FOR STRESS & DEPRESSION
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June 16: Moderate Full Body Flow (60 min)
This is a perfect practice if you're jumping back into yoga after a big break. It's not too hard, not too easy - and we spend 11 minutes warming up. This is also a tradition slow flow...ending with a savasana.
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June 14: Somatic Shake, Breath & Release (32 min)
This is a fusion practice if you are short on time but want to move energy, tension and stress. Expect heel thumbs, shaking the limbs, breath of fire, one set jumping jacks, a long set of Warrior 2, hamstring and hip openers....
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June 12: Reticular Activating System & Traditional Breathwork (30 min)
A two minute lesson on the Reticular Activating System (RAS) your brain and the influence on attention. We do three sets kaphalabhati, box breathing and ending with three sets of bellows.
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June 5: Stability Breathwork (Advanced 31 min)
Stability Breathwork (Advanced 31 min) includes Wim Hof and a longer deeper ujjayi breath.
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June 4: Breath for Clearing Negativity Bias (30 min)
This is a breathwork practice using a "kriya for clarity" and the intention of becoming aware of our brain-mind-body to sway in the direction of "negativity bias" - focusing on only what is wrong vs right.
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May 24: Advanced Breathwork: Intensity, Oxygen, Dopamine (30 min)
Today's practice is not suitable for beginners or those with adrenal fatigue or feeling overly-exhausted - this is an up-regulating practice. Expect intensity, oxygen, dopamine/serotonin and rush of an excitatory response.
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Intero vs Exteroception Lesson & Breathwork Practice (32 min)
This is a short lesson + practice integrating interoception vs exteroception (ways of experiencing the world via the nervous system).
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May 19: Advanced Breathwork + Wim Hof with Spinal Pulsing (30 min)
This is an advanced practice not suitable for beginners - we pulse the spine - there is a bit of a 3 min anatomy lesson on the nexus of the nervous system, your ribs, thoracic spine and breath.
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May 13: Rx for Laptop Tension
This is a quick restorative sequence you can do on your own when you are exhausted by laptop work for students, remote workers etc. We stretch and open the neck, shoulders, mouth and jaw.
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May 12: Gentle Breath for Excessive Adrenaline & Stress (31 min)
This practice is perfect if you have a high-adrenaline job or are constantly "on" lately. We two quick sets of kaphalabhati breath followed by gentle movements of the spine and ribs with cooling/relaxing breath. It is down- regulating.
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May 10: Advanced Practice: Adrenaline to Dopamine (33 min)
Today's practice is advanced and not suitable for beginners or those jumping back without practice for many months. We do two longs sets of "kaphalabhati" and several rounds of a Wim Hof variant with spinal movement.
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May 8: Two-Min Neuroscience Lesson + Diaphragmatic Breath (35 min)
Today begins with a two-minute lecture on the neuroscience of your diaphragm and into a deeper invitation to shift during our diaphragmatic breath set + breath of fire. Ending with three short sets of bellows.
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May 7: Pillars of Mental Health & Radical Positivity: Advanced Breath (30 min)
The invitation in this advanced practice is "how can we invite in positivity and optimism? "How can be on the brighter side of consciousness?" This is not suitable for newcomers or beginners. We do a long set of breath of fire to prepare for longer variations of Tummo breath/Wim Hof.
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May 6: Navigating Challenge & Resistance (Breathwork) 32 min
We begin with focus on your heart - and its relationship to the anatomy of your diaphragm and the theme of resistance. The invitation is "can we turn towards resistance vs running away from it?" My____ is a gift. My "anxiety/tension fill in the blank" as a gift.
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May 6: Processing Stress: Vagus Nerve Deep Rx (22 min)
This is a restorative practice into the neck and vagus nerve - using breath, sound beginning with a brief neuroanatomy of the vagus. This is a soothing, condensed practice that is excellent for exhaustion, bed-prep, processing stress and anxiety.
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May 5: Traditional Pranayama Set (31 min)
Today's breathwork is suitable for beginners/moderate practitioners. We do three sets of KP breath, three sets of bellows (20, 40, 80) and end with "sitali" cooling breath.
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May 2: Advanced Dopamine-Serotonin Breathwork (37 min)
This practice is not suitable for beginners or those who haven't practiced breathwork for a long time. It is an intense series of adrenaline-enhancing practices with the visualization of green/blue purification of mind/brain connection.
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May 1: Soothing, Calm Breath for Catastrophic Thinking (30 min)
Today is a calming/down-regulating, soothing breathwork for "catastrophic thinking" - if you are in a state of fight or flight "is EVERY thought I have 1000% true?"
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Apr 30: Quick Reset (18 min)
This is a condensed restorative practice for the pelvis, spine and hips. Enjoy!
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April 24: Full Spectrum Active Breathwork (30 min)
We begin mellow and get more intense, ending with uplifting "activating" breathwork.
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Apr 17: Alleviate Stress & PTSD: Moderate/Beginner Breathwork (32 min)
This is a beginner/moderate breathwork friendly practice. This is Sudarshan Kriya - with the invitation of noticing thoughts in your mind and how they vitiate or support you. Breath is way to access mindfulness - being aware of being aware - and offers an invitation of seeing...other ways - and q...
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Apr 10: Gentle Breath Practice (30 min)
This is a gentle breathwork practice. We do a cooling breath type with spinal flexion and extension, "honey bee breath" as well as intentional breath and movement in the neck, jaw and shoulders.
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Apr 9: Breath for Releasing Fear & Increasing Ease (36 min)
This is for those of you trapped in fear, overwhelm, tension, hopelessness, depression and catastrophic thinking. This is an advanced practice and not suitable for raw beginners who haven't done any breathwork. The intention is to marry your brain body back together to get angst out of way in ord...
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Apr 9: Relax Fear & Restore (30 min)
This is best practiced after today's fear-releasing breathwork. It is a shortened restorative sequence helpful for releasing tension.