If you have ever wanted to sit for meditation or prayer, you may have found that it is harder than it looks.
The answer is to:
a – sit on a chair or
b – try relaxing your hips and thighs.
I hope this video will help. I’ll take you through a breath focussed practice, releasing tension from the hips and thighs.
I really enjoyed leading this session.
I hope you like it as much as I did making it.
Stay within your capacity and work optimally for your body’s needs.
Love and light,
Lucy
30 minutes of Yoga – Leg and hip work.
Relax the Hips after focusing on leg strength.
Enjoy,
Lucy
Yoga outside in the sunshine above West Beach Cafe, Porthmeor, St Ives. This was the first class of the summer.
Standing poses are a main stay of these sessions because they are pretty accessible to all I hope you enjoy your practice alongside the St Ives crew, as much as we enjoy being there.
Listen to your body’s needs.
Love and light,
Lucy
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Forward bends and head down poses allow the mind to relax a little.
This yoga practice will allow you to release tension from the body and mind via the breath and face.
Take your time and feel every sensation, ease your self in and ease your self out of each pose.
Listen to your body’s needs and respond appropriately.
Love and light,
Lucy
In light on yoga there is a 300 week programme. I have followed the sequence using Yoga, a wall and props.
Although props are not necessary, they do improve sensory feed-back, ease, and the awareness of internal energy asana, making each yoga pose an entirely new somatic experience.
I though it would be fun to follow last week’s sequence again but showing it in a different light.
This practice has been amazing for me, re-visiting it nearly 30 years after first practicing it.
Reading BKS Iyengar’s words as if for the first time but knowing my body and the poses in a deeper manner.
Tadasana, Vrksasana, Utthita-Trikonasana, Utthita- Parsvakonasana, Virabhadrasana 1&2, Parsvottanasana, Salamba-sarvangasana, Halasana and of course I leave you with Savasana.
Enjoy! Have a beautiful day.
Love and light,
Lucy
In the back of ‘Light on Yoga’ is a 300 week yoga programme. I though it would be interesting to practice week one. Guruji said “My body is my first prop”. Today this is all I had too, so this is a practice without any other props, not even a mat 🙂 and I kept slipping in the sand which made it slightly more challenging.
For more info about the poses check out the Light on Yoga book, it is amazing.
Next week I will put up the second version I made, with props and shoulder stand too.
Love and light,
Lucy
Relax your upper body with this gentle relaxed look at arm stretching.
Give yourself an internal massage if you move sensitively and gently through this practice.
Feel the tension drain away.
Once again from the Yoga studio in Kerela above Samudra beach…. a heavenly place to be, as the locals say “God’s own country”.
This place is amazing.
Enjoy x Lucy
A 45 minute yoga practice going through standing poses and then into shoulder stand.
A little delayed but for those of you who came on retreat with me, I hope this brings back some wonderful memories.
Smile, stretch and settle.
Love and light,
Lucy
Just the basics: standing poses, dog head down and relaxation.
This quick yoga session will set you up for the day nicely.
This was filmed a little while ago now, but still relevant.
Enjoy
This little session has attention on the tail bone through a downward dog sequence, forward bends and length along the spine.
With attention to the Low back area, work within your own body’s capacity and respond to your own needs.
Enjoy, love and light,
Lucy
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