Mindful Yoga for Wellbeing

Mindful Yoga for Wellbeing – six-session recorded course

A six-session recorded mindful yoga course for home practice. Each session lasts between 1 hour 15 and 1 hour 30 minutes, and you can return to them whenever you like.

This is a calm, breath-led Hatha practice designed to build awareness, trust, balance, mobility and strength.

The course includes a range of postures such as lunges, standing poses and weight-bearing through the hands and knees, and is best suited to those who are already comfortable with mat-based yoga and looking to build strength and stability gradually.

It's informed by both professional training and personal experience of rebuilding strength and confidence gradually following Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis.

Once ordered, you’ll automatically receive a simple PDF with clickable links to the YouTube sessions. The videos are streamed rather than downloaded, and you can come back to them whenever you like.

More about the course

The course takes you on a journey through your body with nature themes:

• Grounding earth
• Flowing water
• Driving fire
• Caring air
• Being space
• Integrating.

It moves from stability and support, through strength and steadiness, into openness and reflection.

Each session begins with a guided relaxation, followed by a gentle warm-up and adapted, slow Sun Salutation sequences to prepare the body. You then move into a steady Hatha practice, with sessions closing with calming moon salutations, a simple breathing practice, and a final relaxation.

The pace is steady, with an emphasis on moving with the breath rather than pushing or rushing.

How to access the course

The course is available for £24 (including VAT), which helps support the continuation of this work through tessaspring.co.uk. If cost is a barrier, please get in touch.

Who this may suit

This course may suit you if you would like to:

• Practise mat-based yoga
• Feel a greater sense of calm and wellbeing
• Build trust in your body
• Gently build strength from the ground up
• Support your health, mindfulness and resilience.

Suitable for a range of abilities.

Filmed at Studio 366

The course was filmed at Studio 366 in West Molesey, Surrey, where I teach small classes on Sunday mornings.

Equipment

Essential:

• Yoga mat
• Blanket
• Bolster (or firm pillow).

You may also find it helpful to have:

• A yoga block (or a flatter cushion)
• Two yoga bricks (or two cushions)
• A yoga strap or resistance strap
• A chair or wall if needed
• An eye pillow for relaxation.

A note for those with osteoporosis

The course takes an osteoporosis-aware approach, with a short initial clips providing guidance on key things to remember. 

If you have osteoporosis, it’s best to stay with the initial version of each pose throughout, and to approach them as subtly as possible initially. When options to go deeper are offered, these are intended for others.

The course may suit those with osteoporosis who are mobile and comfortable with mat-based yoga, including weight-bearing through the hands, wrists and knees. It's not intended for those currently recovering from a fracture or needing a more clinically supervised approach. 

A final note

If you have any health concerns, it’s advised to check with your healthcare professional before beginning.