Below are links to pre-recorded yoga and meditation sessions run by our Luton yoga instructor, Melissa Campbell - new sessions are added weekly. You'll also find links to Melissa's plant-based recipe packs.
Calming the Mind Relaxation: a 5-minute Mindfulness Meditation. You will start by observing mind, body, sound with present moment awareness before we restfully settle and then....let your thoughts flow like your breath and your breath like waves, coming and going. There is a slight delay of around 7 seconds before the voice starts.
End of day wind down - Release tension and a busy mind as you take the time to unwind at the end of the day with this yoga practice. You will need a yoga strap (or a belt or scarf) and a blanket.
Rest & Restore - a 33 minute yoga practice which is to be done against a wall.
Calming the Mind & Body Ready for Sleep - a 26 minute guided relaxation to be done in bed before sleep
Lunge Express - this yoga class is a more dynamic practice focusing on sun salutations and lunges to strengthen the legs.
Guided Relaxation for mind & body audio - This is perfect to listen to after the above class or at any time of the day when you need some time out.
These two practices complement each other wonderfully in helping you both unwind and get ready for bed. This yoga practice is designed to pull tension out of the body and this yoga Nidra (a guided relaxation/meditation) is described as yogic sleep. Practice lying down, it's reported that 30 minutes of yoga Nidra is equivalent to 2 hours of sleep, and it's among the deepest sources of relaxation whilst still maintaining full consciousness.
A 33-minute yoga practice designed to release tension in the hips, spine and shoulders and then drift away with a guided laying down relaxation. These exercises can be practised together or separately.
Energy pick me up and release. This practice mainly takes place standing and is designed to inject a sense of energy and vitality. It's great for when you're feeling sluggish and lethargic or for when you feel like you need to release some pent up energy. For this practice, you'll need a blanket and/or cushion. If you have two yoga brick blocks use these or two thick books are a good substitute.
Yoga from your chair: This 23-minute practice is done from a chair...no other equipment is needed so it's perfect for those who don't want to or can't practice from a mat! This practice can easily be fitted into your day to help iron out the kinks and give yourself a much-needed break.
5-Breath De-Stress: Reduce stress and overwhelm with this 15 minute practice where we take 5 familiar yoga poses for 5 deep and full breaths. Be still, breathe deeper and emerge calmer and clearer.
Liquid Sunshine Relaxation Lay down to rest and restore with this 17 minute guided relaxation.
Loving Kindness Body Scan Lay down and get comfortable with this 20 minute guided relaxation.
Somatics Practice - Somatics focuses on mind-body integration that really taps into the felt sense, allowing us to survey what's present in the body and the ways in which we might hold our life experiences in our body. Although slow and subtle, Somatics can have an incredible effect of the mind and body. Helping to reduce pain, improve posture, rebalance emotions and bring better body awareness, Somatics is a practice that can help you come home to your body and create lasting change from the inside out. You'll need a blanket.
Coming Home A 15 minute meditation (which can be taken seated or laying down). It's designed to reduce stress, lessen anxiety and help foster a sense of calm and safety.
Ocean Mind - Ocean Body A mindfulness meditation designed to help you drop beneath the turbulence of the mind and find a place to anchor. This can be practised seated or lying down.
10 Day on the Mat Challenge
One of the benefits of challenges is they are a great way to help you reset if you've fallen off the self-care wagon or they simply help to aid and deepen your wellness resolutions.
Self-care isn't perfect, Instagram-worthy, pink or fluffy. It's often messy and full of stop-starts.
Join Melissa Campbell as she offers you a supportive hand to help you get on your mat every day for the next 10 days.
Each day you'll find a different practice (journaling, yoga, meditation and more) and she's put it together in this handy schedule.
You'll also find a welcome video from Melissa along with the descriptions, timings and links to the practices.
Deep Rest with a long guided relaxation (25-minute audio recording)
Abide Within (15 minutes) - this is a mindfulness meditation which is great for practising mindfulness and relieving stress and anxiety.
