Beginners Yoga

Your eight week journal to download and work through.

A beginners guide to common yoga terminology to help you understand some of the terms you'll find in the weekly sessions - just in case i don't explain them in the class.

For our first pranayama we learn how mastering the power of our breath changes everything.

You've completed the first week!  Congratulations, now you can enjoy this 35 minute class and see it all come together.

Why is Surya Namaskar such an integral part of yoga?

Lie back and relax with this guided meditation that allows you to embrace that blissful feeling of inner peace.

This weeks pranayama practice is Nadi Shadhana or Alternate Nostril breathing.   This pranayama brings equanimity to the mind, body and emotions.  Amazing for so many conditions and has also been adopted by medical centres to help assist with hypertension and certain cardiac issues.

Introducing  the Tiger pose and Bird/Dog to help strengthen your core muscles.  The theme is "Self Kindness"

Relax and unwind with this calming and healing guided meditation.  Allow the candy floss pink healing light infuse every cell  in your entire body washing away stresses, anxieties and negativity leaving you free to enjoy your day

Enjoy the calming benefits of this pranayama, notice how the vibrations of the bee breath wash a tranquility over your senses.

In honour of Spring switch off from all demands and expectations with this guided meditation to honour the beautiful spring day with the blossom on the trees swaying in the gentle breeze and the birdsong joyous in the air.  Just allow all your stress, anxieties and worries just float away.

This pranayama practice is all about enjoying the stillness found in taking a pause.

Lie back and switch off with this calming guided meditation. This meditation has been written to lead you into that divine space of absolute relaxation and leave you in a sublime state of Bliss.

Take some time to appreciate your spine with Bidala Namaskar, this beautiful flowing sequence stretches your spine, releases all the tension in those strong muscles that line your spine - amazing for backache.

Enjoy this simple pranayama, the three part breath or Dirga.

Relax with Yoga Nidra featuring the Temple. 

Yoga Nidra is also called yogic sleep.  It is a state of deep relaxation, that relaxation feeling where you are just drifting off to a beautiful and relaxing sleep.  This state is easily achieved with this guided meditation. 

Yoga Nidra and all meditation practice helps to assist in the relaxation process, improving the function of your nervous system, help regenerate and renew cells as well as decrease anxiety and stress. 

Yoga Nidra will leave you feeling like you have had a beautiful night sleep, it can also be listened to when falling to sleep to allow you to relax which is especially beneficial if you have insomnia or sleep related anxiety.

For a full course of Yoga Nidra, please see my other courses available or you can buy the full download various places, including streaming on all the major channels including spotify, Apple, Google Play, Amazon etc.  Full details in the bonus material.

Enjoy this warming pranayama, Surya Bhedi is amazing for invigorating and energising.

This shorter version of Chandra Bedhi pranayama to practice during the day.

Take a little you time with your pranayama practice, channel the calming energy of the moon with Chandra Bhedi pranayama and incorporate an Acupressure massage into your nightly routine to help you relax and unwind. 

This week we release the tension and the tightness that accumulates within our physical body and use gentle movements to release the tension.