Day 1: "Breathe"
Free Breathwork For Being In The Flow
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Enjoy our FREE Vagal Toning Breathwork for instant inner calm, optimize your health, build resilience and strengthen your ability to live in the zone.
Vagal Toning Breathwork©
The Vagus Nerve is the largest nerve and likely the most important part of our body when it comes to health, happiness, and well-being. When our Vagus Nerve is strong (high Vagal Tone) we feel active, alive, and we have the desire and inner resilience to overcome life's obstacles. Studies show that raising Vagal Tone addresses symptoms of anxiety & PTSD long term.
Vagal Toning Breathwork© is designed specifically to raise Vagal Tone, optimize your Autonomic Nervous System and increase your ability to be in the Zone.
Studies prove that by raising Vagal Tone you can:
- Reduce stress, anxiety, fear, and depression
- Address symptoms of trauma and PTSD
- Optimize mental, physical, and emotional performance
- Achieve deeper & easier states of meditation
- Activate deeper & healthier brain waves
- Experience stronger energetic balance
How To Do Vagal Toning BreathworkĀ©
Do not underestimate the power of this sequence. It activates inner calm, optimizes the nervous system, balances energy, builds inner resilience, and places us in the flow state. Do daily and watch your life change.
1) 4-7-8 Breath (5 rounds): Tongue rests on the top the mouth. Inhale through the nose for 4 seconds, hold for 7, exhale out the mouth for 8. Use Ujjayi breath.
2) Buteyko Breathing (5 rounds): Slow shallow nose breaths, about 1/2-1/3 of your normal breath, hold for 4-6 seconds on the exhale.
3) Optional Round: Do your favorite breath here... or do our Mastery Online Course to see how radical breathwork can be.
For the video above we do Alternate Nostril Breathing: Block the right nostril with the thumb, inhale through the left nostril, block the left nostril, and exhale out the right. Inhale right nostril, then block right nostril, exhale out the left. Continue for a total of 5 rounds.
4) Buteyko Breathing (5 rounds): Slow shallow nose breaths, about 1/2-1/3 of your normal breath, hold for 4-5 seconds on the exhale.
5) 7-8-4 Breath (5 rounds): Tongue rests on the top of the mouth. Inhale through the nose for 7 seconds, hold for 8, exhale out the mouth for 4. Feel the expansion on the inhale and hold.
The Healing Powers of Breathwork
The ancient yogi’s knew that the quality of our life is measured by the quality of our breath. This is why they put so much emphasis on Pranayama, which translates to "life-force energy control," and it is practiced through the breath.
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." Marcus Aurelius
Breath may be the most important part of our body we give little awareness to. It is the first thing that happens to us when we are born and the last thing that happens to us when we die.
We can go for 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, but after only a few minutes without oxygen every cell in our body begins to deteriorate.
“Pranayama is at once a physical-health practice, mental-health practice, and meditation. It is not just breath training; it’s mind training that uses the breath as a vehicle,” says Roger Cole, PhD, an Iyengar Yoga teacher and physiology researcher in Del Mar, California. “Pranayama makes your entire life better.”
Breath is the one part of a our autonomous nervous system (ANS) that we can control, and in turn, use to heal and optimize the rest of our bodily functions. Basically, our entire mental, emotional and physical health condition depends upon and can be improved through the quality of our breath.
Likewise, if we are not breathing properly we are placing serious strain on our ANS; causing inflammation, and oxidative stress at the cellular level. A person can work out daily, eat healthy, read all the self-help literature there is... but if they are improperly breathing their overall health is in jeopardy.
Benefits of Practicing Daily Breathwork:
- Greater levels of meditation, resilience, and inner peace.
- Reduces the stress hormone cortisol, inflammation & oxidative stress.
- Increased balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems (Vagal Tone.)
- Develop proper breathing and sleep patterns.
- Awaken dormant functions of the brain, enhance creativity, and improve brain function and mental focus.
- Build nitric oxide, improved cardiovascular health, cleanse and purify the bloodstream and lymphatic system.
- Increase energy, vitality, testosterone levels and reduce erectile dysfunction.
- Release carbon dioxide, detoxification of the body, and release negative energy.
- Reduce depression, anxiety, fear and negative patterns.
- Clear negative imprints, resolve past trauma and establish empowering beliefs and habits.
- Experience self discovery, self realization, spiritual awakening, and build mind-body-soul connection and awareness.
*Vagal Toning Breathwork is specifically designed as a comprehensive breathwork practice to offer all of these benefits.
Go Deeper into the Power of the Breath
This online course teaches you about different breathwork practices.
It is designed to help you use the breath to realize the infinite nature of who you are and your ability to thrive in life.
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