Kanti Yoga studio

04/10/2025

🧘 20-Minute Hatha Yoga Routine (Beginner-Friendly)

1. Centering & Breath Awareness (2 min)

Sit comfortably with a straight spine.
Place hands on knees or lap.

Close eyes, inhale slowly through the nose, exhale fully.

🔸️ Count to 4 on inhale, 4 on exhale.

2. Gentle Warm-Up (3 min)

Neck rolls – 2 each direction.

Shoulder rolls – 5 forward, 5 back.

Cat–Cow (Marjaryasana–Bitilasana) – On hands and knees, inhale arch (cow), exhale round (cat). Repeat 5 cycles.

3. Sun Salutation A (Surya Namaskar) – 3 rounds (5 min)

Each round includes:

Mountain Pose → Forward Fold → Half Lift → Plank (or knees down) → Cobra → Downward Dog → Step forward → Half Lift → Forward Fold → Mountain Pose.

Move with slow breath, no rush.

4. Standing Postures (4 min)

Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II) – 3 breaths each side.

Triangle Pose (Trikonasana) – 3 breaths each side.

Tree Pose (Vrksasana) – Balance on one leg, place foot on calf or thigh, hands together at heart. Hold 3 breaths each side.

5. Seated / Floor Postures (4 min)

Seated Forward Fold (Paschimottanasana) – Sit tall, fold gently forward. Hold 5 breaths.

Seated Spinal Twist (Ardha Matsyendrasana) – 3 breaths per side.

Bridge Pose (Setu Bandhasana) – Lie on back, lift hips, 3 breaths.

6. Relaxation in Co**se Pose (Savasana) (2 min)

Lie flat on your back, arms and legs relaxed.

Close eyes, breathe naturally.

Release all effort, let the body rest.

✨ That’s it—20 minutes of balance, strength, and calm.
👉 End by sitting up, bringing palms together at the heart, and taking a moment of gratitude.

03/10/2025

🧡🧡 Happy Friday 🧡🧡

I'm looking forward to our wonderful workshop this evening. Yoga Nidra Meditation Relaxation Evening
Wrap up warm. Heating is on let's get Cosy.
🔸️Zoom available tonight- why not do the session in bed!!
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Yoga Nidra is often called “yogic sleep”—it’s a guided relaxation practice that takes you into a state between waking and sleeping.

Here’s why people do it:

🧘 Deep relaxation: It helps release physical, mental, and emotional tension.

💤 Better sleep: Many use it to improve insomnia and overall sleep quality.

🧠 Stress relief: It activates the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing stress and anxiety.

🎯 Mental clarity: It enhances focus, creativity, and self-awareness.

❤️ Healing & balance: Supports emotional regulation and can help in trauma recovery.

02/10/2025

🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️ Core Reasons to Meditate🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️

1. Mental Clarity & Focus

Meditation trains your mind to notice when it’s wandered and gently return to a chosen point of focus (like breath or sound).

This strengthens attention span and reduces the mental “noise” that can make you feel scattered.

2. Stress Relief & Calm

Meditation activates the body’s relaxation response, lowering stress hormones like cortisol.

Even short daily sessions can reduce feelings of overwhelm and bring a sense of inner steadiness.

3. Emotional Balance

By observing thoughts and feelings without judgment, you create space between stimulus and response.

This makes you less reactive, more resilient, and better able to regulate emotions.

4. Self-Awareness & Growth

Meditation encourages reflection and awareness of thought patterns.

Over time, you become more conscious of what drives your choices, habits, and moods — opening the door to intentional change.

5. Physical Health Benefits

Research shows meditation can lower blood pressure, improve sleep quality, and support immune health.

It also reduces tension in the body, improving recovery and overall wellbeing.

6. Spiritual Connection (for those drawn to it)

Many traditions use meditation as a path toward inner peace, insight, or a sense of connection with something greater than oneself.

Put Simply:

✨️✨️Meditation helps you clear the mind, calm the heart, and steady the body. It’s a way to reset, recharge, and realign — no matter what your goals are (mental sharpness, emotional healing, stress management, or spiritual exploration).✨️✨️

30/09/2025

✨ Did you know? ✨
At the studio, I offer both private 1-2-1 sessions and group sessions – designed to support you wherever you are on your journey.

