PRACTICE | Foundational Yoga

PRACTICE | Foundational Yoga

These Foundational Yoga classes will encourage you to build on classic yoga poses, encouraging you to focus on the basics and gain confidence in your practice.

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PRACTICE | Foundational Yoga
  • Sit with Amanda | Meditation & Breath Class (8 Mins)

    This short practice will get you comfortable sitting and breathing intentionally. It’s a practice of being present. Remember — when we still the breath, we still the mind. Feel tension releasing from the top of your head to the tips of your toes as you finish this practice in Savasana, our consci...

  • Healthy Spine with Amanda | Foundational Yoga Class (10 Mins)

    Healthy Spine focuses on the strength and health of our spines. In our everyday lives, we rarely articulate our spine through its full range of motion. This practice will leave you refreshed and is a great supplement to sitting for long periods of time. It is also a great practice to do if you sp...

  • Hamstring Flexibility with Amanda | Restorative Yoga Class (11 Mins)

    Hamstring tightness is one of the most common problems that students face when beginning a yoga practice. This restorative practice focuses on opening the hamstrings with slow and conscious movements. Bring gentle awareness to the tightness in the backs of the legs, releasing tension with each br...

  • Foundational Sun Salutations with Amanda | Beginner Yoga Class (15 Mins)

    This 15-Minute yoga class takes you through Sun Salutations, transitions into sitting and breathing exercises, and ends in Savasana, calling for you to focus on reaching a place of intentional relaxation and release of stress and tension in your body. After this class, you should feel both calm a...

  • Full Body Restorative with Amanda | Yoga Class (20 mins)

    This class is a healing practice important for all levels. The gentle sequence takes you from one relaxing resting pose into the next, encouraging you to give yourself permission to rest. Poses are held for a few minutes each, so it’s normal for the mind to wander.

  • Yoga Foundations with Amanda | Full Body Yoga Class (25 Mins)

    In this class, Amanda combines all of the poses and transitions from the Yoga Foundations program into a full-body strengthening practice. Focus on moving with your breath and find the correct alignment in each pose for you today.

  • Introduction to Yoga for Bed

    In this interview with Amanda June Giannakos, Kate takes us through why she created this five-part series, who will benefit, and how restorative yoga can be a form of therapy and comfort for everyone.

  • Yoga for Bed with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class | Episode 1 (7 Mins)

    Kate explores how to use your bed and pillows as props for deep release through your neck and shoulders. Let tension melt away from these areas and find a sense of relaxation and restoration in your body. This is a great class to start your morning with or unwind at the end of the day. All you ne...

  • Yoga for Bed with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class | Episode 2 (10 Mins)

    In this 10-minute practice, Kate guides you through deep shoulder release using the bed as a prop for support and opening. This is Part 2 of a 5-part series but each episode is stand-alone.

    Necessary equipment: a bed.

  • Yoga for Bed with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class | Episode 3 (10 Mins)

    In this 10-minute series, Kate guides you through the twist, a deep release posture, using the bed as a prop to find extra opening and support. This is Part 3 of a 5-part series but each episode is stand-alone.

    Necessary equipment: a bed.

  • Yoga for Bed with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class | Episode 4 (8 Mins)

    In this practice, Kate guides you through using the support of the bed to safely build strength in your core. This is Part 4 of a 5-part series but each episode is stand-alone.

    Necessary equipment: a bed.

  • Yoga for Bed with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class | Part 5

    In this final part of Yoga For Bed, Kate takes you through an intermediate 4-minute flow that opens up your whole body, using the support of your bed to provide support and grounding. This is Part 5 of a 5-part series but each episode is stand-alone.

    Necessary equipment: a bed.

  • Yoga for Sleep with Kate | Restorative Yoga Class (14 Mins)

    Kate guides you through a grounding practice designed to prepare you for deep and restful sleep. You will begin with a grounding breath exercise before moving into spinal rolls, child's pose, twists, bridge, hamstring stretch, and figure four stretch. This class finishes with a soothing Savasana.

  • Yoga for Focus with Kate | Grounding Yoga Class (13 Mins)

    Kate guides you through a practice designed to increase focus and leave you feeling calm and alert. This sequence can be used before an event, presentation, interview, exam, or any moment in your life you want to feel grounded.

  • Yoga for Mornings with Kate | Gentle Yoga Class (11 Mins)

    Kate initially designed this class to restore you after a long day's travel but it has become a morning favourite of ours to practice. This short, sweet, and gentle class will restore and refresh you. You will begin with an energizing breathing exercise, before moving into a full body yoga seque...