Welcome to Friday Round-up.
This week we focused on developing breath awareness and connecting movement and breath.
Weekend challenge:
Can you feel your breath in your chest, belly, throat, ribs,
nostrils, side belly, back?
Where else you can feel your breath?
Are there areas where you can't feel breath movement?
Is there a place where inviting the breath feels scary?
This week's breathing practices:
4 part
Layer Cake
3 Fold Breath
Breathing practices by class:
Pain Care Yoga:
holding the breath;
lengthening the exhale;
breathing in different positions:
reclined /
prone; LS/RS; seated; standing; balancing;
attentional flexibility: pay full attention to where it hurts, then concentrate all attention on the breath.
Corrective Movement:
Back breathing;
Pelvic rocking in different positions
Identifying neutral pelvis
Harmonizing breath and movement
Gentle beginner Yoga
Harmonizing breath and movement
- inhale / exhale conversation
Identifying neutral pelvis, hip flexion, folding from the hips
Yin + Ball
Using the ball to release breathing muscles
Chamber and layer cake breathing in different shapes / postures
Opening to breath
Attached Printouts /
Worksheets:
