Befriending Body & Breath Through Yoga - by Lisa Pollard

COURSE

Befriending Body & Breath Through Yoga

With Lisa Pollard

This 10 day mindfulness-based yoga course is an invitation to listen deeply to the language of sensation inside your body. Day by day, you’ll experience the union of breath and body. As you drop into sensing, feeling and being you'll discover the joys of these simple yogic practices for the the body, heart and mind. Each session prepares the body to open to present moment awareness, and the course progresses from flowing postures to more restorative practices. Those doing this course can expect to see improved circulation throughout the body, reduced stiffness, and increased strength and flexibility.


Meet your Teacher

Lisa is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher with more than 28 years of self-practice and teaching experience, in educational, corporate, medical and organisational settings. She has been facilitating 8-week Mindfulness-based Interventions since 2007, including MBSR, MB-Stillness Meditation and MB-Restorative Yoga. Lisa feels Yoga is an embodied organic practice that explores the inter-connectedness of movement and stillness, in the spirit of self-care. Her openhearted approach to teaching creates a warm inviting space to discover the joys of these heart-mind-body practices. Lisa is particularly interested in the effects of restorative yoga and its application in supporting wellness and reducing stress and anxiety. She teaches weekly yoga and meditation classes and has a private practice working therapeutically with adults and couples. This work includes 8-week interventions, individual self-practice, yoga mentoring and consulting. Lisa has trained in the applications of mindfulness meditation in clinical settings, including MiBCT and Advanced Training in ACT.

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10 Days

3.9k students

4.8 stars

13 min / day

Stress

English


Lesson 1

Connecting With Breath & Movement

Yoga means union and today's sequence will encourage you to connect the length of your in breath and out breath with gentle movements in the body, particularly the hands and arms.

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Lesson 2

Finding Your Feet

In today's session you will learn to feel the connection to the earth through your legs and drop your mind down into the feet, transitioning your weight and strengthening balance and stability.

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Lesson 3

Neck Care Sequence To Release Tension

We often carry tension in the upper body from over thinking. In today's yoga sequence you'll learn to support the neck, shoulders and upper back, releasing tension also in the jaw and face.

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Lesson 4

Looking After Your Spine

Positioning the body on the hands and knees, today you will learn how to move your spine slowly, pumping fluid into the discs, supporting the nervous system and moving with awareness.

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Lesson 5

Supporting Internal Organs

In today's session you'll be lying on the side of the body with props to support the head, making slow movements, opening and closing the arms to gently twist and squeeze the internal organs to aide digestion and blood flow.

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Lesson 6

Feeling The Center Of The Body

In today's session you'll be lying on your back breathing, legs bent, and learn to extend your spine safely and open the heart, inviting aliveness and energy into the body. Investigate the feeling tone inside your body, one breath at a time.

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Lesson 7

Healthy Joints & Blood Flow

In today's session you'll be lying on your back as you start to invite various movements in the joints, paying attention to the shoulders, hips, knees and ankles. Allow your joints to move freely to encourage blood flow and maximise joint health.

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Lesson 8

Belly Breathing To Calm The Nervous System

In today's session you will be lying on your belly with props, and encouraged to notice the movements of the breath, particularly the out breath. Notice how various positions have a soothing and calming effect on the body, heart and mind.

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Lesson 9

Legs On The Chair & Centering Breath

In today's session your legs are placed on a chair or couch and the centering breath is invited to rest your attention inside your body breathing. This is a restorative pose to pour the energy back into the body, learn to rest and renew after a busy day.

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Lesson 10

Basic Relaxation Pose For Restoration & Ease

Today's session is a gentle body scan, beginning with a progressive muscle relaxation. Learn to invite ease with the out breath and then sweep the awareness through the physical body, dropping into stillness, sensing, feeling and being.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 51 community questions and 52 audio replies from Lisa Pollard. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Jeanne

December 7, 2021

Relaxing and rewarding

Judith

Judith

June 23, 2021

Beautiful sessions. Very supportive and nourishing. Thank you.

Anna

Anna

March 17, 2021

Thank you for a nourishing course Lisa. It has taken me a long time to complete it. I'm going to do it again. I appreciate your supportive and kind approach to integrating yoga into our daily lives. Thank you once again Lisa I have found it beneficial.

Karin

Karin

March 14, 2021

I feel so grateful for sharing your wisdom, Lisa. 🙏 Lisa, you have such a gentle and kind way when offering practices that truly integrate body, mind and heart. Your approach worked so well for me and after working with the course sessions and repetitions over about thee weeks, I have a practice routine that is better than I have had in a very long time. I love how you invites us to bring all the aspects of ourselvese with us, just as we are. You encourage us to work with that, just what we have. It is much appreciated and very beautiful. I can highly recommend this 10-session course for well... anyone! I can easily see a wide range of participants with big differences in life circumstances that all could benefit from these practices. Each lesson is a practice that can be done together or combined with others for a longer session. If not used to yoga, don’t let the word scare you off. This course offers much, much more than a range of yoga postures, and those postures that are used, Lisa describes clearly for us. I will proceed to your 30-day course now. Looking forward 🧡 Much love from Karin in Sweden 🇸🇪 🌲✨

Mindful

Mindful

February 2, 2021

Many thanks. 🙏🥁

Nadine

Nadine

November 27, 2020

Beautiful 😍 thank you Lisa

Vicki

Vicki

October 26, 2020

A lovely grounding course from Lisa. Enjoyed doing this and learned a lot

Joy

September 25, 2020

Great 💚

Connie

September 10, 2020

Excellent guidance to help a person integrate body and breath and thus create an increased sense of calm.

Pam

Pam

August 14, 2020

Perfectly paced for my needs.

Mona

June 7, 2020

Found doing it at night was the best time. So relaxing

Earla

Earla

May 25, 2020

Thank you.🕉🙏❤️

Tabby

Tabby

May 5, 2020

Thank you, Lisa! I really enjoyed the course and would welcome a 30 day one with more advanced poses, but these 10 days were a perfect intro. My previous attempts at yoga have been more like PUNISHING the body and breath with yoga LOL! ..but you made it all so easy and peaceful!

Michael

April 10, 2020

NOw just starting again as part of daily routine. I really enjoyed the course, will continue with a repeat of the 30:day course. A great introduction to mindful yoga. With thanks to you, Lisa, from KENDAL in Britain’s Lake District.

Paula

Paula

March 22, 2020

Great course for beg ya yoga practice or to revisit breath, body connection that is sometimes lost as we move along in a yoga practice. I will repeat to remind me to slowdown and breathe with my movements

Marianne

Marianne

March 11, 2020

I've been attending excellent yoga classes for some years, so I have high expectations, and this is a brilliant reminder. I also find it superbly supportive of my home practice. I'll be coming back! Thank you.

Tracy

Tracy

February 7, 2020

For me, with multiple injuries, it was somewhat nerve wracking because I need an experienced close by to remind me how to position my body and avoid further injuries. Beautiful voice and lots of wisdom.

Tessa

Tessa

November 6, 2019

Thanks Lisa for such beautifully led accessible sessions. I shall be using them again to support my practice.

Cristy

Cristy

May 12, 2019

Loved this course. I’m sure to use it again. Thank you!

Judi

Judi

February 28, 2019

Wonderful. Will repeat frequently.

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