Online Yoga Classes UK

During your practice, you will find a comfortable position on your yoga mat and allow yourself time and permission to become present and prepared. With our minds, breathing, and bodies in alignment, we release the day and step fully onto our mat.

We scan the body for tension and stress under my guidance. Our first breathing exercise involves establishing deep diaphragmatic breathing exercises by "following the breath".

During the seated poses, we would gradually open up, twist the detox organs, bend, stretch, and strengthen our body. We might do the following yoga poses:

• Spinal twists
• Cat and Cow pose
• Side bends
• Forward leg stretches
• Chest openers
• Breathe work
• Analoma
• Kapallahbhati

I will always demonstrate each exercise and offer modifications so that you can start at a level suitable for your online yoga experience and needs.

Following our 30-minute floor-based warm-up, we will feel warm from within and ready for poses that require more leg work, core strength, and balance.

You can change every pose, so if you can't stand up, use a chair to sit on or support you. In addition, we have various support aids to make your practice more comfortable and accommodating. Here are a few examples of dynamic poses:

• Sun Salutations
• Triangle pose
• Chair pose
• Plank
• Lunges
• Balancing poses
• Down Dog
• Squats

Regardless of your experience level or needs, I will always demonstrate each exercise and offer modifications.

Following our standing sequences, we will return to the mat for inversions and core work before our final deep relaxation. Inversions may include the following:

• Crow and upper body strengthening
• Dolphin pose in preparation for headstands
• Crane
• Head Stand
• Shoulder stand
• Half Bridge Bridge
• Fish pose

Each exercise will be continuously demonstrated. Every pose has many variations, and I would never expect a beginner or intermediate practitioner to do a headstand in my first class. 

Moving on with safe and effective techniques, we will build additional strength and start at the correct level. Sometimes, headstands and shoulder stands aren't advised due to health conditions, so practice with knowledge and guidance.

Everyone loves this part of the class -  active meditation. When you practice with commitment and intention, finishing your practice with a full-body, deep, guided relaxation is one of the best gifts you can give your body.

Using guided relaxation techniques helps your nervous system relax fully, allowing your body and mind to centre and heal as needed. We rarely give ourselves permission to sit and be still for 10 minutes every day. When stressed, the body and mind need this: peace, stillness, and listening to our bodies.

Yoga Nidra is practised as follows:

• We lie down in Savasana.
• Quieten the mind and body after all the activity from practice 
• We notice our breath
• Connect with our body and the support underneath us
• Through guided practice, relax each body part
• Focus on our chakras
• Focus on our internal bodies
• Allow ourselves to surrender and let go

There is no other healing practice like this; it is a beautiful guided practice. I highly recommend you start this practice once a day, maybe before bed, if you struggle with stress, insomnia, anxiety, and feeling grounded or focused.