Live classes and video recordings. Choose from strong dynamic practices to therapeutic practices. All meditative, all soulful.

Gillian Shippey

This is a collection of recordings created especially for the summer holidays, whilst live classes are not running. The first 3 weeks' worth of videos are uploaded here, and weeks 4-7 will be uploaded from the 4th week of the holidays onwards (from 9th August).

Please note, subscribers receive access to this as part of the subscription. Subscription is £45 for 30 days (cancel anytime), and is cheaper than buying the whole series without subscription.

Artwork Antonio Duarte

Summer Series

This meditation intends to help bring about a meditative mind, which is healing, without having to 'combat' the 'monkey mind'.

Week 3 Meditation

This restorative practice includes a story especially for the new moon (the dark moon)

Week 3 New Moon Restorative Storytelling

This is a recording from a Vinyasa Flow class. It is a typical 'full' class including warm up, sun salutations, postures and nidra.

Week 3 Vinyasa Flow Class

This breathing practice has the intention of helping to acknowledge stress and express it, whilst also moving into a calm space of refuge. The hope is that resilience and control are developed, along with an increased 'window of tolerance'.

Week 2 Breathing Practice for Stress and Resilience

This sun salutation practice focusses on side plank. Each progressive sun salutation takes you into a stronger variation. My suggestion is that once you have done the video once, work out the plank variation that is most appropriate for you, and whenever you repeat the video, substitute the planks I suggest for the one that serves you best.

Week 2 Sun Salutations with side plank variations

This practice to help settle and soothe your mind/body at the end of the day. Or it could be used as a practice during the day time if you needed to de-stress.

Week 2 Evening Practice

Sun Salutations to energise and de-stress, with a focus on plank and arm/core strengthening

Week 1 Sun Salutations

A simple restorative practice for when you need a deep rest and to ground yourself

Week 1 Rest and Breathe

A practice for the full moon on 24th July 2021

Week 1 Moon Practice

These are the recordings from July's live classes. There are just two class recordings for this month, with the summer holidays beginning mid July.

Artwork Rafal Olbinski

Slow Flow July

Class begins with meditation, which leads into a largely 'ullola' practice. Ullola means wave, and refers to moving between two postures which can support a meditative practice. Class ends with sacred rest based on an ancient vedic mantra.

Slow Flow 13th July 2021

This class explores mudras (hand gestures), using them throughout the class (everyone has the opportunity to intuitively connect to mudras and choose whichever serves them best). We also take the upcoming new moon into account and there is a strong meditative aspect to this class.

Class ends with sacred rest.

Slow Flow 6th July 2021

These are the recordings from July's Dawn Yoga. Classes begin with pranayama, move through sun salutations and end with meditation.

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Dawn Yoga July

Class begins with a breathing technique to soothe the nervous system, followed by warming up the wrists in various positions. Sun salutations include lots of variations on Virabhadrasana I, and class then ends with a forward bend and meditation.

16th July 2021

Class begins with some breathing to release stress. We then warm up the wrists in various practices, before moving into sun salutations with lots of variations of Virabhadrasana I. Class ends with side stretches, twists, forward bends and meditation.

Dawn Yoga 14th July 2021

Class begins with coherent breathing. Followed by gentle warm up of hips/wrists especially.

We move through quite a few sun salutations before practicing warrior II, a forward bend, twist and ending with meditation.

Dawn Yoga 12th July 2021

Class begins with ujjayi/ocean breath with meditation on ebbing/flowing, waxing/waning, the seasons, etc, and the inevitability of change.

We practice moon salutations (with the new moon approaching) and sun salutations, followed by trikonasana, seated twists and a ending with a meditation.

Dawn Yoga 9th July 2021

Practice begins with pranayama followed by a little warming up. We practice more than the normal amount of sun salutations in this session, and end with a twist and meditation on identity.

Dawn Yoga 7th July 2021

Class begins with pranayama followed by gentle movement to warm up the hips, etc. Sun salutations include lunge variations and the class ends with seated twists and meditation.

