Breath: Duration and Volume (Can breathing loudly wreck your body?)

Recently, I've been thinking about a few things relating to the breath in practice. First, I've been thinking about length and durat...

How Yoga Affects Breathing

by Baxter Jellies by Melina Meza As I was reading an interview in my latest yogauonline.com newsletter with physician and yoga therapist Lo...

Falling for Yoga Myths: Yawning and Sighing and the Nervous System

by Nina Heart and Lungs I hope you realize by now that there are a lot of myths out there in the yoga world, such as that yoga nidra is an a...

Practice Report: There may be something to that long-breath-short-breath thing, after all

I found this out the hard (?) way this morning. As I started my practice this morning, I couldn't help thinking about Grimmly's rec...

Yoga Tip Tuesdays: How to Breathe in Yoga

I was chatting to someone recently and she commented to me "I've been to all these yoga classes, but I'm just not clear about t...

Ashtanga Yoga: Free Breathing

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3 simple breathing techniques for stress relief

The stress dis-ease Stress is a huge issue for millions of people around the world. Health professionals now know that elevated levels ...

Breath, receptivity, injury, and turning the ego inwards

I was just watching David Garrigues' latest blog post, and the two videos that he has embedded in the post. Wow, the man is like a walk...

Just Breathe + Blanks

This song has been speaking to me lately... it seems to perfectly embody the concept of aparigraha , or non-grasping.  Not to mention re-ign...