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ALL LIVE WORKSHOPS and LIVE CLASSES CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
These workshops are suspended until further notice
Sun Mar 15, 1-3pm
“Breath Pracrtices for Pain: Endorphins”
One Yoga, Foster, RI
Sat Mar 21, 2-4pm
“Breath Practices for Anxiety: Vagus Nerve”
Synergy Yoga, Barrington, RI
Sun Apr 5, 2-4pm
“Breath Practices for Anxiety: Vagus Nerve”
Cosmic Yoga, Carnston, RI
Fri Apr 10, 6-7:30pm
Sitar and Breath Yoga
Cosmic Yoga, Carnston, RI
Sat Apr 25, 2-4pm
“Breath Practices for Anxiety: Vagus Nerve”
Breathing Time Yoga, Pawtucket, RI
Sat May 2, 1-3pm
“Breath Practices for Sinuses: Nitric Oxide”
Maha Yoga Center, Bridgewater, MA
Sat July 11, 1-3pm
This Next Breath 3
“Breath Practices for Pain: Endorphins”
Maha Yoga Center, Bridgewater, MA
Oct 17-18
This Next Breath Weekend
Nata Yoga Studio, Paris, France
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Breath Workshop Series
Take these workshops individually and begin with anyone of the topics. This is also offered as a weekend program.
Breath Practices for Anxiety
For absolute beginners, advanced yoga teachers and everyone in between.
How we breathe effects our mind. Our thoughts are dependent on the rhythm and pacing of the breath.
We begin with an experiential immersion of deep listening to the body and breath. Your rib cage will naturally relax and become more open to receive breath. We move into the active phase of practice, in order to mobilize the breath, and gently increase lung volume over time.
Through a series of “Breath Experiments” you will learn effective breath practices for coming out of the mental state of anxiety and there is one technique that stops a panic attack. Through a series of slides we study the importance of the Vagus Nerve and the powerful influence breath has on our well being.
The true way to deal with anxiety is to develop a daily breath practice.
Breath Practices for Reducing Pain
For absolute beginners, advanced yoga teachers and everyone in between.
Mothers after childbirth often remark how “the Breath saved me,” during their most critical hours of labor. We will test different patterns of breath and focus to see which gives you the most short term and long term pain relief. The results might surprise you.
The breath can either help us or hinder us in managing our complex relationship to pain. There are different types of overlapping pain: mental, emotional, existential and physical. Even physical pain sensations will vary depending on what part of the body they originate. We will test how focus and perception changes our experience of pain. We will explore how the breath can awaken the pleasure and reward centers of the body.
If you only listen to discussions on pain relief and breath, it goes in one ear and out the other. In your hour of need, the true way to get pain relief with the breath is to develop a daily practice. A Breath practice will change the trajectory of your whole life. Find out more.
Breath for the Sinuses, Heart and Blood: Nitric Oxide is the key
For absolute beginners, advanced yoga teachers and everyone in between.
Would you like to improve your mental clarity? Do you get clogged sinuses? Colds? Flu? Brain Fog? The sinuses are the most important and least talked about vital function in our bodies.
Learn how to turn on the paranasal nitric oxide from your sinuses. It will help your immune system kill all the bacteria, viruses and mold in your bloodstream. The sinuses hold the key to the balance of the body and the mind’s wellbeing. It is the main driving force for a pranayama practice developing into meditation (samaadhi.)
We begin with an experiential immersion of deep listening to the body and breath. Your rib cage will naturally relax and become more open to receive breath. We move into the active phase of practice, in order to mobilize the breath, and gently increase lung volume over time.
The true way to awaken the sinuses is to develop a daily breath practice. Find out more.
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In all of the workshops, we test out different “Breath Experiments.” You will find different ways of breathing and come to understand through your own experience, why things are done the way they are done.
You will learn a delightful, modern breath practice, developed by Tom Gillette and based on the lineage of Swami Kripalu. This 25 minute daily practice is the optimal way to start your day feeling clear, bright and awake!
We begin each session with an experiential immersion of deep listening to the body and breath. Your rib cage will naturally relax and become more open to receive breath. We move into the active phase of practice, in order to mobilize the breath, and gently increase lung volume over time. Through a series of soft, supported yoga postures and breath techniques, we will touchdown into still moments of insight, peace and ecstasy.
Visual aids help to explain the physiological basis of why praanaayaama works. Then we launch into many more Breath Experiments. I have had 30 or 35 yoga teachers do this course so far and they are amazed there could be so many important aspects of the breath that hadn’t been covered in their teacher training.
The workshop series is offerred sometimes in a weekend format, or they can be taken as one ongoing course, but you are welcome to come for a single workshop on a space available basis.
Sanskrit Essentials for Yoga Teachers:
for yoga teachers and interested students
Yoga teachers constantly mispronounce over 60 major Sanskrit words. The situation is embarassing! If you learn just a little bit about devanagaree, the diacriticals, the sibilants, long and short vowels, you can clean up the ubiquitous mispronunciations.
Based in the work of Vyaas Houston and the American Sanskrit Institute, we will experience how Sanskrit was created according to how the human body resonates and makes sound. Each participant will get a booklet of “Sanskrit Essentials for Yoga teachers.”