Imagine going from stress to zen in a matter of minutes. No pricey spa retreats or fancy gadgets needed.

Sure - it’s all in your mind. In fact, we can change our brain… even if you started out with an unfavorable childhood without a mentor to teach you this earlier… that’s just what was.

From now forward, every step of THIS journey is going to feel good!!

No relief? No GAIN!

The Technique Of Breath

As with all exercise, the specific technique of breath work taught here should not be attempted without consulting a doctor.

Like a slow-motion kapalabhati breath (skull shining breath), we contract our belly to breath out, and relax our abdomen to let breath back into our lungs.

As we begin the exhale, we contract our pelvic muscles like a kegel exercise, the squeeze from the bottom of the belly to breath out. Relaxing to breath in, squeezing to breath out.

While breathing in, visualize the air swirling deep into the bottom of your belly as though it is a long vapor-thin band of tissue that rolls up onto an expanding roll - as you slowly squeeze to exhale, visualize the band of tissue unrolling and expelling toxins from deep in your body.

Counting Breaths

When we breathe in for the count of three and out for the count of five, it takes 8 seconds for one breath sequence. Seven breaths in a minute, 70 in ten minutes, or 480 breaths in a one hour yoga class. 

That is 480 deep, intentional relaxing inhale breaths and 480 complete exhalations of all the air in your lungs.

Intervals of 8 seconds where the thinking mind must maintain cooperative communication, and work in harmony with the autonomic brain to coordinate breathing, and at the same time coordinate with the motor cortex to perform the sequence of poses while breathe fully, in time with each pose in the sequence.

Why Is Slow Elongated Breathing… The Key?

Breath is the one subconscious routine in our body that we can take over and control through conscious effort. We cannot consciously change our digestive process, nor can we consciously affect our blood pressure nor our hormone production... and the list goes on. Most of our body processes are taken care of by autonomic parts of our brain.

When we use our consciousness to control our breath we engage our thinking brain and coordinate it, or couple it, with our subconscious brain.

Through our conscious attention to elongate, to deepen, expand and slow our breath - we force these two parts of our brain to maintain cooperative communication.

Breath control is our first step towards calming the thinking mind from our habitual patterns of stress, anxiety, anger, trauma and so on.

The Power of Breath: Engaging Consciousness in Meditation

Breath is an extraordinary function of our bodies that stands at the crossroads of voluntary and involuntary control. It's a process usually regulated by our autonomic nervous system, yet it's one we can consciously manipulate.

The ability to control our breath presents a unique opportunity for us to couple our conscious mind with our subconscious mind, fostering a invisible shift in our mental state.

Breathe Deeply: A Technique to Engage the Sensing Mind

Breathwork has been an integral part of meditation and yoga for all recorded history. (And, like any exercise, it's important to consult a doctor before starting a new technique.)

This breath control is our first step towards calming the thinking mind and releasing us from habitual patterns of stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, and more. By harnessing the power of conscious breathwork, we can quiet the thinking mind, engage our sensing mind, and make room for new emotional habits and healthier responses to life's challenges.