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)
  • Jan 14: Full Moon Breathwork (32 min)

    Inquiry, why is it so easy for us to negate to negativity rather than positive affirmation? We then drop into a robust and common kiriya that I often teach in the studio.

  • Jan 13: Breathwork for Your Inner Critic (31 min)

    The theme is breathwork for inner love and positivity - I invite you to bring that which ails you into today's practice - any shutting down, your inner critic and so on... We use a mixed breath practice today to massage it out of you: physiological sigh, breath of fire and alternate nostril breat...

  • Jan 10: Advanced Breathwork for Clarity + WimHof (33 min)

    We begin with "Kriya for Clarity" which is helpful if you're in your head too much, integrating somatic/body movements that help express clutter of the mind + breath of fire. We then end with three rounds of a variation of WimHof style breath with 30 second breath holds. The outcome ideally is se...

  • Jan 9: Intermediate Kundalini (30 min)

    This is an activating / upregulating breathwork practice with kaphalabhati, bellows breath coupled with intentionality.

  • Jan 8: Breathwork for Uncertainty (30 min)

    If you're feeling uncertain about how the new year is beginning OR you feel uneasy or uncertain about a thing in your life... I speak to this before we do a down-regulating, chilled out breath practice. We do a 3 min bout of breath of fire - but the rest is long, ujjayi breath and 4-7-8

  • 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.