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
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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. Your 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
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2. 15 minutes to nourish your shoulders
3. 12 minutes to rejuvenate your upper body & mind
4. 13 minute simple seated work break
1. Feet, ankles & balancing!
2. Nurture Your Knees!
3. Mindful movement to release & unwind March 26th
4. Bedtime Practice for Better Sleep April 4th
5. Evening Wind Down Sept 26th
6. New Moon Evening Zoom Oct 3rd
7. Full Moon Practice Oct 17th
8. Release & Replenish (hip nourishing practice) Oct 22nd
9. Release & Replenish (& deepen your breath) Nov 12th
10. Evening Wind Down Zoom (35 mins)
11. Release & Replenish: gentle side-openers Jan 21st 2025
12. Heart (Anahata) Chakra practice
13. Release & Replenish April 8th
14. Release & Replenish Belly Chakra practice May 8th
15. Release & Replenish May 22nd
16. Centre & Replenish winter practice June 5th
17. Joint nurturing, breath deepening practice June 24th
18. Grounding, Calming & Warming practice July 2025
19. Spacious & Flowing Release & Replenish practice Imbolc 2025
20. Light + Grounded late winter/early spring practice
21. Restful Spacious Calm practice Aug 4th 2025
22. Release & Replenish Sept 16th 2025 with extra love for your upper back & shoulders
23. Spring Equinox Guided Deep Rest yoga nidra
24. Release & Replenish evening practice around the Full Moon Nov 4th 2025
1. About anxiety and these practices
2. From Flight to Calm (8 mins)
3. From Freeze to Calm (8 mins)
4. A simple hand pressure point (Talahridaya Marma point)
5. The Half Salamander
6. Little finger pressure point
7. A little mantra & mudra to bring you back to yourself (Sa Ta Na Ma)
8. The Butterfly Hug
9. Ground yourself through your senses
1. A chair practice to nourish your nervous system and your heart centre
2. A standing practice to reset your nervous system
3. A chair practice to release & replenish
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4. Soothing body & mind and cultivating focus
5. Refresh & Release + eyes & wrist relief
6. Restoring spacious ease
7. A standing practice for balanced, grounded calm
8. Energised calm, with extra love for your upper back & shoulders
9. Centered, calm & focused.
10. Joint-nurturing, breath-restoring, flowing circles practice
11. Warming, energising & clarifying
1. Bedtime Practice (14 mins)
2. Better Sleep Relaxation to listen to in bed
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)
7. Seeds of self-compassion (21 mins)
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).
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6. Water Element meditation for ease & calm (13 minutes)
7. Deep awareness of wellbeing through the koshas (12 minutes)
1. Black Snake Sheds her Skin (12 minute video)
2. Spring Equinox Guided Deep Rest yoga nidra (27 mins)
3. Beltaine (late spring) meditation (13 mins)
4. Beltaine Yoga Nidra Guided Deep Rest
5. Summer Solstice Yoga Nidra
6. Summer Practice (19 minute video)
7. Lúnasa Guided Deep Rest(yoga nidra) (31 mins)
8. Water Element Practice (knee & wrist friendly) for summer & early autumn- 30 mins
9. Autumn Practice (24 mins)
10. Autumn Equinox yoga nidra 2025
11. Late Autumn moving meditation (Autumn Calm standing sequence) 20 mins
12. Late Autumn Yoga Nidra Guided Deep Rest (27 mins)
13. Winter practice: moving meditation for strong supple hips and centred calm
14. Centred & Replenished Winter Breath Meditation (9 minutes)
15. Winter Solstice Guided Deep Rest
16. Winter Warmth Guided Deep Rest yoga nidra
17. Imbolc (late winter) Growing Light guided deep rest yoga nidra
18. Winter to Spring/kapha balancing movement meditation (13 minute video)
19. Light + Grounded late winter/early spring practice (32 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)
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4. Release & Replenish evening practice around the Full Moon (27 mins)
5. Full Moon Circles practice 2 (28 mins)
6. Heart-Centred Full Moon practice (32 mins)
7. Release the "full moon crazies" & cultivate calm (29 mins)
1. A 10 minute breath practice for calm & focus.
2. Rest Your Mind & Senses (12 minutes)
3. Setting an intention from the heart: guided deep rest (28 minutes)
4. Restful Dark/New Moon Floor practice (31 mins)
5. New Moon standing to floor practice recorded on Zoom May 27th (30 mins)
6. Gentle Dark/New Moon practice
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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. Make friends with your hips (22 minutes)
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2. Harmonise & balance with a wall: 30 min practice
3. Moving meditation for strong supple hips and centred calm
4. Downloadable PDF on OJAS: the deep reservoir of wellness
5. Gentle Practices for Natural Calm Kit for Families
6. Breath & Pain Management Meditation
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. How to Cat
6. Step 4 - smooth lunging!
7. Step 5 - from standing to down and back up again
8. Step 6 - how to Cobra!
9. Step 7 - Cats & Cobras
10. Putting it all together very slowly
11. The whole Gentle Sun Salute sequence - go with the flow!
12. PDF chart of the warm ups & primers
13. PDF chart of the whole Gentle Sun Salute sequence
14. Adding Downward Dog if you want to: preparing your shoulders
15. More Downward Dog prep: practise with a wall
16. How to turn your cat into a dog!
17. A very useful tip for easeful shoulders & neck in Downward Dog
18. Adding Downward Dog if you want to: stepping in & out
19. Adding Downward Dog if you want to: the whole Salute
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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

10 to 15 minute short yoga breaks

Recent or popular community Zoom sessions

The Little Anxiety Soothing Toolkit

Yoga for Lunch: 25 to 30 minute workbreak or daytime practices

Night Time Practices for Better Sleep

Guided Deep Rest & Relaxation

Short meditations you can do anywhere

Seasons and life transitions

Full Moon Practices

Dark/New Moon Practices

Restorative Yoga

Extras & Helpful Things

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

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