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Face, Jaw, Neck, Shoulders, Hips - Restorative (Sept 10)
We do restorative and de-stressing practices for the face, jaw, neck, shoulders and ending with hips.
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July 23: Neurogenesis: 90 min Breath + Meditation + Yin
This is a special 90 min practice with a brief brain anatomy lesson, 30 minutes of breath, a 10 minute meditation and a 45 min yin practice. Enjoy.
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July 9: Lymphatic Drainage Restorative Practice
You will need a block or a few sturdy pillows - we will work with some restorative inversions and supported poses to encourage lymphatic drainage.
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June 25: Unravel Your Nervous System
A 60 min restorative practice designed to let your nervous system drop into calm and homeostasis.
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June 18: Informative Restorative Practice: Chakras & Resting
This practice will be quiet and restorative with information on the "chakras" or energy centres of the body.
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June 11: Quiet Yin (Good for Exhaustion/Nausea or Pregnancy)
This is a very quiet, very mellow practice. A great if your energy is low, if you're exhausted or feeling the effects of a suppressed immune system.
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May 21: Restorative Friday
Restore & Renew.... enjoy!
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May 14: Friday Refresh/Restorative
Rejuvenating restorative postures to support a tired/end of the week body.
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May 10: Yin Yang Hips
Monday is sometimes hard to get moving! We begin slow and do a handful of yin poses for the hips followed by sometime more heating standing poses. Enjoy!
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April 30: Brahma Mudra + Cooling Breath
30 min breath practice including a mantra, mudra and breath. Enjoy!
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April 16: Sacrum/Hips/Quads Restorative
Mainly on your back and on the ground: Deep hips, quads, sacrum/low back releases, twists. Enjoy this restful practice!
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April 9: Psoas/Diaphragm Restorative
A quick 3-min anatomy lesson and into a belly massage, pillow breathing, feeling into the gut and hip connections and hip openers - very relaxing and energizing. If you are pregnant, trying to get pregnant or have something new/intense going on in your gut, this may not be for you.
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April 2: Restorative + 10 min mantra meditation
We begin on the belly with a pillow for a deep core massage, followed by a restful practice into all parts of the body. We end with alternate nostril breathing and mantra meditation. Enjoy.
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March 26: Juicy Restorative: Shoulders & Pelvis
This practice is all about releasing tension from your shoulders and hips! Relaxing with snips of anatomy info. :)
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March 19: Low Back, Pelvis & Sacrum Restorative
We begin with a restorative set supine that I find is extremely helpful for releasing low back, pelvis and hip tension. Enjoy.
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March 5: Bladder & Kidney Restorative Practice
This practice is deeply healing and soothing, specifically for the kidney and bladder lines in the body. We end working with pelvic floor muscles and a supine meditation on the kidneys and bladder. Enjoy!
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Feb 26: Full Moon Restorative
This is a very quiet set beginning with legs up the wall. All postures are passive and designed to relax you. Zero effort involved.
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Feb 19: Part Two: Yin + 30min Meditation
This is a 60 min meditation mainly practice, using So Hum (I am That) and alternate nostril breath throughout the body, mind and major energy centres.
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Feb 5: Top-Down Yin Restorative
We begin at the top: your neck, shoulders, lateral body, spine, hips/pelvis and legs.
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Jan 29: Friday Hips + Pranayama
This is a usual set integrating shining skull breath with three hip openers. A good one to match with the following restorative class. Enjoy!
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Jan 22: Restorative Class with the Vayus
In today's relaxing floor work, the prompt of paying attention to the rise and fall of your breath (prana and apana) is encouraged throughout: Supine back and pelvis release, twists on back, hips on back, inner groins, belly release and a guided supine savasana.
Enjoy.
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Jan 15: Relax the Gut-Brain Axis
This is a 60 min deeply restorative practice beginning on the belly, into the hips and some twists. Extra attention is paid to the belly and relaxing it so to soften the nervous system-gut health connection towards a coherent state.
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3 Parts Reboot: breath + yin + guided meditation
Do one or all three: pranayama, a bit of movement and guided meditation. (But I would recommend you do this entire practice of 90 minutes). Otherwise fast forward to your preferred part:
- A five minute intro-talk
- A breath practice + hips and neck releases
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Dec 18: Minimal Talking, Maximum Yin
A complete Friday yin practice into the usual sweet spots - longer floor work into the hips, spine, inner groins..all deeply restorative. I encourage a quiet room, gentle music, warm blankets, pillows...I keep my talking to a minimum. Enjoy x