Breathe Your Way to Health
A 5-Week Series Coming Soon!
On average, we breathe around 28,000 breaths per day, yet how often do we think about our breath as a way to promote our health?
Breathwork is a simple and free way to integrate mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health, and has been shown to reduce blood pressure, improve sleep, regulate hormones, create mental alertness, help with focus, improve performance, and decrease stress.
In this experiential series, you will learn about the biochemistry, physiology and psychology of breathing, symptoms associated with dysfunctional breathing, and easy ways (both modern and traditional) to restore balance through effortless, innate breathing.
Sample of topics that will be covered:
Breathing Basics - Finding Your Innate Breath
This session reviews the basic science of breathing: how biomechanical, biochemical, neurological and psychological factors influence functional, effortless breathing. You will begin to develop a mindful presence of your body’s innate breathing rhythms and patterns, and reconnect with your internal resources.
Posture & Breath
How we sit, stand and walk changes our breathing and hence changes our health. This session plays with posture and body shapes to created freedom in your spine, extremities and muscles to cultivate free, flowing breathing.
Timing is Everything - Coherent Breathing
Life is full of rhythms. Adjusting the timing of your breath can alter the rhythms of cardiovascular system, improving its function. In this session you will experiment with breathing rates and timing and observe the impact on your mental, emotional and physical states.
Sound & Breath
Toning, chanting and singing are practices used in a wide variety of healing traditions. Several studies have shown that chanting can improve respiratory conditions, increase focus and concentration and strengthen cardiovascular health. In this session you will play with sound as a vehicle to alter the breath and increase health and resiliency.