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🌸Wallflower Yin🌸Deepen Your Practice with the Wall | YWM 686
In this gentle and nurturing class, we'll explore the profound benefits of Yin Yoga while using the support of the wall to deepen our practice.
This class combines the best of upper body, chest opening and shoulder releasing yin yoga along with hip opening yin yoga with the wall.
We will begin by releasing your chest and shoulders with your heart meridian and the lung meridian. These yin yoga poses will improve your posture and breathing mechanics and also release your upper back, neck and shoulder tension.
We will move into some legs up the wall and deep hip releases that will relieve low back pain as well as calm and soothe your nervous system.
Wallflower Yin Yoga Sequence
Heart Melting Pose
Broken Wing Pose
Legs Up the Wall
Keyhole
Heart Melting Pose
Broken Wing Pose
Legs Up the Wall
Poem: Poem: Insight by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer -
Soothing Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 685
Dive into the healing practice of vagus nerve restorative yoga
Find peace amidst the chaos of overstimulation by embracing slow, still movements that ground you in your body. In a world constantly pushing for hustle and achievement, restorative yoga offers a sanctuary to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and embrace rest and digest mode.
Moving slowly is an intentional practice, especially in a culture that values speed and constant advancement. In restorative yoga, we quiet our minds by being still in our bodies, nurturing our well-being with compassion and gentleness. Yoga is powerful medicine, but it works slowly. When we regulate our nervous systems, life becomes more spacious, allowing us to connect deeply with our hearts and express our truth authentically.
As we slow down and care for ourselves, we model this possibility for others, creating environments of safety and resonance for collective healing. By taking time for these gentle poses, you're not just nurturing yourself but also shifting the frequency of your community towards co-regulation. By embracing softness and kindness, we inspire others to live from their hearts as well, fostering a frequency of trust and co-regulation.
Vagus Nerve Reset - Basic Exercise
Restorative Twist
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Restorative Side Bend
Restorative Locust - with blanket on diaphragm
Restorative Child’s
Savasana
Poem: On a Day When Stillness Seems Possible by Rosemerry Whatola Trommer -
12 Poses You Should Do Every Day | Yoga with Melissa 684
You guys LOVED the first 45 minute Daily Hatha Yoga Routine 12 Poses You Should Do Daily | Yoga with Melissa 479
It has over 46K views, so I made a second one 12 Poses You Should Do Every Day in 30 minutes - Wrist Free YWM 639 and it has over 7K views.
I hear from so many of you that you put these 2 classes into your regular rotation.
So, I decided to create yet another version of daily hatha yoga poses that you should do everyday.
The way I think about yoga has changed a a little bit over the years, and this class reflects that thinking. It includes more mobility practices for your joints. It focuses on strengthening your body. It focuses on connecting you with your spirit. It has a focus on pranayama and regulating your nervous system.
However, I still care about making sure you are rested and that your spine moves in all directions, it is just that I understand better about how to move your body so that you are not in pain and so that your nervous system stays regulated.
So here is my gift to you, an updated, 12 poses you should do every day!
Props Needed: Block, Wall, Yoga Strap
12 Poses You Should Do Every Day Sequence:
1. Centering with Nervous System Regulation
2. Abdominal Strengthening
3. Cat Pose
4. 90/90s
5. Lunge Pose
6. Standing Twist
7. Standing Side Bend
8. Shoulder Flossing
9. Shoulder Clocks
10. Cobra
11. Malasana
12. Savasana or Legs up the Wall
Poem: One Big Perspective by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer -
30 min Yoga Nidra for 😴Deep Rest 💤🛌| YWM 683
You Deserve Rest! This 30 minute yoga nidra sleep meditation is for deep rest. Yoga nidra powerfully heals and restores your body on a physical level giving you an opportunity for deep rest in a reclined meditation.
This yoga nidra is designed to give all parts of your body deep rest. All the organs and systems of your body from your ventral vagus nervous system, your heart, your lungs, your kidneys, your liver, and your brain rest and rebuild. It is a deep rest meditation that will guide you for 30 minutes into a yoga nidra healing experience. Allow Melissa West to guide you on this healing yoga nidra journey into deep restorative sleep and into a deep rest frequency.
Yoga Nidra meditation is easy because it takes your brain into the same frequency when you are in deep sleep even though you are awake allowing for deep rest. Your body will naturally begin its process of rejuvenation and healing. Your vital, rested, and restored body is the first step towards releasing stress and finding inner peace. This guided yoga nidra meditation will take you to brainwave states where your entire body and mind will have a chance for deep rest and rejuvenation. -
Dopamine Detox Yoga Nidra 🧘♂️🚫📱🧘♀️ | YWM 682
Yoga nidra is a guided meditation where you lie down and are led through a calming experience that is a mix of a nap and reclined meditation. It is a way for your body and mind to take a break that feels super relaxing.
During yoga nidra you focus on your breath and sensations in your body. This helps your brain take a break from constant external stimuli and find joy in simpler quieter moments. It is like giving your brain a little rest. It will help you enjoy the smaller and more peaceful things around you.
Yoga nidra creates a deep restorative state that triggers the brain to release neurotransmitters including dopamine. Studies show that Yoga Nidra techniques increase the endogenous release of dopamine in the system by up to 65%. Dopamine helps us to feel pleasure, feel rewarded and helps us to maintain focus. It is an antidote to depression and amplifies your motivation and positive outlook on the world.
When your body releases its own dopamine, it heightens your body’s ability to manage the impulse to act on unhelpful habits and addictions. Things like constant digital stimulation from social media.
Through the sense withdrawal of yoga nidra, you are giving your brain a chance to recalibrate and restore sensitivity to more subtle and natural sources of pleasure.
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Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga | YWM 681
This calming vagus nerve restorative yoga will support your parasympathetic nervous system, in particular healthy ventral vagus and dorsal vagus activation of your nervous system so that you leave feeling “zenned out, ” meditative and contemplative.
Calming Vagus Nerve Restorative Yoga Sequence
Vagus Nerve Reset
Restorative Twist
Eye Yoga
Restorative Down Dog
Diaphragmatic Breathing
Psoas Release
Mudra for Emotional Balance
Props Needed: Bolster, 2 Blocks, meditation cushion or chair