BREATHWORK ONLY CLASSES (30 min)

BREATHWORK ONLY CLASSES (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 ONLY CLASSES (30 min)
  • Jan 6: Post-Holiday Moderate Breath (30 min)

    This is a moderate breath practice opening up the upper and lower airways as well as releasing tension from the accessory muscles involved in respiration.

  • Jan 2: Post-Holidays Brain Calm

    This is a SLOW, down-regulating practice. If you desire a slow moving minimalist breath practice. If you're beat-down by the holidays, pooped out, have little energy - and need to respect it - and desire a calming breath - this is for you. If you're sick or at the end of a flu/cold - this may als...

  • Dec 23: Holiday Stress Cleanse & Newcomers Welcome! (32 min)

    For holiday stress, this is a good one for you! We "thread" your brain of emotional toxins: stress, depression, rumination and overthinking of things.

  • Special Solstice Workshop: Breath + Inquiry (60 min)

    This is an hour long special practice in homage of Winter Solstice that falls on Dec 21 and in the Northern Hemispheres is the darkest and shortest day of the year. This intermediate/advanced also invites you into the depths of your own heart - via breathwork + inquiry or optional journalling. So...

  • Dec 19: Heart Practice & Newcomers Overview (35 min)

    A quick hello to newcomers to the studio + a lung and heart cleansing practice integrating ujjayi with various arm movements and a few sets of bellows. This is a beginner/intermediate practice.

  • Dec 17: Solstice Intention Practice (45 min)

    Today's practice is for intention setting as we get near to Dec 20, the shortest day of the year.

  • Dec 12: Breath for Flus & Colds (30 min)

    Today's practice is for when you're run down, have a sinus or chest cold and don't have much energy. This is an easy-going downregulating breath set with lymphatic drainage massage and two brief sets of kaphalabhati breath x 2.

  • Dec 11: Solstice: Neuroplasticity, Change & Breath (30 min)

    The invitation for post-breath work journalling "I am willing to let go of _____ in order to let in_______." We do an intermediate breath practice. I explain the very basics of neuroplasticity: agitation is a part of "the work" followed by rest.

  • Dec 10: Solstice Countdown Breathwork (30 min)

    This practice is day one as countdown to winter solstice, an invitation to include a gratitude practice pre or post-breath work. Gratitude is one of the top behaviors that invokes serotonin and dopamine into the brain and body.

  • Dec 3: Intermediate Mixed Breathwork (32 min)

    Today I infused Sudarshan Kriya with a sprinkling of up-regulating breath. This is an intermediate practice!

  • Nov 29: Hormone Balancing Breath (32 min)

    A brief note on hormonal imbalances and the impact of breath. We do three full cycles of kaphalabhati (shining skull) breath), sitali (cooling variation), spinal flex and a holotropic variation to adjust your mood. It is up-regulating in nature.

  • Nov 28: Lymphatic Flush Breathwork (30 min)

    This is a Kundalini breath set for flushing the lymphatic system with a focus on the major nodes.

  • 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.

  • Nov 26: Serotonin, Calm Gratitude Breathwork (30 min)

    This is a soothing, down-regulating breathwork practice for those of you feeling exhausted/anxious and intense breathwork isn't for you today. Keywords: soothing, cooling, calming, serotonin, deep breathing, gratitude practice

  • Nov 25: Cortisol/Adrenaline Informed Breathwork (31 min)

    Today we dive into breath practice with a bit of information on how we can modulate cortisol and adrenaline in the brain and body. We do breath of fire and classic breathwork to help balance both.

  • Nov 22: Cortisol Theme Breathwork (33 min)

    Today is a bit more advanced - with reference to cortisol and stress.

  • Nov 21: Traditional Pranayama Set (32 min)

    This is a classical breath sequence given to me by one of my teachers years ago including kaphalabhati, sitali and Nadi Shodana.

  • Nov 20: Advanced Mid-Week Moodlift

    Advanced Mid-Week Moodlift

  • Nov 19: Dopamine"Hit" 101 (32 min)

    Today's theme is dopamine! Dopamine is a neuro-modulator involved in reward, pleasure and motivation. This is an indirect way to positively influence your tonic and phasic stores of dopamine.

  • Nov 18: Warming Fall Breathwork (30 min)

    Today we begin with a long set of ujjayi breath, right nostril breathing and ending with basic kaphalabhati with hip openers.

  • Nov 15: Mood Changer Advanced Breathwork (30 min)

    This is a practice designed for those who have a solid breath practice of a minimum of six months. Ego eradicator - full set, long reps, holotropic and "superhero" breath!

  • Nov 14: Calming Anxiety Breath Set (30 min)

    This is a calming set: 4-7-8 breath, cooling sitali variation and ending on our belly's with deep breathing.

  • Nov 13: Pineal Gland Breath + Elevation for November Blues (32 min)

    This is an intermediate breath-set, so if you're a raw beginner to breathwork, please be familiar with bellows, kaphalabhati breath and longer holds before jumping in. We begin with a revised version of the elevation kundalini kriya and end with longer breath holds with the pineal gland in your b...

  • Nov 12: For Clarity Breathwork (30 min)

    This is an excellent kriya for somatically inducing clarity and your desire for it: cognitively, physically, spiritually. This is a blend of a Kundalini Kriya for Clarity + hip openers and deep breathing