Amanda has a long history with sports and movement. As a young girl, she practiced gymnastics and figure skating before moving on to a career as an elite junior tennis player where she first developed a foundation in conditioned training. Amanda compliments that dynamic training with over 15 year...

Amanda June Giannakos, Managing and Creative Director at NM reflects on her life’s mission of encouraging people to move. She explores how her early years, experiences as a teenage athlete, and her pregnancy have influenced and shaped her own perspective on movement, and how she truly believes ...

Start your morning off with this simple and powerful class to activate your core. It can be done from a chair or seated on the ground. Amanda will guide you through 360 degrees breathing and pelvic floor exercises, working through strength-building retentions and dynamic speed-holds. You will fi...

Amanda designed this class for those days when you just need a short stretch break to reset and feel good in your body. She guides you through some of her favourite stretches to release tension. You will move through spinal rolls, modified sun salutation, ankle rolls, hamstring stretches, glute b...

Amanda leads you through a short and accessible class that will strengthen and stabilize your lower body. These moves are subtle but powerful; modify where you need and challenge yourself when you can.

You'll start with a series of functional stretches targeting feet, calves, hips, and groin. No...

Amanda leads you through a short and accessible class designed to strengthen and stabilize your entire upper body. This class will use just your body weight and leave your back, core, and arms feeling strong and supported.

Start with core connection breathing, wrist stretches, and bird dog to pr...

Join Amanda for a class that taps into your inner artist. When we move in new ways, we create new neural pathways in our brains. These pathways allow us to break existing habits, see the world in new ways, and feel differently. Creativity necessitates a sense of play; it's not about being perfect...

Amanda guides you through a full body morning activation routine made up of moves she does every morning to gently wake up her body and prepare for the day ahead. This is a short and sweet class you can build into your own routine, especially on those mornings you are short on time.

Start with f...

Amanda guides you through two simple yet powerful breathing exercises to establish strength & stability in your core muscles. Reconnect to your diaphragm, transverse abdominis, and pelvic floor with 360 Breathing and the Two Step Exhale. These foundational exercises were key to Amanda re-establis...

Amanda describes this postpartum-friendly class as “super restorative” — and it can even be done from the comfort of your bed. You will begin with supportive breathing exercises to release tension, before moving into gentle spinal rolls and twists, a grounding pelvic stabilization, and soothing h...

Amanda designed this class to help you strengthen your core in your everyday movements. She will guide you through four foundational core moves, each with four levels for you to choose from. Beginning with diaphragmatic breathing to prepare your core, you will move through variations of Dead Bug,...

This 15-Minute yoga class takes you through Sun Salutations, transitions into sitting and breathing exercises, and ends in Savasana, calling for you to focus on reaching a place of intentional relaxation and release of stress and tension in your body. After this class, you should feel both calm a...

Hamstring tightness is one of the most common problems that students face when beginning a yoga practice. This restorative practice focuses on opening the hamstrings with slow and conscious movements. Bring gentle awareness to the tightness in the backs of the legs, releasing tension with each br...

This class is a healing practice important for all levels. The gentle sequence takes you from one relaxing resting pose into the next, encouraging you to give yourself permission to rest. Poses are held for a few minutes each, so it’s normal for the mind to wander.

This short practice will get you comfortable sitting and breathing intentionally. It’s a practice of being present. Remember — when we still the breath, we still the mind. Feel tension releasing from the top of your head to the tips of your toes as you finish this practice in Savasana, our consci...

In this class, Amanda combines all of the poses and transitions from the Yoga Foundations program into a full-body strengthening practice. Focus on moving with your breath and find the correct alignment in each pose for you today.

Spine Practice focuses on the strength and health of our spines. In our everyday lives, we rarely articulate our spine through its full range of motion. This practice will leave you refreshed and is a great supplement to sitting for long periods of time. It is also a great practice to do if you s...

Reclined Butterfly is a relaxing and restorative pose. This hip-opening pose gently stretches your inner thighs and groin, and helps you to let go of tension and calm the body.

Child’s Pose is a calming rest pose that opens the hips and stretches the thighs and lower back. It’s the ideal pose to come to for rest while practicing on your own or in a yoga class. Although foundational, Child’s Pose can be quite challenging if you don’t know how to support yourself in the p...

Amanda guides you through an intentional series of full-body movements designed to help you move better in your daily life. You will fluidly move through spinal rolls, twisting, a core warm up, glute work, wrist and chest stretches, and finish with your expression of playful animal movements.

Amanda guides you through an intentional series of full-body movements designed to help you move better in your daily life. You will fluidly move through spinal rolls, twisting, a core warm up, glute work, wrist and chest stretches, and finish with your expression of playful animal movements.

Amanda guides you through an intentional series of full-body movements designed to help you move better in your daily life. You will fluidly move through spinal rolls, twisting, a core warm up, glute work, wrist and chest stretches, and finish with your expression of playful animal movements.

This class is all about changing planes: improving our ability to move with grace as we get up and down from the ground, increasing hip mobility to deepen our squat, and getting comfortable with being on the floor. Expect to be challenged in balance, flexibility, and coordination, no matter your ...

This 23-Minute class focuses on circular movement patterns. You won’t be physically moving in circles, but the feeling that the sequence evokes in the body is a sense of spiralling. Expect a challenge in coordination and strength, especially in the upper body and core.