FOR GUT-HEALTH & ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM THEMED PRACTICES

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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?"

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Apr 6: "Broadcast" & Manifest (Advanced Breath) 30 min

    I reference the throat region "purification" of the throat, the area from which we are broadcasting information via our voice & inner voice.

  • Mar 31: Gut Brain Axis Breathwork (30 min)

    Today's practice is themed on the gut-brain axis and breathwork that is all about the GI tract, the "manipura chakra" meaning lustrous-jewel. The seat of your self-esteem.

  • Nov 27: Gut-Brain Axis Breathwork (32 min)

    This is a hybrid practice that begins with a Kundalini Kriya for clarity + activating modern breath (tummo variation) that will up-regulate and awaken the body's system + serotonin & cortisol chat at the start.

  • Disease Resistance & Digestive Kriya (31 min) Breathwork

    This practice is a practice to support colds and illness, digestion and elimination. It is a Kundalini Kriya.

  • Oct 24: Unedited: Breath of Fire with Arm Variations (30 min)

    An invitation to cleanse "the altar of your life" - We engage in classic ego eradicator, breath of fire into the GI tract, intention and variations of somatic movement with the arms.

  • Sept 30: Vestibular Asana for fighting Cyber Fatigue & Building Trust (70 min)

    This practice encourages closing your eyes for the development of the eyes/ears/brain connection in balance. Especially if you are someone who gets car sick easily - you might also suffer from cyber fatigue. Many people have this as screen time has increased with covid. Not good! Strange side eff...

  • Kriya for Conquering Sleep (Shortened Sequence - 30 min)

    This is a bit of an odd sequence designed to help with sleep issues. It is meant to be 60 min long. A few tips for breath and insomnia near end of sequence.

  • Restorative into Samana Vayu (Digestion) 30 min

    Grab a pillow. This is a restorative practice into the digestion - samana vayu is the gut brain axis, digestion and metabolism.

  • Rest & Digest Breathwork (Before or After Eating) 30 min

    This kriya for digestion and relaxation works with alternating the nostrils and encouraging mostly deep breath + some breath of fire. It requires patience, induces relaxation and reminds us of how pranayama helps spark metabolism even through subtle deep breathing.

  • Day Thirteen, Part One: The Digestive System: A Practice (45 min)

    A practice to potentiate digestion: a breath practice and meditation/journel time.

  • Sweat, Cleanse, Core, Twists, Digestion (Sept 20)

    A four-min anatomy lesson + juicy, sweaty, cleansing practice.

  • Day Five: Meditation + The Pancreas - Lecture (40 min)

    - Grounding/opening breath/meditation
    - Introduction to the pancreas and its role in digestion and the endocrine system
    - Hormones of the pancreas
    - Diseases of the pancreas
    - Healing practices for the pancreas
    - Foods and herbs for the pancreas

  • Kriya for Disease Resistance (Advanced) Sept 1

    "To avoid persistent colds and illness, it is essential to keep digestion and elimination functioning well. Add to this a strong metabolic balance and you will have heartiness. This kriya develops these capacities. It gives physical strength and builds disease resistance."

  • March 17: Elevation Kriya - Int/Advanced Set

    As per. "The Aquarian Teacher" (Bhajan):

    "This exercise opens the lungs, brings the hemispheres of the brain to a state of alertness and consolidates the magnetic field, stimulates and stretches the lower and mid-spine, helps elimination, stretches the sciatic nerve and brings circulation to th...

  • Nov 2: The Vayus: Emotion vs Pragmatism

    This is a 60 min asana practice focusing on how the principal of the Vayus - the internal "winds" that govern all health in the body via the teachings of ancient yoga. In this practice we work with five main vayus: prana vayu (inspiration and the inhale) apana vayu (expiration and the exhale) sam...

  • Mar 24: Breath for Releasing Negativity & Tension (33 min)

    This is a Kundalini breathwork for removing negativity and tension. This is a moderate-intermediate in intensity. I also reference how this shows up in the gut-brain-axis.

  • Feb 27: Serotonin & "Gut-Brain" Breathwork (34 min)

    This intermediate breath practice begins with a brief education on serotonin and a research piece on Wim Hof breath. Expect the physiological sigh, "stomach pumping" breath and a variation of Wim Hof style breath x 4. This is great for low energy, depressed mood and helps elevate dopamine / sero...