With the legs elevated up the wall, the mind and body gets a nourishing chance to slow down. The semi-supine aspect of the pose lowers your heart rate that elicits a relaxation response, and in turn, helps lower anxiety, stress and insomnia. Elevating the legs promotes drainage from excess fluid build-up, draining all the stagnant and tired energy away. Legs up the wall during one of our sound healing or meditation journeys, is an excellent way to rest and restore.

These useful tips demonstrate how to maximize relaxation time spent on the mat. Creating a feeling of being supported and held in a space of love and security. An excellent way to restore when the body needs a little Me Me Me time.

A calming and restorative sequence designed to balance mind, body and spirit. This reclined practice is slow and steady with rippling movements to open a tired body and help clear a foggy mind. The long relaxation will bring the nervous system into parasympathetic, rest and restore mode. This is the practice if you need some encouragement to start your day and or if you’ve had a rotten night’s sleep. Postures include: Eye of the Needle. Hip Opening. Reclined Variation - Big Toe Pose. Bridge Pose. Twisted Root

Ocean breath is a fundamental way of breathing during yoga that promotes the flow of life-force energy. It consists of a smooth, long inhalation followed by an exhalation during which the muscles at the back of the throat are stimulated. There’s no constriction of the throat muscles, just a calming and soothing sound similar to the ocean waves. The Ocean breath encourages a deeper, more lengthened inhalation and exhalation, when called upon off the mat, it instantly helps calm the mind and body.