What started as a three-week course to help some friends tone their tummies before a wedding abroad has turned into a daily practice that none of us want to live without, myself included!

We’ve kept going and kept growing and still, we meet 4 weekday mornings a week, 9.15-9.45 am. (I’m online from 9 am to chat through anything with you so that we can start promptly).

The collective of women is so supportive and positive, we can meet online frazzled from the school drop off, or tired and unmotivated with a head full of things to do, and yet by the end of our half an hour together we feel strong, calm, focussed and peaceful. We are all more productive for starting our day the right way.

We always begin by checking in with how we feel mentally, physically and emotionally so that we can listen to our body’s needs and honour that in our practice that day. Then we spend ten minutes getting our bodies moving, easing out any stiffness, opening our hearts for a deeper, fuller breath and getting our energy flowing. Sometimes this can be yoga based, some times we need to stomp and shake, sometimes we shimmy and yell… it depends on how the collective is feeling.

Then we spend ten minutes strengthening our core using pilates based exercises. I give plenty of options so that you can take it at your own pace. It’s the consistency of this practice that makes it so effective. It feels so easy to do ten minutes of exercises but the results speak for themselves, a little and often goes a long way.

Then we spend ten minutes focussing on our breath and meditation. We tend to focus on a particular breathing technique each block although I don’t stick rigidly to that if it doesn’t feel right, but having a focus for the four weeks does give us time to explore it. In the last block, it was alternate nostril breath, before that it was ratio breathing, before that we did box breathing and before that, we learned Ujjayi. We will cover all of these again and more.

It may be that we work with a specific affirmation or mantra or a shared focus point and again, just like with the physical practice, it’s the repetition and the daily commitment that starts to help you progress.

Then we all toddle off, on our way, feeling ten times better than we did before. If you can’t make it to the mat at that time, you could always be part of the ‘catch-up crew’. Each session is recorded so that you can do it at a time that suits you but still be part of the group and feel motivated and supported. I delete recordings after a few weeks so you have plenty of time to do them.

I’ve kept this class affordable, it’s £80 for the four weeks, that’s £5 per day.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of please email me at yogaannabel@gmail.com to join the next round.