Gentle practices for natural calm

Gentle Practices for Natural Calm

Gentle Practices for Natural Calm is the nurturing, supportive, and effective way to customise short, do-able yoga, meditation & deep rest practices to feel calmer, breathe better, move easier, and find peace in the chaos of modern life. … all in a small community with the full support of a qualified, experienced teacher.

Feel more at home in your body, breathe better and move more easily with gentle 20 minute breath-based mindful movement practices
Sleep better, feel calm before a meeting, or start your day feeling expansive with easy 10 to 20 minute practices for different times of the day
Prevent stress from accumulating and leading to burnout or exhaustion by nurturing your nervous system regularly
Rediscover clarity, ease, calm and creativity with practices that are easy to fit into your life and perfectly matched to your unique mind-body nature
Keep your joints healthy with safe practices designed by an experienced, qualified teacher for real women with real bodies
Benefit from the support of an experienced teacher on your own terms, with opportunities to enjoy both on-demand and weekly live practices, and ask questions whenever you need.
Feel attuned and aligned with nature, with enjoyable, nature-inspired practices that celebrate the seasons and the lunar cycles
Enjoy effective, easy practices that fit you and your life without spending hours trying out YouTube videos that don’t suit you, doing it all alone without a teacher, or getting lost in a crowd.

Enrolments are currently closed. Next intake is early October

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Current contents (always being updated!)

