The Story of Breath: Day Three
FOR STRESS & DEPRESSION
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2h 10m
Class overview:
- Today is robust in conversation around the human nervous system. If you're new to breath practices, "nerve cleansing" is a term referenced throughout much of yogic literature (old and new). Pranayama can help or hinder us depending upon where we're at emotionally or physically:
- What is the ANS, the PNS and SNS
- Review of the diaphragm
- What and why we should know about the vagus nerve?
- The Polyvagal Theory in brief
- A bit into chronic stress, PTSD and "shutdown" - which a lot of people are experiencing during this global trauma
- The breath practice takes up the last 30 min and is a BKS Iyengar revision on his primary pranayama course:
Ujjayi
Viloma
Anuloma (this is a new one)
Surya Bhedana
Chandra Bhedana
Ending in a seven min savasana
Here are the two videos I shared:
SNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNHRSXe5do8
PNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADnWvmOlBZk&t=3s
Here is a 40 min of Stephen Porges on the Polyvagal Theory - he explains MUCH better than me!!!!:
http://www.elizabethbader.com/elizabethbadersblog/stephen-porges-polyvagal-theory-healing-trauma/
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