Move into Calm › 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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45:00Yin Yoga for Mindful Awareness
A gentle and mindful floor-based Yin Yoga practice to cultivate a sense of self compassion and kindness for body and mind. Move mindfully with awareness and attention, holding poses for longer durations. Easily adjustable to suit your required level of intensity. Props like bolster, straps and blocks recommended. Recorded 17/03/25
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45:00Yoga for Mental & Physical Balance
Find balance and ease in both body and mind with this moderate flow class. Through steady movement and mindful breath, we’ll cultivate strength, stability, and a sense of calm. This practice is designed to leave us feeling centered, refreshed, and effortlessly grounded. Replay from 10/02/25
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45:00Side Stretch - Gentle Flow
Breathe deeper and move with ease in this gentle yoga class. Through mindful side stretches and soothing twists, we’ll create space in the ribs, spine, and shoulders, helping to expand our lung capacity and release built-up tension. This class is perfect for anyone looking to improve their breath, relieve tightness, and feel a sense of spaciousness in both body and mind. Replay from 31/01/25
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10:00Winter Meditation
A beautiful Meditation filmed outdoors, with the theme of the elements. Feel yourself grounded, feel unravelled and released. If you can, do the meditation outside and feel the air on your skin and enjoy that feeling of coming back to the present moment.
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45:00REPLAY - Connect with your Feet
This luscious hatha yoga class starts with self-care and grounding. Feel relaxed and released with this grounding yoga class which focuses on the feet. We connect deeply with our feet through a series of foot-focused poses. As we move with intention, we’ll strengthen our foundation, inviting stability and ease into our practice. Together, we’ll explore how nurturing our connection to the ground enhances our overall experience on the mat, allowing us to feel more balanced and centered in our bodies.
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35:43Yoga Nidra Series: From Anxious to Ease ‘Robust Tranquility’
This deeply relaxing yoga nidra takes us on a journey from an anxious, whirling mind to spacious ease. Through guidance, we drop into deep relaxation that allows for a settling of the mind whilst we create new imprints of trust over angst. Come away feeling more expansive, calm, steady, and deeply relaxed.
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34:22Yoga Nidra Series: From Rest-Deprived to Radiance
Yoga Nidra gives us a pause for real replenishment and rest. The practice invites us to drop into a deep place of restoration, to hit the internal reset button that reminds your body and being of its right to a quiet mind and deep rest. This deeply calming practice aims to support those experiencing sleeplessness and insomnia.
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14:10Gentle Somatic Movement: Feet, Knees & Hips
A perfect class if you've been feeling sluggish or letharic, or just low on energy. A wonderful class for those recovering from illness or injury, or who have energy challenges, because this class has only very small movements and you will simply be lying down. Energise gently, with this global, whole body gentle awakening class. Wake up feet, knees and hips as well as the rest of your systems by lying on your back and feeling the floor with your bare feet. Find a comfortable place to lie down and let your body feel nurtured and nourished by this gentle somatic movement.
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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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15:10Gentle Somatic Movement: Release Hands & Pelvis to calm nervous system
This gentle somatic movement class is seated and can be done at work, in the office, in a hotel room after travel or anywhere. The movements are very small and subtle, simply but very effectively calming the nervous system with just small movements in the hands and pelvis. You don't need any equipment and can do this class in a limited space.
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15:57Gentle Somatic Movement: Release Tension in the Head and Neck
This gentle somatic movement class is seated and can be done at work, in the office, in a hotel room after travel or anywhere. The movements are very small and subtle, simply but very effectively releasing tension in the head and neck using circular movements. You don't need any equipment and can do this class in a limited space, it's one to save!
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15:13Gentle Somatic Movement: Release Back Pain
If you've been feeling like your back is tight or you're suffering from back pain, this class is great, 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 are simply sliding your body on the floor ,so no need for a yoga mat. Get curious about how your body moves and how your breath moves through your body. Feel release throughout the back and pelvis 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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11:50Meditation to Settle and Calm
A short meditation, easy to do when you're on the go or you need settling, in the middle of a busy day, or to calm before bed. Beginning with a listening meditation practice, be guided to feel the earth as a way of settling the body and quieting some of the activity of the mind. This practice is a good one to do any time of day, but may be particularly helpful before bed.
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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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35:43Stress Relief: Stretches and Breathwork
Embrace a peaceful, slowed down hatha class practice of breathwork and gentle seated hatha yoga to release muscular tension and flood your body with feel good hormones. Through Golden Thread Breathing, you are invited to slow down your exhalation, fostering a deep sense of relaxation. A sequence of seated and floor-based stretches targeting the neck, shoulders, back, pelvic floor and hips will then help you relieve muscular discomfort and feel more centred and relaxed. Suggested props: 2 bricks and 1 strap. Perfect for pregnant bodies in all trimesters, and all of us who have busy lives and would benefit from soothing the nervous system with stretching. If practicing pregnant please contact your healthcare provider to check the suitability of this class.
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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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39:50Building Focus
A perfect way to start your day leaving you feeling gently energised, stronger and a sense of clarity and focus. This Kundalini yoga class uses the Surya Kriya. This gentle yoga class practice starts with right nostril sun breathing. Mostly gentle and accessible postures (if you need something quite gentle, just give the frog sequence a miss) are done with a beautiful backdrop of music, mantra and drumming. There’s some drumming, chanting and it ends in 1 minute silent mediation.
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