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Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Vanessa

39 episodes

8 months ago

Please accept these opportunities for you to release yourself from the grip of all the things you are "bound" by in life; commitments to family, friends and work, expectations of society about how we should look, behave, think and feel. Rediscover a sense of "boundlessness" - in your physical body, your heart and your mind. A mixture of - longer and shorter practices; more physically dynamic and gentler practices; movement practices, breathing practices and meditation practices - provide the variety that you need to find the practice that suits you best whenever and however you need it. Leave a review or email me your feedback at boundlessyoga@adam.com.au I love to hear feedback so I can make podcasts that are most enjoyable for you, the listener and my fellow yogi or yogini.

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Please accept these opportunities for you to release yourself from the grip of all the things you are "bound" by in life; commitments to family, friends and work, expectations of society about how we should look, behave, think and feel. Rediscover a sense of "boundlessness" - in your physical body, your heart and your mind. A mixture of - longer and shorter practices; more physically dynamic and gentler practices; movement practices, breathing practices and meditation practices - provide the variety that you need to find the practice that suits you best whenever and however you need it. Leave a review or email me your feedback at boundlessyoga@adam.com.au I love to hear feedback so I can make podcasts that are most enjoyable for you, the listener and my fellow yogi or yogini.

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Episodes (20/39)

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar Episode 6

Variations with some extra back bending to help you open your heart and stand tall again.

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4 years ago

35 minutes 48 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar Episode 4

In this variation we use a chair as a prop to steady us as we flow from Mountain Pose through some Half Dog Poses, Warrior I Poses, Imaginary Chair Poses and Balances.

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4 years ago

17 minutes 24 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar Episode 5

In this variation of our Surya Namaskars we again use a chair as a prop to steady us as we add Warrior II, Reverse Warrior and Side Flank Stretch to our flow.

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4 years ago

19 minutes 25 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Sun Salutations Episode 3

A Sun Salutation is a moving meditation that connects body, breath and mind in the present moment and this one also highlights the strength in your arms and shoulders.

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4 years ago

23 minutes 44 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar Episode 2

In this episode we sequence some lunges, Crescent Moon Poses and Revolved Side Flank Stretches that build strength in the legs. A moving mediation that lengthens and deepens our breathing.

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4 years ago

26 minutes 26 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar Series Intro

Look out for this new little series of episodes all featuring Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar. Surya Namaskar, or Sun Salutations, are a fairly ubiquitous part of most yoga traditions and classes. At their core they are a flowing sequence of asana (poses) which take the spine, hips and shoulders through their range of motion from flexion to extension, warming, loosening and strengthen the body. When practiced with the breath Surya Namaskars lengthen and deepen our breathing. In this series we will work from this core understanding of what makes a Surya Namaskar to explore variations on the theme that will keep our practice creative, responsive and alive.

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4 years ago

1 minute 12 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Variations on a Theme of Surya Namaskar Episode 1

In this episode we start exploring the Theme of Surya Namaskar with some "Half Sun Salutations". A short sequence that takes us with our breathing through standing forward bends, squats, balances and twists to warm up the spine, hips and shoulders and strengthen the legs.

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4 years ago

19 minutes 40 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Boundless Yoga Zoom 2.1

Another practice from the Zoom archive recorded during last November's lockdown in Adelaide. Use your awareness of sound to centre yourself in the present moment. Warm up in sitting, on all fours and in lunge. Practice some Surya Namaskar and standing poses before some seated twists. Wind down with some supine stretches and practice letting go and relaxing in a final savasana.

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4 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 45 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Boundless Yoga Zoom 2.0

From the archives of the November 2020 lockdown in Adelaide when the weather was fine enjoy the background of birdsong during this well balanced practice of asana, breath awareness and relaxation. Warm up in sitting, all fours and lunge. Then practice some Surya Namaskar, Standing Poses and Balances. Finish with seated poses and a centering relaxation.

