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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Jan 14: Dissolve Crappy Thoughts (Int-Strong Pranayama)
This is a strong breath set not suitable for beginners.
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Jan 13: GI Tract Pranayama
Today blends with the asana class: twisty shining skull sets + uddiyana makes for a cleansing experience...If you're new to uddiyana it's a bit intense, try not to have a full stomach...
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Jan 12: Breathing into the Limbic Lobe
I begin with a brief explanation of what is contained in the limbic lobe followed by breathing into tension there. The amygdala can hold unnecessary fear. We work with that.
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Jan 11: Beautifying the Skin Breath Set
A beauty-secret: pranayama :) This will leave your skin rosy. I do this kriya at least once a month. It is invigorating, challenging and oxygenating.
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Jan 7: Beta Brainwave Heart & Breath Work
Our analyzing brain is the worst place to drop into when we are craving love, resolve, a solution that requires faith and time. When we are in high-beta brainwaves, overthinking, it looks like messy scribbles on a piece of paper. When we are overly-analytical, judgemental, fearful, critical - th...
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Jan 6: Sudarshan Kriya Breath
This is a grounding, calming breath set. It's a really good set for beginners to pranayama to get the basic breath, ujjayi - and to feel what happens in your body.
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Jan 5: Heart & Mind Coherence through breath
Today's practice integrates basic teachings of neuroscience with what we are always striving for: love and coherence between the heart and brain.
We use a kundalini kriya to assist this process.
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Jan 4: Welcome Basic Breath Set
We go over basic breath types: ujjayi, shining skull, bellows breath and alternate nostril.
I segueway into the asana practice with visual aid of the SNS and the HPA axis, an informative, cool clip from Joe Dispenza.
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NYE SPECIAL: Exorcise Fear to Fierce Love - 90 min pranayama + meditation
This session turned into a spontaneous pranayama-focused practice to ring in the new year with 15 min of restorative asana at the end. It is a strong, weird and intention-strong breath set that gets the job done.
Fear is the opposite of love. It holds a purpose and is healthy in regulated doses...
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Dec 30: Stabilizing Pranayama for 2021
This is a set great for calming, grounding and prep for meditation as we get nearer to a new year. 2021.
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From the Archives: Dec 28: Breath to Elevate - Intermediate Breath
This is the Kriya for Elevation and one of my 2020 favourites. It is slightly altered at parts if you know it. It's a heavy dose of high vibrational breath.
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Archives: Christmas Pranayama - from the archives 2020!
Merry Christmas Breath set! Enjoy ****
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Dec 23: Glow Pranayama Xmas Week
A typical breath set integrating mantra as well as fiery breath for the dark days of winter.
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Dec 18: Beautifying Breath Set
This is a kundalini kriya designed to bring blow flow to the cheeks, health to the skin and eyes and uses the bija mantra "HUM" to beautify the words in your mind to your self and others.
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Dec 16: Warming Winter Pranayama
Ujjayi "box" breathing as well as movement into the hips, legs and shoulders with breath.
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Dec 15: Intentional "Threes" Pranayama
This is an intentional practice integrating why the number three is sacred and seen throughout yoga, science and in our body on a cellular level.
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Dec 14: Good Mood Monday Breath-Set
This is a highly invigorating breath set designed to "elevate." A seated asana is incorporated with each part, moving the spine, awakening the senses. It is a very satisfying breath set.
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Dec 11: Friday Pranayama
Short sets of shining skull and bhastrika breaths in twists and hip openers....
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Dec 10: Digital Pranayama Set
Today's breath practice experiments with "digital" pranayama (using your digits or fingers) to control nostril breathing.
The right side vs the left side vs both sides all have different effects on our mood, chemistry and energy flow to the brain.
- KP breath two sets with hips
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Dec 9: Levity Breathwork: Spirit is Science
Create lightness today via the breath. There is some background dialogue in today's sequence incorporating information on plasticity, lightness, the glands of our brain.
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Dec 8: Sun Breath Series
My usual favorite, I love to teach once a week in variations of Surya Kriya: cleansing, heating and grounding.
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Dec 4: Breathwork into the Neck, Spine and Hips
We use "shining skull" breath into the neck, into a spinal rotation and the hips. We end supine with restorative three-parts breathing as a segueway into our restorative practice.
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Dec 3: Make a Wish Pranayama
One of two things can happen when you make a wish a) it comes true immediately or b) requires a relentless pursuit. This is the practice of neuroplasticity. It takes practice to visual, effort and then let go...
Enjoy!
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Dec 2: Pranayama: Brief Chat on PNS Cranial & Sacral Nerves
30 min educational bit + breath work in conjunction with the parasympathetic nervous system response (rest and digest).