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What you must know about students with anxiety

What you must know about students with anxiety

Are your students confiding in you that they experience anxiety? Perhaps you live with anxiety yourself. I’m certainly no stranger to it. In fact, it was my experience of anxiety and panic attacks that brought me to yoga in the first place. Yoga...

How to teach Nadi shodana (and why)

How to teach Nadi shodana (and why)

Pranayama, or yogic breathing, is an important part of yoga. But yoga teachers often focus on the physical postures and don't include breathing techniques. Why? Not all yoga teacher trainings spend enough time on pranayama to give student teachers a...

Teaching pranayama to students with anxiety? Read this now.

Teaching pranayama to students with anxiety? Read this now.

Are you teaching pranayama to students with anxiety? Stop! There may be a better way to help them. Learning how to breathe deeply and smoothly will help people with anxiety, right? Not necessarily. For many anxious students, focusing on the breath...

Why we need to put the breath first in yoga

Why we need to put the breath first in yoga

The ancient sage Patanjali defined yoga as a state of mind in which all our conscious and unconscious patterns of belief quieten down. It’s the process of letting go of all the things you think (or subconsciously believe) about the world so that...

Pranayama - How yoga breathing brings balance

Pranayama - How yoga breathing brings balance

Does your regular yoga class include pranayama? Pranayama, yoga breathing techniques, can have a more profound impact on your health and wellbeing than any number of yoga poses. Depending on the technique you choose, pranayama can: Soothe anxiety ...

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