Raising the Vibration of Self: A 17-minute meditation to raise and increase a sense of self-trust, self-acceptance and self-esteem
Calming the Mind Relaxation: A 5-minute mindfulness meditation. We start by observing mind, body and sound with present moment awareness before we restfully settle and then....let your thoughts flow like your breath and your breath like waves, coming and going. There is a slight delay of around 7 seconds before Melissa's voice starts.
Stress Release Meditation: Here you'll find a 5-minute meditation to help you de-stress. In these 5 minutes, you're called to be present and be with your breath. This alone will automatically help to lower your stress response. Entitled 'Managing how I respond to stress is key to my peace of mind', this meditation reminds you of the control you have over your responses and the positive techniques that are available to you.
Starting my Day with Gratitude - a morning meditation
Yoga Nidra on Grounding - 30 minutes
Bliss out with this Breath Awareness Yoga Nidra practice which is taken lying down.
Body Confidence (For Life) Guide. This eBook is more than just a guide – it’s a jam-packed workbook that takes you through five steps to boosting your self-esteem and confidence with thought-provoking exercises and actionable strategies designed to create immediate shifts in your life – starting right NOW!
Within this guide, you’ll also find links to an hour’s yoga practice, two meditations and a plant-based recipe pack.
5 Breath De-Stress - Reduce overwhelm and busyness with this 15-minute yoga practice where we take 5 familiar yoga poses and stay in them for 5 deep and full breaths.
Restorative Chest Opener - Correct modern-day postural habits of slumping forward, and rounding the shoulders and back with this beautiful restorative pose.
A 5-Minute Practice for your Feet - Watch and learn about the importance of looking after your feet. You can also practice with me as I take you through a simple foot massage routine using a tennis or massage ball.
Balancing the Chakra's Meditation - Balance and harmonise your physical, emotional and mental health and wellbeing with this 18-minute meditation.
Do you need to catch up on some sleep or need to de-stress? To help, here's a Yoga Evening/Bedtime Sequence designed to help you get bed ready as we pull out physical and mental tension to prepare the body for rest and relaxation.
A Yoga Nidra for a Calm Reset - Take some time out to rest and restore in peacefulness!
Supercharge your Sleep E-book - There's a lot we can do to aid a good night’s sleep and within this e-book bundle you'll find out how simple lifestyle changes and practices can help increase both the quantity and quality of your sleep resulting in a more energised and healthier you!
Mountain Meditation
If you're feeling stressed and overwhelmed, try this week's meditation, The Calming Exhale Breath.
Here is a short 10-minute Resting in Peace mindfulness meditation. Try it and see how grounding and calming mindfulness can be.
Slow & Low is a floor-based practice where we're invited to drop into and find solace in our bodies, taking time out to become more mindful and interested in how it feels rather than being task and results orientated. You'll need a couple of blankets.
Practice One: Is life feeling busy? Mind overwhelmed? Try these two simple practices to help calm a busy anxious mind. Best of all, they take no time at all! You'll need a chair for this practice.
Practice two: Correct modern-day postural habits of slumping forward, collapsing the front body, and rounding of the shoulders and back with this beautiful restorative pose.
Recipe pack: Discover and enjoy 15 easy, healthy and tasty recipes, including: breakfast, lunch, dinner, treats and smoothies.
Ending the Day with Gratitude Meditation
Are you ready for better posture, better breathing, better digestion and even better circulation? If you are, do you know what the key ingredient is? It's having a strong and stable core!
This guide outlines how (and why!) it’s so important to strengthen your core from the inside out.
A strong midsection doesn’t require countless crunches – in fact, as you’ll see, doing a ton of sit-ups might be exactly the wrong thing to do.
That’s because all the muscles that make up your core can get out of balance because of your lifestyle, posture, or even from having a baby!
If that’s the case, when you do crunches, it might be other muscles (not your abs!) that are doing most of the work. As you can imagine, that leads to frustration, wasted time, and even low back, neck, or hip pain.
Inside your new core manual, you’ll find a handpicked list of exercisesyou can do at home to get started on strengthening your core and restoring balance in your body!
Your Mind is Like a Garden Meditation.