1. Please start here
2. Quick access to your extra complimentary programs + the link to the phone app
3. Click here to book a half hour consult with me
4. Click here to book into the Zoom sessions or just get the quick link
5. Simple tips for making your practice happen
6. A little Mind-Body Nature E-Book for easy reference
7. Your Mind-Body Nature (Finding Your Path to Natural Calm) video
1. Grounded Calm (20 minutes)
2. Spacious Calm (21 minutes)
3. Energised Calm (20 minutes)
4. Cool & Calm (20 minutes)
5. Balance for Calm (20 minutes)
6. Centred, Confident Calm (19 minutes)
7. Awakened Calm (14 & a half minutes)
8. Settled Calm (19 minutes)
1. 15 minutes to restore & refresh with mindful movement
2. 15 minutes to nourish your shoulders
3. 12 minutes to rejuvenate your upper body & mind
1. Feet, ankles & balancing!
2. Nurture Your Knees!
3. Cooling & Calming Morning Practice for a hot day 22nd Feb 2024
4. Mindful movement to release & unwind March 26th
5. Bedtime Practice for Better Sleep April 4th
6. Lunchtime practice: refresh & restore
7. Lunchtime practice Sept 10th Refresh & Restore
8. Evening Wind Down Sept 26th
9. New Moon Evening Zoom Oct 3rd
10. Release & Replenish Oct 8th
11. Full Moon Practice Oct 17th
12. Release & Replenish (hip nourishing practice) Oct 22nd
13. Lunchtime Practice Oct 28th
14. Release & Replenish (& deepen your breath) Nov 12th
15. Evening Wind Down Zoom (35 mins)
16. Release & Replenish (shoulders & hips) Nov 26th
17. Release & Replenish (grounding) Dec 3rd 2024
18. Reset Your Nervous System half hour practice Jan 8th
19. Full Moon Practice (including Moon Salute) Jan 15th 2025
20. Release & Replenish: gentle side-openers Jan 21st 2025
21. Lunchtime practice with love for your upper back & shoulders Feb 18th
22. Release & Replenish Feb 25th 2025
23. Lunchtime "centering" practice March 4th 2025
24. Lunchtime practice - flowing circles March 12th 2025
25. Release & Replenish: Heart (Anahata) Chakra practice March 25th
26. "Happy Hips" Release & Replenish April 1st 2025
27. Release & Replenish April 8th
28. Release & Replenish Belly Chakra practice May 8th
29. Full Moon Circles Practice May 13th
30. Release & Replenish May 22nd
31. New Moon Zoom May 27th
1. About anxiety and these practices
2. A simple hand pressure point (Talahridaya Marma point)
3. The Half Salamander
4. Little finger pressure point
5. A little mantra & mudra to bring you back to yourself (Sa Ta Na Ma)
6. The Butterfly Hug
7. Ground yourself through your senses
1. Bedtime Practice
2. Better Sleep Relaxation
1. Walking meditation (10 minutes)
2. At the beach: an 8 minute meditation on the breath
3. Ground yourself in the Forest (8 & a half minutes)
4. Give yourself space with Dandelion Breathing (5 minutes)
5. Breath meditation for balanced, calm focus (8 minutes).
6. Water Element meditation for ease & calm (13 minutes)
7. Deep awareness of wellbeing through the koshas (12 minutes)
1. Blue Star Yoga Nidra (25 minutes)
2. Thoughts Become Clouds Yoga Nidra (20 minutes)
3. Forest Grounding Yoga Nidra (23 minutes)
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4. Quiet Pool of Stillness Yoga Nidra (20 minutes)
5. 12 minute Guided Breath Relaxation
6. Lotus of the Heart Yoga Nidra (23 minutes)
1. Water Element Practice (knee & wrist friendly) for summer & early autumn- 30 mins
2. Summer Practice (19 minute video)
3. Black Snake Sheds her Skin (12 minute video)
4. Summer Solstice Yoga Nidra
5. Winter to Spring/kapha balancing movement meditation (13 minute video)
6. Autumn Practice (24 mins)
7. Late Autumn moving meditation (Autumn Calm standing sequence) 20 mins
8. Winter practice: moving meditation for strong supple hips and centred calm
9. Centred & Replenished Winter Breath Meditation (9 minutes)
10. Autumn Equinox yoga nidra 2025
11. Late Autumn Yoga Nidra Guided Deep Rest (27 mins)
1. A heart-centred rest from roles & identity (15 minute meditation)
2. Moon Mandala Moving Meditation (16 minute video)
3. Full Moon Practice (including Moon Salute) recorded on Zoom Jan 15th 2025 (30 mins)
1. Rest Your Mind & Senses (12 minutes)
2. Setting an intention from the heart: guided deep rest (28 minutes)
1. Shoulder posture help & release with the Pranayama Fold pose
2. Destress your psoas & breathe easy (20 minutes)
3. Restful restorative practice inspired by natural elements (40 minutes)
1. About Surya Namaskar
2. Step 1 - a warm up primer for your hips
3. Step 2 - a warm up primer for your foot & ankle mobility
4. Step 3 - putting your hip & foot mobility together
5. Step 4 - smooth lunging!
6. Step 5 - from standing to down and back up again
7. Step 6 - how to Cobra!
8. Step 7 - Cats & Cobras
9. Putting it all together very slowly
10. The whole Gentle Sun Salute sequence - go with the flow!
11. PDF chart of the warm ups & primers
12. PDF chart of the whole Gentle Sun Salute sequence
13. Adding Downward Dog if you want to: preparing your shoulders
14. More Downward Dog prep: practise with a wall
15. How to turn your cat into a dog!
16. A very useful tip for easeful shoulders & neck in Downward Dog
17. Adding Downward Dog if you want to: stepping in & out
18. Adding Downward Dog if you want to: the whole Salute
1. Make friends with your hips (22 minutes)
2. Gentle Practices for Natural Calm Kit for Families
3. 15 minutes to nourish your shoulders
4. Moving meditation for strong supple hips and centred calm
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$80.00 / month

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Alison Eastland

Gentle Practices for Natural Calm

Enrolments are currently closed. Next intake is early October

Current contents (always being updated!)

Welcome!

Moving meditations

Short yoga breaks

Recent or popular community Zoom sessions

The Little Anxiety Soothing Toolkit

Night Time Practices for Better Sleep

Short meditations you can do anywhere

Guided Deep Rest & Relaxation

Seasons and life transitions

Full Moon Practices

Dark/New Moon Practices

Restorative Yoga

Gentle Sun Salute, (Surya Namaskar), step by step

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