Welcome to the Yoga for Wellbeing program! This course is for everyone and for every body. You don't need to be flexible or strong to start. Please listen to the introductory talk above for a personal welcome by Ana, your facilitator and find out the ways on how to best prepare yourself to start this new adventure

Videos 1-2 : Practicing the art of arriving: Learn about the meaning of Hatha and spend a moment exploring arriving in this present moment and our basic sequence with a focus on sun salutations and seated postures.

Videos 3-4 - Exploring your breath:  Use this practice to notice your breathing, without making any effort to change it or control it. Become aware of when you are holding your breath, rather than allowing it to flow smoothly and naturally. These videos will expand on shapes like warrior I, II, and Wide legged seated forwarfold. You will also learn how to breath and weave in your practice Ujjayi breath.

Videos 5-6 - Connecting to mindful awareness: Mindfulness is a spacious, inclusive awareness of everything that is arising. Everything that is arising is continuously changing. The practice is to stay aware of each passing body, sensations, thought, and world at large without getting stuck.  Notice what happens when we add a new standing posture into the sequence, tree.

Videos 7-8 - Finding strength and ease: At first, the sequence and all cues might have felt a little overwhelming, with repetition I hope they become clearer. As you continue to explore and adapt to each form I invite you to investigate the concept of balance. One way to do this is by exploring a sense of stability and ease, of effort and grace, moment by moment in each of the forms and transitions. These videos will expand on the learned sequence with a new shape, chair and Bhramari breath.

Videos 9-10 - Investigating your rhythms: Now that you're becoming familiar with moving your body in this way, you can begin to shift your focus to the pace that you move. This class will repeat the shapes you've learned so far with a new shape Triangle, so you can practice adding a flowing quality to your movements. I encourage you to notice what feels best for your energy levels and explore choosing a pace/rhythm moment by moment based on how you feel.

Videos 11-12 - Discovery your capacity: Explore connecting to your window of tolerance. what is that sweet spot where there is a bit of challenge but not too much? where you can stay present?

Videos 13-14 - Exploring your heart’s intention: What brought you to your mat today? Sense the possibility of attuning to your heart’s longings and connecting to a compass for practice and life.

Video 15 - Bringing it all home: discovery your own way to integrate the tools and shapes that have been shared through out this journey.

Video 16 - Discovering variations: Find different ways to move through these practice.

Video 17 - Chair yoga

Video 18 - Restorative yoga

Video 19 - Yoga Nidra

Video 20- Pre- sleep yoga

TESTIMONIALS

“I didn't actually realise that there was techniques for breathing… I've had a lot more of a mind-body connection since starting yoga… realising how maybe I was gripping my hands or breathing really fast… it has helped a lot already in just relationships and conversation and talking to even my teachers and writing emails and stuff and not to get ahead of myself and start typing out of pure emotion and actually think about how I'm coming across”… ~ Vic uni Student

“It sort of taught me to keep a level head and just focus on one thing, just focus on what I'm doing… especially with my assessments… And I wouldn't be distracted by anything around me, my phone, nothing like that” ~ Vic uni Student

“… it's helped me gain an awareness of what things are causing me stress and anxiety… And it's taught me to be selective about what you engage with… I've stopped watching the actual news. I choose not to engage with that because it is something that is causing me stress. Before I started, I didn't recognise that that was one of the big stressors for me… Since I started, I have been a lot more aware of how I interact with what's around me and how that impacts me on an emotional level” ~ Vic uni Student

“I found it very relaxing… I was able to have stressless nights… So, that was very good for me because I had some sleep pattern issues. So, whenever I had my yoga, it was very easy for me to fall asleep” ~ Vic uni Student

“[The yoga instructor] was amazing. And I think her approach to the instruction was probably what kept drawing me back... one thing I very much appreciated was the fact that she would explore movement, and she would give different versions. Maybe if you're feeling up to this, do this. But if you want to explore further, let's go through and extend this into something like that. And even though there was both no pressure to do the more complex forms, there was still encouragement to, hey, let's give this all a shot together… It's certainly what made me try harder… the little comments she made about her own experience, even something as simple as, it's freezing here today. I'm going to grab my blanket, made it a more personal experience, and also made it more okay to find your own way through the exercises. You know, be like, my hands are doing this today. I'm going to take it a bit easy on me. My back's a bit sore today. I'm going to do this instead. The fact that she would adapt it for herself made it more permissible to do the same yourself” ~ Vic uni Student