203: The Dangers & Benefits of Breathing
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Breathing has never been more popular in yoga, fitness, and mindfulness circles—but unfortunately, most people lump all breathing into one category assuming that it's all good. The reality is that different breathing practices have dramatically different effects on your body and nervous system.
So before you breathe yourself into a frenzy, hold your breath for 3 minutes, or slow your respiration down to a stupor, it's worth digging into the science of what's really going on.
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What You'll Learn:
- How breath can either up-regulate, down regulate, or balance your nervous system
- Why many schools of breathing mistakenly teach one method as "the" method when the right breath practice depends on you and your situation
- The dangers of using extreme breathing practices while bathing, swimming or even while driving
- The differences between Wim Hof breath, Buteyko, most yogic breathing, and HRV balancing breath
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- Strength vs Flexibility - how do you find balance?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm very excited to announce the first ever Yoga Trappese teacher training course right here with me in Barcelona. |
| 0:07.0 | We have professional yoga trapeze rigings in our studios. All three of our studios have them and we are one of the |
| 0:14.4 | only studios in the world to offer group classes on a regular basis and we have |
| 0:19.3 | had huge interest from all over the place. People want to offer this in their studios. They want to |
| 0:24.9 | work privately with clients. We even have therapists who want to learn how to use |
| 0:28.4 | the yoga trapeze therapeutically for their spine one-on-one with clients and that's what we're going to do. |
| 0:34.8 | It's a 50-hour course. |
| 0:36.2 | 25 hours are virtual e-learning where you learn anatomy, physiology, terminology, |
| 0:40.4 | terminology, pose names, and 25 hours are in-person, practice, teaching, set up, and |
| 0:46.8 | class organization, everything you need to lead a 60-minute class, either privately or in a |
| 0:52.3 | group setting, with up to 20 people. |
| 0:56.0 | This is in Barcelona. |
| 0:57.3 | It's a lovely time to be here. |
| 0:58.8 | It's in September. |
| 1:00.0 | To learn more about the course, please go to yoga body. Scroll down on the home page, or in the top right hand corner, |
| 1:05.6 | click on yoga teachers college, and you'll see the course offering there. |
| 1:09.5 | We've had people literally begging us for this course |
| 1:11.7 | for over five years. |
| 1:13.0 | So I do think it's going to fill up quickly. |
| 1:14.9 | So if you're interested, check it out. |
| 1:16.6 | And hopefully we'll see it in Barcelona in the fall. |
| 1:19.2 | Hello and welcome, this is Lucas Rockwood with the Yoga Talk Show. |
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