Join Meredith live from Belama House on Magnetic Island, Australia, for an array of classes to practice at home.

Seated yoga, afternoon practice, focusing on your breath rhythm. I have been teaching for most of my life developing a holistic approach to enable our bodies to restore, rejuvenate and create harmony within. As we are all globally moving into more isolation, I am sharing some simple practices which can help your internal systems to find lightness.

As a teacher of chair yoga for almost ten years I have developed a program to teach a fluid practice while one is seated and or supported by the chair. This involves a sequencing of postures to facilitate recovery from injury as well as just general loss of mobility within the spine with increasing age. This practice is for all ages and can provide a strong wake up for all your joints, without excessive pushing or pulling.

This exercise encourages a fluid practice of releasing the spine, using a strong grounding through the feet and hands. In modern society many people begin to lose mobility in their joints, and pain becomes a daily struggle.

Over the past decade I have observed a noticeable increase in flexibility and mobility with the students at my seated sessions at the Townsville Women’s Centre and more recently at MI Care on Magnetic Island.

Seated yoga sessions offer a series of movements combined with breath and sound rhythm to keep the spine healthy and happy. A regular seated program supports a feeling of lightness and strength within your body.

My feelings for relaxation and releasing are about being able to return to a place of comfort and ease. Finding softness and lightness absorbing into our precious selves, allowing harmony to emerge.

Legs up the wall. This sequence encourages a time to rest before practice, Viparita Karani, restorative and highly beneficial as a relieve from stress, combined with your breath rhythm you slow down, allowing your parasympathetic nervous system to take over.

As a longtime teacher of yoga chakra dance I have observed many of my students rushing into class, I began to use Viparita Karani, to commence the practice adding guidance of breath and sound, gives way to lightness from the beginning.

Some home practice vignettes on the beach near Belama House at Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island.