45 Minute Restorative Yoga – Slow Down, Soften & Find Ease

Welcome to this 45 minute restorative yoga practice. This class is designed to help you slow down, soften and find ease. Restorative yoga reminds us that sometimes the most powerful practice is simply learning to rest. By supporting your body and softening effort, we create space to experience the quiet ease that yoga describes as Sukha. Through gentle movement and a series of supported postures, we create the conditions for Sukha, a sense of ease, comfort and inner spaciousness. We begin with simple breath awareness and light movement to settle the body. From there we move into longer held restorative shapes (held for 3-5 minutes each), fully supported with props so your muscles can soften and you can experience deep rest. Rather than stretching deeply or striving in the poses, restorative yoga invites us to rest into support and allow the body to release naturally. The practice concludes with a Golden Thread breathing meditation followed by quiet relaxation in Shavasana. This class is ideal if you are feeling at all overwhelmed, overstimulated, fatigued or in need of rest. Props For this class you may wish to have a bolster or couch cushion, a yoga block, 1–2 blankets and an optional eye pillow Patreon If you're enjoying the videos and would like to support me creating and posting each week, I'm on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=34675514 Paypal: All donations gratefully accepted: https://paypal.me/FIONALANSLEY?locale... Sequence 00:00 Introduction 01:49 Seated breath awareness. Grounding 05:37 Neck Rolls, Shoulder and Wrist Stretch, Cat Cow 09:17 Supported 1/2 Frog Pose, Reclined Twist 23:58 Supported Seated Wide Angle Forward Fold 29:21 Supported Reclined bound angle pose 35:39 Shavasana with guided golden thread mediation & silence