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
The yoga poses in this sequence will help release tightness on the inner thighs, hips and groins.
Hold each pose for as long as you are comfortable doing so.
I would recommend practicing this yoga sequence at least a few times.
Familiarise yourself with the poses that you find a little more challenging and see if you gain more freedom after a few repetitions.
Try not to force, but ease your body into each asana.
Enjoy!
Breathe!
Love and light,
Lucy
Yoga twists are such a great way to lengthen and strengthen the paraspinal muscles, rejuvenate the organs as they become squeezed and released, and bring more energy into the body.
B.K.S. Iyengar describes twists as a “squeeze-and-soak” action.
Bharadvajasana is a favourite of mine.
Lets twist again,
like we did last summer,
with a care and consideration.
Enjoy