Restorative Yoga

Set yourself up super snuggly and nestled and allow yourself to unwind with a soothing sound bowl meditation (little guidance) that is soft and gentle to prepare the body and mind for sleep. Give yourself permission to fully let go and relax to the peaceful vibration. Enjoy!

Experience the soothing sensation of spinal liberation in our unique Midline Method Spine Opening Class." In this rejuvenating session, you'll gently lie back onto strategically placed yoga blocks to release tension, increase flexibility, and promote spinal health.

As you relax into this deeply therapeutic practice, the pressure and support of the blocks will encourage your spine to naturally unwind and expand. This helps alleviate discomfort, improve posture, and create a sense of spaciousness throughout your entire body.

Guided by Ali, you'll explore various gentle stretches and breathwork techniques that enhance the spinal release, leaving you feeling more aligned, invigorated, and blissfully liberated. Join us for this class and give your spine the care and attention it deserves, leaving you with a newfound sense of comfort and vitality.

Specific modified yoga poses target kinetic (movement) lines and deep muscles to promote mobility, healthy flexibility and prevent injuries. This class focuses on opening up the myofascial tissue connections from the inner pelvis to outer hip to promote strength and mobility in knees, ankles, and lower back.

Great class to support healthy mobility in joints and restore muscular imbalance.

This easy 10-minute relaxing yoga class will help you unwind at the end of your day. This practice will help you fall asleep faster and achieve more quality and longer sleep. It will help you relax both your body and mind. Expect deep breathing and passive postures that you can do in bed.

Give yourself permission to relax, unwind, and settle into peace with this 45-minute Restorative Yoga + Sound Bath. Each wonderfully supported pose is held for 7-minutes and accompanied by crystal singing bowls, chimes + Tibetan bowls and little guidance, so you can settle into Self and a renewing meditative state. Surrender into support and put down all your stresses and worries. This time is for you.

This yoga class is all about your Upper back & neck. The postures will help releases pain in the upper back, with simple yoga that is accessible for all levels. If you have upper back or neck pain do not hesitate and spend 10 minutes to improve how you feel.

As much as you may love another, you must always love yourself. Heartbreak can be extremely painful, whether you are on the receiving end of it or not. You experience a wave of emotions and the loss can be difficult to process. Enjoy an all levels yoga practice to support healing. Complete your practice in a supported restorative position to invite love back into life and into yourself.

Enjoy a class that is about 60% slow and nourishing movement paired with a balanced 40% of deep and rejuvenating restorative postures.

Myths are powerful teachers. Believing this, let’s weave the telling of a great story into a slow flow and rejuvenative restorative yoga practice. The hallmarks of the Mythic Motion, Slow Flow and Restore practice style are breath-centric action, poetic imagery, and a deeply meditative current. With that and a movement emphasis on lower back health, this session will engage myth in motion through the telling of how the great goddess, Saraswati, hung the stars and caused time to fall into order. This practice is suitable for any level of healthy practitioner wanting a unique exploration into embodied story telling.

Return to your higher self with this juicy 30-minute, all-levels practice. Stretch and open the sticky sides of your body with twists and folds. Surrender into soft restorative poses. By caring for yourself with conscious breath, self-massage, meditation and mudra, you are sure to feel so much more YOU after this sweet session.

Elise recommends using the following playlist for this class: Spotify playlist for Come Home to Yourself

Has a hectic life left you uninspired and lethargic? Refresh and renew with this 30-minute, all-levels practice. Elise will lead you through sweet movements to awaken your spine and core, open your hips, unlock your neck, and finally chill your nervous system. A perfect prescription for a long, hard week!

Elise recommends using the following playlist for this class: Spotify playlist for Thrive and Shine

Crazy long day? Feeling harried and overwhelmed? Take refuge on your mat with Elise's restoring 30-minute class. In this session you will gently open your hips and spine, massage your forearms, invigorate your breath and soothe your mind!

Elise recommends using the following playlist for this class: Spotify playlist for Thrive and Shine

Experience the blissful benefits of a soft and smooth practice. In this Reset Refuge class, you'll combine a gentle flow with hip openers, twists, self massage, pranayama and mudra to enhance the well-being of mind, body and soul. Allow yourself to receive all of the juiciness this practice will bring to your mind, body and soul!

Elise recommends using the following playlist for this class: Reset Refuge

Led by Sibyl Buck

Make yourself comfortable and be guided into deep relaxation and meditation. Specific language is used to help you move past the spinning movement of your mind, and into the deeper dimensions of your being, out past the temporal details of your life, which pull you out of the moment. Even if you find a lot of mental noise when you attempt meditation, combining your practice with restorative yoga will help you to arrive in the ever-present peace within yourself, deeper than the layer of mental movement that distracts you. Using props that can be found around the house, you'll create a comfortable position for your body, and release each body part individually before delving deeper. Breath techniques are used to help bring balance to the body and mind. Namaste.

Led by Kiayan Reuter

Props are used in this relaxing, no fuss restorative class. offering many tools in which you can access your inner peace. This 30 minute practice leads the yogi toward a healing and recuperative experience, soothing the nervous system, encouraging mindfulness and cultivating a heightened body awareness. This deep conscious relaxation provides the body an opportunity to renew and heal.

Enjoy some relaxing "me" time as you wander into that space between sleep and wake as you quietly release tension and stress with simple breath work and reclined postures. All your cares melt away as you drift into a space for your body to restore and nurture itself.

