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Yoga with Dana Gifford

Menai : Yoga, Hatha vinyasa yoga, prenatal , pregnancy yoga, breathing, relaxation, meditation

25/11/2025

High Lunge Pose : Building Strength, Balance & Confidence.
🟡Improves balance & stability while strengthening your legs & core muscles.🟡Expands your chest & shoulders. 🟡Stretches your hips & psoas ( a deep hip flexor muscle).🟡Builds balance & proprioception.

22/11/2025

SAVE THE DATE - Sunday 15th Feb 2026 as we are organising a fundraiser event for a beautiful family in our community whose little girl has been diagnosed with Brain Cancer.

Please join us for a beginner friendly & fun morning of exercise run by Miriam & Dana including both Gymball & yoga.
More details to follow.

06/10/2025

🌻Yoga is about meeting you where you are. 🌻Yoga allows you to adjust your practice to fit your body & mind on any given day. 🌻Acknowledge & accept yourself taking options that suit your body.

23/05/2025

🌈At the end of every storm there’s always a rainbow. You just have to look for it !
🌈It’s been a hectic week of huge rain and chaos. As I drove this afternoon there was this most magnificent rainbow. Like a halo in the sky.
🌈It gave me an opportunity to stop and reflect on the week just gone.
🌈Our yoga practice this week focused on helping people relieve their pain.
🌈We did this with movement, breathing techniques & A guided relaxation for Shifting the pain response.
🌈Pain also affects our emotions , sense of self & reshapes our identity. It’s not just a physical experience.
🌈Rainbows can bring smiles, a sense of ease and curiosity.

14/04/2025

💫Yoga can help inflammation 💫Our lymphatic system is a vital part of our immune system 💫Specific yoga exercises contract the muscles for transport of the lymphatic fluid & move it towards the lymphatic ducts into the nodes where the lymphatic fluid is filtered & moved into the blood stream💫Yoga can help keep our lymphatic fluid healthy & moving throughout our body💫

03/02/2025

As the year began I asked my students “What are you looking forward to doing in yoga this year ?”. Here are some student replies. I love all of these . Everybody is different so whatever your response, it is fabulous and correct !

12/01/2025

🩵Only 1 sleep to go till we begin yoga for 2025. Yippee !
🩵Get your mat, block, strap & blankets ready.
🩵Plus our lovable pets for online classes. Love seeing your adorable pets during online classes. Super cute!

20/12/2024

Over the holiday summer time find something you enjoy !

05/11/2024

🟠Leading into surgery our physical & mental health is most important.
🟠Including yoga in your pre operation phase is helpful for your fitness to reduce complications both during & after surgery.
🟠Plus it also improves your recovery post operation because your muscles are stronger & your joints have been practicing moving through their full range of motion.
🟠The benefits of yoga breathing, relaxation & meditation help keep you calm, passive & patient during this time of change.

16/09/2024

Anxiety is real : This week in our yoga class we will be enjoying “A progressive muscle relaxation “ as part of our practice . Yoga is for every body. Please join us . 💫

31/05/2024

Yoga for Pain Care - Back Pain.
Constructive Chair Pose
💫 Lying with your lower legs & feet on a chair.
💫 Your intension is to create a release of pressure in your lower back.
💫 When you lye in this position with your knees over your hips you allow your big hip flexor muscle Iliopsoas to soften & relax.
💫 The upright position of chair sitting means your psoas muscle is constantly engaged just to be upright.
💫 Lying with your legs on a chair means you have the assistance of gravity & the muscles are able to let go, soften & relax.
💫 Additionally, add an eye pillow over your eyes & chill out.
💫 Feel supported by the earth in this position.

30/01/2024

So happy to be back at yoga this week 😀💙

Love seeing you online & in the studio. Bring on 2024 !!

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Menai, NSW

Telephone

+61438645811

Website

http://www.yogawithdana.com.au/

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