Niyasa Breathing To Bring Calm

Niyasa breathing is a simple breathwork practice you can use to calm yourself during times of anxiety and stress. This practice can help you focus your energy quickly at work or help you center and ground before a presentation, test, or other challenge you may be facing. The simple hand movements help quiet and center your mind. The deep breaths re-center your nervous system.

Transcript

Welcome. Today we're going to practice a really simple breathing exercise called Nyasa breathing. This is an excellent practice for bringing calm in a time of maybe extreme anxiety in your day. So you'll start by sitting with your hands resting in your lap with your palms up and your fingers stretched out nice and long and you'll take a really deep breath and really drawing in the air through your nose bringing it down into your lungs bringing in so much air that you're feeling and pushing out your stomach and holding that breath at the top for just a moment and then when you release that breath bring your thumb to your pointer finger and really breathing out every drop of oxygen letting it go pushing out the last drop of air and then taking a nice full breath in and out again in the space bringing in the oxygen feeling it straighten your spine breathing out you can even sigh it out if it feels good letting go of the things that do not serve you in this moment and when you breathe in again opening your palm fully stretching your fingers and taking that nice deep breath in filling your body with life and air holding that breath at the top and then as you release it bringing your thumb to your middle finger and fully releasing that air you are resetting your nervous system let it go you are safe and take another full breath in and out in the space drawing in hope trying in life and breathing out anything that is not serving you letting every drop go and when you're ready to breathe in again opening your palm wide and taking a nice deep breath feeling that oxygen travel to each cell in your body and when you're ready to breathe out taking your thumb and meeting your ring finger and breathing out fully you are safe breathing out every drop of air letting it go and taking another full breath in and out in the space maybe noticing your shoulders are dropping down relaxing as you breathe out and when you're ready for that next breath in opening your palms again and taking a deep breath in feeling your chest rise your spine stretch nice and straight breathe and fully and then breathing out maybe even sighing out anything that you have left that is not serving you letting it go as you breathe out pulling your thumb to pinky finger and taking another full breath in and out in the space with your thumb touching your pinky finger breathing fully in through your nose bringing life and oxygen into your body and then pushing it all out every drop let it go and now opening your palms you can repeat the nyasa breathing as often as you need or as many times as you need to bring the calm that you seek namaste I wish you a beautiful day

Reviews

Wow amazing. Thank you 🙏

Really helpful, thank you 🙏

Love the calm pacing of your voice as you guide the practice!!