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Busy Mind, Tired Body: Restore with Restorative Yoga

When your mind feels busy and your body needs a chance to slow down, restorative yoga can create the space to pause, breathe, and reconnect. In this gentle yoga practice, Yoga Instructor Arianna Bickle guides you through a slow, supportive flow designed to quiet the mind, soften the body, and invite you into a deeper sense of peace. With the help of cushions, blankets, and yoga blocks, you’ll settle into supported postures that encourage you to release effort, listen inward, and simply be where you are.

Disclaimer: If you are recovering from an injury, pregnant, postnatal, nursing or elderly, or have recurring or chronic pain, or any circumstance, consult your doctor for approval concerning your voluntary participation. Instructions provided on the Gaia Goddess Lifestyle platform and elsewhere are in no way intended as a substitute for medical advice. Participation is done at your own risk.

A Practice of Stillness & Support

Restorative yoga is a gentle, prop-supported practice that uses cushions, blankets, and yoga blocks to create comfortable, supported postures. The practice emphasizes longer holds, minimal effort, conscious breathing, and stillness, allowing the body to settle into each posture without forcing or striving. Supported child’s pose, twists, forward folds, heart openers, and legs-up variations are woven together with moments of seated breath and stillness to create a slow, spacious yoga practice.

What You’ll Learn

How to use props to create a more supportive and restorative practice
How to connect the breath with relaxation and stillness
Ways to gently release tension through supported yoga postures
How to notice your body and internal landscape without judgment
How to balance gentle movement with periods of deep rest
How to transition into stillness and create space for recovery

An Invitation to Slow Down

Restorative yoga offers an opportunity to slow down, release physical tension, and give the mind a break from the demands of the day. Supported postures and conscious breathing can help you become more aware of where you may be holding tension in your body while creating a sense of ease and comfort in the body. Ending with deep rest and stillness gives you space to reset, recover, and reconnect with yourself.

Encourages deep relaxation and stillness
Helps release tension in the body
Supports greater body and breath awareness
Creates space to quiet a busy mind
Encourages softness and ease through supported movement
Offers gentle stretching without forcing or straining
Provides an opportunity to rest and recover
Helps you reconnect with your internal state
Encourages a slower, more mindful pace
Leaves you feeling peaceful, restored, and renewed

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About Arianna:

Arianna began her spiritual journey shortly after completing her 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certification in 2012 and immediately felt the call to go deeper. Training under the guidance of sound meditation expert Sara Auster, she received her Sound Practitioner Certification in 2017. She joined the teaching staff at MNDFL Meditation in NYC, the first-ever drop-in meditation studio. Her approach to yoga weaves mindful movement, breath, and stillness together, creating space for students to slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and embrace the power of rest. She’s been honored to share her practice across various universities and organizations like Columbia and NYU with brands like Nike, Hermés, Spotify, and Women’s Health. Arianna continues to hold space through a private practice of yoga & sound healing in Philadelphia.

You can connect with Arianna on Instagram @arianna.bickle

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