Practices
Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
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On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
The fast forceful practices are not for everyone. With high blood pressure, heart trouble or glaucoma, leave them out and use the slow ones, which carry no such warning.
Rapid breathing with effort behind it raises pressure inside the chest, the head and the eyes for as long as you keep it going. The gentler lift,…
Any breathing instruction that reaches you through a screen or a book comes from someone who cannot see you. Keep the final say over what your body does.
Recorded instructions have to be general. You are the one who knows that your chest tightens on holds, or that counting makes you anxious. Treat each…
The rapid belly driven breath with pauses added is the strongest thing in this set. Not for high blood pressure, glaucoma, pregnancy or your period, and stop at once with pain or dizziness.
It has its uses for the flat, heavy state that comes over people after lunch or during a long low patch, because it pushes upwards rather than down.…
End a practice with a question rather than a conclusion. What do you notice works better than telling someone what should have happened.
If you announce that an exercise is calming, most people will agree with you whether or not it was. Asking leaves room for the honest answer,…
A child cannot watch their own breathing, so give them something to watch instead. Bubbles through a wand show the out breath as it happens: too hard and it bursts, too weak and nothing comes.
Smelling a flower and then blowing it out gives each half of the breath a picture. The bubble wand is better still, because it answers back straight…
Heading towards the shape is the whole job. A perfect triangle is not what the pose is for, and nobody is marking it.
Perfectionism and going too hard tend to travel together, and between them they produce most of the injuries and most of the quitting. If you are…
Go slowly enough to learn something about yourself, rather than only a technique. What is worth keeping is knowing which breath does what in your body.
One round is rarely enough to tell. Try a breath for a minute or two, stop, and check what shifted: the chest, the shoulders, how loud your thoughts…
There is more about your body than the practices: the your body area has the themes and the courses too.