💫 1-2-1 sessions are perfect if you’d like personalised guidance, more focused attention, and the chance to move at your own pace.
🌿 Group sessions bring the magic of community – connect, share energy, and grow together in a supportive space.

Whether you’re looking to deepen your practice, build confidence, or simply take some time for YOU, there’s an option that’s right for you.

📩 Message me to book your spot or to find out which session might suit you best – I’d love to welcome you in!

29/09/2025

✨ Discover the True Power of Yoga ✨

Yoga is not just about stretching — it’s a journey of balance between body, mind, and soul. 🧘‍♀️ When practiced in its true form, yoga offers countless benefits that transform your life from the inside out:

🌿 Improves flexibility
🌿 Enhances strength
🌿 Reduces stress
🌿 Promotes mental clarity

Whether you’re looking to energize your body, calm your mind, or simply find peace in your daily routine — yoga is the path. 🌸

Take time for yourself today. Breathe. Stretch. Flow. 💫

28/09/2025

My Yoga Journey
By Michelle Osborne

As a busy mum caring for my two wonderful daughters, I was also struggling with OCD and felt that, somewhere along the way, I had lost myself. Then a friend introduced me to yoga.

I had no preconceived ideas and knew very little about it, so I went to my first class with a completely open mind. I absolutely loved it – I wasn’t sure why, but something just clicked. I knew I had to go back to explore and learn more. Soon I was attending five classes a week, as well as monthly workshops with a teacher who eventually became my mentor. The practice gave me such a boost – it made me feel like myself again, and I loved it.

Gradually, yoga helped me bring my OCD under control, which was incredibly liberating. It also restored my confidence and gave me the mental strength I needed to support my eldest daughter through her health challenges and the many operations she endured.

Three years after that first class – and with the encouragement of my teacher – I travelled to the Himalayas in India to train as a Hatha Yoga teacher. For five weeks I studied under swami monks who had dedicated their lives to teaching. I chose the ashrams of the Sivananda Vedanta Centre, a non-profit organisation, and it was there that I was given the spiritual name Kanti Devi, meaning “beautiful goddess.”

When I returned home, I began teaching weekly classes around Manchester and supporting my mentor at her yoga centre. I also built a busy portfolio of one-to-one clients.

In early 2018, I made the decision to open my own studio, guided by the principle of “yoga for all.” By keeping classes affordable, Kanti Yoga aims to bring people from all walks of life together to learn, practice, and enjoy yoga in a sacred space.

Then, in 2025, I returned to the ashram in India to complete my Master’s qualification (500 hours) and become a Yoga Acharya – Master of Yoga. It was one of the hardest and most challenging courses I have ever undertaken, yet also one of the most rewarding. This experience marked a profound time of personal growth on my forever journey of life.

Today, my dream continues: to share the gift of yoga, meditation, and relaxation with the wonderful people of Urmston — in our very own ashram, right in the heart of the community.

Namaste,
Michelle

28/09/2025

🌸✨ Ready to reset your energy? ✨🌸

Join me for a Reiki Healing Session 🌿
🕚 Wednesday, 1st October | 11:15 AM

Reiki is a gentle, powerful practice that helps you:
💫 Release stress & tension
💫 Restore balance & harmony
💫 Boost energy flow
💫 Create inner calm & peace

As a Reiki Master, I’ll guide you into a space of deep relaxation and healing. 💖

💌 DM me to book your spot & gift yourself this moment of renewal.

27/09/2025

✨️✨️Your morning practice✨️✨️

🔸Mountain pose (Tadasana) is a foundational standing yoga pose that emphasizes good posture and grounding. To perform it, stand with feet together or hip-width apart, then lift and spread your toes, placing them back down to create a stable base. While engaging your legs, draw your navel in and lengthen your spine. Relax your shoulders away from your ears and extend the crown of your head to the sky, embodying the stability of a mountain.The pose is a starting point for many other standing postures and helps improve posture, balance, and core strength.

️🔸️Tree Pose (Vrikshasana) is a balancing yoga posture that strengthens the legs, opens the hips, and improves balance and focus, it enhances focus, concentration, and coordination, while promoting a sense of stability, calm, and confidence

🔸️Warrior 2 pose (Virabhadrasana II) is a yoga standing pose that strengthens the legs and core, opens the hips, and stretches the ankles and groin, requiring a wide stance, a bent front knee over the ankle, and arms extended parallel to the floor with a gaze over the front middle finger.

