for your hips: Nourishment to release hips that feel sore or tight. This class starts with micro movements in the hip joints and slowly plays with mainly floor based explorations to coax movement and space through the tissues while finding the sweet spot between healthy constraint and flexibility. Could be a great practice after a long day of sitting or standing, after a run or if you are feeling a little stagnant through your hips. Props: a yoga strap or tie.
Restful movement, stillness and chanting: This nourishing class will offer you a gentle movement practice to release and unhold especially through your neck, shoulders and jaw, before moving into some stillness with restorative postures and opening into a chanting practice to close. Super soothing and settling for your nervous system to rest into. Enjoy.
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.
Floor based hip & upper back release: Find the ground and stay there for a little while. This class is perfect for when you are tired but you still want to move. A relaxing floor based flow that starts with stillness, opens into micro movements to nourish and hydrate the tissues and progresses into a flow that will support releasing through your hips and upper back as you offer your whole system an opportunity to settle and recalibrate. A good one for grounding, to down regulate before bed after a long day, or to release sore or tired legs & hips.
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!
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.
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 meditation - a floor based flow: a nurturing, somatic, floor based class. Woven throughout is an awareness practice that can be particularly helpful for working with strong emotions, supporting us to go underneath the story/thinking and into the sensory, to hold space for ourselves to process, digest, and come back to presence.
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.
