Improving Well Being And Awareness Through Breathing - by Catie Foroughi

COURSE

Improving Well Being And Awareness Through Breathing

With Catie Foroughi

Learn and explore four pranayama exercises and experience/ appreciate how we can affect our well-being by doing a pranayama session! We also experience how by developing our understanding of our breathing body we become more adept at noticing desire and resonance, alongside expanding our kindness and savoring. Working with our breathing is developing our understanding of our internal landscape as well as external. The breathing exercises shall include: Positional exercises for our shoulders and lungs for optimum breathing - developing our kindness and ujayi 5 (“natural breathing “) Savouring with Kaphlabatti / Bellow Breathing and Viloma ( interrupted breathing) Experiencing Balance and Noticing Desires With Nadi Shodhana Remembering And Clearing With Brahmari In this course, Days 2 to 5 are the ones where we engage in the breathing exercises. There are the practical lessons and Day 1 is exploring the theory and what we are focusing on. We are experiencing and improving the intelligence of our cells.

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Meet your Teacher

Catie Foroughi
Bali, Indonesia

Catie has been guiding/ teaching yoga/ pranayama/ meditation for over 15 years. She teaches yoga teacher training, workshops, retreats, online, and more. She has a continuous love of learning in Iyengar yoga, hand-balancing, meditation, pranayama, myriad yoga ways, yoga therapy, mobility/strength training, psychology, and character strengths. She has authored two books and has been published in magazines. She enjoys people finding some ease and joy in the process.

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5 Days

250 students

4.4 stars

15 min / day

Compassion

English

Lesson 1

Insight To The Breathing Exercises And Energies

Today we gain an understanding of the breathing exercises we are going to experience and explore in this course. In Each lesson that involves a breathing exercise, we will be exploring: 1. Kindness - what being kind to ourselves can involve. An example is stretching our shoulders so we have more ease in our breathing. 2. Savoring - allowing ourselves to return to experiences that have uplifting energies eg interaction with a loved one. 3. Desires - Developing our ability to recognize desire impulses eg. the desire to inhale or the desire for a certain food. 4. Remembering - Acknowledging the need for remembering eg to focus on a task or that we have certain body parts that may "disappear" from our awareness. The invitation today is to notice and/or use when appropriate one of the above in your everyday life. We can in the future days see how the breathing lessons seep into our everyday lives developing these skills further.

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Lesson 2

Positional Exercises For Optimum Breathing

We mobilize our shoulders for our breathing. We can then experience more ease and depth in our breathing and possibly more ease in our brain region. Doing what we can to improve ease, is kindness to ourselves. Research has also shown doing a kind deed for another boosts our immune system so is also a kindness to ourselves! We see how our experience of our natural breathing shifts after our mobilization and what we can do to stay curious and exploratory with our natural breathing. We explore pratayahara.. bringing our senses inwards and noticing peace. For this session please have: 1. a stick! or a belt or towel 2. a hand towel/ belt 3. a tissue

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Lesson 3

Exploring Desire Through Our Breathing

This is an energizing session. We start with the setup for our breathing practice, so we feel at ease. We explore where we can release unnecessary tension. We explore where we can embody more breadth/ depth. In our practice, we notice different kinds of desires that arise. This includes our fundamental desire which is to inhale. Swap our kaphlabatti ( bellow breathing) practice for extended inhales and exhales if you are pregnant or in your menstrual cycle. Kapalbhati has a stimulating, cleansing and heating effect on the body. It massages the bottom of the heart, improves blood circulation and the oxygen levels. It increases lung strength and function and clears the breathing passages. We experience mini savasana with our viloma breathing, suspended pauses ( interrupted breathing !) We experience the resonance of our practice and notice if we can savor experiences. Savoring good feelings can create more joy in our being.

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Lesson 4

Noticing Desires And Balance

We experience balance in our body/ mind with alternate nostril breathing ( nadi shodhana 1b). We are doing one-round sets so we can go deeper and longer with our breathing and stay fresh. Have a rolled-up small towel or belt to place between your chin and sternum with your head down as your chest lifts.

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Lesson 5

Wholeness And Developing In-Tuition

We start with a stretch for the calves and Achilles tendons so we have an aware and comfortable lower body for our breathing practice. This also brings our minds to our feet! This is a standing stretch. It is helpful to have a block or a stair for this exercise. Hopefully these stretches leave an imprint for when we sit do there is still an embodiment in our feet ! We do bhramari exercises in a comfortable seated position. One of the ones we do is sometimes called bumblebee exercise. We develop our interoception, our ability to listen, look inward, and more. This session shows us when we need to remember parts of ourselves, creating more wholeness in our experience. Please prepare: 1. block, book, or stair handy 2. tissue Thank you for joining this course. I look forward to hearing about your experiences.

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Recent Reviews

Tatyana

September 29, 2024

Amazing course of breathing techniques . Very interesting sensations while doing the practice . Much love and gratitude for creating this course !❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️

John

April 15, 2024

The first four classes were really good. I appreciated the stretching in the shoulders in the first or second session. However, I had difficulty with the last session. At the beginning, it was unclear to me how I was supposed to be stretching. Legs crisscross? Legs straight? It was really unclear.

Charles

April 15, 2024

I liked her voice. I liked her cadence. I found myself following her instructions and feeling like I was on a different plane.

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