Gentle Reset Yoga

This gentle yoga practice is designed to meet you wherever you are—whether you’re starting your day, winding down in the evening, or simply needing a mindful reset. Through slow stretches, intentional breath, and simple movements, you’ll release tension, awaken the body, and reconnect with your inner calm.
This practice supports flexibility, circulation, and nervous system balance while helping you feel grounded, refreshed, and relaxed. Step onto your mat, move with awareness, and allow your body, mind, and spirit to come back into harmony.
Perfect for all levels, this is your space to reset, restore your energy, and return to yourself.

Transcript

This gentle practice is perfect to start your day, Maybe to end your day, Or if you need a little reset during the day. So let's begin with a upright straight back coming into a comfortable seated position. Connecting your mind to your body. Giving yourself permission to relax. And to settle down. Into this place. And space. Become aware of your breath. Take your left hand on your belly. Take a deep inhale. And exhale out of the mouth. Do that two more times at your own pace. Bring the hands together in prayer pose in front of the heart. Rub the palms together. Place your palms over your heart. Bow your head. Setting an intention for your practice today. Gently open your eyes. Release the hands. We'll come into our first posture. Taking the soles of the feet together. We'll come into butterfly. Allow the heels to come in either close to your sit bones or further away or in between. Whatever feels right for your body today. Take a deep inhale. Exhale folding from the hip gently coming forward And when you come to that point of resistance, Take a deep inhale. Exhale out of the mouth. Inhale again. And exhale and completely fold forward. Allow yourself to release and let go. Folding into this posture. Using your breath, To help you release and let go. Using a special word or mantra or affirmation. To help you stay. Anchored down in this. Posture so that you can release and let go. Now go deep within. On the next inhale tuck your chin to your chest. And gently rolling up one vertebrae at a time. Coming to his straight back. Allowing the head to be the last to come up. Pausing there a moment and then bringing the knees together. Extending the legs out in front of you. Shake them out. Maybe taking little fists. And just gently tap your legs. Listening to your body intuition, Honoring your body in whatever way. It's asking for love, Attention, Release. And when you're ready, Coming over into tabletop. In your tabletop, Let's do a couple cat-cows taking a deep inhale. Taking a gaze high up to the heavens. And then exhale, Curling the spine, Tucking the chin into the chest. Moving with your breath. Closing your eyes, And make this like a moving meditation. I'm bringing the spine to neutral. Pausing here a moment. And then taking an inhale and stepping your right foot in between both hands. And allowing your left knee to come back a little bit. And you can either stay here. And you can have your left foot, The toes of your left foot. Curled under or you can relax the foot down. You can keep your tips of your fingers on the ground, Or you can rest your palms up on your knee. Whatever feels comfortable for you. Moving into the posture, Wherever the point of resistance is, And then staying there, Making this. A place to release. And let go. Focusing on your breath. Focusing on your intention. And dropping into long deep breathing. On the next inhale, Gently start to release, Coming out of the pose. And when you're ready, Take your. . . Left shin. Bringing the right knee and the shin. Down to the ground coming into your pigeon pose. Moving gently. Moving with grace, Moving with love, Honoring your body where it's at today. Starting with a deep inhale. Exhale out of the mouth. On the next inhale start to release. Coming down to your point of resistance, Wherever that may be. And allowing yourself to completely melt into the posture. On the next inhale, Tuck the chin to the chest. Rolling up. Gently coming out of the pose, Leaning over onto the right hip, And take the left foot on the outside of the right knee. Inhaling straight back. Exhale out of the mouth. Inhale the right arm high up to the heavens. And on the exhale, Whatever feels right for you to twist over to the left. Long deep breathing On the next inhale, Start to release the pose, Coming around to the other side, Counter pose. And then gently release coming forward, Coming through tabletop again. Listening to your body intuition, Whatever feels right for you, Maybe a couple cat cows. Honoring that body-mind-spirit connection. Maybe you want to go up into downward dog. Maybe it feels comfortable for you today to go into child's pose. Stretching and moving the body to honor yourself. And when you're ready, Stepping the left foot in between the hands. Noticing that. The right knee. May want to go back a little bit. Maybe you wish to curl your toes under of your right foot. Maybe you wish to lay the top of the foot down. Maybe staying up on your fingertips is where you want to be today. Or maybe his hands on top of your knee, Wherever you are, Take a long, Deep inhale. Exhale out of the mouth. Completely release and let go. Take a deep inhale. Exhale out of the mouth. Coming down into pigeon pose on the left side. And move gracefully. Moving. With intention and being gentle on your body. Starting with an upright spine, Take a deep inhale. Exhale out of the mouth. Deep inhale again. And gently fold forward to your point of resistance, Allowing yourself to completely release and let go. On the next inhale gently. Come out of the pose. And when you're ready, Going over onto the left hip, Taking the right foot around. Placing the right foot on the outside of the left knee. Taking a deep inhale with a straight back. Exhale out of the mouth. Inhale the left arm high up to the heavens and exhale over to the right. Honoring your body however it wishes and wants. To take this twist. Long deep breathing. On the next deep inhale, Come around to center, Over to the left for a counter twist. And then gently releasing the legs tap them out in front of you. And then extending the legs out to come into dragon pose. Inhaling with a straight back. And exhale, Just gently bring the hands and fingertips forward coming to the point of your resistance. Notice that the feet are relaxed. Take a deep inhale. Exhale out of the mouth. Deep inhale again. And exhale, Fold forward. Allow yourself to completely release into the pose. On the next inhale, Tuck the chin to the chest. Roll the spine up. Bring the head in alignment with the straight back. Pausing here a moment. Bring the head. Up straight. Tap out the legs. Bend the knees. And bring the knees together. And very gently roll down onto your back. Hug the knees into the chest. Massage the lower back. And when you're ready extend the legs out. Taking a moment for your Shavasana to completely release and let go, Melting into the ground beneath you. I invite you to stay here as long as you wish. And I thank you for practicing with me today.