EP 03 - Your Body Loves Its Breath

Breath is our direct participation in the power of the cosmos that you are. It is the central feature and even the purpose of asana, and yet is all but lost in much modern yoga.

Breath is given lip service rather than careful engagement. Yet public attention is now turning to the power and healing potential of that overlooked miracle, our own breath.

“If you can breathe, you can do Yoga!”

Breath is the link between body and mind. Our body loves its breath and the inhale loves the exhale and vice versa. In this episode, Rosalind and Mark explore the power of the breath in yoga:

• How and why to make breath become the whole point of āsana practice
• Our breath as the means to participate in Reality, feel alive, and become intimate with life as it actually is
• Yoga breath and movement: why the body movement IS the breath movement
• Reflections on first arriving in the US yoga scene in the 90s and what was going on
• Breath as the mirror of our emotional states
• All about the ujjayi breath and why the inhale is so compromised all around the world
• Your yoga sadhana as a response to inspiration
• The chasm in modern yoga: practice vs. ideals
• Discussion on ‘breathwork’ and why pranayama needs asana first
• Breath as the guru to the asana and the reliable gauge of our safety

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