Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Box Breath
Salutations with upper body strength. Spinal flows to strengthen the back, hip openers, hamstring stretches. Standing strength. Hip openers with longer holds as well as quad stretches.
Twists, forward folds.
Aromatherapy tonight is Ananda from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan
Pranayama Sahaja, Dirgha over 2 blocks
Using therapy movements to strengthen the neck for the head support used a lot in these core classes. This also helps in daily life for walking around. A strong neck and surrounding muscles allows the head to “float” above the spine with out strain or pulling forward.
Neck Flexors, Neck Rotations, Neck Diagonals. 100 using these new stronger neck muscles. Hip rotations, Leg circles, Roll up, Roll over, Twists, Archer, Roll like a ball. Leg work, waterwheel, twisting bicycle, abdominal twist. Bridge rolls, Open leg rocker, Navasana flow.
Back work to support the abdominal muscles. Back again to therapy work to strengthen the inner and outer thighs. Then stretching out these muscles with Cradle, double pigeon, forward folds and a few twists.
Aromatherapy and down to the floor. Happy baby, supine twist Savasana.
Aromatherapy tonight will be Ananda oil blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana with holds
Toe Stretching, 10 churnings (Dasha Chalana). Salutations with variations. Balance work
Standing strength with our favorite 1/2 moon. Cobra work for the back
Twists & Forward Folds. aromatherapy and Savasana
Aromatherapy tonight will be Pitta Blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha/Purna, KB with holds
Continuing the Level 1 series for the summer. Palm tree, standing strength, shoulder stretches, spinal flows, few twists.
Aromatherapy then to the wall for inverted rolls and wall work to Tranquility on the wall or roll down to regular Savasana.
Aromatherapy tonight will be Ananda Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan
Subbing for Susan’s Hatha yoga class beginner to moderate.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha breaths. Noticing where the breath is from. Does the chest or the abdomen rise first ? Taking the time to notice where the breath is today.
Cat Rolls with runner’s stretch and side bend. Toe Stretch with arm movements. Top of foot stretch. Seated ankle rotations with pointing and flexing. Inversion-Eversion leg work for the thighs.
Navasana with Ardha Navasana. Noticing if using the thighs instead of the abdominal muscles. Moving to the wall to explore this a little more finding the abdominal muscles in Navasana very fun 🙂 Sukasana forward fold and walking to each side to settle the pelvis.
Standing. Rolling out the golf balls to stretch the feet. Noticing how the rolling of the ball opens and warms the feet. Dasha Chalana the churnings of the joints moving through these with thoughtful awareness.
Balance: Star— Crane— Tree —- Balance Stick trying to do these without touching down.
Standing strength series with Warrior 2- Side Angle- Sun Warrior- Triangle- Deviasana- modified Skanda.
To the floor to strengthen the back Cobra spinal flows. Rolling up for twists and forward folds.
Aromatherapy & Savasana
Aromatherapy this morning is Prana Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan
Subbing Judy’s stretching & meditation class tonight.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana
Moving the joints of the ankles and feet, inversion & eversion of the leg and foot. Shoulder joint movements of cactus arms, Bird Wings. Mula rolls for the spine, Cobbler with twist, Easy seat with forward fold and walking to each side, feeling the lungs expand fully.
Facedown strengthening the back with Cobra 1, to Cobra1/Boat. These are the very movements that babies first make to gain strength before they begin walking. These are very important muscles to maintain and keep healthy. Alternate leg lifts keeping the back strong and safe. Child to stretch out the back
Supine Rock the Clock, Bridge rolls, Hip Side Stretch. Leg lifts to sustain the lift and stretch toward the head, out to the side, and across the body. Tri Yoga Hip Rotations, Happy Baby, Reclined Twist.
Roll up for Aromatherapy oils and then to Savasana and Meditation.
Aromatherapy Blend tonight is Dharma
Summer Solstice time for healing and releasing the active mind and diving into Self.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, KB with holds
Warming up in honor of the Solstice with Salutations two rounds then moving on to deep hip work to help focus our minds inward. Self study and exploration, we keep many secrets in the hips. So we will allow them to open and see where that leads for meditation.
Meditation tonight with healing & self exploration.
Aromatherapy tonight will be Dharma for Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Kapalabhati with holds
Chandra suggested we do one of her favorites which is a series of Salutations with lots of options. So we are going to flow through these tonight. Ending with supine hip openers and twists.
Aromatherapy tonight is Anxiety Ease Blend thank you Susan.
Aromatherapy is from Yoga Flow Oils. 8)
Subbing for Judy tonight for her stretching & meditation class.
Pranayama Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana, Anoloma Viloma.
10 churnings Yoga therapy foot work with point and flex as well as inversion, eversion.
Wall work from TriYoga and Karin Stephan gentle moves to open the spine and body to allow easy meditation. Wall chair to floor for legs up the wall, cradle work, & bridge rolls
Meditation will be Rainbow chakra meditation with aromatherapy Relaxation Blend 😮
Aromatherapy is Relaxation Blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan
Pranayama breath work: Sahaja, Dirgha, Shining skull breath
Toe stretch, top of foot stretch, calf stretch with arm work. Cat bow 1 &2
Standing series. Prone work moving from cat to facedown & extended child to facedown. Forward folds and twist.
Aromatherapy, supine twist.
Aromatherapy Relaxing blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan
Pranayama after rolling up new pranayama from my 500 hour training.