“Asana practice is the process of cleaning the vessel,
Pranayama practice is the process of filling the vessel with medicine”
Breathe your own medicine.
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 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 the 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.
Join Kerry for a series of workshops to develop these skills.
Sorry, if you are pregnant, these courses are not for you at this time.
Dates to be scheduled
Through the lens of your breath 1:
A beginners to breathing workshop. Yes, I know no one is a beginner to breathing really but let’s explore what is possible as we turn our attention differently onto the mechanism of breath, the meaning of breath and the power of pranayama which is the control of vital life force through the process of breathing in certain patterns. As we control our breath, we shift our mindset and our prana to our highest good.
It is far easier to experience ourselves differently than to try and think ourselves different.
This workshop is a combination of information and experiential learning.
12 Feb to 12 March 2025
Wednesdays 5pm – 6pm
R1250
Details for attending this course will be sent upon inquiry and booking.
Through the lens of your breath 2:
Join Kerry of Eyes Shine Bright for a Pranayama mandala 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!
This is a breathing course over 4 weeks where we establish control of ourselves through observation and gentle processing. This 4 week experience will give a skill for life.
Benefits and what to expect
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.
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.
Pre-requisite:
Through the lens of your breath 1 OR
For your enhanced benefit, it is recommended you have atleast a 6 month regular yoga practice. This means your body and mind will be better prepared for this pranayama experience.
How:
The breathing technique is learnt on each 1 hour session and practiced daily in your own time. You will learn a technique for self-practice which in and of itself has huge benefits included in the list above.
Each 1 hour session, we will follow up on the weeks’ experiences and Q&A and then learn a new pranayama for the next week. This is a daily practice process for approx. 5 weeks. Depending on your breath, the time investment daily on your own can vary from 30 minutes to 90 minutes.
About Kerry:
Kerry has been teaching yoga, yoga philosophy and pranayama since 2000 through asana practice, workshops, trainings. She has travelled to India multiple times to study with the masters there in traditional yoga and pranayama practices. Kerry uses her dialogue to invite inquiry and therefore awareness and to expand consciousness through developing attention and understanding of the language of our bodies. Yoga is a system of self inquiry and knowledge developed (through practice) into wisdom and Kerry’s passion is inviting students to play in the colourful, delicious realm beyond the limited vision of the mind. Kerry has studied the mind from eastern and western perspectives. She is also a coach, experienced in the neuroscience of change. All have lead her to one central realization: Breath is the most direct route to managing life easier (higher consciousness and Spiritual evolution).