Breathe & Restore

The breath connects you to yourself and to your environment. In times of uncertainty, allow your breath to become a powerful centering tool. Refining the breath refines the mind. It's physiologically impossible to be anxious and relaxed at the same time. A consistent breathwork and restorative practice is extremely effective in reducing anxiety and stress.

In a culture gripped with fear and anxiety, choosing conscious stillness is a radical act. - Judith Hanson Lasater

Join me to Breathe & Restore! Each session will blend gentle movement, breathwork, and restorative postures.

Move ~ Each week we will practice a few specific yoga postures (asana) to work on a targeted area of the body as a way to prepare for our breathing practice (pranayama).

Breathe ~ We will practice breathing techniques that are proven to calm the nervous system, balance hormones, lower blood pressure, still the mind, and bring balance to the body.

Restore ~ You will learn how to practice breathwork in a supported restorative pose as a way to open yourself up to the breath from a space of relaxation.

This 4-Week Series is an invitation to learn:

• Specific yoga postures (side bends, back bends, forward bends) to work on a targeted area of the body (ribs and lungs, kidneys, spine) to prepare the body for breathwork.
• Three to four guided breathing techniques.
• Supported seated and lying postures to practice breathwork.
• Supported variations of final relaxation pose (savasana).
• Tools to decrease stress by deactivating the sympathetic nervous system (fight, flight or freeze response) and activating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest, digest and repair response).
• How to surrender ambition and receive the breath.

This series weaves the practice of breathwork and restorative yoga into our lives at a time when our presence, connection and wisdom is needed. Not only do we practice for ourselves but also for our family and for the world; when we change and grow, it ripples out to the world.

Join me to Breathe & Restore!

This is a 4-Week Series: Monday September 11th - October 2nd, 7:00 - 8:00pm, at my Home Studio. Space is limited to an intimate group. $120 + HST.

A mind, body, spirit practice is needed more now, than ever.

Please feel free to contact me with any series questions at colleen@wanderwithin.ca.