DAY 8 Enliven & ground gentle upper body flow | illuminate 30-day challenge 2026

beautiful practice for self-compassion <3

Good morning, I am just tapping in to the lovely longer practices/challenge sequences at the weekends, and doing 10 min practices during the week. However, I love all the refreshing additions you try out in the longer ones, I really enjoyed that Qigong today. I also wanted to say, it's lovely having this quieter space available, I joined this month, thanks for setting it up. Appreciation and solidarity from Germany 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇺🙏🏼 PS Our kids received some lovely yoga cards for Christmas and they choose different moves and take over sometimes 🙃 but I'm glad they're enjoying yoga and mindfulness practices too.

This felt so nurturing. Thank you

That was lovely, thank you. Funny how the shoulders can be so different to each other - clicking in different parts of the rotation 🙏

Struggled with yesterday’s session somewhat, very challenging, but completed it and didn’t die…today was great as it hit the sore spots! I feel as if I’m future depositing into my old age existence - one of flexibility and calmness.

I just started qigong! Love the synchronicty 💛 💫

I practice Qigong also but have never done the two arms teacup at the same time. Nice surprising moves. Love this movement to soften shoulder joints.

I loved the breath/energy flow imagery at the start. My left shoulder is so awkwardly clunky during the teacup movement, no pain just annoying. Maybe will improve with practice.✅☮️💖

I had a lot of fun with this practice, and it may have been one of my favourites so far. Thank you Paula 🙏

My teacup.))

Thank you Paula for this practice. My shoulders are loosened. The Qigong inspired sequence is a lot of fun. I find myself doing more of it after. Maybe the teacup won't drop so often.