Iyengar Yoga

 by lucy

Long legs, long spine, balanced breath

If you want to let your legs feel refreshed and your spine to feel released give this yoga session a try.
Stretching and lengthening your hamstrings allows this Yoga practice to bring energy to the back and thighs. Afterwards you will have a sense of walking taller with more ease of movement.
Let your breath flow easily and allow your body to breathe slowly and evenly.
This is a perfect practice as the antidote to our faster paced lives. Let your body tell you it’s needs, observe and listen deeply.

Enjoy

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A 1 hour Yoga class, Porthmeor beach St Ives with Iyengar Yoga teacher Lucy Aldridge

Get your energy flowing with a morning beach yoga session looking at dog head down and other yoga poses.
These morning sessions are a regular through out the summer in St Ives with locals and visitors all getting together.
Enjoying yoga out doors in a fabulous location.
The sea is a beautiful backdrop, I feel very lucky to be able to share these videos with you.
Enjoy

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An easy practice to help you to sit well

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

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A 1 hour Yoga class at Porthmeor beach St Ives

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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A relaxing Iyengar Yoga practice for any time of day

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

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Iyengar yoga Standing poses and Shoulder stand using a wall and props

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

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Iyengar yoga Standing poses, Tresco

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

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Yoga to ease your shoulders and stretch out your arms

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

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