SUN • POWER FLOW
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Anchoring
A strong and powerful vinyasa which focuses on the back body. Here we begin to trust our heels to draw into gravity. Expect an ashtanga / vinyasa style flow, powerful and energising. Go through a sequence of yoga poses hand picked for your thighs and lower back that fortify while still stretching you out. You'll warm up with Surya A's and B's, then power through an energizing sequence featuring revolved half moon, a tree variation of vashistasana, strong font body reaches and tripod headstand. With arm balances and inversions woven throughout, you'll invigorate your body, get your circulation going, and leave your mat feeling completely recharged.
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS034
Props: 2 blocks optional + 1 strap
2nd Nov ‘21
Embers
Step into your internal glow as we fire up the body in this vitalising and energising power sequence. This practise goes well with ILY Studio Talk - ‘tapas’, notice how moving with an essence of repetition promotes a sense of control through the senses. How fire and warmth created through physical asana leads to purification - a sense of clarity of thought. Stay curious, how does the mind alter from the start of this class to the end? Feel free to taker a longer savasana - you would have earned it!
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS033
Props: 2 blocks optional
29th Sept ‘21
In the Past
Spend a little moment pondering over the concept of time in this energising and powerful vinyasa flow. Bryon Katie a beautiful Author of ‘The Mind at Home with Itself’ gives a lovely analogy of time as it moves past the body like the wake of a ship. How pain or discomfort are always in a process of finishing but joy and love are always head of us - ‘eventually though practise, you no longer impose your thinking onto reality, and can experience everything as it really is: pure grace’. This vinyasa toys with this notion and works into a multitude of quad stretches, deep hip holds and funky binds. A longer practise which mainly focuses on standing postures with a short stretch before savasana.
(My favourite sun practise to date :)
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS029
Props: 2 blocks optional + 1 strap
12th June ‘21
Dharana
Can we encourage the mind to focus, to channel all of our energies into one thing at a time. This is a practice in itself. To find our ability to create change, concentrate and direct our energies in the right direction - towards internal faith? Here we flow through a warm vinyasa, this uncomplicated sequence is open to all levels, enjoy a few challenging transitions, twists and deep forward folds.
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS027
Props: 2 blocks optional
4th June ‘21
The Witness
A warm vinyasa, working through a multitude of standing twists and deep forward folds. A gentle remedy for a busy mind, as we sink into some grounding words from The Living Gita. Become the witness, the observer as you glimpse into the present moment, again and again can we feel at rest watching the show of practise as it unfolds before us. This warm vinyasa is just over 45 mins, strong, fluid, nourishing. (You might want a longer meditation/ savasana to finish.)
Level 2
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Code: ILYS026
Props: 2 blocks optional
19th May ‘21
Happy Hamstrings
Welcome to LIVE POWER HOUR! A live zoom recording from Sundays power yoga class, strong, rocket fueled rocket style vinyasa. There are plenty of opportunities to invert, jump, twist and stretch. Prepare to create heat as we strengthen as well as lengthen the hamstrings in this fire flow.
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS025
Props: 2 blocks optional
26th April ‘21
Permanence
There is something within us that is unchanged throughout time. Sometimes called Atman, consciousness, the Self. Can you feel it? Can you sense into a space of calm and stretch out that feeling as we journey through the practise? Here is a very twisty power flow, expect some funky binds, strong holds and of course a cheeky inversion! Reading from the Living Gita by Swami Satchidananda Saraswati.
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS023
Props: 2 blocks
25th March ‘21
Fiery Reflections
A practise looking at; ‘sakti-sankoca’ a concept written by Ksmaraja, from the Recognition Sutras text. Can we move dynamically and still learn to slow down our thoughts? Can we begin to feel into our base line, energetic vibration pouring out of us as we practise, as we move, play and breathe? This is a strong vinyasa flow, short and sweet, working into vashistsana, forearm plank and dolphin. It’s sure to warm you up in no time! Become energy sensitive in this flow, learn to move past physical into your heart centre, there is a secondary line of awareness ready to be discovered - go ahead and explore it here!
Level 1-2
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Code: ILYS022
Props: NA
20th March ‘21
Into Axis
What does your centre mean to you? What does it look like, feel like, sound like? Here we work into a fiery vinyasa flow designed to wake up your back chain and abdominals through a collection of passive and active holds.
A practise inspired by Ksmaraja’s 17th Sutra; ‘The joy of awareness is discovered through the expansion of the centre. The blessed Goddess who is simply Awareness is called the ‘centre’ because she continuously exists as the most intimate core of all, and because it is impossible that anything could exist separately from that ground’ - Recognition Sutras.
Enjoy the gentle pull and push of limps coming into the central axis of the body, this can be felt even in stillness.
Level 2-3
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Code: ILYS021
Props: Blocks optional
22nd Feb 2021
Vibrations
Learn to lean into your own vibration of extension and flexion, expansion and contraction. Here we see our own body as a mirror of the great pulsation which echoes around the cosmos. This is fiery and continuous sun flow, which plays into multiple trikonasana’s, pistol handstands and leg stretches. Can we watch the inner play of spanda - how does the regularity of drawing in and out help us see our capacity to change, turn direction and transform as truly unlimited beings.
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Code: ILYS020
Props: Blocks optional
27th Jan 2021
Flow State
A strong vinyasa working through a powerful and creative standing sequence. Our awareness is incredibly skilled at taking in the outside world, communicating, processing information but how can we use this body of energy to gaze within? How does our awareness of inner flow reflect back into manifest reality? This little powerhouse class is full of twists, inversions and reoccurring wild things! A flow to get you out of your head and into your body.
(A vigorous practise, not for the faint hearted!)
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Code: ILYS019
Props: 1 block optional
16th Dec 2020
60mins
Joyous
A dynamic power vinyasa flow based on the concept of inner JOY. No matter how strong our practise, how dynamic joy/bliss/ananda is inherent to us. Flow in a variety of creative new ways in a short amount of time, including malasana to ustrasana flows, anjaneyasana to ardha hanumanasana, and hip extensions to funky transitions into headstand. You'll build strength, create more joint mobility, and challenge your mind all at the same time.- FIND JOY
Reading taken from the lovely Sally Kemptons book - ‘ Meditation for the love of it’
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Code: ILYS014
Props: Optional 1 block
4th Oct 2020