10.30am-1pm & 2-4.30pm
Knowing more about your breath is fundamental to growth on your yoga path. It’s no understatement to say breathing is of the most paramount importance in yoga and in life!
In this full day workshop with Siobhan you’ll learn about specific pranayama practices and how to use them in your own practice and life to feel the changes for yourself.
In Yoga-Shastra (book of knowledge or authoritative teaching) it mentions yoga asana (postures) once or twice but then dedicates a good 16 – 17 points to the benefits of Pranayama, the fourth limb of Yoga. Pranayama is a key balancer for your internal system. It helps regulate and bring all your systems into harmony. It can even lead you into the higher states of sensory withdrawal with ease on the path to meditation.
Pranayama supports the goal of yoga, regulating the chitta (fluctuations of the mind) to bring the mind towards calm. It can help slow down the sympathetic nervous system and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. Over time the stress brain slows down its high alert function and the calm brain is back in the driving seat once more. The result is a happy body and a happy mind.
The science of Pranayama has been researched for so long now the evidence is clear on its health benefits, even from a very short daily practice routine. The right balance of breath-work practices can have a huge impact on many modern diseases such as digestive problems, anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, fibromyalgia, ADHD, hypertension, diabetes, thyroid problems, hyperacidity, to name but a few.
Breath work even reverses ageing in cells by repairing the damage to telomeres which fray as we get older and die - breathwork can see the ends of these cells grow back. It breaks the stress mechanism in the body, regulates the limbic system and purifies the body. It increases the production of GABA in the brain, an acid that improves and strengthens nerve pathway function which can be greatly depleted during stress.
The Yogic system is the only system to impact mental health and change our psycho-physiological body. Breathwork is fun to do if you approach it the right way. It takes time to learn what to do and grow your own practice but expect to take away practical steps you can work with at home on a daily basis and these small changes can make a huge impact on how you feel.
Workshop Cost £59
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About Siobhan
Siobhan has been a Yoga teacher over 20 years, is an expert tutor of Pranayama and an Ayurvedic massage therapist.
She has completed a three year intensive study programme on Pranayama at the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in Lonavla, India. Siobhan is highly intuitive and knowledgeable about the human body and how these elements show up in your system and how to correct them, and is looking forward to working with you in a very specialist way assisting in your own personal growth through the breath.