Finding Balance
Rediscovering an old friend is how I have felt with Brahmari! I have found this to really help me relax deeper into mySelf!
Breath First: Try Brahmari or a humming type of breathing to reduce anxiety, overwhelm and get you back on track. I love this breathing, it really brings me right into the present moment, vibrates what may be stuck or calms what is in overdrive.
Sit and feel the floor or back of a chair supporting you. If you feel safe, close your eyes, and try using your thumbs to close off your ears, let your other four fingers rest on your forehead.
Inhale through your NOSE with an internal Humming sound. P A U S E.
Exhale through your NOSE with an internal Humming sound. P A U S E
Focus on the vibration, the feeling and the length of your exhale. Let it become longer and longer each time.
A few rounds will bring you into Presence and more is even better. Your inhale hum may sound like a buzzing bee, and the exhale will too, at a different pitch. Brahmari means bee and Pranayama is the affecting of our Life force.
ps. If you are pregnant, heavily menstruating, with high blood pressure or prone to seizures this Pranayama is contraindicated. Try Long Deep Belly Breathing.
Stay well my friends, and a deeply Happy New Year wish to each of you.
Durga Energy!
2022 Offerings
Mastering our Self Course
Trauma Informed Yoga Course:: Resources for Resiliency
February 19th to July 23rd, 2022, Live on Zoom
Every Saturday, 11am-1pm, PST, for 6 months, join me to engage in a holistic experiential method to unlearn what locked in the trauma triggers and to integrate transformational practices for living. It took a lifetime for these triggers to lodge in our body, let’s give ourselves a wide berth to unlock, unlearn and establish a safe and reliable way to communicate, advocate and relate to our deepest needs. One of the benefits of teaching on Zoom, all these classes will be recorded! So if you have to miss one, I can send you the recording so you will not loose any of the teachings. All recordings will only show me not the entire group for privacy.
Live Zoom Classes Still going strong!!!
Every Monday and Wednesday Night, 7:00 pm to 8:15 or 8:30 pm Pacific time, I am here!
Yin with Restorative yoga and Deep Relaxation: Yoga Nidra
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On a personal note,
I still feel there can be so much to be afraid, worried and anxious about. Be brave friends, have courage, we have so much more to draw from than we imagined. Right? These yogic tools and practices have lasted this long because they work. So…work them! Jump back in, chant a mantra, find a pranayama (breathing exercise), come to class even if you just lie there! Listen to a Yoga Nidra! Call a friend, take a walk. Rub your whole body in warm sesame oil and then take a lovely hot/warm bath or shower! Light a candle, eat a sweet juicy fruit, cook a cozy meal. Sit by a fire, sing a song, write a song! Dance. Feel into it, we are here for a reason. Change the channel from anxiety to being present. From depression to any activity. From fear to courage or at least presence. I know we’ve got this, I’ve been working it all year, and yes, I feel you. Joyous New year blessings to each of you.
Love, light and a warm hug,
Denise Divine
