By Ashley Simpson — 2021
The founder of Black Girls Breathing set a goal to hit by 2025, here’s how she’s going to do it.
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Compassion gets a lot of attention in positive psychology, and for good reason – it’s a major concern of many religious and philosophical leaders, including the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis.
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“When your breathing expands and your energy expands, everything else improves.”
Since breathing is something we can control and regulate, it is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed and clear state of mind. I recommend three breathing exercises and techniques to help relax and reduce stress.
You do it more than 23,000 times a day, but are you breathing properly? From a rebirthing session to holotropic breathwork, Richard Godwin inhales the latest wellness craze.
Life begins and ends with a single breath. Here, Stanislav Grof, a psychiatrist with five decades of experience in researching consciousness, offers a glimpse into the history of breathwork and the healing power of breath.
In recent years, a wealth of breathing techniques have come through to help people address breathing deficiencies and with them physical, mental, and emotional conditions that have been fixed in the body.
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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.
In part three of this three-part series on The Science of Breathing, discover a few of the ways focusing on the breath in yoga—and in everyday life—can improve your overall well-being.
Western research is now proving what yogis have known all along: Breathwork can deliver powerful mind and body benefits. In this three-part series, learn how and why to take better advantage of it both in practice and in life.
While breath work might be straightforward, it’s never easy, says Rachel Ricketts, who leads online courses on spiritual activism, featuring breath work guidance, from her home in Toronto.