This class with Samy Mattei can be practiced either in a chair, or sitting on a block/bolster/blanket on the earth. Listen to your body, and honor what you need and can do today. We'll do some work ranging from seated or table-top "cat/cows", down dog (seated uses a chair in front), balancing table top, forward folds - seated wide leg twists and stretches to lengthen the side body and lower back. This will be long, juicy holds and mindfulness to the smaller subtle-body experiences.

This chair yoga class is perfect for the office, or for anyone in a chair who needs a mid-day yoga break. Nancy will guide you through two seated chair poses, a breathing exercise designed to cool the body and mind, and grounding meditation.

The feet are the foundation of our body and a microcosm of its systems and organs. Join Yoga Therapist Shy Sayar for a very pleasureable study of foot reflexology and self-massage technique to restore and heal the entire body!

Samy Mattei designed this class for yogis with limited physical mobility - Utilize Props to Adapt Traditional Poses. An amazing way to experience the delights and benefits of yoga practice, is with the connection and assistance of a partner or assistant. The class is by no means a "passive" one; it consistently asks students to check in with their bodies and be aware of what works and what needs to change. This is the most unique of classes to create space to transcend perceived barriers, and realize we are all connected and couldn't do "this" without one another.

This is a single posture restorative relaxation for the body, with a led meditation that's designed to cultivate your body's natural healing power. Specific breathing and visualization techniques are taught in order to go inward past the more superficial layers of self, which are bound by the slow movement of the physical realm. Working via the deeper layers of your self, you can access the quicker movement of the energy and spiritual planes, which has been shown to speed healing and recovery. Meditation techniques which you can use in your own practice are introduced, as well as a led meditation. This teaching will start you on a fulfilling journey of health and healing!

Samy Mattei brings us this class to find your asana - your seat. It is designed for individuals that are unable to stand or sit without spinal support for long periods of time, or use wheelchairs. It is important that your feet are rooted and stacked underneath your knees, finding proper alignment in the spine. We will do seated breath work, sun salutations, twists, arm work, leg work, a little core strengthening, and then cool it back down

This chakra restorative class will take you through each of the seven energy centers with seven restorative poses that allow you to move more deeply into your energetic and emotional bodies. Perfect for relaxation, rejuvenation and reconnection, this class will leave you feeling open, balanced and completely integrated within yourself.

This Indieflow Partner Yoga Restorative class was originally created for expecting mothers and their partners to foster a deep sense of trust and connection before baby arrives. This class, however, is a beautiful practice for anyone wishing to create that deeper connection with their partner.

It is recommended that you watch this video in segments. See how to get into and out of one posture, listen to the instructions, then PAUSE the video to do the pose. Spend as long in each posture as you wish. Poses are intended for each partner to enjoy the more restorative part* so be sure to switch before moving on to the next posture!

* For a Prenatal practice, please note that the expecting mother is generally the one who enjoys the restorative aspect while her partner acts as the base.

** For a Postnatal practice, partners can switch, please be aware that a mother who has recently given birth is still working to regain core strength and stability.

Kristen loves to engage with yogis and to help you grow. As you practice this class, and any of the IndieFlow yoga classes on YogaDownload, if anything comes up for you, you are invited to leave a comment or question, in the reviews section and she will respond!

Is your lower back a sensitive or weak area for you? Does it stiffen up from too much sitting, or even excessive exercise? Do you spend a lot of time bending over or lifting? If so, this is the class for you. We will start and end this session with gentle, mellow Yin poses. Holding these therapeutic shapes on the floor will help loosen and release tight back muscles and connective tissue. Sandwiched in the middle of the Yin practice is a more active Yang flow which will wake up and strengthen the back as well as the front of the pelvis. After just 35 minutes, you will feel this tricky area of your body alive with new energy and fluidity!

In this short sequence, Kristen Boyle will guide you through a Supta Padangustasana series that will open up tight hamstrings, and relieve low back pain. This series is a perfect follow-up to a vigorous workout, or as a mid-day break at work.

Enjoy this rare restorative treat from Founding OUTLAW Justin Kaliszewski. In restorative yoga, a state of deep opening and profound relaxation is achieved. The LIVE melodic resonance of Marco DeFerari, the one-of-a-kind Brazilian Capoeria/Ukulele master who's music is as beautiful as his spirit, is weaved throughout this practice that features several long holds in opening poses such as ½ pigeon, supported bridge, and legs up the wall. Take some time to restore, reflect, and rejuvenate.

Use two bolsters or two blocks and a bolster to prop everything up and find your inner serenity. Expect to lounge, get into an uber relaxed state, and destress the muscles that tend to tighten up on you.

Have tired, achy hips? This restorative class is just for you! Expect to thoroughly stretch your lower extremeties and receive the benefits of slowly stretching into the fascia and accessing points of muscle tension to release your overworked and tired, achy lower body.

This class is designed for when you've had a long day on your feet! There is little movement so you can just unwind into the cave of your consciousness. There is considerable time in legs up the wall - expect a lowered heart rate, decreased swelling of your feet and ankles, and total relaxation!! Use of the bolster is optional.

This class is very simple. We'll focus on a few postures that we will hold for a long time so you can deeply and completely let go. If you fall asleep, even better! Just use this time to switch off and let go. You deserve it!