Strengthen+Condition Yoga Program

 Strengthening the Spine

Invitation: Choose this option when you need something slower, more grounding and regulating.

Saturn rules bones. Saturn helps us understand the benefit of structure, form and foundation. These are rarely easy lessons in our lives. In this session, we invite mobility into the spine. It’s a gentler session compared to the other two movement sessions. The floor and gravity are our friends (proprioception).

Waking up connections

Invitation: Choose this option when you feel a bit more full of beans and are open to embodying your inner slinky!

The embodied approach to movement asks us to feel more honestly. Much of waking up connections is feeling into (interoception) and understanding within yourself, that things are relational and interdependent. To challenge a pattern, we need to first feel it’s there. Pattern recognition + interrupt the pattern. Movement is one of the most profound ways to literally and metaphorically move on and re-pattern.

Balance

Invitation: Choose this option when you need harmony and equanimity sprinkled with a sense of play and exploration

Balance is a nuanced topic. So much of our lives require balance and this often means we feel imbalanced and somewhat dysregulated, before we remember we can return to harmony. This, mostly standing, session attunes greater mental focus through various shapes. Including a lively warm up with 3 x movement tonics to have in your medicine bag, followed by a playful standing balancing sequence.

The 10 minute breathing practices

Each of the longer 45 minute sessions include one of these breathing/pranayama practices. In these 10 minute sessions, you can enjoy these as stand alone resets, or as an opening to the movement videos. Up to you! Mix and match as you wish.

Vu Sounding

For somatic sustenance. A way to soothe through sound and to connect to the power of your own voice.

Nadi Shodhana

Often known as alternate nostril breathing, nadi shodhana is pranayama to encourage balance in the nervous system, nurturing both solar and lunar channels. Translating from Sanskrit: cleansing of the nadis (nadis being energy channels which may align with our modern day understanding of nerves)

Brahmari Breath

Essentially humming. Brahmari means humming bee and is a form of pranayama. Excellent for improving respiratory conditions. Helps to increase levels of nitric oxide and can be helpful for connecting more with a releasing exhale (the hum part) allowing a more pleasing inhale. This all improves lung capacity. Breathe better = feel better.

Enjoy all the explorations