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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Feb 25: Breath for Leadership thru Trying Times (31 min)
Today's breath practice I address the teaching "Don't waste your suffering" and with the invitation of transmuting dense, fear-based thinking into utility and action in your purpose.
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Feb 24: Rise UP & Elevate: Deep Winter Breathwork (35 min)
This is the elevation kriya that is comprised of many different poses with either deep breathing, bellows or breath of fire. The energetic invitation is: "how can I be of service while elevating myself AND others?"
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REGISTER ABOVE! Free: Anxiety & GABA from last series. Up til Feb 28.
Beginning March 10, we will explore the many hormones and neurotransmitters in your body that regulate your sleep, mood and anti-inflammatory biomarkers.
This is an example (Day 5) a free class from the last series on the neurotransmitters Glutamate, GABA and anxiety + breathwork and a practice.
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Feb 21: Advanced Breathwork: Chaos to Calm (34 min)
This is not suitable for beginners. We do two VERY long sets of "ego eradicator" with breath of fire and four rounds of Wim Hof variations with spinal movements as well as static + long breath holds.
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Feb 20: New (and weird) one for Negativity! (Breathwork 30 min)
This is a weird one! If you're open to it, this is a 30 min practice with the design to specifically shift negativity that is within you.
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Feb 19: Straight-Up Breathwork (30 min)
Today is an intermediate level of intensity - and we get right into it with minimal extra info - right into the breath! Physiological sigh with intentional tension (for mind tension), right nostril (sun calming breath) 'breath of fire" with hips, table top spinal flex with bellows breath and two...
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Feb 18: Neuroscience of Grief & Loss + Gentle Breathing for Low Energy (33 min)
This begins with a 7 min lesson on some neuroscience of Grief & Loss + gentle breathing for low energy days. If you are grieving a loss of something, it's normal to feel exhausted and have zero energy. You can do this practice lying down, upright in your bed. You do you. There's no rush to push p...
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Feb 13: Int/Advanced Breathwork (32 min)
Today's practice is an intermediate/advanced in intensity. Today we do three classical sets of kaphalabhati, one set of bellows, one set of Wim Hof style breath and ending with a slow-stabilizing traditional prep practice "Brahma Mudra"
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Feb 11: Breathwork for Insecurity (30 min)
This Is a practice with the invitation of working with your insecurities - and recognizing it's a part of the human experience. We do Spinal Flex set which is most spinal movement bellows or deep breathing and ending with breath of fire.
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Feb 10: Sat Nam, Hips & Kaphalabhati (Breathwork 30 min)
Sorry for the yawn as intro (haha). Today's practice is a to-the-point intermediate breath practice includes hip openers, breath of fire x 3 long sets and ending with sun and moon piercing breath.
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Feb 7: Intero vs Exteroception for ADHD, Anxiety (Advanced Breathwork (30 min)
Five min lesson relevant to neuroscience (and why you may have ADHD, anxiety and other ticks) followed by an advanced breathwork. This practice is not suitable for beginners.
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Feb 4: A Breath Practice for Fear & Global Anxiety (33 min)
We do a breath practice for times when you're feeling fearful, anxious and riddled with anxiety (i.e about global events and uncertainty) and you feel like you're making life choices from your "fear body." This is for you! When we return back to our body's inner resources, we remember that we beh...
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Feb 3: Intermediate Breath Practice (30 min)
We breathe to move neural and "non-neural tissue" and signals the body to settle into "rest and digest" - we do a ton of breath of fire, bellows and breath holds.
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Jan 31: Advanced High Octane Breathwork (30 min)
This is not beginners! This is an advanced breathwork practice that builds in intensity, will leave you feeling elevated due to the increase of oxygen and neuromodulators like dopamine and serotonin in your brain-body. We build from the physiological sigh, through variants of Wim Hof and end with...
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Jan 30: Inner Gold Breathwork (32 min)
The invitation is a story that represents your own inner gold and how suffering = us forgetting this. We do several cycles of breath integrating hips and end with sitali "cooling breath" This is a moderate/intermediate breath practice.
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Jan 29: Spinal Flex Advanced Breath (30 min)
Today we do an advanced practice - that infuses moving your spine in all directions with activating bellows breath.
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Jan 28: Dopamine & Resilience Breathwork (31 min)
A 5 min intro/ invitation to make space for the "voice inside of your head" from where you cast your net of intention for the day ahead. We then do breathwork that is designed to increase mental resilience, release tension as well as up-regulating brain neurotransmitters that will hopefully leave...
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Jan 27: Deep Winter Breath Practice (31 min)
This is a moderate breathwork practice with classical breath of fire and bellows and the invitation is to let tension dissolve from overthinking things. Ice to water - that melt off you during this breath practice.
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Jan 24: Lymphatic Flush Advanced Breath (30 min)
This is an advanced breathwork practice with focus on the lymphatic system - a brief education on what that is - and a practice to support it!
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Jan 23: Asking for a Sign (30 min) Breathwork
The invitation is to use your breathwork practice a) with a question or lack of clarity and b) asking for a sign from the universe c|) the neurobiology of surrender - and we do the practice itself. It is up-regulating and innervating.
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Jan 22: Advanced Breathwork: Compassion vs Empathy (30 min)
For self-declared "empaths" - why this might be blocking you... vs the practice of compassion and loving kindness. A meta practice is integrated into our breathwork today.
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Jan 21: Blue to Bright! Good Mood Breath (30 min)
This is an up regulating, uplifting breath set for clarity and brightness.
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Jan 20: The Biology of Negative Thoughts + Breathwork
A soft education on the neuroscience of how negative thoughts are automatic and positive thoughts are NOT automatic - and the PFC and Limbic System. Why is it positive thinking is harder at times than negative? We then do a moderate breath practices into the hips and legs with this teaching in mind.
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Jan 17: Manifestation Advanced Breath + Wim Hof (32 min)
Today I invite "if you bring forth what is within you, it will save you" and we drop into an advanced practice integrating "the broaden and build theory" via breath with kaphalabhati breath + four rounds of WimHof variation of building intensity.