A somatic practice designed to free up tension particularly in the hips and to help orientate us back to the home of our bodies. Have a strap and blanket nearby in case you may need them.
A 10-minute meditation called Autumn Leaves on a Gentle Breeze.
Sun Salutation Movement Practice: Sun Salutations are an amazing way to start your day, bringing in many benefits for the mind, body and breath.
Self-Love Meditation: Enjoy this relaxing and nourishing meditation.
Recipe Pack: Stay healthy with 10 tasty plant-based recipes.
This practice explores movements to release tension in the hips and shoulders from seated, all fours and standing positions. You will need a blanket and 2 yoga brick blocks or a pair of thick books.
Mudras
Mudras are gestures made by the hands and are like energetic keys that help to unlock and support better physical health, psychological balance and emotional wellbeing.
It's similar to reflexology, in that when we hold, cross, interlace or stretch our fingers and hands, mudras apply a certain pressure and energy flow that helps to stimulate endorphins and positively affect certain parts of the body and brain.
Mudra handouts - these contain pictures, explanations and the benefits of the mudras.
Golden Seed helps us to slow down, quieten the chitter-chatter of our minds and most of all show kindness towards ourselves.
This practice starts with a blessing to ourselves before moving into some seated, all fours and standing postures. It would be useful to have a yoga block and a blanket/cushion.
Rest & Restore Against a Wall: This sequence is designed for the evening or just before you go to sleep. You'll need two blankets and a clear unobstructed wall as this is where our practice will take place. Please listen to the instructions at the beginning of the video for the first couple of times when trying this sequence. The sequence starts from around 3 min 10.
A visualisation to relax the mind for deep sleep: This is an audio recording to be listened to in bed just as you're settling down to sleep.
Yoga & Somatics for the Side Body
Last Yoga Nidra session of the year on Wednesday 22nd December 8pm-8:45pm.
A chance to de-stress, rest and restore with deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra is a practice that benefits multiple layers of your wellbeing and all from the comfort of your own home. Book here and follow the instructions below:
- Highlight the time
- Select book a session for £5 and then on the next screen enter the code freeforme to attend for free
- Check your inbox or junk emails for an email which includes your zoom link and passcode
At-home self-guided retreat
A home retreat allows a period of time, anything from a few hours to a whole day to turn away from the external world and tend to our inner world.
Inside your guidebook, you'll find ideas on how to set up your day, your space and your intentions.
You'll also find a selection of movement practices, meditations, guided relaxations along with a nourishing recipe pack to choose from which are all designed to help you tend to your inner world.
This week's class is a gentle class to help you find a sense of grounding, flow and space using the practice of qigong and yoga. Coordinating breath with mindful movement, the class finishes with a qigong guided relaxation called healing the emotions.
This yoga practice is designed to get you out of your head and into your body. It's a more physical-based practice to blow away the cobwebs and you'll need two blocks and a blanket.
What is your relationship with rest? Use these practices to explore this question as well as gifting yourself complete permission to rest. Do them separately or all together.
10 Minute Restful Yoga
28 Minute Permission to Rest Yoga Nidra (a relaxation practice)
This class combines yoga in somatics to help us get into the side body which gives us more room to move and breath.
The arrival of spring is nearing and this is a beautiful class to assist us with moving from the wintertime into spring using qigong, meditation and yoga.
Creating Space - you'll need 2 blocks and a yoga strap or an at home alternative like a couple of thick books and a scarf or belt.
Spring Clean your Life Journaling Prompts
Spring Clean your Life Goal Setting Sheet
Your Mind is Like a Garden Meditation: It's time to dig up the weeds and plant new seeds.
Yoga Nidra for the Spring: Take this deep relaxation (laying down) for 14 minutes which focuses on the qualities of the wood element associated with spring. Perfect for new beginnings.
Download your Mindfulness Workbook
5-Day Mindfulness Challenge.
In a world full of busy, one of the best anti-dotes is slowing down.
There are many ways we can do this…. relaxation, rest, meditation and mindfulness and we're going to be utilising the latter in our 5-day mindfulness challenge.
