We begin the session with some gentle Restorative yoga. You do not need to have done any yoga in the past as the beauty of this practice is that it does not require us to contract our muscles. During a Restorative yoga sequence, we stretch, but we are encouraged to relax fully in the stretch with the aid of the props so that we can release tension and focus on the breath.

Restorative yoga has many benefits including: relaxes the body, stilling the mind, releasing muscular tension, improving mobility and flexibility, balancing the nervous system and boosting the immune system.

We will stay a little longer in Savasana, so we can feel the weight of the body dropping and this allows the mind to follow. Our mind needs to be encouraged to be less active and sometimes when we have this intention it just seems to become busier as it concentrates in becoming still so lying in a relaxed state we can begin to swim around in a calm body, quiet mind and easy heart.

We follow with a gong bath and because the body is so open and relaxed, there is a deeper drop into total relaxation. This is when we begin to rebalance and harmonise both body and mind and provide the best environment for our bodies to heal and release.