Dawn Yoga 5th July 2021

Class begins with pranayama, warms up the hips a little, moves through sun salutations with lunge variations to stretch the hips. We then practice some standing postures, ending with a seated twist and meditation.

2nd July 2021

A selection of nidras and meditations, as well as some therapeutic stories.

Artwork: Beatriz Martin Vidal

MEDITATION, STORIES, NIDRA

This meditation focusses on the five progressively subtler bodies that compose the human, as described by the ancients in the Taittiriya Upanishad.

Ancient Wisdom Meditation

This meditation maps the body, focussing on specific energetic pathways (for example the vagus nerve).

Mapping Meditation

In this video you are guided into a couple of different restorative postures using 4 pillows and 2 bath towels. The therapeutic story is called 'The Tale of the Dwarfie' and is by Roi Gal-Or.

Therapeutic storytelling

In this video, I guide you into a couple of different restorative postures (using 4 pillows) and tell you an adapted version of the story, 'Miss Ophelia' by Michael Ende.

Therapeutic Storytelling

This nidra composes a neuroplastic body scan designed to knit the body back together with the intention of cultivating a sense of wholeness. The practice ends with a short mantra (Gayatri).

20 Minute Nidra

40 Minute Nidra

30 minute practices, some gentle and restorative, some strong and energising.

30 MINUTE PRACTICES

This class takes you through some fundamental principles to strengthen the core muscles which support the spine. Whilst the class focusses on

Stronger: Core Strength

These sun salutations include strengthening practices for the arms, legs and core.

Stronger: Sun Salutations

This practice begins with a meditation on mudras, which leads into the practice of Moon Salutations.

Gentle: Meditation, Mudra and Moon Salutations

This video takes you through some breathing practices and postures to support full deep breathing into all parts of the lungs.

Gentle: Pranayama and Postures for Lungs

15 minute practices, some gentle and restorative, some strong and energising.

15 MINUTE PRACTICES

This sequence takes you through some sun salutations and encourages you to reconnect to your centre.

This sequence of postures includes backbends, forward bends, core strength, balance .... and ends with a short, but exquisite, relaxation. We repeat the sequence three times.

Stronger: Floor Sequence

This practice takes you through part of an adapted ancient practice called Pawanmuktasana. It might be useful to think of the practice as a moving meditation, working with each of the joints in the body (this video takes you through the hands/arms/shoulders part of the practice), releasing stiffness and thereby supporting the flow of prana, which can be felt quite tangibly. 

The soulful and meaningful part of this practice is brought into a meditation at the end.

Gentle: Moving Meditation

This video takes you through three ways of breathing that 'speak' with the nervous system. We then take these ways of breathing into a movement practice.

Gentle: Soothe your Nervous System

These classes combine restorative postures and minimal gentle movement with nidras, stories, pranayama and meditation.

Artwork: Kinga Britschgi

RESTORE

This recording is from a live Pop Up Slow Sunday I taught on Valentine's Day. It includes restorative postures, gentle movement and a beautiful yet dark love story called Skeleton Woman. 

You will need two bolsters for this practice, which you can make very quickly and easily with 4 pillows and 2 bath towels. There is a video to show you how on my youtube channel. But basically, you unfold the towel, lay two pillows on top of the towel and roll them up tightly.

Restore with Skeleton Woman Story

This is a recording from a Pop Up Slow Sunday session I taught. It includes some restorative postures, gentle movement, deep breathing and a story from the Pima people of north America, who told it to a friend, who told it to me .... and now I tell it to you. It's one of my favourite stories :-) You will need 4 pillows for this practice.

Restore with Pima Story

These are the recordings from June's live Slow Flow sessions. Recordings up loaded here after each class has ended.

Artwork: Rafal Olbinkski

SLOW FLOW JUNE

This class guides you through 2 different sequences, each with quite magical endings. Both practices induce deep states of grounding in slightly different ways. 

