Mindful Sonder is the conscious awareness that we all have, and all are, living our own personal truths. Working the mind, body and spirit, I take a holistic approach to wellbeing, which manifests itself for me in three areas: Life Coaching, Nutrition and Yoga.

Mindful Sonder

Mariel Witmond-Bateman

These classes focus on creative sequencing of vinyasa flows, focusing on themes and/or peak poses. Find new ways to transition through postures and move on your mat, making your practice more enjoyable - like a dance!

Creative Vinyasa Flow

In this very flowy and creative class, we find movements in the body that encourage us into a fluid flow, moving with our breath as we celebrate ourselves and each other. A well-rounded class combining strength and mobility as we come together to dance.

Mudita

This lovely class starts with a creative warm up that then leads us into a fun, creative flow that we repeat twice to get into a nice fluid state. We explore the power of our thoughts on the body and the realities we create.

The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It

A really fun and fiery practice that is strong on the legs and creative in its movements as we focus on the importance of values to live our lives with purpose. Set to an energetic playlist, perfect to get you moving!

Values

This is a very creative flow that briefly takes us 360 degrees around our mat as we repeat the same sequence several times to get to one breath one movement. Theme is around the impact of being misunderstood and the inner work we need to do to process our emotions

Misunderstood

This is a fun, dynamic class that takes us through a creative sequence that we repeat multiple times, set to a playlist that you can't help but move to!

Belonging

Shenpa is the urge or the hook that triggers our habitual tendency to close down. We get hooked in that moment of tightening when we reach for relief. To get unhooked, we begin by recognizing that moment of unease and learn to relax in that moment.

Shenpa

A beautiful and dynamic flow that opens the hips and strengthens the legs as we move creatively around our mats reminding ourselves to dare to be who we are - embracing our bodies, our practice, our lives.

Dare to Be

This is a beautiful, fluid flow class where we repeat a creative sequence multiple times, moving one breath one movement. The theme is of getting to know ourselves better, imprinting our intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

Imprint You Intent

A lovely community class that explores the movement of energy through movements of the arms and legs as we glide into different poses and transitions taking us around our mat. This is a creative sequence that looks at how we cling to things and the need to choose love over fear.

Love Over Fear

Movement is a path to self knowledge that doesn’t require words. Immersive awareness is sometimes used to describe when we are intensely absorbed but not deliberately thinking, when we are just in the experience - which is what we will practice in this beautiful ladder flow class.

Immersive Awareness

This beautiful community class takes a look at our attachments to our roles and how they define us as we move through a dynamic practice that helps us shift energy with fluid movements.

Authors of Our Own Narrative

This is a beautiful and creative mobility sequence taught as a ladder flow to help you get the hang of things! Plenty of movement to open the hips and strengthen the arms as we focus on a theme of healing and growth.

We Grow Wings

This is a strong and creative practice focussed on back strength and mobility as we move through heart opening and balancing postures that challenge our fear and ego. Don’t let the fear in, but rather step into your fears.

No Fear In

This is one of my favourite vinyasa flows that combines functional movement with creative sequencing that will leave your hips feeling open and your heart feeling full!  Enjoy playful new ways to move around your mat as we embrace change and learn how to join the dance.

Move with Change and Join the Dance

One of our weekend soul flows that guides us gracefully around our mat, working on heart openers as we play with movements with the arms that help to guide us through transitions while stretching the shoulders. The theme of the class is our quest - life's journey to our truth through acceptance and a willingness to be open.

The Quest

This class takes us through a beautiful ladder flow that strengthens and lengthens the side body in particular as we explore knowing who we are not so that we can own who we are in order to be more self possessed, and from there, be able to create meaningful and lasting change in our lives.

Self Possessed

This dynamic, creative vinyasa sequence is a fun and challenging flow that will wring out the entire body through open and closed twists (among many other things!) With a theme of tuning into our home frequency, this is a beautiful practice that is both a work in and work out!

