Learn how to integrate the benefits of pranayama into your life and work
Cyndi Lee's Teaching Pranayama: The Basics will give yoga practitioners and teachers, bodyworkers, and health professionals the tools to enrich their own pranayama practice and learn how to effectively share it with their students, clients, and patients. This three-day training will include practicing and teaching breath awareness and breath manipulation techniques, such as sama vritti, ujjayi, nadi shodanam, viloma, and kapalabhati. Sessions will include simple stretching, dharma talks, practicing pranayama techniques in reclined and seated positions, and designing pranayama classes.
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In this course, you’ll:
Study the benefits of various pranayama techniques.
Learn how to integrate pranayama techniques into yoga classes and private sessions.
Gain the confidence to lead pranayama classes.
Understand how breathwork relates to yoga philosophy.
Explore breathing’s relationship to effort, holding, sustainability, resiliency, and the unknown.
Learn how to take refuge in your breath to create inner stability.
Full Schedule
March 2, 2021 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EST
Introduction to pranayama: The unexpected value of this practice in our real life
Practice: Breath awareness and nadi shodanam
Contemplative writing exercise
Deconstructing the format of a pranayama class
March 3, 2021 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EST
Benefits of pranayama
Breath movements and practice tools: breath awareness, breath manipulation and regulation, winds, and chakras
How to use props
2:00–3:00 p.m. Optional: Create a breath awareness exercise and practice teaching it
March 4, 2021 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EST
Pranayama vs Restorative Yoga vs Meditation
Postures
Practice: Exploring retention and exertion
Teaching pranayama in a yoga class