410: Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple With Lucas Rockwood
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple
With Lucas Rockwood
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye
Mental and emotional stress were at historic highs pre-Coronavirus. Today, the collective anxiety of the world borders on dangerous. How much uncertainty and loss can we tolerate? Is there an upper limit? The answers will unfold in real-time in the coming months, and that’s why it’s more important than ever to equip yourself with stress management tools for navigating your inner world.
Yoga breathing is one of the most powerful nervous system modulated practices available - and yet it continues to be misunderstood and neglected in most health circles. The benefits are immediate, and even a beginner can impact their nervous system dramatically in as little as 10 breaths.
In today’s podcast, I’ll help demystify yoga breathing and share with you three simple practices you can use right now.
Listen & Learn:
- How yoga breathing can be put into three simple categories: water, whiskey, coffee
- How to switch breathing from automatic to manual mode and then downshift to relax and soothe yourself
- Three simple practices you can use right now
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Lucas Rockwood is an internationally-renowned yoga teacher and trainer. He’s the founder of YOGABODY and the Yoga Teachers College. His TEDx Talk on yoga breathing has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.
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| 0:00.0 | I started practicing yoga in 2002 in New York City and back then I wanted to learn everything. |
| 0:05.6 | I still kind of want to learn everything but back then I wanted to learn Pronyama, |
| 0:09.5 | Asa, I wanted to learn meditation and I found lots and lots of great yoga teachers for |
| 0:14.4 | poses. There are great yoga teachers in New York City. I found really great |
| 0:18.4 | meditation centers and meditation groups right away, but yoga breathing pretty |
| 0:22.2 | much didn't exist. Now when I say this people |
| 0:24.7 | will immediately shake their head and say, oh of course it did, of course there's yoga studios |
| 0:27.8 | everywhere, every yoga teacher teaches breathing, and that's true and it's not true. They play |
| 0:32.3 | lip service to the breath they tell you to |
| 0:33.8 | breathe through your nose and breathe slowly they might have you sit at the end of |
| 0:36.6 | class and do a couple rounds of alternate nostril but the why behind the |
| 0:41.3 | how and the basic physiology of breath is really lacking from modern |
| 0:46.0 | yoga schools and I have no idea why this is not new research it's not complicated |
| 0:50.5 | research and most importantly it's really powerful research if you look at the |
| 0:54.0 | most powerful thing you can learn in a yoga practice in terms of affecting your mood, your |
| 0:59.3 | nervous system and potentially even your body physiologically it's breath and it's not that hard to understand |
| 1:05.6 | so I spent a bunch of time simplifying things I spent a bunch of time with traditional Indian |
| 1:10.1 | Praniama teachers I spent time India. I spent time with Western teachers. It didn't really help. |
| 1:15.8 | When I finally left the yoga community, that's when I learned about breath and I brought that work back into yoga. |
| 1:22.1 | If you're new here, it's Lucas Rockwood. This is the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm your host. I'm a yoga teacher, a trainer, a podcaster, obviously a nutritional coach and a father, but first and foremost I am a student I like to go |
| 1:34.8 | into the world and learn things and usually the format of this show is I bring on |
| 1:39.5 | experts teachers and authors and PhDs and researchers and I bring their best work to you so hopefully give you some new ideas |
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