Learning how to be “present” for your life is a skill that can help you:
● Feel happier
● Manage stress
● Improve your health
● Get better results, and
● Have more FUN.
Here’s how it works:
Download this document which contains a welcome video from me, your 5-Day timetable plus all the links you need for your 4 daily practices.
Here are two mindful movement practices together in one class.The session starts with slow and small somatic movements which help to ease tension and bring in a quality of ease and stillness.
Following this, there is a yin practice against a wall for the ultimate rest and support.
You'll need to have access to a bare wall and have one to two blankets handy.
From Spring to Summer Yoga Nidra
Daily Journal
Morning Qigong
Short Energy Clearing Qigong - release negative energy and settle the mind with this 11-minute practice
A Little Bit of This & That: join Melissa Campbell on the mat for some movement that gets into the hips, releases the shoulders and will test your balance as you come to stand.
Slow & Low - you'll need a blanket for this practice and then get ready for a slow and low floor-based practice.
10 minute morning meditation focusing on Gratitude
FoamRolling Guide includes exercises you can do to help break up any tightness that’s happening in your major muscle groups. It’s amazing what just a few minutes on the roller can do to help loosen tight muscles and improve your flexibility.
Here's a short gentle movement practice to unwind tension and then an audio recording to aid deep relaxation for sleep.
Join Melissa Campbell in the kitchen: A video of Melissa explaining why smoothies are a great addition to your diet and how to make the perfect smoothie formula.
Get Started with Melissa's recipe book: 12 Easy Superfood Smoothies
Get ready to unwind with yin yoga for the legs and the back. There's a two-minute introduction to help you get set up and then the rest of the class is done from our backs.
Meditation designed to calm and anchor the Body/Mind.
Self-Appreciation Movement Practice - truly nourishing & restoring
Self- Appreciation Meditation - 11 minutes long
The Goal Getting & Habit Tracking Workbook will guide you through pinpointing what matters most to you and will help you create a month-by-month action plan (complete with checklists) to move you towards success.
This class aims to help us connect to our roots and find a source of strength to navigate the ups and downs of life. This is a floor-based practice and you'll need a blanket, cushion or block to sit on.
Yoga Practice
Meditation using the breath as an anchor to dissolve stress and anxiety.
Tea Meditation - get comfy with a cup of tea for this 8-minute mindful meditation.
Glad Technique: Reflect and give thanks with this 5-minute exercise before bed. You'll need a pen and a piece of paper.
Legs up the Wall Meditation The ultimate de-stress for mind and body. Length: 20 mins with a 3.30 intro and set up.
Calming Strong Emotions Meditation Length: 8 mins.
Balance your Energy - the perfect setup for your day. This is a gentle movement practice. All from standing and lasting 35 minutes.
Fancy detoxing your toxic load? This ‘Clean it Up’ Guidebook’ (which you can do as a 5-day mini-challenge) looks at where toxins live, how they might be harming us, and what we can proactively do about reducing our toxin load for good!
Get settled into bed for this 'Sleepy Train Ride' meditation.
Lay down and get cosy for some deep rest with this 17-minute yoga nidra practice.
Enjoy 15 plant-based recipes including breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack options.
Relax & Restore Session - Wednesday 22nd February at 8pm. These monthly classes invite you to set aside time solely for you to get some deep rest and relaxation for your whole body and mind. As a result, it can help you unwind from anxiety, overwhelm and stress, and many people report that it helps improve their sleep and relaxation levels. Beginning with gentle movements to help start the process of settling the body and quietening down the mind, the session will move into the practice of yogic sleep with yoga nidra. This involves adopting a comfortable laying down position and listening to a guided relaxation.
- To book, visit https://www.melissacampbell.co.uk/service-page/relax-restore-sessions and click ‘book now’ and highlight the time.
- Select 'book a session for £5' and then, on the next screen enter the coupon code free4me to attend for free.
- Fill in the form.
- Check your inbox or junk emails for an email from Melissa Campbell that will include your zoom link and passcode – you’ll also get a reminder with the zoom link 24 hours before the class time.