Home Frequency

This is one of my favourite creative flows working on the theme of grit and grace as we try to get out of our heads and into the sensations of our body that help ease us through transitions and posture variations. Expect to have fun and get playful with this great class!

Grit & Grace

So often in our practice, as in life, we pull back when we should lean in. Our discomfort teaches us to shift towards something bigger, in order to learn and grow. This beautifully creative sequence will challenge what you know and encourage you to enjoy the journey of new discovery moving through a dynamic flow.

Lean In

In this class you will move through one of my most creative, vinyasa sequences as we navigate the theme of water - allowing our thoughts to flow, our movements to be fluid, as we learn to balance between what we can and cannot control.

Water

This class uses the theme of finding the balance between effort and surrender - not as it relates to our more common interpretation of giving up, but rather our ability to allow what is to be. We move through a dynamic and playful vinyasa flow that challenges to find the effort in our postures and the ease in our thoughts and breath. It's a great class to usher in the new year!

Effort & Surrender

With close to 60 students joining live, this creative vinyasa flow is all about letting our experiences teach us about ourselves, much like our practice does! Enjoy this dynamic flow as we work a lot with the hips, with plenty of variations and modifications depending on your needs!

End of Year Dynamic Vinyasa Flow

In this special class leading up to the holiday season with the mutual celebration and struggle we face amidst new lockdown restrictions, this class is about coming home to ourselves, to our wholeness as we recognise that in the face of adversity, we need to reconnect with ourselves to better connect with others and be better equipped to face our challenges. This is a lovely embodied movement flow set to some fun, festive tunes.

Home to Wholeness

This dynamic and creative sequence is all about moving with intent, focus and awareness to create ease amidst the struggle and strength to help us move in a fluid fashion. Working with our arms to help guide our transitions and balance to challenge our stability, this flow is a yummy all rounder!

Fluid & Free

This dynamic, creative class takes us through a sequence we repeat twice working on both twists and open postures, the second round with opportunities to go deeper into our poses. Themed around the importance of showing up - in our truths, in our practice, in our lives - this sweaty class will leave you feeling ready to take on the day ahead!

Twist & Show Up

This creative, dynamic sequence is a strong flow building strength in the shoulders while opening the hips and working the legs. Navigating a theme of exploring our shadow, working towards wholeness rather than perfection as we assimilate our shadow into consciousness.

Shadow Work & Power Flow

This dynamic practice takes us through a creative sequence that works our hips and prepares our body for arm balances, strengthening the core and the arms. Using a them of light after darkness, this class is a work in as much as it's a work out!

Power Arm, Core & Hips

This creative sequence focusses on our side body - outer glutes and obliques in particular, as we challenge ourselves through balancing postures, using focus and intent in our movements. Connecting with our true essence, which is love, this flow is everything you need to work "in" as well as out.

Power Side Body

This class speaks to the emotional themes of loss and grief as well as the full cycle of our emotions. Set to a power flow that mixes strength with softness, challenge and play, we work a lot of our side body, hips and arms with opportunities available for arm balances and inversions for those that practice them safely.

Power & Flow - Side Body, Hips & Arms

This class was taught for lululemon's Sunday Sweats in partnership with Kuula. It is a fun ladder flow that creates a moving meditation of fluid motions that leave you feeling like you are dancing your way through class.

Flow Motion Community Class

This wonderful vinyasa flow focusses on working our inner thighs and hip flexors as we move creatively around our mat.

Creative Vinyasa - Inner Thighs & Hip Flexors

One of my favourite flows to play with spinal mobility and functional movements to help strengthen our hip flexors, glutes and core - all in support of our back!

Spinal Mobility

This creative sequence is one of my favourites, incorporating Eagle pose into different variations of the posture as we work with fun transitions.

Fly Like an Eagle

This is a great power yoga class I taught for Black Lives Matter. All music supporting POC artists and a very fun, and creative flow to practice to!

