156: BONUS EPISODE - Box Breathing
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Just to mix things up a little at The Yoga Talk Show, this week, Lucas will lead you through a guided yoga breathing exercises called, Box Breathing. Box breathing is an easy-to-learn and highly effective practice that you'll feel benefits from immediately.
Listen & Learn:
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How to slow your heart rate
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How to increase your heart rate variability
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How to stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system
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How to encourage alpha brain wave states
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How to reduce stress hormones and find stillness
And all this from a simple breathing practice!
References from the show:
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Basic pranayama mudra (see hand position below)
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| 0:00.0 | Here at Yoga Body and also with our sister company Absolute Yoga Academy, we do a lot of yoga |
| 0:10.3 | photo shoots. |
| 0:11.3 | And I don't mean high fashion photosutes. What I mean is instructional |
| 0:14.6 | tutorial photosuits where we create post charts, instructional videos, and all kinds of |
| 0:20.1 | other reference materials that we use in our studios on our websites and |
| 0:23.4 | social media and what we found over the years is that a lot of yoga mats look |
| 0:28.4 | really boring and eventually you get very bored of doing these photo shoots and you don't really have the creativity and they don't look very interesting and this is why we first learned about Plank Yoga Matts. |
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| 1:24.0 | Thanks so much to Plank Designs.com for supporting independent media like the |
| 1:28.7 | Yoga Talk Show. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:37.0 | Welcome to the yoga talk show with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 1:38.8 | On this show we talk about yoga movement, healing, injuries, human anatomy, plant-based nutrition, and so much more. |
| 1:45.7 | Today we're over 150 episodes into the yoga talk show, and I thought I'd break up the format |
| 1:51.2 | a little bit. |
| 1:52.2 | On last week's show, or a couple weeks ago, I did a little bit. On last week's show or a couple weeks ago I did a |
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