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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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.
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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!
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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.
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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 ...
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Mar 21: Advanced Breathwork (30 min)
This is not suitable for beginners. We do longer sets, holds and integrate variations of "Wim Hof" breathwork.
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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.
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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).
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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...
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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.
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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.
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March 11: Oxytocin & Calming Breath (30 min)
Today's class invites the hormone oxytocin into practice & self-soothing for stress and unease.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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....
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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.