Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha/Purna, Nadi Shodhana with holds.
Flowing through Level 1 for the next weeks.
Cat Flows, hip & leg opening, Toe stretch with balance. Standing strength, Balancing Chair with a twist.
Squat 1 to Earthtouch flow, Basic Hand Balance,Twists and Forward folds. Aromatherapy & Tranquility
Aromatherapy tonight will be Vata/Pitta 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.
Subbing for Mike at North St Pete Lifestyles Family Fitness.
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha
Navasana Flow, Reverse Table, Toe Stretch (if you haven’t done this hold on 😀
Sun Salutations with hip openers, upper body strength. Standing Strength, Twist & Forward Folds
Aromatherapy tonight Shanti 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
Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Sun breath (Surya Pranayama)
Suryanamaskara (Sun Salute) with additions of strength building of Dolphin, doplhin plank, side plank,warrior 1 with prayer twist.
Standing strength. Balance of opposite arm and leg, Dance of Shiva, toe balance to floor with cobbler toe balance.
Easy twist and stretches, aromatherapy, savasana.
Aromatherapy is Energizing Blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan
Subbing for Tee at LFF Tyrone. It is a basics class so here we go back to the Yoga Sutras.
Pranyama: Shaja, Dirgha
Toe stretch, top of foot stretch, calf stretch, cat rolls
Sun Salutations: Basic salutation to look at safe movement from runner to Downward dog back to runner. Safe options for plank pushup to Cobra or upward facing dog. Using blocks during this will help.
Standing strength: Wide Leg forward fold and looking at alignment of hips and feet. Triangle, side angle, Warrior 2, 1/2 moon, Deviasana, Skanda.
Balance: Tree & Dancer
Hip openers pigeon/swan with added thigh stretch, double pigeon, twists and forward folds.
Aromatherapy and Savasana
Aromatherapy blend is Shanti 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.
Prananyama: Supine in Bridge prep moving with the breath to slowly fill the lungs while also waking the spine with bridge rolls.
Supta Tadasana using different arm movements to lengthen the side body and open the shoulders. Rolling like a ball to warm the spine. Reverse table to build strength and openness in the upper body as well as balance & strength in the legs. Cross squat to cat and cat rolls. From cat moving to opposite arm and leg balance. Hip circles. Thread the needle for the shoulders as well as half dog.
Downward facing dog, pigeon, swan rolls for hips and spine. Chair with Chair twist and balance.
Warrior 1, Revolved Triangle, Pyramid. Eagle balance, wide leg forward fold, Skanda, forearm plank, forearm dog, side plank with many options. Face down shoulder opener.
Dandasana, seated forward fold, Navasana, seated wide leg forward fold. Janu Sirsasana with twist, mermaid stretch, cobbler, cobbler/star forward fold. Aromatherapy and Savasana.
Aromatherapy tonight will be Dharma blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan 8)
Pranayama: Dirgha (long breath), Nadi Shodhana (channel clearing breath) Anuloma Viloma.
Advancing the toe stretch with one leg in squat other leg/foot in toe stretch, buttocks can be on block. Gently lowering the torso back to come onto the elbows. On one side I use a block under my elbows (that floor is lower on one side I think ha ha 😛 ) Top of foot stretch adding in the thigh stretch. Calf stretch with arm work.
Cat rolls for the flow of the spine. Up to standing.
Standing strength: Warrior work. I made some confusion a few weeks back with this warrior series so we are going to break it down and do it a couple of times.
Standing, upward salute, forward fold, flat back extend, runner back knee down, crescent warrior, raised crescent warrior, sweep through runner to warrior 3, warrior 1, revolved triangle, revolved 1/2 moon, revolved triangle, inhale to lift up into chest expansion, Parsvottanasana, Downward facing dog, vinyasa, flow to standing and other side. We may do each side 2 times alternating sides to really feel the flow.
Balance: been leaving this out toooo much. Knee to chest, balance stick, star, knees to chest add twist.
Forward fold to squat 1 for alternating leg lifts, hand balance to floor.
L-seat forward fold, Janu Sirsasana twist toward straight leg, twist away from straight leg, L-seat Forward fold and other side. Cobbler, sukasana. aromatherapy oils Savasana
Aromatherapy tonight will be Ananda Blend from Yoga Flow Oils thank you Susan