The practice ends with a beautiful and ancient healing vedic mantra.

29th June 2021

This class acknowledges the light of the sun and its capacity to burn away impurities, enabling us to see the truth. The sun, as the dispeller of darkness, is celebrated during this class with special sun salutations, meditations and mantra.

22nd June 2021

You will need 4 pillows for this practice.

This practice combines restorative postures with bi-lateral movement and moon salutations. 

The recording is from a class in March. Sadly the recording from 15th June corrupted!

15th June 2021

This class is a movement based pranayama and meditation practice. Throughout the class we use breathing techniques and meditation to guide the asana/movement. Class ends with a seated breathing practice (sitali/sitkari with nadi shodhana) to cool and calm, followed by nidra.

8th June 2021

This is a bramhana practice, meaning it focusses on the inhalation with the intention of cultivating a sense of lightness and spaciousness.

1st June 2021

These are the recordings from June's live Dawn Yoga sessions. Recordings up loaded here after each class has ended.

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DAWN YOGA JUNE

Class begins with pranayama (full yogic breath and vinyasa krama). 

We then loosen the hips and warm up a little before practicing sun salutations which focus a little on stretching the hips. We then do some standing postures and vinyasa and end with meditation.

30th June 2021

Class begins with pranayama: full yogic breath and viloma krama. NB: if you do not know these techniques, please refer to the video with instructions in the 'Pranayama' video series.

We then warm up feet, knees, hips before starting with sun salutations. Sun salutations include lunge variations to stretch hips. Some standing postures follow, with vinyasa to link them. Class ends with seated twist to stretch outer hips, and then short meditation.

28th June 2021

This class takes into account the full moon. We start with breathing / meditating on the waxing/waning of the breath, moon, seasons. We connect to the change in the weather, and the inevitability of change and endeavour to cultivate a witnessing consciousness.

We practice moon salutations and sun salutations and end with meditation.

25th June 2021

Class begins with full yogic breath and viloma krama. We then strengthen legs a little before moving into some strong sun salutations.  Class ends with more work to strengthen/stretch ankles, knees and hips before a short relaxation and meditation.

23rd June 2021

Class begins with pranayama: full yogic breath with Viloma Krama. We then meditate a little on the capacity we have to see, coming from the light of the sun, and the element of fire. 

The theme of solstice, and being able to see the truth, is a thread that runs throughout the class. 

We practice sun salutations, Virabhadrasana II variations, ankle, knee, hip strengtheners, and end with a short meditation.

21st June 2021

Class begins with pranayama: full yogic breath with viloma krama. 

We then warm up a little before moving through several sun salutations with lots of arm strengthening, and invitations to rest. The last sun salutations contain Ardha Chandrasana (half moon).

We then balance with eyes closed followed by floor work on hips. Ending with short relaxation/meditation to let go of all effort.

18th June 2021

Class begins with pranayama: Viloma Krama combined with full yogic breathing. 

We then warm up a little, including some practices to stabilise the knees, before practicing sun salutations. There is then another standing balance to stabilise and strengthen the joints in the leg/foot. Class ends with some seated positions and a short meditation.

16th June 2021

Class begins with Viloma Krama pranayama, followed by warm up of spine, sun salutations, standing wide legged postures followed by seated wide leg variations to stretch, open and strengthen hips. Class ends with short meditation.

14th June 2021

This practice connects to the new moon through the breath, the movements and postures, through bhavana (calling into existence) and meditation.

We also practice some sun salutations and end with meditation.

11th June 2021

Class begins with practicing 3 different methods of full yogic breathing (western method, Indian method, solar plexus method). We then explore connection between feet and hips, strengthening and stretching both. Sun salutations focus on stillness in movement. Class ends with meditation on mind as it takes the same shape/form as body, and mantra for consciousness.

9th June 2021

Class begins with diaphragmatic breathing, then full yogic breath, focussing on breathing smoothly and coherently.

