Wellness By Vicky : Recent Episodes

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As a new yoga teacher, having just finished teaching training, going to teach your first class can be daunting. Recording yourself teaching yoga is the best way to practice giving alignment cues and finding your yoga voice. This podcast contains recordings of yoga classes as practiced by Vicky, a new teacher facing the yoga industry. The raw and unedited recording range from 10-20 minute sessions to full one hour long classes. These recordings can help supplement your own home yoga practice or can be used as a way to begin yoga in the comfort of your own home.

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This is a vinyasa flow class, medium paced but still accessible for beginners and those new to the practice of yoga. 

For this class, a yoga block or pillow may come in handy to elevate the hips in seated postures.

As always, please practice mindfully and within your own body and abilities.

Please feel free to contact me with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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This short session provides a warm up sequence for the body that can be practiced for general body awakening or before more yoga postures and flows. 

As always, please practice mindfully and within your body and abilities.

Please feel free to contact with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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This episode takes you through massage and release techniques for the chest and shoulder regions. The areas covered include releasing tension across the chest and pectoralis areas, releasing muscles attached to the occipital ridge and releasing the muscles around the shoulder blade and rotator cuff.  Props required for this session include yoga blocks and a tennis or massage ball. A towel or other piece of clothing for padding may also be useful.  

As always, please practice mindfully and within your body and abilities. 

Please feel free to contact with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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This episode takes you through a few simple massage techniques to release tension in the head and neck region. The areas covered include massaging the Temporalis, the occipital ridge and the Sternocleidomastoid muscles. 

As always, please practice mindfully and within your body and abilities. 

Please feel free to contact with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com 

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This session of Yin Yoga focuses on the legs, working into the hamstrings, quadriceps, inner thighs (adductors) and hips. This class was written especially for those without a mat to practice Yin Yoga at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. 

For a written and visual description of this class, please visit my website https://www.wellnessbyvicky.com/2020/04/13/yoga-in-lock-down-yin-yoga/

As always, please practice mindfully and within your own body and abilities. 

Please feel free to contact me with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com 

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is the final session of a full class, which covers Bridge Pose ( Setu Bandhasana), Legs up the Wall Inversion (Viparita Karani) and Final Relaxation (Savasana) . This episode follows on from session 7.

Please get in touch with any comments or feedback at hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 7 of a full class, which covers Tree Pose (Vrksasana). This episode follows on from session 6.

Please get in touch with any comments or feedback at hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 6 of a full class, which covers Triangle Pose (Trikonasana). This episode follows on from session 5. 

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 5 of a full class, which covers Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II). This episode follows on from session 4. 

Please feel free to get in touch with any comments or feedback at hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 4 of a full class, which covers Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar A). This episode follows on from session 3. 

Please get in touch with any comments or feedback at hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 3 of a full class, which covers Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar A). This episode follows on from session 2. 

Please get in touch with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 2 of a full class, which covers core activation and alignment in Downward Facing Dog. This episode follows on from session 1. 

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An absolute beginners yoga class broken down into short sections. This is session 1 of a full class, which covers breath work and a short warm up. This episode can be used as a stand alone warm up session before any class. 

Please get in touch with any comments or feedback: hello@wellnessbyvicky.com

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Welcome to the Wellness by Vicky podcast. The recordings you hear in this podcast were recorded as a tool for me to practice teaching yoga. Some episodes are short segments of classes ranging 10-20 minutes in length. Others are longer full length one hour yoga classes. 

I hope these recording will come in useful for those practicing at home. 

Please feel free to leave any comments or feedback at hello@wellnessbyvicky.com.

Thank you for listening.

Namaste

Vicky