Power Yoga for Black Lives Matter

Enjoy this creative sequence where we work with and towards Baby Grasshopper Pose.

Creative Sequence with Baby Grasshopper Pose

This class takes all of the bird named postures into one creative sequence, using poses such as Crow, Eagle, Pigeon, Peacock - as well as their variations. 

Birds of a Feather

This class is all about working our side muscles through drills and transitions for our obliques

Tweak Your Obliques

This creative sequence focusses on bringing the right kind of effort and awareness into our postures and movements in between.

The Right Kind of Effort

This beautiful, creative flow is all about dancer's pose and several variations of it as we work on back bends and heart openers. 

Tiny Dancer

Join me for this class all about improving our ability to do the splits as we play with its variations and work on strengthening and lengthening our hip flexors and hamstrings!

Blitz the Splits

This is a power yoga class focussing on repetitive movements to build strength through creative sequencing.

Power Hour Flow

This fun and creative power flow focusses on movements for hip mobility.

Power Hip Mobility

This creative sequence takes you through movements and exercises all focussed on helping build strength, balance and alignment as we work towards Crow Pose.

Flow to Crow

This creative sequence takes us through open and closed postures as we work our way towards binds and then using opposing postures to open up the body.

Bind & Release

This recording for a class I taught is all about the journey towards handstand. Focussing more on creative flow than workshop style instruction, this class will help you strengthen the right body parts and gain a better understanding for practicing headstand in its many variations.

Journey Headstand

This series is of shorter yoga classes that include creative vinyasa flows with some elements of hiit and functional movement incorporated. Discover new ways to move around your mat as you build strength and mobility in your body.

45 Minute Yoga Flows

This is a dynamic 45 minute creative class, using fluid movement to strengthen and lengthen the body in a well rounded flow.

Presence

A slower flow that starts with some yummy stretches and glute strengthening exercises and then takes us into more flowy and creative movements before our final relaxation.

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Strengthen & Lengthen (Slow Flow)

A lovely, slower practice that starts us off with some yummy stretches as we then progress to core work and a creative flow. Moving mindfully with our breath we focus on the theme of being vs doing, and the importance of gratitude.

Being & Gratitude

A beautifully, creative flow that we repeat three times to get the hang of the sequence as we practice moving with intention.

Moving with Intention

A class focussed on the theme of creativity as we embrace play and new forms of movement to help with neuroplasticity

Creativity

A beautiful 45 minute practice that takes us through creative movements combining barre and yoga as we focus on a theme of being enough.

Be Enough

Boundaries are a sign of self respect and yet so many of us struggle to put our needs before those of others. This is a slower dynamic practice that works the glutes (creating a bit of fire) as we focus on the them of healthy boundaries.

Boundaries

This entire class takes place without any standing postures, thus the title "Low Flow". Creative and fluid, this is a great class to practice in the morning as we wake our body up!

Morning Low Flow

A creative and purposeful sequence intended to help those struggling with back pain (especially as we spend most of our days seated) through drills and functional movement

Mellow Flow for Back Pain

This is a strong, dynamic practice (but short!) that has us moving creatively around our mats tuning into body and breath as we dive deeper inside and out.

Choice

A very fun and creative flow that challenges your balance as we find new ways to move around our mat, using a theme of the spark of infinite potential that lives within us all and allowing our light to shine bright no matter what.

Let Your Light Shine Bright

A nice, slow and nourishing flow to celebrate our bodies and all they do for us. Move creatively around the mat, creating space in the body and mind to just be, releasing the things that no longer serve our greater good and finding union in mind, body and breath.

Body Love Slow Flow

Samskaras are the subconscious imprints in our minds that over time create, patterns and habits and eventually impact our personalities. Samskaras can get in the way of our spiritual progress when negative so we use our practice to eliminate the mind and body of impurities.