Movement begins with feet, which are focussed on throughout the sun salutations.

Class ends with short meditation on lower/higher mind (manomayakosha/vijnanamayakosha).

7th June 2021

Class begins with pranayama: diaphragmatic breathing, then full yogic breath. Sun salutations and standing postures focus on strengthening certain parts of the body, and a connection to inner strength is also explored. 

Other soulful meditations come into the class and the class ends with a brief meditation and Gayatri mantra.

4th June 2021

Class begins with diaphragmatic breathing, followed by full yogic breathing. 

We warm up with hip openers/strengtheners, spine mobilisers, lunges etc. Followed by sun salutations. Class ends with a short floor sequence and meditation.

2nd June 2021

Support for Emotional Strength comprises a set of 10 practice videos, all with the intention of providing support to help cultivate emotional strength.

Artwork by Duy Huynh

SUPPORT FOR EMOTIONAL STRENGTH

This short video introduces Support for Emotional Strength

Introduction to Support for Emotional Strength

This practice guides you through a couple of restorative postures, whilst I tell you a story. You will need 4 pillows, a blanket and a long scarf or yoga belt.

Restorative practice with storytelling

This meditation draws on various models, including the Panchamaya Kosha model and IFS (Internal Family Systems).

Meditation: Unbreakable

This video explores a technique that may help you to cultivate the potential to not allow stress to 'land' so strongly in the body, and instead be released from the body.

Bhavana: Become a Conduit to Stress

This video explores three mudras which support a meaningful connection to emotional strength.

Mudras for Strength

This video adapts a classical practice and combines it with an Ullola (movement) to explore somatic experiences of resilience, healthy boundaries and self control.

Pranayama Resilience/Healthy Boundaries/Self control

This video explores a variation of Virabhadrasana I (Warrior), using meditation, drushti (gaze) and mudra (gesture) to help develop a tangible sense of inner strength.

Soulful Warrior: Movement, Mudra and Meditation

This video explores structural alignment of Virabhadrasana II (Warrior), and how an inner and outer alignment of the posture can bring a soulful sense of powerfulness.

Soulful Warrior: Structural Alignment

This video guides you through some very effective postures to strengthen your core. The deeper, soulful implications of this are explored at the end of the video in a meditation.

Structural Core Strength Practice

This video takes you through a general practice, incorporating several of the techniques explored in the shorter videos.

General Practice

This nidra hopes to support the cultivation of emotional strength.

Nidra

This series comprises a set of 6 practice videos, all with the intention of providing support to help with feelings of loneliness, and to cultivate a sense of belonging.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any queries about Support for Loneliness and Belonging.

With gratitude for your support,
Gillian

Artwork by Duy Huynh

SUPPORT FOR LONELINESS AND BELONGING

This video is a brief introduction to the whole series, ending with a short meditation.

Introduction

This meditation introduces and explores a resource called the 'Backspace'. This practice has the intention of  beginning to help cultivate a sense of support and connection. We then explore the backspace awareness with movement, eyes open, and coming in and out of the awareness.

Backspace Meditation and Movement

This practice includes postures, movement, mudras and meditations to help cultivate and develop an awareness of connection and belonging. It is recommended the video 'Backspace Meditation and Movement' is completed before this video.

General practice

In this practice you are guided into a couple of different restorative postures. You will require 4 pillows, 2 bath towels and a blanket. 

The story included in this practice is called Jumping Mouse. This is a very old story, of which there are many variations from many different cultures.

Whilst you are welcome to practice nidra in any position, including sitting, this is a short video with suggestions to help you feel supported in a lying down posture.

Nidra Preparation

This practice of nidra can be done in any position at all. Just be comfortable.

This meditation was recorded in a live class during lockdown. It explores the potential that we have to transcend space and time to connect, thanks to the goddess zoom and the magic of the internet!

