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Mindful yoga for wellbeing is available as a six-session recording to support your home practice, with each session lasting between 1 hour 15 and 1 hour 30 minutes. Use the code “Access” to download it without charge.

Mindful yoga for wellbeing

This six-session recording is a calm, breath-led Hatha practice designed to build awareness, trust, balance, mobility and strength. It includes a range of postures such as lunges, standing poses and weight-bearing through the hands and knees, and is best suited to those who are already comfortable with mat-based yoga and looking to build strength and stability in a calm, gradual way.

The sessions take you on a journey through your body with nature themes:

• Grounding earth
• Flowing water 
• Driving fire
• Caring air 
• Being space 
• Integration.

Each session begins with a guided relaxation, followed by a gentle warm-up and adapted, slow Sun Salutation sequences. You then move into a steady Hatha practice, with sessions closing with calming moon salutations, a simple breathing practice, and a final relaxation. The pace is steady, with an emphasis on moving with the breath rather than pushing or rushing.

The recordings may be helpful if you would like to:

• Practise mat-based yoga
• Feel a greater sense of calm and wellbeing
• Build trust in your body
• Gently build strength from the ground up
• Support your health, mindfulness and resilience.

If you would prefer to minimise weight-bearing through the wrists or knees, I can also offer in-person Yoga4Health courses. These begin and end in a chair, with the option to move to a mat for the main movement, which includes standing and lying work. Yoga4Health sessions are also available online for free through the charity Yoga in Healthcare Alliance.

Equipment:

Essential:

• Yoga mat
• Blanket
• Bolster (or firm pillow).

Equipment you may like:

• Yoga block (or a flatter cushion)
• Two yoga bricks (or two cushions)
• Yoga strap or resistance strap
• Chair or wall if needed
• Eye pillow for relaxation.

If you have any health concerns, it’s advised to check with your healthcare professional before beginning.

A note for those with osteoporosis

The sessions take an osteoporosis-aware approach, with short introductory video clips offering guidance on key things to remember.

If you have osteoporosis, it’s best to stay with the initial version of each pose throughout. When options to go deeper are offered, these are intended for others.

The sessions may suit those with osteoporosis who are mobile and comfortable with mat-based yoga, including weight-bearing through the hands, wrists and knees. It’s not intended for those currently recovering from a fracture or needing a more clinically supervised approach.

How to access

The recordings are available via Payhip, where you’ll automatically receive a PDF with links to each session. Use the code “Access” to download it without charge.

The sessions were filmed at Studio 366 in West Molesey, Surrey, where I teach small classes on Sunday mornings, so they’re informal recordings rather than professionally produced. I’ll also be starting Mindful Yoga for Wellbeing classes during the week at Claygate Clinic from October, and Yoga for Health classes at Claygate Community Centre from November.