Breathe your own medicine. pranayama is the process of healing and strengthening yourself through body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Pranayama is a precursor to meditation – it tones and strengthens and develops your mind to be able to sit in meditation. Actual physical changes will happen to the brain through regular pranayama practice.
Pranayama is mastery of your vital life force. When we are in service to our vital life force, our eyes shine brightly and our energy is far reaching!
Do you want to experience yourself and your reality differently, even temporarily?
Have you ever stopped to explore what your breath is showing you about your internal environment? Breath magnifies what your body and mind are experiencing, easily observed objectively, we can therefore excavate great insights from knowing our breath intimately.
Observing the breath as it is, is a skill of awareness that demands the mind to focus on something automatic. At first, sustained attention on this experience can be elusive as the mind prefers action and bells and whistles to entertain it. So we learn to breathe, and learn in the process about the meaning of our ability or inability to sustain breath in a rhythmic pattern. As we learn to breathe, we expand our lung capacity which has a whole host of benefits we will explore in my experiential workshops.
As we learn to breathe, we learn about ourselves from personality to perceptions – the development of our mind happens, creating a mental fitness and along the way, changing the shape of our brain parts responsible for different things that will influence our interaction with our world. As we learn to breathe, we journey into our inner sacred Self.
Mental/Emotional:
Slowly work on focus, patience, acceptance, surrender, willpower, resilience and peace of mind. Expect awareness and new relationship with your ego. Expect a relaxation of emotional highs and lows.
Pranayama is a precursor to meditation – it tones and strengthens and develops your mind to be able to sit in meditation. In a more modern context, it will help to destress and teach your nervous system a new ‘normal’ of quiet calm with which to manage your life.
Physical:
Slowly work on increasing lung capacity, resetting nervous system, oxygenating the body, supporting healing of all the body systems including digestion, respiratory, circulation, and enhancing your yoga practice. Create presence by learning to be in your body. Physical brain changes can be expected through the regular practice.
Spirit:
Slowly work through hidden blockages and belief systems, unreconciled challenges sitting in your body. You can expect a perspective shift. You can expect a sense of calm or spaciousness around lifes’ challenges. Let go. Direct experience to access insights from your inner-being – your deepest truths, once the mind is quiet and the environment set for this transmission. Self love. Sitting in drama with connection to your center.
Expect joy, brighter colours, a lightness in your step.