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Beginner II
This slow flow beginner class with Guy is a fluid and flowing, highly breath-centered practice intended to uplift your energy and give you clarity as you face your day. Note: It is recommended to have a block for this practice however this is entirely optional.
This can either be done as a stand-alone class or as Day 2 of Grounding and Strength 14-Day Beginner Yoga Challenge.
Beginning Flow Playlist (to be played with the class)
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Wonderful incorporation of breath, easy pace, full body movement, and relaxing visuals. Thank you :)
Day 2 for me. Thank you for a wonderful relaxing start to my day! I like the breathing prompts too! I thought this was going to be very easy and then suddenly found the leg lunges (dips) very hard to do! Which is good. Strengthening required here! Many thanks!
thank you, my backdrop sound was a thunder storm, lovely and grounding way to wake up.
Lovely, relaxing slow flow that also offers some flexibility and strength. Guy has such a soothing manner!
Gentle flowing movements to ease into your morning or end a work day spent in front of a computer. Just what I needed today, thank you Guy!
Great Class! Thankyou!
Really lovely. Namaste
I really enjoyed this class and wish it were longer. I found the knee lunges a bit wobbly but with any luck they won't stay that way. Thank you Guy!
Thanks Guy, First time with this 14 day challenge . It was just right for starting the day!
This class was a great way to wake to wake up my body! The instructor was calm and supportive and the instructions were very clear
Mind-body connection was spot on! thank you
Love this class. The perfect time with a variety of movement. I love that it makes you use your breath with the motion! Thanks. :)
I've been doing yoga on this site for many years. As I age, however, I've developed some arthritis. This class was wonderful for "lubing" the joints and getting warm and loose. Motion is lotion as they say.
Such a lovely flowing class, very relaxing. Just a question - with the dancing pose and the 1 bent knee goes behind the other - I presume that it matters not if the hips move i.e. they don't have to stay facing forwards?
Feeling very relaxed for the rest of the day now.
Another nice practice with Guy. Love the movement of the spine and body in so many directions.
Oh and Guy... how about happy bug instead of dead bug. I am using it when I teach and happy bug sounds and feels better. :)
I really enjoyed this class! My first class with Guy and feel great. Nice way to wake up and get going!
Great way to start the day and the New Year! Thanks Guy and Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year!
Lovely, a nice gentle class to start the day. Thanks Guy.
Ooh, that was lovely, thank you Guy. I always love Guy's classes, it really is yoga for life. However I am feeling, I know I will be able to participate fully and feel wonderful afterwards.
This class has a wonderful, rhythmic flow to it. At least once a week I do a YouTube barre ballet class, and Guy’s class has a rhythm that is almost dance like. It’s is first one of his classes I’ve taken, and I plan to try his other classes. There was one part I did not understand. In the tree pose, did he say to put the foot on the knee or above the knee? One of my first studio yoga teachers taught us not to put our foot on the knee during this pose so I never have. Are there different opinions on this? I plan to post this question in the forum for more responses. Thank you.
Hi there EmBe! I'm glad you enjoyed my class and you ask a great question. Contemporary yoga teaching tends to have many unfounded statements and beliefs about what is safe or not safe for your body. These are slowly being identified and removed from our teaching vocabulary, but in the meantime, physical yoga myths persist! One of these popular myths is that it is not safe to press your foot against the opposite knee joint in tree pose. An easy way to debunk this is to think about Lego blocks: if I've got two Lego blocks side-by-side, how can you get them to stick together? By connecting the two sides with another block! That's exactly what pressing your foot across your knee joint does -- particularly if you provide a corresponding resistance from your standing leg back toward the foot against your knee (like clicking Lego blocks together). Our bodies are much more resilient that we give them credit for -- I would suggest questioning such physical yoga rules ("myths"?!?!) whenever you hear them. Anyhow, great question and thanks for bringing it up! Happy practicing, Guy
Thank you for this prompt reply. The Lego comparison makes a lot of sense to me. Now that I think about it, I only remember one teacher, my first, telling the class this so it may have been just that teacher. I didn’t know much about yoga so I didn’t question much. I have a 20-30 minute drive to yoga classes, and since I’ve come to enjoy practicing with DYWM at home, I doubt I will go back to yoga studios after Covid-19. The classes I missed going to in 2020 were the summer Yoga in the Park classes and a non-yoga YMCA barre class.
Thank you ! A lovely gentle class to wake-up. I feel loose, energized, and happy. A perfect progression from Guy's 14-Day Slow Flow Challenge. I think I'll be doing this one often!
Wonderful class. Wakes up all the body parts and love how Guy cues each movement with breath in breath out. I'm all set and ready for a new day :)
Really nice class! Thank you.