Hatha Yoga › Back and Shoulders › All Levels
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45:00REPLAY - Yoga for Healthy Shoulders
In this class, Margi will guide us through a series of classic shoulder poses aimed at enhancing strength and flexibility in the upper body. Poses will be designed to encourage opening in the shoulders and promoting better alignment. Expect a balanced mix of standing and seated poses, along with targeted stretches to relieve tension and improve mobility in the shoulder region. Through mindful movement, we will cultivate awareness in our shoulders, enhancing posture and overall well-being.
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45:00Easy Morning Yoga with Clive (Part 2)
This hatha yoga class helps us to move with ease, helping us settle into our day with a sense of flow and relaxation. Move through a soft, supportive sequence that feels effortless as we reconnect with our bodies and breath. Whether we’re easing back into our practice or looking for a soothing start, this class will help us feel grounded and refreshed, one gentle stretch at a time.
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45:00Easy Morning Yoga with Clive (Part 1)
This hatha yoga class is a great way to start the day gently and mindfully, flowing through familiar, accessible poses to reconnect with our bodies. This supportive class is perfect for easing back into your practice, if you’ve had time away from your mat or simply looking for a peaceful morning routine. Set a calm, intentional tone for the day ahead, step by step, at our own pace.
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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.
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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).
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25:09Hatha Yoga to Feel Invigorated
This hatha yoga class is all about using our practise to invigorate the body and mind. We will explore some side bending, twisting and strengthening movements to activate and open up the body. Leave the class feeling energised, uplifted and ready to tackle the day ahead.
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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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45:20Morning 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.
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30:02Yoga for Hips and Shoulders
If you've been working at a computer or spending time sitting whilst travelling, this class is the perfect antidote freeing your hips and shoulders and regaining mobility, gently. Most of this gentle hatha yoga class is seated and can even be done in a chair, stretching the shoulders. Then the hips practice is the second half and the hip stretches are butterfly pose variations on the floor. You'll need blocks (or books) and a blanket or towel and a strap.
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22:55Neck and Shoulders
Most of us experience pain in our neck and shoulders. Perhaps it from from sitting for long periods, using mobile phones and laptops or sometimes pain in the neck and shoulders can be from stresses from dealing with the challenges that we expereince in our lives. This classes targets the neck and shoulder with a combination of 10 stretches and movements for releasing tension, creating mobility and openess. A great daily practise or something you can integrate a few times a week in addition to your other practices. Can be done from sitting or standing and practised anywhere!
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45:34Yoga for Full Body Strength
This yoga class will strengthen your whole body. Join Clive for an levels class focusing on how we can use our yoga practise to develop strength around both the upper and lower body, covering all the major muscle groups. Perfect for anyone looking to work on building strength and a great complement to anyone who enjoys walking, running, cycling, working out in the gym and other physical activities. A great class for those of us who are moving through the decades to keep our physical strength to prevent osteoporosis.
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55:18Morning Yang Yoga with a touch of Yin
This energising morning yang yoga class starts in seated stillness and moves into a mobility warm up followed by a hatha flow with sun salutations at a mindful pace. Then explore poses that are held for longer, build strength and flexibility, working towards dancer’s pose by the wall. You will need one or perhaps two blocks, and perhaps a wall nearby. This morning yang class can be contrasted with Carlene’s Gently Energising Yin Class. Each practice with leave you feeling calm and relaxed in a different way. Try both each morning and let us know how you feel!
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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.
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30:53Yoga for Every Body: Bend and Twist
There’s no need to fear backbends in this accessible flowing yoga class that builds to various poses, including side bends, twists, backbends and forward bends for all over improved spinal mobility.
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28:29Yoga for Every Body: Shoulders and Neck
A yummy Hatha Yoga class which flows through a simple sequence to get energy moving in an accessible way. Find freedom and mobility in the upper back, including the shoulders, upper back, neck and chest. You will need a strap, or a scarf will do.
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12:22Tutorial: How The Shoulders Work
This yoga tutorial looks at how the arms and shoulders help to support movement, expression, circulation and spinal health. Learn how to move and open your shoulders for greater connection to your body. This is also a great tutorial to help counter the effect on the shoulders of chaturanga and to support those with previous injuries to their shoulder such as tennis elbow, frozen shoulder or bursitis. No need for a yoga mat, this tutorial can be done anywhere!
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05:28Short Shoulder and Neck Relief Class
A quick but powerful class, done standing or seated, with just a strap. Create relief and release in the neck, shoulders and upper back - amazingly effective if you've been hunched over a computer.
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35:41Your Calming Yoga Practice
This yoga class helps to ground and calm an anxious body or mind and bring us back to the present moment. Start with some grounding self-massage, then move gently with simple, repetitive, and breath-led movements to stabilise the nervous system. Additionally, we will pay particular attention to releasing tension in the head, neck, and shoulders to bring about a profound sense of relaxation and ease. This class is perfect after a long day or when we're overwhelmed. You will need a narrow block or a folded blanket and a brick.
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