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)
  • Apr 15: Beginner/Moderate Traditional Breathwork (30 min)

    This is moderate and beginner friendly. We do shorter sets of kaphalabhati, bellows and Nadi shodana.

  • Apr 11: Mood-Changer Advanced Breath (33 min)

    This is an advanced breathwork practice that includes a longer set of "ego eradicator" breath + Wim Hof variations with spinal flex and rotation + longer holds. This is not suitable for beginners.

  • 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 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.

  • Apr 3: Moderate Breath Practice for Tension (30 min)

    This is a mixed breath practice with "breath of fire", "uddiyana bandha", lions breath, jivha bandha (both for facial and cranial nerves) and "brahma mudra" which is a slow, powerful diaphragmatic breath. It's not too intense but excellent for headaches, tension and de-stressing.

  • April 1: Surya Kriya (Old Faithful) for Mood & Releasing Tension (32 min)

    This is a staple breathwork practice to the digital studio. It is excellent for moodiness, anxiety and invoking sunshine energy (surya). It is an intermediate practice filled with below breath and breath of fire. One of my favorites!

  • 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.

  • Mar 28: Advanced: Release Stress Breath (32 min)

    This practice is not suitable for beginners. It requires an open mind! Or willingness to try. It is invigorating, cooling/intense bellows and Wim Hof styles + integrates visualizing the colors of the Northern Lights into your brain-body. This is breathwork to move overthinking, negative mindset ...

  • March 26: Advanced: Mindwandering, Ease & Wim Hof Breath (32 min)

    "Today I will move with ease" is the invitation. This is an ADVANCED practice not suitable for beginners. This is intense sets, longer holds and a lot of up-regulating intensity!

  • Mar 25: Moderate/Gentler Breath-Set (30 min)

    This is moderate/gentler breathwork practice integrating: the physiological sigh, 4-7-8 helpful for anxiety, two moderate rounds of breath of fire with hips and ending in sitali (cooling) breathwork.

  • 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.

  • Mar 21: Advanced Breathwork (30 min)

    This is not suitable for beginners. We do longer sets, holds and integrate variations of "Wim Hof" breathwork.

  • March 19: Dopamine Hit Practice & Cognitive Flexibility (30 min)

    This is an ADVANCED practice - and is not suitable for beginners to breathwork. It is intense Wim Hof variations, long breath holds and in the theme of supporting dopamine and cognitive flexibility.

  • Mar 19: Traditional Pranayama & Cognitive Flexibility (30 min)

    This practice begins with a brief intro on what cognitive flexibility means and a reminder of how this practice supports this. We then drop into a traditional sequence with hips of 3 sets Kaphalabhati Breath, 2 sets Bellows and ending with Sitali (cooling).

  • Mar 17: For "Analysis Paralysis" & Indecision (30 min)

    This breathwork practice begins with a brief explanation of the impact of hormones on decision-making (for better or worse). We "get weird to get normal" to move indecisiveness and stress hormones that impede good decision making. We use the Kriya for Clarity + pumping the belly, twists and inten...

  • March 14: Advanced Breathwork: Self-Doubt & Serotonin (30 min)

    This is NOT suitable for beginners. The invitation is self-doubt, and the practice is intense with longer holds.

  • March 13: Surya Kriya Breathwork (30 min)

    This is an "old-faithful" practice I teach a few times a month and is still one of my favorite Kundalini Kriyas - it is brightening, opens the heart, prepares the body for meditation and calls in the energy of the sun. I reference the HPA axis and cortisol as well in today's practice.

  • March 11: Oxytocin & Calming Breath (30 min)

    Today's class invites the hormone oxytocin into practice & self-soothing for stress and unease.

  • March 10: Spring Forward Soothing Breath (30 min)

    WE do a down-regulating with option to upregulate the body via breath. Slow and soothing to start with option to modify and go more intensely.

  • March 5: Advanced Breath Wim Hof with Spinal Movement

    This is not suitable for beginners. Please have at least six month of breathwork under your belt! This is an up regulating practice to disperse distress, tension and stress using variations of Wim Hof style breathwork.

  • March 4: Calm, Soothing & Gentle for Distress (32 min)

    This is a soothing, calming and cooling off breath practice addressing distress and unease in the body-mind. It is down-regulating and calming breath practice today.

  • 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...

  • Feb 26: Advanced Breath for Stress: Sat Nam (31 min)

    This is not suitable for beginners and for those who have been practicing with breathwork consistently for 6+ months. We work today with the temporary discomfort of the "Sat Nam" to be in Truth Mantra + Kundalini (intense) Kriya x several sets of kaphalabhati (breath of fire) for several minutes....