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Yoga Teacher | The Pause Practice by Unwind™
🧘🏻‍♀️Recovery yoga. For bodies & minds that work hard.

I teach Yin yoga focused events for stress release & hip mobility. At my events you release, restore, soften, soothe your mind, and find calm focus 🧘

29/10/2026

There is no 'best way to rest'. There is only your best way to rest and even that can look different on different days.

Learning to pause is an interesting journey of revelations and (surprisingly) not always easy. Can you simply switch off? Whats your preferred way (today) to rest?

21/10/2026

In a culture that equates productivity with worth, doing feels valuable and resting can feel like wasting time.

Several things reinforce this idea:

Conditioning: We are rewarded for achieving, helping and being busy, rarely for resting.

Guilt: Rest can feel selfish, especially when there is always something that needs doing.

Identity: Being productive gives us a sense of purpose and control.

Nervous system habits: When we are used to constant activity or stress, stillness can feel uncomfortable rather than relaxing.

Invisible work: Mental loads, caregiving and emotional responsibilities make it difficult to feel 'off duty'.

The paradox: We often feel we must earn rest through productivity, when rest is actually a fundamental human need, not a reward for getting things done.

Do you feel guilty when you are resting? Ie not sleeping, but simply pausing during the day? I know I do!

16/10/2026

Has it been another day of holding everything together? If the answer is yes, then here is your pause practice, this one is targeting your outer hips. Once your outer hips feel release, the whole body and mind can follow a little better.

Hips can vary so much tension from sitting, standing or even walking and gardening. This little sequence gives you a few moments to notice that tension in the hips, and soften with time and support.

When you're able to let the muscles go, your breathing can relax.

When the breath relaxes and slows, the mind de-frazzles, too.

Stay for a few minutes in each pose or as long as feels good, your body is different from mine and everyone else's, your outcome of this sequence is yours alone, no need to perform or achieve.

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12/10/2026

07/10/2026

The next Pause Practice is on YouTube - this is a 10 minute practice that's amazing after sitting all day. You'll move your back and spine and stay in each pose for a while to allow the muscles to relax and your mind to quieten - just want you need when you need to come back to yourself after 'doing' all day.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/udYvocTP8ys

04/10/2026

The Pause Practice is here 🙏

I nearly didn’t post the first video because, naturally, I have watched it back and can see approximately one million things I would now do differently....

But if I do not post it now, it simply will never happen!

The Pause Practice was never meant to be about perfect yoga and that is also not how I teach. There isn't a perfect (yoga) body or a yoga production. This is about having somewhere to go when you need to slow down for a little while.

So here it is!!

Come Down Yoga is 25 minutes of slow movement, soft stretching and a little stillness. This session is good when you feel stiff, tired, have trained, have spent too long sitting or when your head is still going long after you’d quite like it to stop.

Nowhere else to be and nothing else to do - just 25 minutes to come down.

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or DM me for the link 💛

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