journey to ease, yoga with yun-chung

Thursday Yoga is back to St. Paul's parish church, upstair studio on 11 January! Want to try yoga, but worry about flexibility? Thursday Yoga offers gentle yoga flow, using fun yogic movements to explore and relax our body and mind. This type of yoga enhances body and mind awareness and smooth motion in daily life. It's a wonderful way to start the day and settle into the evening.

Morning class 10-10.50; evening class 6.30-7.20pm. Suitable for beginners and all levels of practitioners. First class is a free taster. Please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] or text 07 888 898 945 to book your place.

Thursday Yoga will restart on 7 Sep (10-11am/6.30-7.30pm) at St. Paul's parish hall, upstairs studio. We are doing somatic gentle yoga flow, suitable for beginners and all levels. First class is a free taster. Please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] or text 07 888 898 945 to book your place. Thanks.

During the sessions this half term we are working on our upper body muscles. This was a small movement but big inner muscles extension session. We started with a simple breathing practice that soothed our nerves, boosted air exchange efficiency as well as working on belly muscles. Then we did a series of floor to soften our body before engaging in a flow of small movements that exercising the inner muscles. We ended with a simple but very inner calming relaxation.

During the 5 sessions this half term we are working on our upper body muscles. This was a special poetic session, as I combined poetry with yoga once or twice per year in the sessions. This time I employed Bashō's haiku to construct the flow sequence. We started with a simple breathing practice that soothed our nerves, boosted air exchange efficiency as well as working on belly muscles. Then we did a series of floor to soften our body. We practiced the flow sequence before combining the whole thing with sets of haiku poems. We ended with a simple but very inner calming relaxation.

8 Mar Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 15 Mar 2023 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

During the 5 sessions this half term we are working on our upper body muscles. We are aiming to connect our awareness to the muscles, to feel our muscles, and to strengthen our muscles. We start with a simple breathing practice that soothes our nerves, boosted air exchange efficiency as well as working on belly muscles. Then we did a series of floor and standing flow that relaxed the body first and then worked out the body in a gentle way. We ended with a simple but very inner calming relaxation.

22 Feb Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 1 Mar 2023 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

We are looking into our spine for 5 sessions, though all the sessions are full body work. This was the final session working on the lowest spine section in the sacrum. First a breathing practice followed by a series of floor exercises to soothe and soften our body as well as to be aware of how the sacrum is moving within us, then a gentle flow to relax our sacrum and pelvis, finally a great relaxation with a deepening inhalation breathing method to calm our nerve system down.

8 Feb Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 22 Feb 2023 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

We are looking into our spine for 5 sessions, though all the sessions are full body work. This was the third session getting to feeling the mechanism between shoulders and chest spine. First a breathing practice followed by a series of floor exercises to soothe and soften our body as well as to be aware how shoulders relate to the chest spine, then a gentle flow to lighten and soothe our shoulders, finally a great relaxation with a deepening inhalation breathing method to calm our nerve system down.

25 Jan Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 1 Feb 2023 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

We are looking into our spine for 5 sessions, though all the sessions are full body work. This session paid attention to our neck in particular. First a breathing practice followed by a series of floor exercises to soothe and soften our body, then a couple of awareness exercises to feel our neck spine, followed by simple but feel good gentle flow, finally a great relaxation with a deepening inhalation breathing method to clam our nerve system down.

18 Jan Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 25 Jan 2023 early evening. Please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected]

Happy New Year! Before Bedtime Yoga is back on Wednesday evenings! This session was a gentle start to tune us back to yoga mode. We are starting to work and understand our spine during these 5 sessions, though all the sessions are full body work. This session spent a lot of time tuning into our body sensation and to feel the inner movement of our bones and muscles. First a breathing practice followed by a series of floor exercises to soothe and soften our body, then some simple but feel good gentle flow, finally a great relaxation with a deepening inhalation breathing method to clam our nerve system down.

11 Jan Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 18 Jan 2023 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

My Thursday Yoga Winter Term plan is out! Starting on Thursday 12 Jan, 10-10.50am/ 6.30-7.20pm. Have a look and hope to see you! 🌟

https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/in-person-class

This was the last session on the lower body. We are working on a sequence from toes to hips (and our whole body!) We started with the extended breath breathing practice and several gentle movements to soften our body and joints. Then we exercised our lower body with simple and enjoyable movements before a nice relaxation.

14 Dec Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 11 Jan 2023 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

I have always emphasise the importance of our feet and how we use them. But the feet reveal far more than our physical and structural wellbeing. Here is a lovely article letting out some light on the secrets of feet beyond the physical.

I Always Pause and Look at Students' Feet Before I Teach Yoga. Here's Why A yoga teacher explains why she turns her gaze downward before the start of class—and it's not for the reasons you might think.

This was the fifth session on the lower body, and we worked on lower body muscles and balance. We started with a soothing breathing practice and a series of gentle movements on the floor. Then we did a great self-massage to relax ourselves. We stood to do a sequence of squats and warrior 3 as the end pose before a nice relaxation.