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4 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes 52 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Awareness of Sound and a Kneeling Practice

We use our awareness of the sounds around and the sound of our own breath to centre ourselves in the present moment. This is followed by a practice predominantly in kneeling - Cat Pose variations, lunges, Crescent Moon Pose and Gate Pose - which warms and loosens the hips, legs, shoulders and arms and lengthens the spine and the sides of the waist.

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4 years ago

25 minutes 53 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Rolling around on the Floor Part 2

"Gripping onto thought, feelings or anywhere in the body just causes discomfort and resistance. What we resist will persist. If we can soften around displeasure, discomfort and the occasional raw mistake, we can flow a bit more into the movement of life. Movement implies softness; nothing moves very far in constricted areas or very easily through tight places."
- unknown

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4 years ago

31 minutes 52 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Rolling Around on the Floor Part 1

An entire practice from lying on your back in Savasana. We start by centre-ing through your connection to your breath, the ground and the sensations you can feel. We follow this with gradually loosening your arms and legs and finally your whole body, rolling and twisting it around on the floor to create an overall sensation of suppleness and mobility.

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4 years ago

25 minutes 4 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

A Menagerie of Yoga Poses

“Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the “fight or flight response”; it has forgotten the art of releasing the tensions. As human beings, when we are aware about the sensations, we can release that by aware, slow movements. If you do not give movements to the body parts, energy will be stuck and blood circulation will be disturbed. Gradually, that creates chronic physical and mental health problems.”

Amit Ray (2010) "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"

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4 years ago

21 minutes 40 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Cat Pose Variations

Take some time to centre yourself in the present, in your body, with awareness of your breath. Experiment with variations on the traditional Cat Pose to warm, loosen and stretch out your spine.

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4 years ago

19 minutes 10 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Mini Practice of Lunges and Crescent Moon Pose

Centre yourself in the present moment with awareness of your breath and connecting your movement to your breathing. Then practice some rocking lunges and crescent moon pose to stretch out and release tension from legs, hips, shoulders and spine.

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4 years ago

18 minutes 28 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

A couple of little balance challenges

Another from the Zoom archive, in this guided practice we warm up in sitting and in lunge. Standing poses provide the opportunity for a couple of little balance challenges and we round things off with some Sun Salutations and seated poses.

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4 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 11 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Opportunistic Warriors at Your Desk

Have you been stuck sitting at a desk working? Take the Opportunity to interrupt your sitting by using your desk as a prop to flow between Warrior 1 and 2 with your breath.

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4 years ago

5 minutes 31 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Opportunistic Dining Room Chair Twist

Take 1 minute, 2 poses and 3 Breaths to fit a little more Yoga into your life. Be Opportunistic and practice this simple twisted seated perhaps on your dining room chair.

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4 years ago

5 minutes 2 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

The Santa Claus Effect

Another guided practice from the Zoom archives. Notice the sounds around you, your breathing, your own thoughts and sensations in the physical body which help deepen your present moment awareness. We flow through warming up stretches, Sun Salutations, standing poses, and seated poses for a well balanced physical practice and finish in a rewarding relaxation where we learn about "the Santa Claus effect."

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4 years ago

57 minutes 5 seconds

Boundless Yoga - Guided Yoga Practices with Vanessa

Grounding in Mountain and Warrior Poses

Tadasana
Mountain
by Leeza Lowitz

This is the place
the journey begins.
Half rooted in the earth,
half floating in the endless sky.
What would it be like
to be the mountain?
The air is perhaps thinner,
though the sky is not always clear.
The view is sometimes shrouded in fog
sometimes in plain and glorious sight,
but the ascent or descent can kill.
The earth is stable
or sometimes not.
So it is
at base or summit,
yet the mountain never asks
why or for what purpose
it exists.
This is the one difference
between the climber
and the climbed.

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4 years ago

21 minutes 6 seconds