While pranayama, the yoga breathing practices, are therapeutic in themselves, they are not focused on correcting dysfunctional breathing patterns and many of them should not be practiced unless your students normally breathe in a healthy way. This series of sessions will look at common dysfunctional breathing patterns and give you practices that lead toward a balanced everyday breath. If you are a yoga teacher, you can work this material into your weekly asana classes over time, lead workshops on how to take a healthy breath or work with private clients to address their concerns. Past attendees have also included medical professionals in diverse specialties, somatic therapists of different kinds and energy workers. All students are welcome. The prerequisite for this course is The Tour of the Breath Muscles workshop. If you didn’t attend that in person you can purchase the recording from your home studio (Radiant Yoga and Wellness or The Yoga Tree) and do the exercises on it prior to the first therapeutic breathing session.
We’ll look at what scientific researchers have said about how we breathe, but we will also devote our time in this study to helping ourselves and those around us probe, in this gentle way, into self-knowledge. Our breath is reactive to our thoughts, emotions, memories, beliefs and the state of our physical body every moment—breath by breath, sleeping and waking. To look into our breath patterns is a way to look into ourselves. To move toward full, slow, relaxed breathing is to move toward relief and resilience and supports the ability to do our work in the world.
This workshop is, as always, experiential. It comes with an extensive manual and a recommended reading list in addition to recordings of the sessions.
Linda has lead workshops on establishing healthy breathing patterns and on pranayama for the past 25 years. You are free to contact her with questions about her background or the content of this workshop at Linda@PhillipsOshins.com.
Teacher
Linda Oshins
Dates
The program is comprised of six 2.5-hour sessions that take place from 10:00 to 12:30 Pacific Time; 1:00 to 3:30 Eastern Time, on the following Saturdays:
April 27
May 11
June 1
June 15
June 29
July 20.
The sessions are live-streamed over Zoom and recorded, so if you can’t attend in-person you can still benefit from the workshop.
Cost
$349.00
re-sit fee $125.00 for students who have taken this course before
If the price of this course is a barrier, please contact me at Linda@PhillipsOshins.com and we’ll make necessary adjustments.
Prerequisite for the Workshop
If you have not already taken A Tour of the Breath Muscles, this is a prerequisite for the workshop. After purchase, you will receive a receipt by email with the links to this prerequisite. If you do not receive this email, please contact us at info@radiantyogandwellness.com .