Yoga Practice
Meditation Practice
All-rounder movement practice which is perfect for when you're short on time as it's less than 25 minutes long and will strengthen and lengthen your body.
Enjoy 10 minutes out of your day on the Well-Being Boat.
April Well-Being Pack: Start the month strong with this April-inspired wellbeing pack. Inside there are 30 daily journaling prompts and April's full and new moon information along with prompts to help you manifest and release. You'll also find information relating to crystals, essential oils and seasonal foods as well as some seasonal rituals.
Rest Deeply with Yoga Nidra: Lay down and relax as you're guided into a deep relaxation for 27 minutes. Yoga nidra is perfect for anyone who's not sleeping or not getting enough sleep and/or anyone feeling stressed and anxious.
Your monthly wellbeing pack: Full of practices to theme your month, including journaling prompts, working with crystals for manifestation as well as working with the moon cycles.
Join Melissa with some feel-good movement for the joints and whole body before moving into an adapted Dru Yoga sequence, called RadiantHeart. You'll need two brick blocks and a blanket.
Welcome to your June Well-Being Pack. Inside you'll find journaling prompts for the whole of the month with a particular focus on mental health. In addition, Melissa is also giving you the opportunity to learn more about the moon cycles and how to work with crystals during each stage.
Taking the scenic view - enjoy this 53-minute mindful yoga practice
Join this Relax & Restore Session on Wednesday 28 June at 8pm from the comfort of your home.
- Book here.
- Highlight the time.
- Select book a session for £5 and then on the next screen enter the code freeforme to attend for free.
- Check your inbox or junk emails for an email from Melissa Campbell which includes your zoom link and passcode.
Join Melissa for this hour-long class as we embrace cultivating the feeling of kindness and generosity into our yoga practice. You'll need yoga blocks and a blanket.
Crush your cravings guide
This yoga sequence entitled Opening & Closing involves movement that both opens and closes the body to help us think about how we approach experiences in life.
August's Well-Being Pack along with a brand new deluxe 30-minute yoga nidra practice.
In this Self-Care Deluxe class, you’ll enjoy mindful movement, a little breath work, self-massage techniques and a yoga nidra (deep guided relaxation). For this class and in addition to your mat, you'll need a blanket, some body oil/cream, tissues or hand wipes. There are some extra optional items that are explained at the start of the video. Note if you're pregnant: There are certain points on the feet and one on the hands that are contraindicated during pregnancy as they can encourage uterine contractions. Therefore, please skip the foot massage. You can massage the hands instead but avoid massaging the web between the thumb and index finger.
This Chair Yoga class is perfect for days when you'd prefer a gentler practice, particularly if you're unable to get on the floor or perhaps nursing an injury.
This month's well-being pack looks at re-establishing supportive routines and self-care practices. You might also like to take part in a little Wellness Challenge for September. Inside this document you'll find a mixture of practices that take anywhere between a couple of minutes to 10 minutes max. Choose one or mix them up throughout September. These small but mighty practices (in that they don't take a lot of time or resources) really make a difference but it's only in the repetition that you'll discover the potency and best benefits.
Inside this resource you'll find a set of journaling questions, a meditation and a movement practice all centered around building self-trust.
October's Well-Being Pack - includes prompts and information on the astrological sign of Libra, the moon cycles, daily prompts to help you re-evaluate and re-balance and how to do a house reset.
October's Recipe Pack: Enjoy 15 brand-new plant-based recipes.
This yoga practice is focused on the energy of autumn and the concept of letting go to welcome in. You'll need a block and strap or at-home alternatives.
Are you struggling with brain fog, overwhelm and anxiety associated with midlife, perimenopause and/or menopause? Try this mindful movement practice that includes somatic movement, yoga poses, breathwork, meditation and relaxation to help alleviate and calm symptoms. No previous experience of yoga and mindful movement is necessary. You'll need a yoga mat, blanket, cushion, a bolster or at-home props like pillows and a small space to move in and lie down.
