BREATHWORK for MOOD, ENERGY & FEELING BETTER (30 min)

BREATHWORK for MOOD, ENERGY & FEELING BETTER (30 min)

These practices are mostly intermediate range breath work practices designed from the practice of pranayama (in yoga prana = energy / ayama = to extend or stop the breath. They range from vigorous Kundalini practices to calmer Iyengar breath practices. Breath-work is an effective tool to expediting the end goal of most practices: a change in mood, a lift in spirits and a feeling of expansiveness. Please be mindful so to not push yourself or force anything that doesn't feel good. Beginners, pregnant students, injuries etc. please be cautious and search for the beginners classes and speak with your doctor first.

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BREATHWORK for MOOD, ENERGY & FEELING BETTER (30 min)
  • Sept 25: Mood & Negativity Medicine: Breath for Elevation (30 min)

    This practice includes some basic seated asana as well alongside breathwork. It is somewhat advanced but doable for newer students. It helps move myofascial tension as well as a bad mood, fatigue or negativity in the mind. One of my favorites!

  • Sept 23: Grounding Breath: Sudarshan Kriya

    This is perfect for the fall equinox. It quiet, calming and grounding. It is called "Sudarshan" Kriya. It is intense and grounding diaphragmatic breathing, box breathing and three short bouts of bellows breath.

  • Sept 19: Adrenaline & Advanced Breathwork Practice (minimal cueing) 29 min

    This is not suitable for. beginners. We work gradually into speed and lengths of breath sets, We work with the adrenaline system to stimulate the brain and body in order to enhance your focus and attention.

  • Sept 17: Supernova Advanced Breathwork (28 min)

    This is an advanced practice not suitable for beginners. Today we work with a slower to more intense practice of the physiological sigh with spinal movement and option into a WimHof variation.

  • Sept 16: Theory of Life & Death Advanced Breath Practice (28 min)

    This is an advanced practice as I share my recent experience with death - and one way of understanding the building of inner"Prana" life-force while we are still here as the conduit to building what remains when we are no longer here. We do breath of fire followed by Wim Hof breath.

  • Sept 12: Fun Friday Get High Advanced Breathwork (30 min)

    This is an advanced breath practice (not suitable for beginners). Expect a more intense breath set and longer holds.

  • Sept 15: Minimal Cueing with Mixed Breath Practice (30 min)

    This is a mixed breathwork practice - we go right into without too much chit chat. We do 3 sets of kaphalabhati x 120 reps with hip openers, 3 sets of bellows breath, 15, 25, 35 and end with alternate nostril breathing.

  • Sept 11: Becoming Seaweed: Calm Breath & Embodiment (30 min)

    This is a "feminine" embodiment practice regardless of your gender - we all have masculine and feminine connections to nature. We do one set of breath of fire followed by one long continuous stream of soothing inhales and exhales with calm spinal movements.

  • Sept 10: Ahimsa (Non-Violence) & Advanced Breathwork (30 min)

    Ahimsa means non-violence - but what does this mean to practice it? We weave this invitation into today's hybrid breath practice of advanced Surya Kriya AND Wim Hof breathwork.

  • Sept 9: Wim Hof Breath & Transcendence (30 min)

    This is a spicy practice that uses a faster-paced Wim Hof breath to induce adrenaline, dopamine and a mood shift. The invitation is to allow the "S" Self to take over the small "s" Self. We end with a 4 min meditation.

  • Sept 8: Hips, Glutes & Breathwork (32 min)

    This is a classic breathwork sequence that integrates two hip/glute openers while we do breath of fire and move the spine. It is intermediate in nature and beginner friendly.

  • Sept 7: Advanced Breathwork (30 min)

    Sept 7, 2025. breathwork

  • Sept 3: Advanced Breath: Death & Life (30 min)

    Today is an advanced invitation of the contemplation "what would you like to live into more?" and the contemplation of life and death. This is an advanced breathwork practice that integrates Wim Hof & the physiological sigh in intense waves with longer holds.

  • Aug 25: Breath of Fire + Down-Regulating & Calming Breathwork (31 min)

    This is a mostly calming, down-regulating practice - interspersed with breath of fire x 3 (kaphalabhati breath). It is mostly a calming, stabilizing breath work practice. We use 4-7-8 breath.

  • Aug 22: Advanced Mixed Breathwork (30 min)

    This is an advanced breath practice only suitable for those having a strong six months of breath practice (recommended) or those with strong constitutions. We do longer holds, repetitions and more activating breath types that awaken the body and mind.

  • Aug 21: Advanced & Intentional Breathwork for Mental Energy (30 min)

    This is an advanced breathwork practice - with intentional cueing for clearing the mind of negativity, letting go or deep rooted beliefs. There are long sets of kaphalabhati, followed by a more intense physiological sigh and ending with Wim Hof breath sets. Expect higher energy and an up-regulati...

  • Aug 19: Digital Detox: Neck, Jaw & Eye Flush (26 min)

    I recommend you do this with this practice with your eyes closed (the irony is that you're watching this on a digital device). This is to help counter TMJ, teeth grinding, trapezius tension, headaches, eye strain and tension from laptop life. We increase blood flow and circulation into these hots...

  • Aug 18: Breathwork: Clarity Kriya + SaTa Na Ma Mantra (30 min)

    We begin the week with a Kundalini Kriya for Clarity. Anticipate a heavy dose of kaphalabhati breath (breath of fire) - inducing heat and movement of sluggish energy. If you are unclear about a decision or circumstance, this may be intentional and helpful for you.

  • Aug 15: Advanced Breath + My Personal Mantra for Prosperity (33 min)

    I share a secret and special mantra I used to use for changing my energy when it comes to lack, low value, self-worth to increase "internal locus of control." Why is it that we buy into negative self-beliefs so easily - yet question when we do the opposite? This is an intense breath set and may n...

  • Aug 14: "The Prana Vayus" Traditional Breathwork (32 min)

    The "vayus" is an old, Vedic teaching based on the idea of Prana "energy" moving through your body like "the gods of the wind." We work with the varying directional flows of breath and energy in the mind-body. Prana and the vayus describe the "winds of change." Wind disrupts and in breathwork, we...

  • Aug 13: Lymphatic & Immune System Breath (32 min)

    This is the lymphatic kriya for the lymph nodes and vessels in the arms, legs and belly. The lymphatic system is one of the most important parts of your immune system response. This is a Kundalini Kriya with breath of fire, diaphtragmatic breathing and bellows breath. It is intermediate in intens...

  • Aug 8: Advanced Breath: Dopamine & Attention (31 min)

    This begins with a five min chat on dopamine and its relationship to our brain's ability to stay focused and in attention. We then do longer sets of intense breath to support adrenaline and dopamine release.

  • Aug 7: Cleansing Breath Series: Fire + Alternate Nostril x 3 (32 min)

    This is an excellent moderate/intermediate breath practice integrating "breath of fire" followed with two traditional practices: right and left nostril focused breathing and then both. The theory is that the right and left hemispheres of the brain are brought back to homeostasis. It is a helpful ...

  • Aug 6: Sudarshan Kriya (For Stress, PTSD & Anxiety)

    This is a breath practice that engages deep, diaphragmatic breathing, box breathing and bellows. It is a practice that has also been used in specific research re: PTSD, anxiety and depression.