TRANSFORM ANXIETY WITH BREATH

This 10-day course will help you better understand daily feelings of overwhelm and how to move through with proven ways to cope.

Together we explore breathing in a conscious and regulated way with methods for focusing the mind on the breath. Rather than agonizing over the past or striving to control the future, we bring our attention to how we breathe—the pace, depth, and cerebral processes behind the action—to instil new habits that help relieve mental, emotional, and physical stressors. Give your nervous system a breath of fresh air and send your body and brain more compassionate and intelligent messages. 

Each day of this 10-day series involves science or Buddhist philosophy and is paired with a meditation and a breathing practice to quell the anxious mind. 

Sample the program:

Lesson 1 - Be Here Now: Get Present & Go!

Arrive in the here and the now. We begin the course with awareness: awareness of all the anxiety, the stress, the joy, the pain.

Lesson 2 - A Product of our Environment: Anxiety in many forms

In today’s lesson, we review the definitions of anxiety and stress, why they are important to experience and how they can lead to illness if unchecked, or run uncontrolled as well as how the busyness of life and technology can be welcomed into this search for clarity and calm. 

Lesson 3 - Feel Your Breath: You are alive!

We explore the various breathing zones in the body, the best zones to use in certain physiological states and how to connect to each area of the lungs.

Lesson 4 - The Roots: Looking Within to Move Forward

In today’s lesson, we honour our hardships, we honour how we survived (in the best way we knew how) and we honour the part of ourselves that is now willing to grow, heal and move forward with more breath. 

Lesson 5 - The Nervous System: Extracting the Nerves

We build upon the hardwiring of anxiety and its demise through soothing breathwork and fully releasing tension in the low abdomen, which is the second brain in Eastern medicine and home of the nervous system, as well as breaking down the basics of controlled breathing and its impact on the nervous system.

Lesson 6 - Relax the Body: Feel Whole Again

Take in the whole body, pay attention to it, include it into decision making, give it care.  

Lesson 7 - The Mind: Servant or Master?

Today, we use breath and a new inner dialogue to start shifting the way we think and feel – rather than being at the whim of the mind and its drama. 

Lesson 8 - For Today: Journalling & Personal Assessment 

Write and get clear.

Lesson 9 - How to Pause: Integrating all the work

Pausing as deeper work. Finding the space to pause and take a deep breath before slipping into habitual patterns is no easy task, which is why we broach the topic near the end of the course.

Lesson 10 - The Beginner’s Mind: Breathe and Be the Change

You are change. You are ready. Your breath is here for you.