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5 Pranayama Techniques With the Power to Transform Your Practice—& Your Life

By Jessica Levine — 2015

In part two of this three-part series on The Science of Breathing, learn how to take advantage of the power of the breath on the mat in various types of poses and with five different pranayama techniques.

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I Tried This Trippy Healing Modality for Mental Clarity—And Still Can’t Believe How It Made Me Feel

A few years ago, a friend told me about an underground breathwork circle she’d attended in Venice Beach—back when breathwork outside of yoga studios was still hush-hush. It was totally trippy and cathartic she told me. People were convulsing, shouting, sobbing uncontrollably.

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Erin Magner
2017
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What Is Breathwork?

Breathwork refers to any type of breathing exercises or techniques. People often perform them to improve mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. During breathwork you intentionally change your breathing pattern.

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Emily Cronkleton
2019
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The Only Way to Deal in This Dumpster Fire of a Year Is by Learning to Breathe Through It

Focusing on breathing is a way to harness a sense of control when everything around you seems completely out of control. In fact, in chaos, the power of inhales and exhales is undeniable and nothing less than revolutionary.

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Jessamyn Stanley
2020
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New Ways of Treating Trauma: Try Some Yoga

When a person experiences traumatic events, the aftermath can be extremely debilitating. Trauma not only affects the mind, but can have lifelong effects on the body.

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Jeremy Hobson
2015
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Softening the Belly… of Sorrow

We hold our grief hard in the belly. We store fear and disappointment, anger and guilt in our gut. Softening the Belly… of Sorrow Our belly has become fossilized with a long resistance to life and to loss.

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Stephen Levine
2013
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Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain

Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.

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Kelly McGonigal
2020
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Save Your Breath and Keep Your Sanity

Breathing is the only autonomic (meaning automatic--like heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature) function over which we also have conscious control.

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Joan Borysenko
2008
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A Mindfulness of Breathing Exercise with Neuroscientist Amishi Jha

The sequence of events in this practice are: focus, sustain attention, notice, and redirect attention back to the breath when it wanders. This is what we might call a "push-up" for your attention.

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Amisha Jha
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