Is There One Right Way to Breathe in Yoga?
January 25, 2012
Let’s start first with an exploration of this question. Since yesterday, you’ve probably taken twenty thousand inhales and twenty thousand exhales. How present were you to any of those breaths? Did you notice the natural rhythm of your inhale and exhale and the rise or fall of the belly or chest? Or, hone in on an awareness of one being longer or shorter than the other? Perhaps you sensed the texture, the length of the breath, or how the breath moved about your own being? Or maybe your awareness was focused on where the breath began its journey and where it ended inside you? If not, maybe you want to take a moment now and just be with your own breath. What you will discover is that we all have our own innate breathing pattern, some good, some not so good.
In our therapeutic practice, we aim to help clients learn that there is NO one way to breathe in yoga. But, there are ways to breathe optimally to enhance our overall health. Each breath we draw upon infuses our inner being with a lush gift of prana and learning how to honor that gift in how and where we move the breath are all equally important. In our Breath with Movement sessions, we guide our clients to move their physical body to their own innate breathing, not group movement, but individual movement. When we allow our body to be guided by the breath, we step into a beautiful flow, a meditative movement that fuels and energies us as well as dispels the body of no longer needed toxins, stress, and dis-ease.
And the way we breathe changes from moment to moment, and practice to practice. Our trained therapeutic instructors guide you to flow your movement to your breath to enhance all systems of your body. Using the concept of Langhana or Brahmana breathing, tied to mudras that support, and yoga movement that awakens, you will discover that there is no one way to breathe in yoga, but a rainbow of strategies to maintain optimal health.
Private therapy for the respiratory system is also available and guided by Nancy Levenson, PYT-1000. She will work with you to improve conditions of Asthma, COPD, Anxiety and other taxing disorders to the respiratory system.
NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, 5860 S. Curtice St., Littleton, CO 80120. We are not a walk-in studio, we operate as a private center for our clients. All classes require a RSVP. www.namasteworksyoga.com - A Place to Discover Yoga as a Healing Art.

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