🔸️️Triangle Pose (Trikonasana) is a standing yoga pose that stretches the legs, spine, and core while opening the hips and heart, creating a balanced and strong stance. It improves balance, posture, and focus, while also potentially relieving stress, back pain, and stiffness in the neck and shoulders. The pose stimulates abdominal organs, aids digestion, and enhances circulation

🔸️Downward-facing dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana), is a full-body yoga pose that forms an inverted "V" shape with the body, stretching the shoulders, hamstrings, and calves while strengthening the arms, quadriceps, and ankles

🔸️Crow pose (Kakasana) is an arm balance in yoga where you balance on your hands with your knees resting on your upper arms, lifting both feet off the groundbuilds strength in your arms, wrists, and core, while also improving balance, coordination, and body awareness.

🔸️Pigeon Pose (Kapotasana) is a deep hip-opening yoga pose that involves bringing one shin forward with the knee bent, placing the outer shin and knee on the mat, and extending the other leg straight back. Relieving lower back pain and tension by stretching the hip flexors, glutes, and piriformis muscles.

🔸️Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana) is a yoga pose performed by lying on your front, placing your hands under your shoulders, and then inhaling to lift your chest off the mat while keeping your pelvis on the floor. It strengthens the back, opens the chest, and improves spinal flexibility.

🔸️Child's pose (Balasana) is a resting yoga position that stretches the spine, hips, and thighs, and relieves muscle tension in the back. To perform it, kneel, sit on your heels, and then fold your torso forward, resting your forehead on the floor. Arms can extend forward or rest alongside your body.

🔸(️Ardha Matsyendrasana) is a half spinal twist that involves sitting with one leg extended, bending the other, and crossing the bent-leg foot over the extended thigh. The twist is performed by rotating the torso to the side of the bent knee, with the opposite arm bracing against the thigh to create leverage. This pose is known to improve spinal mobility, stimulate digestion, and open the shoulders.

🔸️Bridge pose (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana), is a gentle backbend and chest-opening yoga pose where you lie on your back, bend your knees, and lift your hips off the floor to form a bridge-like shape. This pose opens the chest and hips, stretches the thighs, and warms up the spine, and can be held for several breaths before slowly lowering back down

🔸️Shavasana, or Co**se Pose, is a restorative yoga posture where you lie on your back to fully relax and integrate the effects of a yoga practice, often used to end a session. It promotes deep rest, calms the nervous system, releases stress, and helps the body assimilate the physical work done during yoga. To perform it, you lie flat, arms and legs relaxed, and mindfully release tension throughout your body to achieve stillness and peace.

✨️✨️Don't forget to breathe ✨️✨️

26/09/2025

🔸️🔸️Let's talk about restorative Yoga at the studio or at home on zoom
THURSDAYS 7.15PM 🔸️🔸️

✨ Why Do Restorative Yoga? ✨

Because sometimes, doing less is exactly what we need.
In a world that constantly tells us to go faster, push harder, and stay busy — restorative yoga invites us to slow down, breathe deeply, and just be.

🧘‍♀️ It’s not about the workout.
It’s about the reset.

Restorative yoga helps: 💤 Reduce stress + anxiety
💓 Soothe the nervous system
🫁 Improve sleep + breathing
🌀 Create space for healing — physically, mentally, emotionally

No sweat. No pressure. Just deep rest.

If your body is tired, your mind is racing, or your soul is craving peace — restorative yoga might be the medicine you've been missing.

Have you tried it before? Curious? Let’s talk. 🌿

25/09/2025

Kanti yoga studio

A quiet space to return to yourself. We offer yoga, meditation, breathwork, and healing practices rooted in presence. Move gently, breathe deeply, and reconnect. All are welcome. Come as you are, leave aligned—in body, mind, and spirit.

25/09/2025

Join Marie this Sunday at the studio
6-7pm
All welcome 🙏

Message BreatheWell MCR to book your places

Join us at Kanti Yoga Studio for a calming drop-in class designed to help you unwind and reconnect with your breath.