Breathing Broadcast: Recent Episodes
Beautiful Revolution
Remember who you really are and connect with the benevolent aspect of Self in you and in all things.
A grounding session helping to establish nose breathing as a habit to support the beautification of the face.
3-Part inhale, 1-Part Exhale. The culmination of mastering the previous three sessions.
Now we move to a different section of the torso and initiate the inhale from there. Use this practice multiple times to gain mastery of the movement.
The first of 3 sequential breathing sessions, each designed to be repeated and mastered in preparation for something more.
A summoning beyond courage to the place of joyful knowing that victory is inevitable in the hands of Durga.
Using the seed sound Om, we can help to dislodge stagnant and stuck energy, blocks and obstacles.
A reminder of our infinite power through true connection with another being, collapsing time and being fully present.
Make space for your breathing practice and fill that space with your awareness. Bring awareness of space into the body, grounding down and up.
Grounding techniques coupled with expansion techniques to create stable rising in the spine and sensibility.
Connect your attention to the breath and gently observe. This is enough to create change in your system.
Aligning the broadcast to the summer solstice, bringing another season of daily breathing inspiration and practice.
What a mother might offer to a child expressing individually. Infuse this practice with light and unconditional love.
Neutral observation of the movement of breath into different segments of the torso, neck and head. Practicing the awareness of small and nuanced fluctuations without judgement.
Use the image of light emitting from the flame in different ranges of intensity. Chant along with the seed sounds. Chakra cleanse.
The truth includes the mystery and the unknown, standing in a field cleared of misperceptions and unconscious patterns of habit.
Pull back from experience enough to recognize the larger cycles existing, see the stories surrounding them, re-pattern the cycle through awareness and discernment of personal truths.
Refining our control of breath while contemplating the cycles expressed in nature and our nature.
A simple breath practice combined with an introduction to the week's theme: The Mystery.
As long as there is fuel, the fire continues. The body as fuel expresses aliveness through the heat radiating from it.
Using the fire element associated with the navel center, we bring light to negative feelings in the gut and release them.
The seed practice has grown to have a conscious identity, blooming with awareness and now carrying a bundle of new seeds in its head.
The seedling practice now blooms a conscious flower which begins to make itself available to the living world, offering bits and pieces of its most precious being to serve life.
Root system established, our seed practice now becomes drawn to light, causing the spine to naturally rise and lift.
Our practice will help to establish foundation and grounded structure. Binaural audio is enhanced with stereo headphones.
Nodding to the vernal equinox, this meditation initiates an alignment to the planet and nature as self.
The seed offers the wisdom of simplicity while holding all elements to proliferate life.
A meditation to cast off conditioning which makes us fear the unknown, the darkness, the great feminine aspect of creation.
A hissing sound through the mouth creates a change in how the air moves out of the body. More control means more awareness.
Furthering our practice from episode 3 and adding on a new aspect to the visualization.
A unique and soothing practice preparing our systems to receive sound and wisdom with clarity.
This meditation is an introduction to the connection between listening and opening to deep wisdom embodied in us all.
A breathing meditation observing the nature of the breath and aligning to the state of equanimity.
Alternate nostril breathing soothes and conditions the area above the nose, balancing the frontal lobe of the brain and the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
This represents the ending for the week and the beginning for this exercise. We will revisit it in seasons to come.
We increase the intensity level very slightly in order to become more aware of the belly as we breathe.
We add a slightly different hand position today. Subtle shifts repeated often create change.
This practice will help you develop sensitivity and awareness in your torso and cultivate the ability to direct the breath in to different parts of your body.
The Humming Bee Breath combines to be seen as the seed sound for the throat chakra. This is the final day of all this noise-making. Next week we move inward again.
A slightly extended practice, now performing two sets of six breaths. Work within your comfort and ease. If you strain, stop.
Remember to stay relaxed in your throat. Use the sound to create a softening. Be unconcerned with any bumps or fluctuations in the sound. The muscles of the throat are just learning how to be relaxed and active at the same time.
We continue to practice feeling vibration through the hum sound. According to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, this practice develops your sensitivity and awareness, improving your psychic abilities.
This is a special practice to share. There is so much to feeling the vibration that the voice makes. Stay in an observant place, noticing how it feels in the body to vibrate sound. There is no obligation for this to be beautiful. The Humming Bee Breath helps the body to generate nitric oxide, a molecule so helpful and healing that the scientists who discovered its purpose in our body received the Nobel Prize.
Today we will take note of the air and space that we are using to breathe and focus on the air and space within our bodies.
After spending time with the 2-part inhale you will notice that it starts to feel as though you could combine the two inhales into one large one. And so, we do. Remember to stay within ease and softness while you practice. This breath practice can feel wonderful.
Expanding our familiarity with the 2-Part inhale, we will also focus on feeling the body breathe while practicing.
A Simple 7-minute breathing practice to help bring awareness to the ribcage and full torso.
This practice will guide you through the first stages of easeful breathing and awareness of the movement of the torso while breathing. It is very simple and intended to help you connect with easy natural breathing.