This pranayama session is designed to do just before you go to sleep, so get yourself ready for bed and enjoy this calming, grounding guided breath work. Poppy will guide you through breathing techniques designed to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system to calm us down, evoke balance and harmony, and aid you in drifting off into peaceful sleep.
Nidra means sleep in Sanskrit – in class you are led through a distinct style of meditation which keeps you just between wakefulness and sleep because this is where you are at your most creative and most able to heal, both physically and mentally. The paradox of this practice is that you’re lying...
By slowing our breath down, focusing our gaze inwards and allowing the external to quieten, we are able to switch from our sympathetic state of fight, flight or freeze response, into our parasympathetic state. Here we can come into rest, digest and recovery, calming our nervous system and sending...
This class is a flowing, lengthening sequence focusing on areas such as the hamstrings, the spine, but most of the all the breath. Through honing our focus in on the breath, we can lengthen through our inhale to create space within the body and mind, and then use the exhalation to move into space...