Breathing For Stress

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Over the last decade and a half, Karen has worked as a geologist, high school math teacher, dot-com startup geek, IT nerd, and marketing project manager. In 2008 she realized that teaching yoga required her full and undivided attention.

Based in Seattle, she teaches yoga in the home, at the workplace, and around the world. She has been teaching yoga since 2003, and practicing since 1998. She plans retreats to Northwest destinations, to Mexico, and India. Oh yeah, and she’s older than she looks.

Tag: breathing for stress

Reboot Your Breath: 4 Quick Steps to Breathing Your Stress Level Down

Respiration, (second to excretion), is one of the primary methods by which we eliminate waste and toxins. Constrained breath limits our capacity to cleanse ourselves, and also limits the amount of energy in the body. In the long term, impaired or incorrect breathing can lead to disease in other organs and systems, especially in the [...]

Posted: July 29th, 2010 under pranayama.
Tags: breathing, breathing for stress, pranayama, pranayama techniques, stress, stress relief
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Ask The Yogi about Breathing, or: Yet Another Yogic Star Wars Reference

Greetings from the “Ask the Yogi” Department!! This is quite a belated response to a question posed by a student back in March: “I often find myself wanting to use yoga breathing techniques at certain stressful times in my day. For instance, when I’m angry, anxious, tired, or tense. Are there different techniques that work [...]

Posted: June 3rd, 2009 under geekstuff, pranayama.
Tags: alternate nostril breathing, ask the yogi, balance, brahmari, breathing for stress, calm, darth vader, energize, kapalabhati, maintain, nadi shodana, obi wan, pranayama, pranayama techniques, sithali, star wars, stress, ujayi
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