30 Nov Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 6 Dec 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

Block booking participants who did not attend the session but want to book this session recording, please book it at my shop (https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/shop) Non block booking participants who want to purchase this recording, it is now also in the shop.

Newcomers who want to try out the recording please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] for more subscription details. Thanks.
More about Before Bedtime Yoga: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

This was the fourth session on the lower body, and we work particularly with the foot arches. We started with a soothing breathing practice and a series of gentle movements on the floor. Then we did a great self-massage to relax ourselves. We stood to do a sequence of squats and warrior 2 with funky variations before a nice relaxation.

23 Nov Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 30 Nov 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

This was the third session on the lower body. We started with a soothing breathing practice and easy and gentle floor exercises to prepare our bodies for the yoga movements later. We practiced how to stabilise our upper body while working on our legs. Then we worked on our tree pose and some fun twist at the end of it. Before we settled for the relaxation, we practiced a gentle form of pelvic floor exercise, then a truly rewarding relaxation. This session works on stability and balance.

16 Nov Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 23 Nov 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

Block booking participants who did not attend the session but want to book this session recording, please book it at my shop (https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/shop) Non block booking participants who want to purchase this recording, it is now also in the shop.

Newcomers who want to try out the recording please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] for more subscription details. Thanks.
More about Before Bedtime Yoga: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

This was the second session on the lower body. We started with a soothing breathing practice and easy and gentle floor exercises to soften our bodies. I explained the importance of using the 3 balls of our feet efficiently and used fun exercises to demonstrate my point as well as to train our leg muscles. This session had a lot of small and interesting movements for the feet and for the whole body too.

9 Nov Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 16 Nov 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

Block booking participants who did not attend the session but want to book this session recording, please book it at my shop (https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/shop) Non block booking participants who want to purchase this recording, it is now also in the shop.

Newcomers who want to try out the recording please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] for more subscription details. Thanks.
More about Before Bedtime Yoga: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

Very nicely put. "Yoga is a highly internal practice.
Being able to do hard asanas does not mean you are an advanced practitioner...but knowing when you shouldn't do them, and being able to find asanas that make your body feel stable, strong, and healthy, that help you balance your mind, and that help you develop resilience in your nervous system - those are the signs of a truly advanced practice."
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There's really no correlation between your capacity to do challenging ("advanced") poses and how your body feels.
There are plenty of people who can do hard asanas - but many of them are also in pain. And there are plenty of people who can't do difficult poses but are not in pain.
After years of dysfunctional practice, many people quit because of pain and decide that yoga is not for them.
Then they have to spend years rehabbing from the damage.
Difficult poses are more like performance art, if you can do them without any pain, good for you - but it's actually rare.
While poses like this one are used to suggest that the practitioner is advanced, in good shape, has a strong mind, and feels great, that's not always the case.
There's a dark side.
There are strong correlations between hypermobile joints and pain.
So many practitioners have hurt themselves from continuing to practice despite the body's strong messages of pain.
This may be because westerners have bought into the idea that hard poses are the goal. But this is inaccurate.
Yoga is not an external practice where the form is the goal. and the harder the form the better.
Yoga is a highly internal practice.
Being able to do hard asanas does not mean you are an advanced practitioner...but knowing when you shouldn't do them, and being able to find asanas that make your body feel stable, strong, and healthy, that help you balance your mind, and that help you develop resilience in your nervous system - those are the signs of a truly advanced practice.

We start a new series of sessions on the lower body. We started with an extended outbreath breathing practice and easy and gentle floor exercises to soften our bodies. Afterwards we paid some particular attention to the toe exercises. Then we used a sequence of fun movements to work our whole body and particularly the lower body. We ended the session with a nerve soothing breathing relaxation. This was a fun and lively lower body session.

2 Nov Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 9 Nov 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

Block booking participants who did not attend the session but want to book this session recording, please book it at my shop (https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/shop) Non block booking participants who want to purchase this recording, it is now also in the shop.

Newcomers who want to try out the recording please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] for more subscription details. Thanks.
More about Before Bedtime Yoga: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

Yap, balance, balance and balance, from inner to outside actually.

Can you stand on one leg for 10 seconds? Why balance could be a matter of life and death – and how to improve yours Studies have shown poor balance can be associated with serious health problems – as well as increased risks of falls as we get older. But there are ways to make yours better

This was a breathing and gentle backbend session. We started with slow breathing practice and easy and gentle floor exercises to soften our bodies before introducing full or half locust movement. Then we did a few simple movements with relaxing breaks in between. We finally combined slow breathing with the simple movements. We ended the session with a lovely relaxation. This was a simple, but poses can feel strong, session.

