Gentle Yoga › Stress/Anxiety
These practices have been specifically created and sequenced for watching online on Movement for Modern Life to reduce stress and anxiety you may feel in your life.
Within our anti-stress and anxiety series, we have a range of practices which include:
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45:25Restorative Floor Flow Yoga
In this class, Jean will guide us through gentle somatic movements, stillness and breath awareness in a floor-based practice to help ground and centre ourselves, nourishing and supporting all the activity that the height of the summer season brings. Perfect for all levels, this practice invites you to soothe the body and the mind and reconnect to your heart - a gentle reset for the second half of the year. Recorded 19/06/25
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24:53Flow to Shake off the Midday Slump
Boost circulation, sharpen focus, elevate mood, and reset for the rest of the day with a dynamic vinyasa flow, designed to invigorate the body and mind, through elements of yoga, dance, and breathwork. Recorded 29/05/25
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24:09Gentle Flow to Ground
Reconnect with your foundation in this grounding practice designed to help us feel stable, centred, and revitalised. Through root-centric movement, breathwork, and grounding yoga, there is a focus on the feet and legs to enhance stability, ease anxiety, and restore balance—perfect after a long day of work or travel. Recorded 05/06/25
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45:25Yoga to Nourish & Support
Gentle, slow flow which concludes with some restful restorative poses. Prepare for a truly warm, cosy experience. Great for a winter evening. The perfect class before bedtime. Recorded 09/12/24.
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42:00Gentle Yoga Flow to Soothe
Cultivate calmness with this beautiful, soothing class. Equally wonderful as a start to your day or before bed, this floor-based practice incorporates various breathwork techniques, working with the vagus nerve and stretching and grounding of key meridians. Lots of forward bends also help to move from stress into relaxation. You will need two blocks and a strap. Recorded 03/02/25
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13:03Relax & Calm Yoga - Evening chill (better than vino!)
This class is Margi’s favorite way to end the day. A perfect, simple all on the back class to relax and calm ready for bed. Breath centered, close to the earth, gentle, soothing twists, hip openers, hamstring stretches and a short meditation with legs elevated on a chair or couch. Enjoy this very relaxed floor-perspective of this floor based class! Go from this practice right to bed. Please have a belt or and a cushion.
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31:31Yoga for Back Pain Relief
A wonderful class for Prenatal back pain, suitable for all trimesters. This class can also suit most of us for most stages in life! Back pain and back stiffness is common during pregnancy, but also for all of us who live sedentary, modern lives. This class is the perfect antidote! Embrace gentle movements like thread the needle pose, open twists, oyramid pose and Happy Baby, which promote spinal flexibility and tension relief. The practice gracefully closes with heart-opening poses like Camel Pose and Bridge, leaving you feeling rejuvenated and empowered to navigate the physical changes of pregnancy with ease. Suggested props: 2 bricks. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.
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45:25Prenatal Pilates - Full Body Glow (for all levels, up until second trimester)
This Prenatal Pilates class for all levels, up until second trimester). It is also just a wonderful Pilates class for all round strength, for any body. This class integrates a variety of safe Pilates exercises to engage the full body to maintain optimal mobility and stability through the joints. Enjoy different abdominal strengthening exercises in a variety of position, to target all the core muscles without uncomfortable crunches. Also activate hamstrings and build up strength in the glutes with side laying leg patterns focusing on internal and external rotation in your hip joints. This is a complete and balanced Prenatal Pilates practice to practice a couple of times a week to uplift your mood and maintain wellbeing during pregnancy, but also for all of us at any time the body needs to be given a full body glow! If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.
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14:28Gentle Somatic Movement: Easy Neck Release Lying Down
If you've been feeling stressed or full of anxiety and overwhelm, this class is perfect. It is also a great class if you're recovering from illness and injury, or have energy challenges, because the class is entirely on the back and movements in the neck and head are very subtle. Get curious about how your body moves and how your breath moves through your body. Feel release in the neck, jaw and head through this very nurturing, kind and gentle class which will make you feel human again with your nervous system restored and recovered. Find a comfortable place to lie down and let your body feel nurtured and nourished by this gentle somatic movement.
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36:09Yoga to Calm and Ground
This hatha class is great for when we're feeling tired or overwhelmed, to calm the nervous system and ground the body. Class begins with lying on the ground with a short body scan. Then we have a wonderful antidote to overwhelm and anxiety with supported forward folds, to clear the brain. After a foot massage, practice rooting standing and balancing poses. Feel the ground as a way of letting go of anxiety and find stability within. You may need 2 blocks (or books) and a blanket.
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17:11Sofa Yoga
A beautifully calming yoga class, which is to be done with the help of a sofa. A perfect class for a sunday morning, or anytime you need to really chill, breathe deeply and take it easy. With the favourite pose of inversion over the back of the sofa. What's not to love. A great class to relax, for all abilities and mobilities.
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01:04:12Bedtime Wind Down Yoga - Replay of Live Class
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