#3 Guided Meditation & Pranayama — 10min video

#3 Guided Meditation & Pranayama — 10min video

Meditation & Pranayama | Friday 16th April 2021

This new 10-minute meditation and pranayama practice calms the mind and relaxes the body. In this video we explore Kumbhaka, the retention of the breath - whether it is antara kumbhaka (internal retention) or bahya kumbhaka (external retention). Finally, the second part of this video is a guided meditation that works with Anahata chakra, the cardiac plexus chakra. It's now been a year that the world has slowed down and we have had to adapt to the pandemic life. Each country manages as well as it can, according to what's available and its population. Here in the UK, we are just coming out of 4 long months of lockdown. Let's face it, it was ...

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Meditation & Pranayama | Sunday 29th November 2020

#2 Guided Meditation & Pranayama — 10min video

#2 Guided Meditation & Pranayama — 10min video

Today I'm sharing with you another 10min meditation and pranayama video, to focus on the present moment, reconnect your body and mind, and calm the flow of your thoughts. In this video, we will practice Nadi Shodhana, alternate breathing, particularly effective to soothe anxiety and regain concentration.

In a few days the second UK lockdown will end and shops, gyms, pub...

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Meditation & Pranayama | Monday 2nd November 2020

#1 Guided Meditation & Pranayama — 10min video

#1 Guided Meditation & Pranayama — 10min video

In this 10 minute video, I invite you to focus on your breath, isolate your belly breathing from your chest breathing, and lengthen your exhalations to slow down your heart rate and relax.

As I'm writing these words, the British government has just announced a new lockdown. This announcement comes a few days after a similar one in France. Here, gyms and yoga studios will have to close their doors again from Thursday on. The so-called "non-essential" businesses will have to...

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Meditation & Pranayama | Monday 4th November 2019

Pranayama: the breathing techniques

Pranayama: the breathing techniques

Often when I meet people who've never tried yoga, they tell me that they don't think they could "do it" because they're not flexible enough. To which I usually answer "but you do know how to breathe, right? Then that's the hardest part sorted".
Vinyasa is breathing with movement. And if you practice an asana sequence without placing your breath, this is not yoga, this is working out or stretching. So breathing is equally - if not more - important to your practice than the physica...

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