Yin Yang Yoga for Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief – 30 mins | YWM 646

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Welcome to a 30-minute Yin Yang Yoga class for Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief! If you’re dealing with neck and shoulder pain, this class will help. My intention is to help you release tension, increase mobility, and find relief from discomfort.

In this class, we’ll start with a gentle Yin sequence to apply appropriate stress to the tissues that wrap around the joints of your body. We’ll move through Supported Fish Pose, Heart Melting Pose, and Broken Wing Pose, focusing on finding an appropriate edge, softening, and being still. Remember, not every pose will be possible for every body, and that’s okay! I’ll offer alternatives so you can find what works best for your body.

Then, we’ll transition to the Yang portion of the class, where we’ll focus on building flexibility and mobility through standing postures such as Tadasana and Warrior One, and movements like shoulder circles and spinal mobility. We’ll end with a relaxing Savasana to let the body integrate the benefits of the practice.

Remember, it’s not about what the pose looks like, but how it feels in your body. This is real yoga for real people.

Yin Yang Yoga Sequence for Neck and Shoulder Relief

Yin Portion
Supported Fish Pose
Heart Melting Pose
Broken Wing Pose

Yang Portion – Hatha
Neck and Shoulder Mobility from Tadasana
Chest Opening from Warrior One
Shoulder Release from Wide-Legged Standing Forward fold
Bow Pose
Child’s Pose
Savasana

Poem: The Knots Prayer Anne & Bill Degnan

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30 min Restorative Yoga for Immune System | YWM 645

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This 30 minute restorative yoga class is designed specifically to boost your immune system. In this class, we will focus on yoga poses that help increase your internal resistance and immunity so that you can remain healthy and vibrant.

We will begin with legs up the wall pose, which allows the lymph nodes in our neck, armpits, and groin to work more efficiently. Next, we will practice supported fish pose to stimulate the thymus gland, which is responsible for producing T cells.

We will also practice a restorative side bend to stimulate the spleen, which filters germs from our bloodstream. Finally, we will end with bound angle pose to open up the thymus and groin lymph nodes.

Restorative yoga has a tonifying effect on the body and helps increase the activity and efficiency of the cells in our immune system. By strengthening our internal body and trusting its innate potential for maintaining health and to overcome illness, we can heal from within and restore balance to our bodies.

This is real yoga for real people to experience the healing power of restorative yoga for your immune system.

30 min Restorative Yoga for Immune System Sequence
Legs Up the Wall
Supported Fish
Side Bend Over Bolster
Bound Angle Pose

Props Needed: 2 blocks, bolster, yoga strap, blanket, eye pillow, wall

Poem: The Cure for it All by Julia Fehrenbacher

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Essential Daily Dozen Full Body Yoga – 60 min | YWM 644

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Are you ready for an hour of rejuvenating, invigorating, and soul-nurturing hatha yoga poses that you should do daily? This class is packed with the top twelve yoga poses you should do every day to transform your mind and body.

Melissa West, your clear-seeing yoga guide will take you through inversions, backbends, twists, forward folds, balancing poses, side bends, and resting postures to give you a complete real yoga for real people experience . You’ll strengthen your legs and glutes while opening up your chest and relieving back pain from hours of screen time.

Hip openers will release tension, making them perfect for athletes and those who sit for long periods. You’ll also give your immune system a boost and recharge your batteries with restorative poses, which will leave you feeling refreshed and energized.

Throughout the class, your spine will be taken through the four movements of flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation to relieve back pain and soothe stress and anxiety. Balancing postures and core strengthening exercises add an extra challenge while toning breast and armpit tissue and supporting breast tissue health by encouraging lymphatic flow.

Join me for a hatha yoga class that will not only take care of your physical well-being but will also calm your mind, improve your emotional and mental well-being, and leave you feeling incredible. Don’t miss out on this 1 hour version of 12 poses you should do daily that you have grown to love so much!

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Healing Rainforest Yoga Nidra in Tofino | YWM 643

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This healing yoga nidra combines the best of yoga nidra and forest bathing and was filmed and recorded on the Rainforest Trail in Pacific Rim National Park in Tofino. Yoga nidra calms your thinking mind, improves your sleep, improves your physical health, releases stress, anxiety and depression, and releases chronic pain. It promotes deep rest and relaxation that isn’t available in your average guided meditation practice. Forest bathing reduces stress hormone production, improves feelings of happiness, frees up creativity, lowers your heart rate and blood pressure, boost your immune system and supports you in recovering from illness.

In this yoga nidra you will imagine you are on the Rainforest trail with us. Through this guided meditation, done in a reclined position you will explore your symbiotic and healing relationship with the forest.

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Ocean Healing Yoga Nidra: Soothe Your Body & Mind | YWM 642

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This healing yoga nidra combines the best of yoga nidra and forest bathing by an ocean and was filmed and recorded on the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island. Yoga nidra calms your thinking mind, improves your sleep, improves your physical health, releases stress, anxiety and depression, and releases chronic pain. It promotes deep rest and relaxation that isn’t available in your average guided meditation practice. Forest bathing reduces stress hormone production, improves feelings of happiness, frees up creativity, lowers your heart rate and blood pressure, boosts your immune system and supports you in recovering from illness.

In this yoga nidra you will imagine you are on the Wild Pacific Trail with us. Through this guided meditation, done in a reclined position you will explore the depths of your soul, your soul’s desire and flow through your fluid body.

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1 Hour Hatha Yoga for HAPPIER Hips & Lower Back | YWM 640

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Flexible and Mobile hips can help to prevent low back pain, hip pain and knee pain. There are over 15 muscles that are associated with your hip area and each working together to give the hip joint mobility. When you improve the mobility of your hips, you can prevent low back pain and improve your overall movement patterns.

Back pain can be caused by a number of things from the shapes our bodies take sitting long hours in cars or in chairs hunched over our computers and laptops, strained muscles and ligaments from lifting heavy objects or a sudden movement during a sports activity, to whiplash damage from a car accident. No matter the cause, back pain can be debilitating and it can be helpful to have simple hatha yoga poses that you can do to relieve your pain.

This week we are going OG with a 60 minute full length hatha yoga class. I have been hearing from so many of you about how much you love my old hour long hatha yoga classes. So I am bringing them back. We are going to have lots of time to open our hips and release our back in this class. I can’t wait to practice with you!

Props Needed: Yoga Strap, Yoga Block

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