Prajna Live | Against the Grain Breath
In this practice we extend or “sip” the breath by interrupting the flow of breath using both deliberate and non-deliberate pauses.
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Prajna Live | Alternate Nostril Breathing
The classic “alternate nostril breath” requires sensitivity and dexterity in the fingers. Like playing a wind instrument, we practice to hit smooth “notes” while regulating the flow of breath.
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Prajna Live | Balancing Breath through the Nostrils
In this class we use postures and pranayama to balance the flow of prana through each nostril.
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Prajna Live | Being in Rhythm—Heartbeat, Blood, and Breath
In this class we use rocking, pumping, and wave-like movements to promote flow through the body.
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Prajna Live | Breath of Fire
In this class we explore the nuance of the Breath of Fire.
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Prajna Live | Breath of Fire/Breath of Water
In this class we compliment the Breath of Fire with a soft, fluid, watery breath (the Breath of Water).
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Prajna Live | Breathing into Your Skin
In this class we enliven the skin through stretching, twisting, and sliding movements.
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Prajna Live | Every Breath You Take
In this class, we attune to the fine, subtle rhythms of the breath.
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Prajna Live | Exhale!
In this class we emphasize exhalation as a practice to empty, let go, and dissolve strain from the body.
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Prajna Live | Expanding the Lungs of Your Belly
In this class we imagine we have a second set of lungs in our abdomen.
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Prajna Live | For the Love of Bandhas: The Throat Bandha
In this class, we practice the “chin lock” taking care to avoid undue constriction of the delicate structures within the neck. This bandha stimulates the thyroid while refining the flow of breath.
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Prajna Live | For the Love of Prana
In practice we open the ribs and pectoral chest leading up to supported camel and wheel.
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Prajna Live | Freeing the Bird of Prana
In this class we lengthen the trunk, strengthen the intercostal muscles and expand the lungs using asana as a preparation for pranayama.
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Prajna Live | Harvesting the Deep Life Force through Pranayama
This class builds vitality and longevity with chest openers and deep breathing.
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Prajna Live | Light on Alternate Nostril Breath
In this class we use the whole body to exercise alternate nostril breathing, linking the right “solar” side of the body with the right nostril and the left “lunar” side with the left nostril.
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Prajna Live | Light on Breath of Fire
In the practice of asana and somatic movement, we use Breath of Fire to rinse, cleanse and flush the many airways of the lungs and to bring energy and luminosity to the mind-heart.
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Prajna Live | Light on Exhalation
The exhalation is the “letting go” breath, one that actively discharges strain from the body. In this class we emphasize the emptying phase of the breath in all poses. In pranayama, we expel the breath to purify and flush the lungs.
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Prajna Live | Light on Inhalation
The inhalation is the life-giving breath, sustaining all tissues in the body. In this class we bring sensitivity to the movement of inhalation in all postures, to generate elasticity and lightness in the rib, diaphragm, and lung.
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Prajna Live | Light on Interrupted Breath
The interrupted breath strengthens local segments of the ribs, intercostal muscles and lungs. We combine this breath with our somatic movement and yoga poses as we move and pause, move and pause.
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Prajna Live | Light on Natural Breathing
In this class we practice somatic movements and postures not to engineer or manipulate the breath, but to allow our breath to “breathe of its own accord.”
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Prajna Live | Nerve Purification
This class introduces many techniques for regulating the breath in the two nostrils.
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Prajna Live | Nourishing Blood, Breath, and Bone
We revitalize the nervous system by cleansing the channels before infusing them with prana.
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Prajna Live | Nourishing the Lungs in Autumn
Through SATYA, back arches, twists, and inversion we fortify the lung tissue.
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Prajna Live | Prana and the Lungs
The lungs are the most essential organs of a yoga practice responsible for absorbing prana into the body. In this class we elevate, spiral, pump, and expand the lungs using SATYA, asana, and pranayama.
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Prajna Live | Prana: Opening the Airways of the Lungs
We stretch and strengthen the chest cavity and use pranayama to open the ribs and lungs.
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Prajna Live | Pranayama in Every Pose
In this class we synthesize pranayama and asana by encouraging micro-retentions of the breath.
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Prajna Live | Preserving Prana in the Lungs
In this class we amplify prana in the lungs in order to build resiliency as the winter approaches.
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Prajna Live | Spring Cleaning: Purge Your Prana
We use SATYA, bandhas, pranayama, and meditation to clear the nerves, blood and lymph.
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Prajna Live | Sun/Moon Breathing
In this class we isolate the flow of air through one nostril at a time in order to gain the feel and dimensionality of the breath along the right and left sides of the body.
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Prajna Live | The Breath that Bathes Every Tissue
We emphasize movement of the all-pervading breath that hydrates all structures in the body.
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Prajna Live | The Bumble Bee Breath
Yogis have described the internal pitch of pranayama to be like the sound of humming bees. In this class we activate the sound, vibration, and pitch of the pranayama breath in order to impart subtle shifts in the brain waves and consciousness.
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Prajna Live | The Diaphragm and Brain Connection
In this class, explore the difference between moving from the front of the diaphragm vs the back.
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Prajna Live | The Tao of Yoga: Prana in the Spinal Center
In this class we energize the center spine by mobilizing the breath into the central channel, while weaving in Verse 6 from the Tao te Ching.
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Prajna Live | The Tao of Yoga: Stretching and Opening the Lungs
In this class we consider the lungs to be like waterways and through practice we saturate the lungs in prana, while weaving in Verse 8 from the Tao te Ching.
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Prajna Live | The Victorious Breath
In this class we sensitize the flow of breath through the nostrils and throat while attending to the subtle sound through the airway of the throat and palate.
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Prajna Live | Unfolding the Psoas for Pranayama
In this class, we lengthen, twist, and flex the psoas in order to create flexibility and space in the abdomen.
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Prajna Live | Where There is Breath There is Blood
This practice oxygenates all the cells of the body.
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Prajna Live | Yoga & the River of Breath
In this class, we practice movements to sustain the fluid channels in the body, including circulatory pathways of blood and lymph.
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Prajna Live | Yogic Seals
In this practice we engage many different seals in the body to amplify the flow of prana within.
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