The purpose of the windmill is to open your chest and expand it so that you breath more openly and deeply.

It also strengthen the diaphragm, stretches the neck muscles and loosens up the shoulder blades.

Technique:
Stage 1
Listen and follow Christiane as she teaches you how to synchronise your breath with a gentle twist.

The bushfires have been impacting millions of people either directly or indirectly in Australia and worldwide. 

In Australia we all seem to know someone who is affected. 

Sometimes it takes a crisis to bring out our humanity. Walls come down between neighbours who don’t know each other until they are thrown together to support one another. The global outpouring of love and support from the world to Australia takes this to an even higher level. 

So many yoga enthusiasts tell me about their challenges in doing a regular meditation or yoga practice. Despite our best intentions, many of us find that life can get in the way, or we get distracted, and our practice is the first thing to suffer. As an example, here’s a typical morning in my house...