Hatha Yoga › Lucy McCarthy
Hatha Yoga is the name given to all physical yoga postures and breathing techniques to prepare the body for meditation. However, hatha yoga is commonly known for yoga with an emphasis on steadiness, so expect more static poses and longer yoga pose holds. The slower pace of Hatha classes makes it suitable for beginners, however it also provides a focus for more advanced practitioners and the possibility to explore the merging of breath, mind and body. Hatha Yoga provides the basis for many other forms of yoga including ashtanga yoga, vinyasa yoga, power yoga, yin yoga and restorative yoga. You may wish to follow your practice with yoga nidra, meditation or relaxation.
-
45:00Vinyasa for Grounding and Stability
In this class, we flow through a series of standing poses designed to ground us and help us reconnect with the foundation of our practice—our feet. Together, we’ll cultivate stability, mindfulness, and intention as we wind down our day. It’s the perfect opportunity to center ourselves, find balance, and feel supported by the earth beneath us.
-
45:00REPLAY - Summer Special - Balance to build Bone Density & Quiet the Mind
This class is focused on balancing poses, building strength in your legs and using body weight to build bone density. Balance poses naturally ask you to slow down, focus and quiet the mind.
-
42:31REPLAY - Morning Vinyasa Yoga to Improve Posture
Do spend a lot of time seated at a desk, in a car, or looking at your smartphone? That can lead to tight shoulders, chest and a rounding in your back, and cause chronic tension and back pain. This juicy flow is designed to relieve problems caused by hunching over phones, laptops, or living a sedentary life. It includes chest openers, back bends, and shoulder releases, with the peak pose being natrajasana (dancers pose).
-
45:32REPLAY - Morning Vinyasa Yoga to Improve Posture & strengthen the Core
In this all-levels morning Vinyasa class, the focus is on core strength. Start the day with mindful movement, and expect arm balances to focus on building strength and stability in the centre of the body. This class is part 3 of a 5-part online series of live classes with Lucy McCarthy.
-
44:54REPLAY - Morning Vinyasa Yoga to Relieve Tension in Hips and Lower Back
Relieve tension in your hips and lower back in this all-levels morning Vinyasa class. Start the day with mindful movement. Dive into hips with standing yoga poses and balances. Relieve tension in the hips, feel more stable and strong in your legs, and move through the week with more comfort in your body. This class is part 2 of a 5-part online series of live classes with Lucy McCarthy.
-
45:20Morning Vinyasa Flow 3: Replay of Live Class
Wake up, move and breathe with the MFML community. This is an all-levels, well rounded vinyasa flow class to gently energise. There is plenty of breath work and movement to warm the body. The class focuses on back bending. It explores the delight of working on foundational alignment principles for backbends to create freedom in the lower back and expansion and ease in the chest and heart. This is part 3 of a 3-part online series of live classes with the MFML community.
-
14:42Love Yourself First
A gorgeous short, sweet practice to embrace yourself. Encouraging a celebration of self, embracing all that you are through this fluid and uplifting sequence. Connect to your self, step into your highest potential. You will need 2 blocks. Clothing by Shanti Sundays.
-
46:17Refresh Your Body
This Hatha yoga based class will refresh your body. Perfect for anytime you feel sluggish or low on energy, this class will gently energise. Using breath work, seated and standing yoga poses and a short closing meditation to leave you feeling radiantly alive and uplifted. This class is well rounded and includes twisting poses in many forms including supine twists, lunge twists and culminating in a twisting standing balance. Twists are amazing at revitalising the physical body whilst steadying the mind and uplifting the spirit.
-
23:24Ease into Your Day
This gentle hatha yoga classes eases us into the day, but is great for any time of day. This class will gently and slowly allow us to feel integrated and grounded, ready for the day. With plenty of supine hip openers, some standing and balancing poses and closing with a calming savasana, ready for the day.
-
37:54Morning Mojo 3: 30 Min Morning Yoga
This beautiful hatha vinyasa yoga class is the sweetest start to your day. Class invites in a bright-hearted, energising quality to the rest of your day. This yoga class is an invigorating deep dive into back-bending in many forms and expressions and will leave you feeling uplifted, awakened and heart centred.
-
22:36Morning Mojo 2: 20 Minutes Morning Yoga
A short and sweet, yet juicy morning hatha yoga class which energises and leaves us feeling open, ready for anything and empowered - full of morning mojo! Focus on exploring the power and spaciousness of the shoulders.
-
33:03Yoga for Beginners: Yoga Flow
In the fourth class of the yoga for beginners course, we will start to flow through half sun salutations and learn how the foundation poses can be sequenced together to create a simple yoga flow. Expect twists, lunges, backbends, meditation, breath work and savasana.
-
36:07Yoga for Beginners: Introducing Backbends
The third class of the yoga for beginners course has us build on the learnings of the previous classes and discover more new poses such as low lunge and locust, plus develop a gentle supported backbend with bridge pose. There will also be time for a seated meditation on the breath, and rest in Savasana.
-
42:34Yoga for Beginners: Breath-Led Movement
This second class in the yoga for beginners course allows us to review and develop all the key yoga poses and techniques from the previous class, and start to put them together into a gentle sequence led by ujjayi (victorious) breath. Discover new poses, such as cobra and mountain, and learn how to use the breath with your movement. You will need a couple of blocks, a chair and a cushion to sit on.
-
46:16Yoga for Beginners: The Basics
In the first class in the yoga for beginners course, we explore poses which form the foundation of a yoga practice and experience breath led movement. Learn about different breath techniques and how to move with the breath. Prepare for poses such as downward facing dog, cat and cow, twists, sphinx and child’s pose, and move through half sun salutations. Also expect an introduction to meditation and demystify Sanskrit terms. Finally, experience savasana and rediscover the lost art of rest. You may wish to have two blocks to hand.
-
33:38Flow Towards Freedom: Mellow Mind
A mindfully paced, meditative slow flow class to sooth your nervous system and calm your mind. With a focus on forward bends, pranayama and relaxation to finish. This class will quiet and slow down your mind. Ideal for when you want to invite a feeling of deep peace and calm!
-
04:28Five Minute Energy Reset
A quick, powerful shake-up class to shake off stagnant, negative energy. Includes full body shakedown, lions breath, fountain breath. For whenever you feel like you need to change your energy naturally! Perfect to start the day or to take a short break during the day.
-
54:22Flow Towards Freedom: Ignite Your Intuition
Cultivate tuning into your intuition, your wisdom body with this is a slow flow featuring longer, hatha holds. A more meditative, deep, hip based practice that quiets the mind enough that you can start to listen to and trust your intuition and inner wisdom. Long, juicy hip opening, kneeling warrior at the wall. Ending in a meditation with the focus of listening. This class aims at taking you out of your head and into your roots. A perfect class to help you unravel after travel or after a tough day at work. Helping you to reconnect to your innate inherent inner wisdom. You will need access to a wall, a blanket and maybe a strap.
Join the Wellbeing Revolution
This is your yoga, your way.
Build a happier, healthier, more sustainable life.