Samskaras

Used as the opposite to ecstasy, enstasy is where the ordinary space-time continuum disappears and there is experience of the eternal present - an act of grace. In this short practice we move creatively rooted in the present moment through movement and breath.

Enstasy - Standing Inside Oneself

This is a great mobility class focussed on the hips as we move creatively around our mats combining yoga with functional movement. Class theme on finding harmony, inside and out.

Mobility and Harmony

This 45 minute class focusses on back strength and mobility working the glutes, core, hip flexors and back chain with plenty of heart openers to help remind you of your strength and worth as we listen to the powerful words of Glennon Doyle reminding us that we can do hard things!

We Can Do Hard Things

A lovely, creative practice with a lot of back and core strengthening as we move around our mat building strength and length. Class theme is around our true identity, beyond what we perceive in the outside world as we connect with the mantra So'Ham - I Am.

Soham - I Am

This is a lovely class focussed on mobility and new ways to move the body, building strength and expansion through creative movement. We use a theme that focusses on our attitude and how we respond to things that happen to us.

Attitude & Action - Mobility Class

This is a nice and flowy, dynamic class that combines mobility with creative sequencing focussed predominantly around our hips. Some transitions may feel tricky but you can modify as needed! Class theme around awareness.

Space, Grace and Happiness

This 45 minute class is all about creating space, in our body and mind as we embrace acceptance and move with an open heart through a beautifully creative sequence - preempting our weekend community flow.

Creating Space

This shorter 45 minute class is a beautiful heart opening flow that focusses on the theme of acceptance. We move creatively around our mat through poses some of my favourite poses like fallen triangle and wild thing

Open & Accepting

This is a beautifully creative fluid flow, meaning that we work with a foundation sequence and each time we repeat the sequence we add on! We will go through 5 rounds of this flow, enough to make you feel like you know where you are going!

The Universe Has Your Back

This shorter class focusses on our upper back (thoracic) and shoulders as we work to build strength and improve mobility in one of the areas most impacted by our sedentary lives. Enjoy drills and a creative sequence that will leave you feeling more a lot more open!

Back & Shoulders

This is another fun and creative vinyasa flow requiring attention as we find new ways to move around our mat. Focusing on the theme of resilience we remember that "it is not the strongest of the species that survives ... It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

Dancing In The Rain

In this very creative, glutes focussed class, we build on strength and mobility weaving through the theme of integrity and intention as it applies both to our practice and to our lives. This is a dynamic sequence that may challenge you but is open to all levels.

Integrity On & Off the Mat

This creative vinyasa sequence sets us up for our Sunday practice as we find new ways to move around our mat in fluid motion. Using the theme of owning our power, recognising where in our lives we play the victim, giving our power away.

Own Your Power

In this 45 minute class we focus on strengthening the core and shoulders, two key areas that in our yoga practice help us move through postures with control. A weak core can wreak havoc on our back and weak shoulders can lead to injury as we move through vinyasas or any poses that weight bear on the hands.

Core & Shoulders

This beautifully creative vinyasa flow class will take you through fluid, embodied movements as we allow ourselves to feel it all, connecting to our emotions and their invaluable messages. Where we feel, we often find the wound - this class is all about giving yourself permission to just be.

The Invitation

In this 45 minute video we move through a strong and focussed practice, as we get curious about the lessons available to us in our struggles and the clarity we find when we allow the mud to settle. "Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending."

Letting the Mud Settle

This slower flow is all about nourishment as we move creatively through a gentle sequence, stretching out any kinks in the body. Tuning in to how we feel, moving with awareness, fully connected to our truths - this flow will leave you feeling completely blissed out.

Slow & Nourishing Flow

This challenging but slower flow focusses on our legs and a more grounding sequence, working our glutes, hip flexors, quads and hamstrings. We navigate our need to slow down in order to connect with what needs changing - in our bodies and in our lives.