November's Well-Being Pack: This month we're harmonising with nature by shedding what we don't want and curating our self-care practices to help us release and ground. You'll also find key dates of festivals for November, New Moon and Full Moon information, daily journaling prompts and helpful tips about keeping vitamin D levels topped up in the darker months.
Compassionate Break Mediation: Are you holding a lot lately? Going through some tough times? Take 6 minutes today to do this sweet meditation.....you deserve it!
What the World Needs Meditation: It's natural to feel despair and deep sadness over the wars and displacement of people. This 6-minute meditation helps to remove some of that overwhelm.
Yoga Nidra for the Autumn: Release & Let Go: Experience deep rest on all levels of your being as you lay down and listen to this guided journey. This is a long practice known as yoga nidra and lasts around 34 minutes.
This practice is designed to help you let go - this could be a physical letting go in the body but it can also be an emotional letting go. We'll be holding our postures with deep breathing to facilitate this practice of letting go. You may also wish to work with this 'Let it Go' journal through the autumn months.
Autumnal energy support
This yoga practice brings us into harmony with the season of autumn. It focuses on letting go of tension and finding stability and balance. So, expect poses and movements that help to open the chest and relieve shoulder stiffness as well as some yoga balances.
This month's Well-Being Pack contains some fabulous resources, tips and practices to help you align with the seasonal energy of winter. You'll find links to a mindfulness exercise, meditations, a guided relaxation, colouring pages, daily journal prompts and a meal prep guide as well as important dates for December, tips on how to destress and rest, and more.
Keeping our chakra system balanced and spinning smoothly is said to be the key to our health, happiness and vitality. In this recorded energy wisdom and practices class, we will be cleansing and clearing the seven main chakras through awareness, breath, mudras, visualisation, and affirmations.
This Winter Solstice Celebration Class invites you to carve out a little intentional space for you to reflect on 2023 and feel into the year ahead.
Vegan Sweet Treat Recipe Pack.
Sweet Treats that are Healthy and Delicious
In this January well-being pack you'll find daily journaling prompts, tips on how to have a healthy new year and more.
In this 12 Days of Winter Self-Care advent calendar you'll find breathing practices, yoga, meditations and recipes to enjoy in January 2024.
A meditation class and accompanying workbook designed to create ease, flow and harmony in your inner being. Please note, the video recording is inside the workbook.
A deep guided relaxation called Starry Night Yoga Nidra. Yoga Nidra is a deep form of meditation that is practiced lying down. It's claimed that 30 minutes of yoga nidra is equivalent to 2 hours of sleep and research has shown that it can help reduce anxiety, insomnia and stress.
5 step real world morning routine
1. Before you get out of bed (or right after), stretch!
2. Take a big drink of water.
3. In the bathroom, look in the mirror, smile, and think of three things you’re grateful for (even if you still feel half-awake).
4. Think about your intention for the day – what are you going to focus on, what tone do you want to set for the day? Here’s my 9-minute morning intention meditation to get you started.
5. Eat a protein-rich breakfast – it is so important. Why? Read all about it in my new protein-packed breakfast e-book and recipe pack.
Wellbeing pack
22-minute seated yoga practice for the neck, chest and shoulders.
March's wellbeing pack includes a meditation and plant-based recipe pack full of 15 tasty breakfast, lunch, dinner and treat options.
Yoga, self-massage and relaxation practice - the perfect tonic for low mood, energy and immunity.
If fear prevents you from doing things, if you get anxious to the point that it's overwhelming, then this class 'Fear as a Teacher' could be for you. It also includes steps on how to regulate your nervous system, plus it will show you how to drop out of the logical brain into the more watery realms of the subconscious. You'll need a pen and paper.
This spring practice is designed to help you connect to the energy of spring and will help cultivate vitality, renewal, and growth.
Seasonal wellbeing pack – Apil 2024 to provide you with nourishment, vitality and self-care support.
Wellbeing pack
Springtime yoga practice - you'll need two blocks and a blanket.
Root to Rise
A practice of release - you'll need myofascial balls or tennis balls, blocks and something to sit on like a blanket or cushion.