Yoga with Melissa

Yoga for Relaxation

Day 18 of our beginner yoga challenge will leave our beginner yogis feeling relaxed. All the beginner yoga poses in this beginner yoga class for relaxation are hand free, wrist free, kneeling free, prop free, and inversion free. We will start this relaxing yoga class with a centering followed by some knee sways to relax your hips. Knee to chest pose will relax your low back and then hand to big toe pose will relax your hamstring muscles. When we come to standing side angle pose will open up your side body and intercostal muscles allowing you to breathe in a more relaxed way. Our balancing pose, tree pose, will allow you to relax into the present moment. Knee down twist will release tension from your spine, back and organs, adding to the overall relaxation of this class. In savasana I will read you a relaxing poem by Mary Oliver called Breakage.

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Yoga for Strength and Flexibility

This beginner yoga class for strength and flexibility is day 17 of our beginner yoga class. All the beginner yoga poses in this yoga class for beginners are hand free, wrist free, kneeling free, prop free, and inversion free. After a short centering to transition from your day we will start by opening up your hips with keyhole stretch. Modified side plank will strengthen your core and obliques. Modified plank will strengthen your core. We will come to standing to practice high lunge with a side bend and chest opener which will stretch your hips, side body and chest. Chair pose will strengthen your legs and glutes. We will add a twist to release your spine and back. We will finish in savasana with a poem called Kiss The Earth by Thich Nhat Hanh

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Neck and Shoulder Pain

Day 16 of our 30 Day Beginner Yoga Challenge is a Beginner Yoga Class for Neck and Shoulder Pain. All of these beginner yoga poses for neck and shoulder pain are hand and wrist free, kneeling free, inversion free, and prop free. We will begin with a centering to bring awareness to your neck and shoulders and to soften that area of your body with mindfulness. We will stay in a reclined position to do some yoga neck releases including one of my favourites called 10 tigers running through the forest and a fabulous yoga shoulder release. When we come up to standing I have some wonderful yoga hand and arm positions that will allow you to release your neck and shoulders. From there we will come back down to a small beginner backbend called sphinx pose to strengthen your back to support your shoulders and neck. We will also add in some neck circles here. We will finish our short 10 minute class in savasana with a poem by Mark Nepo called Accepting This.

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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How to Breathe

Day 15 of our beginner yoga challenge is a beginner yoga class on how to breathe. This beginner yoga class is an inversion free and prop free yoga class. We will begin with some reclined centering to bring some awareness to breath movement in your belly. Throughout the class we will open up your thoracic area with side bends and gentle backbends. Our poses today are bananasana which is a side bend. In cat pose we will circle our ribs to bring awareness to your diaphragm. We will do a simple and dynamic variation on gate pose to open up your breath. When we come to standing we will continue with the side bends with side angle pose and reverse warrior. In Goddess Victory squat we will bring awareness to your diaphragm again with qi belt breathing. Our poem today is On Change by Jeff Foster.

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Yoga for Posture

Day 14 of our beginner yoga challenge is a yoga class for posture which is kneeling free, prop free and inversion free. This beginner yoga class has many beginner yoga poses to open up your chest and strengthen the muscles along the back of your body to improve your posture. We will begin with bridge pose to open your chest and strengthen your glutes and legs. Locust pose is another pose that strengthens your back body while opening up your chest. Boat pose will strengthen your core and alternatives will be given if you have back issues. We will practice a variation of warrior one from standing with chest opening arms and then cobra pose is another pose to open your chest and strengthen your back. This pose is a perfect antidote to screen time and sitting. It will boost your confidence. Our poem today is called The Journey In by David Whyte.

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Yoga for Sleep

Day 13 of our 30 Day Beginner Yoga Challenge is a quiet yoga class to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. This beginner yoga class is a wrist free, prop free class. We will begin with a centering and focus on your exhale to help you release into deep relaxation and sleep. Relaxing poses like wide knee child’s pose will help you to deepen your rest. We will practice a moon channel breathing to help invite in deep sleep. A standing forward fold will invite relaxation and a reclined twist will help to release tension from your body before sleep. In savasana I will read an excerpt from Rubin Naiman’s book, Hush (which I highly recommend).

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Gentle Beginner Yoga

Day 12 of our 30 Day Beginner Yoga Challenge is a 10 minute gentle beginner yoga class that is hand free, wrist free, kneeling free, prop free, and inversion free. We will begin with some centering to bring awareness to our breath with one hand on your belly and one hand on your heart center. Some eye yoga will release the tension from your eyes, giving you some relief from screen time. Gentle yoga poses like knee to chest pose, easy twist and butterfly pose will release your low back. There are also some neck releases to gently release tension from your neck and shoulders. We will finish our short yoga class with a poem on gentleness by Sri Chinmoy

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Yoga for Back Pain

This short 10 minute yoga video will provide you with simple stretches and yoga poses to strengthen and stretch your back for back pain relief.

Today’s 10 minute yoga class is designed for the complete beginner. You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

This 30 day beginner yoga challenge with short 10 minute beginner yoga videos will support you in coming to your mat every single day for a month. I will help you to improve your flexibility, strength and posture. You will stretch and tone your muscles with beginner yoga poses that I will teach you step by step in an easy to learn way.

Yoga Flow

Day 10 of our 30 Day Beginner Yoga Challenge is a wrist free, hand free, knee free, prop free, and inversion free class yoga flow class. After a short centering we will stand up for a standing warrior flow where we will part the clouds to clear stagnant emotional energy from your heart and your mind. This will also help to clear any obstacles ahead of you so that you can manifest all that you intend for your life. The movement will also open up your intuition. From there we will do one of my favourite flows: side angle to reverse warrior. Two more standing flows in this class are a goddess victory squat flow and a chair pose with rotation flow. When we come back down to the ground we will strengthen our abdominals with a reclined twist flow. Our poem in savasana today is The Fullness of Things by Jeff Foster.

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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Balancing Poses

Day 9 of our 30 Day Beginner Yoga Challenge is an inversion free, and prop free yoga class to practice balancing poses. In this class we will slowly begin to build our balancing poses. We begin this class by centering and focusing on the balance of the flow of our breath in and out through our nostrils. From there we warm up our spine with some cat and cow pose. From table top position we practice some balancing arm/leg reaches. In gate pose I will offer you some balancing options. When we come to standing we practice tree pose and modified eagle pose with lots of options for balancing. Instead of a poem today we listen to the poetry of the forest.

You can do this class if you have never done a yoga class before in your life. I will give you slow, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and tell you exactly how to get in and out of each and every pose. Detailed instructions will be given for even the most basic poses and how to breathe. You will be given lots of cues of how to pay attention to your body and where to feel the effects of the yoga poses. You do not have to be athletic, flexible, strong, balanced, skinny or coordinated to do this class. The slow, step-by-step instructions will give you the confidence to let go of your self-judgment and stay focused with commitment and motivation.

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