Soulful Slow Flow

A very creative sequence that will leave you feeling stretched and strong as we work through a flow without any traditional vinyasas in it! Lots of side body and core strengthening and spine lengthening, this is a unique sequence inspired by teacher Jenni Rawlings.

Vinyasa with No Vinyasas

A happy hips creative sequence, we move through our practice focussing on finding the opportunity in the difficulty, learning to change the way we see things to serve our greater good. Plenty of side stretching and hip opening to leave you feeling like new!

Opportunity in Difficulty

This power flow is a strong practice focussed on building strength in the body, learning to hold our weight in the right way and move with control. We use the theme of putting ourselves first as we cannot pour from an empty cup.

Fill Your Cup

This 45 Minute class has the theme of challenging our limitations as we move creatively around our mat, building strength and mobility in the body through mindful movement.

Challenge Your Limitations

This creative class works and gets the entire body moving! Starting off with glute exercises, we move into some fun side plank variations and arm strength exercises before getting into our flow. We finish off the class with some stretches, core work, supine twists and a lovely savasana!

Full Body MOT

For this class we move through our practice in a fluid flow as we connect with our emotions - the physical embodiment of our thoughts. Creative transitions guide us through a sequence we repeat as we move one breath one movement, fully present in this embodied practice.

45 Minute Embodied Movement

This yummy class is all about working towards our Skandasana pose (Surfer's Lunge). A lot of us struggle with the strength and mobility to move comfortably into and out of Skandasana so this class is all about strengthening, lengthening, and moving the right body parts to help us with this pose. This is a very creative class with a great playlist to follow you on your journey!

Journey to Skandasana (Surfer's Lunge)

This shorter class is focussed on working our back - helping to strengthen our back chain, reduce lower back pain and increase thoracic mobility, ideal for the end of a long day sitting at your desk!

45 Minute Back MOT

In this class we work on building both core and arm strength to help support our journey to arm balances like crow and side crow as well as our lift up into tripod headstand.

45 Minute Journey to Arm Balances

This class is all about improving the mobility of our thoracic spine, something that gets locked up and rounded due to our sedentary lifestyles.

45 Minute Thoracic Flow

This creative 45 minute class introduces new ways to move around our mat as we focus on the theme of Purpose - moving with purpose, knowing our purpose, having a purpose.

45 Minute Creative Movement Sequence

This lovely fluid flow builds on a ladder flow as we move one breath one movement in this creative, dance like sequence with a theme of tuning into our emotions (energy in motion).

45 Minutes 1 Breath 1 Movement

This is a fun and energetic animal flow sequence where we learn new ways to move around our mat, focussed primarily on building shoulder and core strength with a theme of leaning into the unknown!

45 Minute Animal Flow

This energetic 45 minute class creatively moves you around your mat, lengthening and strengthening the body with a theme of Belonging.

45 Minutes - Movement is Medicine

I taught this fun class on my birthday - it's a shorter 45 minute fluid flow that takes us around our mat, building strength and mobility through mindful, controlled and creative movements.

45 Minute Birthday Fluid Flow

This shorter class kicks off a week of classes all around our inner thighs and hip flexors, helping us improve stability in postures and deepen our journey to splits and backbends!

45 Minute Flow - Inner Thighs & Hip Flexors

This shorter but dynamic class is all about warming up our wrists and strengthening our hips through creative and functional movements linked together into a fluid flow.

45 Minute Fluid Flow - Wrists & Hips

Enjoy this 45 minute class fully focussed on spinal mobility and building back support by strengthening our glutes, core and hip flexors.

45 Minute Spinal Mobility

Enjoy this shorter yet dynamic yoga flow that was done to raise fund for Black Lives Matter

45 Minute Dynamic Vinyasa for Black Lives Matter

Enjoy this creative sequence of fluid movements that feels like a dance as you move around your mat.

45 Minute Fluid Flow

Enjoy this creative combination of hiit with yoga to boost energy and build strength.

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