19 Oct Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 2 Nov 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

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Newcomers who want to try out the recording please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] for more subscription details. Thanks.
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This was a bone-feeling session on the backbend, working to understand the relationship between the leg positions and the spine. We started with easy and gentle floor exercises to soften our bodies and increase sensitivity to our spine. Then we did a few awareness exercises to understand how leg positions affect our spine. Once we grasped the spine feeling and leg position, we did a few poses that enhanced our “bone-feeling” as well as our breathing. We ended the session with a lovely relaxation. This was a subtle and inward looking session with a lot of fun in understanding oneself.

12 Oct Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 19 Oct 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

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We are working on breathing and movement coordination this half term. This session was a bit of a fun motion pose session. We started with a slow breathing practice for relaxation and circulatory efficiency. We did all the warm up exercises on the floor and then worked on a more technical pose in motion sideways half lotus and half camel pose on the floor. (And, yes, there is such a pose.) Afterwards we did a simple and gentle flow and combined it with slow breathing. It was a lovely practice for a dark night.

5 Oct Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 12 Oct 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

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On a dark night, yoga.
The famous Yoga Sutras starts its first chapter like this: “And now the teaching on yoga begins.” It starts from half of a sentence. This particular manner is often interpreted that the teaching of yoga only begins when people, after working hard and could not find the way to spiritual enlightenment, drop down their effort, and then the true teaching starts. Whether this is true to the author’s intention or not, for me, today’s yoga session certainly feels like this. I have been buried under various work these days. Yet, after so many days of work, I still had much to be finished. Nevertheless I have Before Bedtime Yoga to teach. I came to the mat feeling my muscles tense; my mind tense, my emotion tense, my energy also tense. Essentially, nothing was right. As the zoom screen was on, I just dropped all my effort wanting to do more than what I could take in a day, and just breathed, feeling this life form on the mat, on the floor, its physical waves with the breaths. Although I was saying my instructions, inside of me I heard only silence of my mind, the letting go of my effort, the dropping of my whatever pursuit and came to a place where only appreciation existed for this body and mind that supported me throughout the day.
And, bliss, I am alive!
This is what yoga can do, when one is willing to give up all the outer entanglement for a while and just feel one’s existence as a pure life, breathe, move, and become still.
It was my privilege and my pleasure
to do yoga with everyone at today’s session, to share this mindbody connecting moment, to feel the night is drawing in, and one’s soul is a perfect smooth circle to round the day.

Everybody wrote to me after the class that they felt so relaxed afterward and ready to go to bed, and me too! :)

We are working on breathing and movement coordination this half term. This was a backbend awareness and gentle backbend session. We had very nice floor exercises to soften the body and an awareness exercise to understand what backbend is really about in terms of the spine. We also worked on our breathing for relaxation, circulatory efficiency and simple standing movement to combine with breathing breathing practice.

21 Sep Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 28 September 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

Block booking participants who did not attend the session but want to book this session recording, please book it at my shop (https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/shop) Non block booking participants who want to purchase this recording, it is now also in the shop.

Newcomers who want to try out the recording please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] for more subscription details. Thanks.
More about Before Bedtime Yoga: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

14 Sep Before Bedtime Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 21 September 2022 early evening, free for class attendees and newcomers who want to try the class out. (If you are a newcomer, please contact me at [email protected])

We are working on breathing and movement coordination this half term. This session works gently with abdomen, backbend and balance, and not to forget to breathe while you are doing all these! Session includes breathing practice, floor and standing movements and relaxation.

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More about Before Bedtime Yoga: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

So glad to be back teaching yoga. Simply wonderful!

Before Bedtime Online Yoga is back this Wednesday 7 September, 8-9pm. We are doing gentle flow in this yoga class, doing fun movements and working on poses for the body needs in the current season, aiming for late evening relaxation and inner balance. Suitable for beginners and yoga practitioners of all levels. First class is a free taster. Please contact Yun-Chung at [email protected] or text 07 888 898 945 to book your place.

More class details: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/online-class

Thursday Yoga returns to St. Paul's parish hall on 8 September! (Morning 10.00-10.50; evening 6.30-7.20) This is a gentle flow class that brings fun movements and body-mind awareness together. Each class crafts our awareness of daily life postures and brings relaxation to body and mind. Suitable for beginners and all levels of yoga practitioners. Small class for max. 8 participants. First class is a free taster. Come and start the day with fun and ease in body and mind! Please text Yun-Chung to book your place at
07 888 898 945 or [email protected]

Class details: https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/in-person-class

Summer Support Yoga session recording is available now for subscription and purchase. Viewing ends on 7 September 2022 early evening.

This is a fun and work the body all around summer support session. This session contains exercises in lying down, sitting, standing and on all fours position and also works on forward folds, side bends, backbends, and twists that work the all body. It has parts for relaxation and also for muscle training. I personally really enjoy this sequence.

Block booking participants who did not attend the session but want to book this session recording, please book it at my shop (https://journeytoeaseyoga.com/shop) Non block booking participants who want to purchase this recording, it is now also in the shop.