Explore one yoga instructor and anthropologist’s suggestions for breath practices that connect us with animal wisdom. ♠ Practice #1: Fish Wisdom—Breath Retention You don’t need to breathe like a fish or keep an aquarium to connect with a fish. Become a fish. Baptize yourself into nature. Visit a...
Read More♠ How Breathwork Can Help You Get a Good Night’s Sleep ♠ Slow, deep, diaphragmatic—breathwork sounds, and is, so beneficial for treating insomnia. But they call it work for a reason. Breathing and sleeping are two things we somehow make worse the more we think about them. While just about everyone...
Read More♣ Learn more about the benefits of nose breathing for your health—it might just change your life. Breathing is the first thing we do when we are born and the last thing we do before we die. In between, we take more than 20,000 breaths each day—and yet most...
Read MoreEvery time your mind wanders, use your breath to bring your focus back. The idea behind following the breath is that you have this web of thoughts which you are working with at the same time. They are these models that underlie our behavior and there...
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How Breathwork Can Help You Get a Good Night’s Sleep Slow, deep, diaphragmatic—breathwork sounds, and is, so beneficial for treating insomnia. But they call it work for a reason. Breathing and sleeping are two things we somehow make worse the more we think about them. While just about everyone...
Read MoreHow Breathwork Can Help You Get a Good Night’s Sleep ↓ Slow, deep, diaphragmatic—breathwork sounds, and is, so beneficial for treating insomnia. But they call it work for a reason. Breathing and sleeping are two things we somehow make worse the more we think about them. While just about everyone...
Read MoreAs our air becomes more polluted, healthy breathing habits are becoming even harder to establish. Everybody breathes. We are born, in most cases, with the capacity to breathe in ways that nourish our bodies and minds. When we are breathing well, breath enters the body with almost no...
Read More↓ Reclaim rest with a rest guided meditation that will take you on a journey of self-exploration. I’ve witnessed something pretty special over the past couple months. There has been a collective shift recently away from frustration and fear toward peace and healing. Within this shift has...
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Yoga and mental health are inextricably intertwined. Yoga helps promote mindfulness, healing from trauma, and boosts creativity. Yoga has been thoroughly studied for its mental health benefits and has been proven to help with anxiety, depression, and many other mental health disorders. Even without a specific...
Read More↓ Resources to Calm Down Quickly Explore the most accessible ways to achieve natural vagus nerve stimulation. These days, you don’t have to look far to find a reason to feel stressed. The levels of stress most people are facing are well beyond what anyone could have imagined...
Read More♦ If you’ve ever taken a yoga class, you’ve heard some reference to the breath at some point. We know it’s incredibly central to the yoga practice; the awareness of the breath is perhaps the thing that defines yoga against any other forms of movement, exercise,...
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