A great class if you’re a runner or cyclist to stretch out your legs in a fluid vinaysa flow. We’ll turn around the mat in a mandala like sequence to extend the hamstring, calf muscles and souls of your feet!
For best results play the Spotify list on a separate device.
Code: ILYM031
Props: just your mat!
30th Sept 2022
A short vinyasa, starting in seated and swiftly moving onto a juicy standing flow. There are lots of poses incorporated into this all level practice. We’ll move in a mandala like circle around the mat, finding some deep side stretches and forward folds to balance out a few back backbends and hip openers. You could use this flow to just wake up or perhaps shake off a long day!
Suitable for ALL Levels.
Level 1-2
For best results play the Spotify list on a separate device.
Code: ILYS042
Props: 2 blocks optional
18th July ‘22
A slow, meditative flow which will move you from your waist. Here we allow our mind to rest into the mid section of the body, leaning into the lateral lines of our frame to stretch and unfurl from standing to seated poses. Expect some unusual variations on traditional poses such as anjaneyasana and Utthita Ashwa Sanchalanasana (high lunge).
For best results play the Spotify list on a separate device.
Code: ILYM037
Props: none
31th Jan 2022
A short stretch to open the neck, throat and to release the jaw. When we open up the thoracic spine can we lift the head without tightening up the jaw or collapsing the throat? Here we shall look into some arm binds to create a supportive head rest for the head to relax onto. This is a perfect class if you need to relieve your neck after a busy day at gazing at a screen - its short but lovely.
Level 2-3
For best results play the Spotify list on a separate device.
Code: ILYA016
Props: 1 block optional
6th September ‘21
Here we connect with our breath, learn to bend your field of awareness back into centre. An invigorating practice, and a personal favourite to shift my mood or energy. A short, box breath exercise followed by some gentle breath retention in between breaths make for a quick, effective and potent practice.
Lets take in what we desire and release what is not serving us through the power of prana.
Level 1
For best results play Spotify on a separate device.
Code; ILYM026
Props: 1 block optional / meditation cushion
26nd April ‘21
A gentle meditation which looks at finding your centre, following Ksemaraja’s sutra ‘The joy of Awareness is discovered through the expansion of the Centre’. Can you feel into your middle? The shape, form and movement of it as you sit quietly and breath towards it. Rest in the simplicity of your inner axis, where-ever that might be today.
Code; ILYM021
Props: Optional blanket/cushion to sit on
26th Feb ‘21
Part 3/3 of the Maya Meditation series. This guided practise looks into impurity of action: karma-mala. Like the other impurities, this consists of cognitive error whereby some actions are categorically labelled as good and others as bad. Have you ever done that in your practise? i.e labelled child-pose as weak/ bad? Inversions as good? This guided time on your mat will allow a little thinking time. Help us see that no single action is either always beneficial or always harmful in every circumstance?
Readings based on The Recognition Sutras from Christopher Wallis.
Code; ILYM018
Props: Optional blanket/cushion to sit on
30th Jan 21
Part 1/3 of the Maya Meditation series. This guided practise looks into the impurity of individuality, when we feel full and complete the will flows from the inside outward but when anava-maya takes hold we move into contraction, feeling separate & alone. This short practise helps us sit with our sense of oneness to the outside, encourages our ability to share, to be spontaneous in every form of our being. Can you feel it in the lightness of your breath? As your thoughts wash in and out? Here we sit in our fullness.
Code; ILYM016
Props: Optional blanket/cushion to sit on
30th Jan 21
A guided meditation to help us move past our heads, into the finer lines of the body. Here we can drop into your whole self. Recognize your own being, your breath, body, thoughts, as well as the sounds and sensations around you help you relax into your own fullness of presence. (Inspiration from The Recognition Sutras by Christopher Wallis.)
Code; ILYM015
Props: Optional blanket/cushion to sit on
21st Jan ‘21
This tutorial looks at Pincha Mayurasana (feathered peacock) in detail along with some alignment tips that are often overlooked. Begin to engage with your inner plumb line, through shoulder-opening, core stability, and the fun use of props. Learn to balance by creating enough space in your shoulders and hamstrings to enter the pose, while avoiding the more common collapse in the lower back.
Code: ILYST016
Props: blocks, 1 x strap, wall space
17th Oct 2020
This tutorial looks at chaturanga dandasana (high plank to low plank to up dog) in detail along with some alignment tips that are often overlooked. This is an important foundational posture for a vinyasa student and therefore an important tutorial to look at from time to time.
Code: ILYST15
Props: None necessary
12th Oct 2020
