The Anatomy of Breath |

This Intensive has been postponed until a later date due to COVID-19. Check back after the storm has passed.

Taking a breath is central to the human experience: it’s the first and the last thing you’ll ever do. Breath is the threshold between control and surrender, the autonomic and the voluntary, the nervous system and the metabolisms of our being alive. Breath is also one of the very few consistent parts of a yoga practice down through the ages; styles and postures and cultures change, but the centrality of the breath to the practice holds steady.

Most yoga classes talk about the breath, but very few help students understand their own breathing patterns. This weekend will look at the anatomy of breath, including the lungs and diaphragm and accessory muscles of respiration. But it will also look at key nervous system players like the vagus and the phrenic nerve, embryological development, the ‘other’ diaphragms of the body and relationships of breath to muscles, organs, heart rate variability and the brain.

Explore asana as a breath practice, adapting yoga practices to various needs and state changes, and the beautiful way breath incarnates central themes of yoga philosophy. We will look at what modern research has to say about the breath and health, breath and mood, breath and resilience. But we’ll also come to understand how breath has woven its way through yogic teachings from the very beginning.

DATE & TIME

This Intensive has been postponed until a later date due to COVID-19. Check back after the storm has passed.

COST

Full Weekend | $250

16 CEUs Available

Karin Lynn Carlson

I teach a yoga that is deeply personal, backed by science, and supported by traditional teachings as taught by Krishnamacharya. I takes pride in making my curricula a step above standard and leaving my students well informed, well prepared, and with resources for further work.

You can find me at Returnyoga.org