Meditation: space and time bending for connection

This collection comprises a set of 6 videos, all with the intention of providing support to help with feelings of loneliness, and to cultivate a sense of belonging. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any queries about this collection. With gratitude.

Artwork by Duy Huynh

Support for Loneliness and Belonging

This is the entire collection of Dawn Yoga class recordings for June. Classes start with 10 minutes pranayama, before practicing sun salutations and some postures, ending with a short meditation.

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Dawn Yoga June

Support for Emotional Strength comprises a set of 10 practice videos, all with the intention of providing support to help cultivate emotional strength. 

Artwork by Duy Huynh

Support for Emotional Strength

A selection of nidras, meditations and therapeutic stories.

Artwork: Beatriz Martin Vidal

Meditation, Nidra, Therapeutic Storytelling

Slow Flow classes move and stretch the whole body in a meditative, gentle way. Class always ends with nidra.

Artwork: Rafal Olbinski

Slow Flow September

These are the recordings from July's live Slow Flow classes. There are just two recordings because live classes end mid July for the summer holidays.

Artwork Rafal Olbinski

These are the recordings from July's live classes. Class begins with pranayama (you will need to know full yogic breath and viloma krama - please refer to Pranayama videos), followed by sun salutations, some standing and floor postures and ends with meditation.

Please note: if you are looking to purchase this collection (and you are not a subscriber), it is actually cheaper to subscribe for one month, and then you get access to the entire video library. The subscription can be cancelled at any time, and you will still maintain access for the entire month you have purchased.

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Dawn Yoga happens live on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 7-8am and these are the class recordings. Class starts with 10 minutes breathing practice, followed by warm up and sun salutations, and ends with meditation.

Dawn Yoga September

15 Minute Practices

Dawn Yoga classes begin with a 10 minute pranayama practice before moving into Sun Salutations and ending with meditation. 

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Dawn Yoga

Slow Flow classes involve moving the whole body in a gentle and meditative way. 

Artwork by Rafal Olbinski

Slow Flow

Class begins with meditation, which leads into deep breathing. The whole class focusses on the breath, the transitions between the breaths, the current transition of the seasons from summer to autumn, moving effortlessly as if the breath were a stream, and the movement were stepping into the stream and going with the flow rather than against the flow.

Class ends with meditation.

Dawn Yoga 17th September 2021.mov

Class begins with quiet breathing followed by warm up to sun salutations. Sun salutations introduce plank, to start building our upper body strength. This will be worked on, along with other postures over the following weeks. Class ends with some standing and sitting postures, ending with meditation.

Dawn Yoga 15th September 2021.mov

This Slow Flow class is quiet, simple and calming with an emphasis on the breath. Class ends with nidra.

Slow Flow 14th September 2021.mov

Class begins with quiet meditation/breathing and postures focussed on breathing into the side ribs, followed by sun salutations and standing and sitting postures. Class ends with meditation.

Dawn Yoga 13th September 2021*.mov

Class takes into consideration the new moon (which occurred on that day, 7th Sep), but this video is still a good practice to do with a focus on 'letting go'.

Slow Flow 7th September 2021.mp4

Class begins with 10 minutes breathing, followed by sun salutations, standing postures and ends with meditation.

Dawn Yoga 10th September 2021.mov

Class begins with 10 minutes quiet breathing, followed by moon salutations, gentle sun salutations and some postures/movements to support the 'letting go' opportunity at new moon. Class ends with meditation and mantra.

Dawn Yoga 8th September 2021*.mov

Our first class back after the summer holidays! Class begins with 10 minutes breathing, gentle warm up and simple sun salutations with trikonasana (triangle) and a seated twist before a closing meditation.

Dawn Yoga 6th September 2021.mov

This is just a simple sun salutation practice!

Week 7 Sun Salutations.mov

This is a part of an ancient practice called Pawanmuktasana. This section mobilises all the joints of the lower body, easing stiffness. Whilst it is a moving practice, it has a big impact on the mind also.

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