Episode 27 - Practice: Breath with Retention
This episode we’re practicing a breath called Antara kumbhaka - breath retention.
This episode we’re practicing a breath called Antara kumbhaka - breath retention.
This episode I’ll be guiding a version of metta meditation - a loving kindness meditation practice.
This episode walks through a guided breath practice for awakening and energy with bhastrika, the bellows breath.
This episode gets into real-life techniques for how to feel our feelings. We go over what something called “BRFWA” means and have some guided self-talk.
We are focused on the first chakra in a grounding meditation to help get your feet on the earth when your head is in the clouds.
This episode we are focused on the third eye center, the center of intuition with a simple visualization - a guided meditation to bring you down to earth and key into your own inner wisdom.
In this series we focus on “just the practice.” Today, a meditation on intuition.
This episode we break down the very basics with posture cues for meditation and breath work, and a few simple pranayama techniques to bring us back to balance.
In this little missive to you, my dear listeners, we introduce a new idea, "Yoga For the Revolution: Practice." These episodes will skip the news of the day, and dive right in to the practice. So next time you want to cut out the chit chat and just get down to the breath or to the meditation, look for any episode with "practice" in the title.
In this episode we discuss the truth about leadership, the age of anxiety and how the problem with kids today is way different than it used to be.
We reference a few bon motes from pop culture, so here are some links. Some are NYT articles, some are movies with Ethan Hawke. They are all equally important.
Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax by Alex Williams
Reality Bites official trailer
If Sex and the City Came Out in 2017, Miranda Would Be the Protagonist by Harling Ross
In this episode we imagine what would happen if stress were a good thing. And then we roll around in the stress-based riches the administration has provided us like Scrooge McDuck in a pile of his own money. Also, we talk a little bit about the love story in the action-thriller Speed.
Here is the TED talk mentioned in the podcast with Kelly McGonigal.
And this is the article on oxytocin, the loooove drug.
In this episode we discuss pratyahara, sense withdrawal, and do a little breathing in the dark. In an attempt to discuss the koshas - or 5 layers of being - I describe our human form as an onion, a meat body, and a tootsie pop. Ah, but it’s what’s in the center that makes it all worth while.
In this episode we respond specifically to Trump's dump of the Paris Climate Accord, then we dive into some light Hindu philosophy and why it’s not smart to let the dog poop in the apartment.
This episode we talk to tech journalist and yoga practitioner, Florence Ion about the most appropriate social platform to shout obscenities about Trump's American and also how to be a rose in a shit-storm of tech and media.
We mention a couple of things during the episode that we promised links to.
Find the meditation headband here.
And this is the article on Quartz that talks about Trump Trump, an app that blocks Trump-related news.
In light of recent revelations, we talk about truth and non-violence, pillars of any decent society and two of the tenets of capital "Y" yoga. We also try not to get singed by the flames of the effigy we’re burning in protest.
This episode we discuss why a bumble bee would make a horrible partner on a teeter totter and somehow I manage to call the human skull an auditorium. Moreover, we talk about vata dosha and practice a breath to bring it all in.
In this episode we talk about springtime, repeating patterns and being stuck on a loop. We also do a quick Ayurveda review and introduce some balancing breath work that claims to make our skulls all shiny.
In this episode we talk about how the body responds to anger, its evolutionary advantages, and systemic disadvantages. Follow a simple breathing technique to help your lower the volume on that hot, hot rage machine stoked by the flames of the GOP.
We talk a little bit about the concept of “trash in-trash out,” how we end up making the same mistakes over and over again, and how to start to break the cycle.
We take a joyride through Trump administration headlines and try to figure out how to stay even when the world plays George and Elaine. Of course, also, breathing.