Nervous System Practices
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Bhramari: The Ancient Humming Practice Your Nervous System Has Been Waiting For
Bhramari, the ancient humming bee breath, is one of the most immediate and underestimated tools available for a nervous system in overdrive and once you understand why it works, you may never reach for anything else first.
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Nadi Shodhana: The Alternate Nostril Breath For Balance And Calm
There are breath practices I reach for when I need to calm down quickly, and there are breath practices I reach for when I want to feel genuinely balanced, not just less activated but actually clear. Nadi Shodhana is firmly in the second category.
The Lengthened Exhale: The Simplest Nervous System Reset You'll Ever Learn
Your exhale holds more power than you might realise and once you understand the simple science behind why a longer breath out can reset your entire nervous system, you'll never think about breathing the same way again.
What Is Pranayama? The Ancient Science of Breath and Why It Matters Now
Long before modern science had the tools to measure it, ancient yogic practitioners had already mapped the profound relationship between breath and human wellbeing and what they discovered is more relevant to our stressed, distracted lives than ever. Dive into the world of pranayama and find out why this 5,000-year-old science of breath might be exactly what you've been missing.
High-Functioning Anxiety: When You Look Fine But Feel Anything But
You get things done. You show up. You are dependable, often impressive. You have a good sense of humour about the pressure you're under. You are, in most of the ways that are visible, fine.
Box Breathing or Samavritti: How to Practice It and Evolve Your Technique Over Time
Discover the ancient art of box breathing, a deceptively simple practice rooted in yogic tradition that can calm your nervous system, sharpen your focus, and transform the way you move through stress. Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this guide will show you exactly how to begin and how to grow with it over time.
The Body as a Source of Emotional Intelligence
I did not understand, for most of my life, that my body was a source of information. I understood it as a vehicle, something that transported my mind from one place to another. Something to be maintained. Something that felt things, yes, but whose feelings were secondary to what I thought.
How Your Body's Hidden Wisdom Keeps You Balanced: The Life-Changing Science of Homeostasis
There is something happening in your body right now that you are not consciously directing. Your heart rate is adjusting. Your breathing is shifting. Hormones are being released and reabsorbed. Temperature is being regulated. Blood is being routed. All of it, simultaneously, without a single deliberate thought from you.
The Five Nervous System States, Which One Are You In Right Now?
Before I understood the nervous system, I understood my moods as a kind of weather. Unpredictable. Arriving without explanation. Something to manage or wait out. What I did not understand was that my moods had a physiology. That there was a biological logic to why I sometimes felt wired and reactive, why I sometimes felt numb and distant, why some days I could meet everything with relative steadiness and other days the smallest thing felt unbearable.
Sanctuaries of the Self: Finding Rhythm and Ritual on the Road
Travel has a way of unravelling us. It stretches our boundaries and expands our horizons, but in the movement, we often lose the steady pulse of our daily rituals. After eight months on the road, I’ve realised that protecting your practice isn’t about rigid adherence to a schedule; it’s about finding the spaces that help you return to yourself, the ones that feel less like a workout and more like medicine.
Meditation, The 10 Benefits Found In Less Than A Month
I’ve reached the halfway point in my Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher Training and it’s been profoundly eye-opening. I have been meditating consistently for 24 days, although in a lifetime, it's not even a millisecond, the impact has been vast.
10 Quick & Easy Ways To Feel Grounded
Everyone you meet in this world of ours has some form of anxiety, fear or stress that will show up in their body and most of us do not know what it is. It might be butterflies, headache, dizziness, feeling overwhelmed or some other sense of unease. Whatever it is that your body does to send you a signal, here are a few simple tricks that you can use anywhere, to feel grounded.
I lost the ability to speak: it took me nine months to admit why
After one of the most challenging years of my life, I think I've finally understood what burnout actually is. The hardest part now is watching people around me live through the same thing, with different outcomes, because I can see the signs I missed in myself.
Yoga, The Long & Short Of It
The benefits are out there, if you have ever followed someone who does Yoga on instagram you can see their slimline strong body move through poses with elegance and poise. I’m here to share the process. (just in case like me you don’t look like them.) Why it should be hard and the benefit after the undiscussed strength building on and off the mat. Anything is possible in that body of yours but time and practice are built into yoga and that is the transformative nature of it.