Alternate Nostril Breathing

HEALING MODALITY OF THE DAY
Alternate Nostril Breathing
A few minutes of alternate nostril breathing (pranayama) can help restore imbalances in your brain.  It improves sleep, encourages a calmer emotional state, boosts your thinking power and calms your nervous system.
We don’t breathe equally through our nostrils, we tend to breathe more dominantly through the left or right nostril. The left nostril is calming – the right nostril is energizing
Yogis believe that many diseases can be traced to disturbed nasal breathing. Consciously breathing through your right and left nostrils alternately helps you to activate and access your whole brain.

Alternate nostril breathing – purifying breath
Use right thumb to close off right nostril.
Inhale slowly through left nostril
Pause for a moment
Now close left nostril with ring finger and release thumb off right nostril
Exhale through your right nostril
Now, inhale through right nostril
Pause
Use thumb to close of right nostril
Breathe out through left nostril
Continue for 2-3 minutes
Sit quietly for a few moments after completion.

*Do not do this exercise if you are pregnant or have a cold or a sinus infection.
 
Benefits of Alternate Nostril Breathing:
Revitalizing, The increase in oxygen intake helps to nourish the body and brain with the vital life force of breath.
The holding of the breath between inhales and exhales helps to regulate and direct the flow of breath in the body- helping to maximize benefits and the flow of prana.
Improves brain function and merges the left “thinking” brain and right “feeling brain
Is a great preparation for meditation.
Encourage a calmer emotional state
Improves sleep
Great preparation for meditation
Calms your nervous system:
Regulates  the cooling and warming cycles of the body
Clears and boosts your energy channels
Promotes deep relaxation by clearing the mind and calming the body. 

Have a Prana-fied day!

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HEALING MODALITY OF THE DAY: Katsugen

Katsugen is inner directed movement that allows the body to move in the most optimum way, it releases stress, toxins and others causes of dis-ease and brings the body into a more natural balance. Take a few minutes for this. Stand up or while sitting, close your eyes and go within, allow your body to move in any way it wants to, the movements can be small and subtle or larger and more expansive and anything in between. Feel into how your body wants to move, it can be dance-like or a stretch or any way you feel called to move...follow the energy and allow your body to flow in this way until you feel complete. 

Katsugen is about giving free rein to the autonomic nervous system's involuntary movements. It takes the body beyond conscious exercise into the realms of primal expressive movement arising from the ancient core of our being. It is about going beyond the intellect and connecting with the body's natural wisdom.
 

Possible benefits of Katsugen practice:
Relief from stress
Enhanced self-healing and resistance to illness & depression
Increased physical co-ordination, stamina, suppleness/flexibility
Increased self-confidence, happiness and sense of well-being
Greater mental flexibility and open-mindedness
Greater ability for self expression/creativity
A deepening of spiritual values & sense of inner strength

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Taking a Pause

HEALING MODALITY OF THE DAY: taking a pause...breathe slowly and deeply closing your eyes, let your ribs, belly and chest expand as you inhale and soften as you exhale...come into your heart center, feeling it expand and soften as you come into the stillness here...take a couple minutes here, acknowledge silently to yourself what you feel grateful for....take that in, then silently acknowledge any regrets you might have....allow yourself to stay in this calm state a couple more minutes until you feel complete and refreshed.

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