The Metal Element in Traditional Chinese Medicine 5 Element Theory is related to our Lungs and Large Intestines, the emotion of grief, and the fall/autumn. One of the best ways to connect to this element is through breath, specifically bhastrika pranayama blended with deep breath awareness medit...

Circle breath is a great way to bring greater oxygenation to your body, clear brain fog and balance your energy overall. In this practice we explore circle breath, how it works, how to build on it, and how it can be used anywhere, anytime to help you feel more clear and fully oxygenated.

If you have been living with long COVID, a long term illness that has affected your ability to breathe deeply, flu or a cold or anytime you feel your breath restricted (even anxiety and panic attacks) - this is a practice for you.

We begin reclined and work our way through deeper and more effo...

Spirit, Divine, Life Force - whatever you call it, this is what fills each of us with life. It is our true self.

Join me as we explore our breath as a guide to the Spirit within - using the concepts of qi and prana as the basis for practice.

Take a few moments today to settle into your breath, mindfully connecting to your body, the earth, and being fully present. Enjoy my backyard along with some birds singing - you requested this meditation and I am so happy to offer it!

The Three Part Breath is the first breath we learn in yoga and the basis for all Pranayama (breath regulation) practices in the yogic tradition. Learning to use the WHOLE of our lungs can go a long way to keeping us healthier, massaging internal organs, refocusing us and helping us relax and rel...

The breath is always with us - no matter where we go, what is going on. Today we explore the 3 part breath in more detail with a kinesthetic or "touch" approach to build more awareness and connection. Open up your breath, find more space and discover your natural tendencies in this guided pract...

Throughout the day we breath in different ways - often without thinking. Under stress our breath turns shallow, relaxed and it extends. What we don't notice, often even if we are noting the breath, is the length of each inhale and exhale in relation to each other.

For me, my exhale is WAY ...

Ujjayi breath is the one most often used in flow classes to help connect breath and movement but it can also be used to calm and soothe you before sleep, take a refocus break and/or help you center yourself. Join me for this short practice and learn how this breath can really help you ground, se...

Bhramari breath - or humming bee breath - is one of the most fun pranayama practices and one that can help clear the throat chakra and release tightness in the chest. I have often used this breath with children and they always love it so if you want to share this with someone - please do!

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At the beginning/end of each inhale and exhale there is a natural, organic pause - a gap - a still point. In this practice we explore that gap, lengthening it, feeling into it and discovering what this feels like for mind and body.

The lungs are much larger than we often explore in our daily breath. Often we breathe into just one side or the other more or we breathe into the center of the chest and not the side body.

In this practice we will explore compartments of the breath, focusing on areas one at a time then altogeth...

Pranayama is one of the most powerful tools to help you manage stress, regulate the effects of stress on your body and mind, settle and ground, soothe and energize, and connect to the moment mindfully for perspective.

In this extended version of Ujjayi pranayama, we explore this breath deeply to...

Sometimes we need to meditate AND breathe but we just cannot settle down enough to do it. How about melding the two with movement in a lovely and short movement meditation? This practice uses the Daoist breath to help synchronize the mind, body, and spirit. Enjoy!

In this practice we are working with Vishama Vritti - extending the exhale longer than our inhale - allowing our minds/bodies to soften, allow, and ground. This is a great breath for Yin and Restorative yoga practices - helping our bodies go into the parasympathetic nervous system for some rest ...

Nadi Shodhana is one of my very favorite breath practices as it brings energy back to balance - helping balance the Yin and Yang, left and right, sun and moon sides of the body/mind. This simple little breath is great ANY TIME and can be used to crown your Yin or Restorative practice for a deepe...

Breath retention with "fill rates" is a great way to build greater awareness of your breath overall as well as explore building depth to your practice. We begin with basic breathing and then explore 50% fill rate followed by 33% fill rate retention. This is a great way to build lung capacity to...

Nadi shodhana or alternate nostril breathing is one of the most effective pranayama techniques and can be used by everyone, anytime, all of the time to bring balance and steadiness to your mind and body. If you have practiced this before and found it a bit challenging, this practice is here to h...

Join me for a beautiful soothing combination of breath and body awareness, same length breath regulation and alternate nostril breathing (nadi shodhana) to help soothe and center you mind, body and spirit.

Welcome to pranayama practice! While most of the time you will see pranayama practiced with yoga poses or in a yoga practice, it is a unique experience on it's own. If you have been wanting to build a deeper understanding of breath regulation, to add this to your practice and see what it can do...

The vagus nerve is one of 12 cranial nerves and is the only one that "wanders" throughout your entire body - connecting to and affecting almost every organ system of the body. It is also the nerve bundle that helps us moderate the balance between fight/flight/freeze and rest/digest/socialize in ...

I continue to learn new ways to work with anxiety and panic attacks and build better nervous system resilience. Today I offer a couple of simple practices to use anytime - even if you are not super anxious, so you can build a toned and resilient autonomic nervous system. The vagus nerve bundle ...

Many of us have heard of our vagus nerve but few of us know how to tap into it's power to help soothe anxiety and stress. In this practice we will use self massage and breathwork to activate and tone our vagus nerve bundle so we can move into our parasympathetic nervous system more easily and br...

Pranayama or breath practices are a powerful way to get into our bodies and release trauma and also a way to calm anxiety and panic attacks. When we are in a traumatic situation or suffering from trauma or anxiety, we breathe shallow, short, small breaths. By working with the breath in multiple...