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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March 9: Public Class Set
This is an extended version of what I would teach at the start of a typical public asana class. Some hips are involved with these sets of shining skull breath + bellows breath.
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March 8: Intermediate Iyengar Pranayama
This is a shortened variation of Iyengar's intermediate series for breath work. Not for beginners.
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March 5: Rainy Day Elevation Breath (Int/Adv)
This set integrates movement with uplifting breath. It is energizing and primes for a good mood.
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March 4: Illuminating Breath
This is Surya Kriya. You will glow after doing it. It is excellent for purification, cleansing and meditation.
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March 3: Beautifying Kriya (Excellent pre-meditation set)
This is a kundalini kriya designed to ignite beauty from within. (Using bhastrika breath, core work and a throat focus with a bija mantra). This one is excellent to do before your meditation practice.
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March 2: Iyengar Pranayama Set
This is a compressed version of Iyengar's primary breath set. It is mainly working with ujjayi, three parts breath and digital pranayama. It is grounding, quiet and powerful.
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Feb 26: Full Moon Pranayama
A breath set designed to ground and illuminate.
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Feb 25: Thyroid Health Kriya
This is an intense kriya for the neck and thyroid gland in particular. There are studies that show a direct impact of pranayama and asana on regulating the thyroid gland, responsible for many things in our body like metabolism and overall health. See your homeopath or doctor about getting a blood...
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Feb 24: Sudarshan Kriya
This is a kriya I teach often. It is slow, building and calming. It requires patience and not much movement other than breath counts. Ujjayi and bhastrika breath are both used.
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Feb 22: Pranayama: The Practice of Ahimsa & Isvara Pranidhana
Ahimsa (Non-violence, inner kindness) & Isvara Pranidhana (surrender, letting go of the outcome after effort) are the first and last of yamas and niyamas stated in The Yoga Sutras. I speak to them as to how pranayama exercises both...
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Feb 19: Part One: Prep for Meditation Breathwork
This is my fave breath to prepare for meditation (which we do in part one).
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Feb 17: Honey Bee Breath 21x + Neck Tension
This set begins with the auspicious number 21 with sound. The 'mmm" of the AUM, bhramari breath with neck releases and one AUM = 21 sets of sound. We also focus on extending the exhale to reduce stress.
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Feb 16; What my Teacher Tiwari Ji Taught Me.
30 min pranayama
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Feb 15: The Scenic Route: Breathwork
When all you want to do...is take the scenic route and breathe.
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Feb 12: Sudarshan Kriya: Helpful for PTSD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder
This is pranayama set builds slow, medium to fast cycles of breath.
If you follow this link there's a big study on this kriya:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573542/
"Sudarshan Kriya has been found to be effective in alleviating the symptoms of mental health issues like post tra...
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Feb 11: The Ten Bodies Kundalini Kriya (advanced)
This is an advanced and highly activating breath practice.
It is taught to help the below:The Ten Bodies:
1st Soul Body
2nd Negative Mind
3rd Positive Mind
4th Neutral Mind
5th Physical Body
6th Arcline
7th Aura
8th Pranic Body
9th Subtle Body
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Feb 9: On Cultural Appropriation, Spiritual Starvation & then Breath Work
Tuesday Discussion. I give a 10 min share again, and then teach breath work. I hope this resonates. Enjoy
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Feb 8: Defunk: Mercury Retrograde Breath Practice
This is a breath set designed to lift you up! It brings alertness into your magnetic field, stimulates and stretches the lower and mid spine, hamstrings, rotations and more.
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Feb 5: Friday Pranayama + Prep for Restorative
This is a mixed breath set.
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Feb 4: Supercharge Your Intuition
This is a deep and quiet breath set in order to feel your intuitive powers.
Enjoy.
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Feb 3: Intense Pranayama (More advanced, not for beginners)
This is a busy and active pranayama set. There are ten parts to that are said to align with the "ten bodies" of our human experience. It is not a calming set while doing it, but will create a ripple of calm for your day. Expect a lot of bhastrika or bellows breaths - that quickly oxygenate the bo...
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Feb 2: What is Limiting Your Best Day Today? Talk + Breath Practice
A ten minute inquiry based on one of my faves, Sam Harris, what is Spirit?, what is the point of all of this and, "What is limiting you from having your best today?" Our mind can take us away from even the most exquisite moments in life. No matter where we go, there we are. Meditation and pranaya...
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Feb 1: Breathe through the thick of it!
An instant shift - this is one of my top five favourites.
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Jan 28: Full Moon in Leo Pranayama
This is mood-cooling full moon practice in a Leo moon. Full moon's can be so powerful - that they create a dissonance from our centre. It is designed to centre and realign any sway from your centre today. Stay grounded. Follow your heart - is the message of this wolf moon.