03/03/2026
๐ฌ How deep is your breath?
How long is your exhale?
Breath is central to yoga because breath is central to life.
Where there is no breath, people perish.
"๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐, ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข"
โ๏ธ Did you know you are just one breath away from feeling a little bit better?
โ๏ธ Did you know, that deep and slow diaphragmatic breathing is one of the most effective ways to stimulate the vagus nerve? Which is the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system (a.k.a "rest and digest"). It originates in the brainstem and branches out to the heart, lungs, and digestive tract and beyond with endless benefits.
๐ Try it. Pause...take a deep breath in...take a little more in....hold it....now breathe out longer and longer and a little longer. Feel that shift and release. Repeat.
In this day and age...we are so focused on " I think, therefore I am". We are so focused on efficient, productive and profitable thinking. We are so in our head, no wonder why we are overwhelmed and overstimulated.
However, there is also something much more powerful and often overlooked and if we learned a little bit more about our powerful life-force, our breath and breathing, we could tap into a deep reservoir of strength and power that can easily shift our nervous system, our joy, our emotion, our physical body and much more into a higher state.
๐งโโ๏ธ In our Stoic Yoga lessons, we explore this life-force, this innate power of breath, call it life-force, call it pneuma, call it spirit, call it pranayama, call it qi-gong, it doesnโt matter the name we call it, it applies to all living beings on this planet! ๐
We let it lead our movements, we let it guide us and expand us, we let it heal and nourish us, one breath at a time.
"๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐, ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข"
๐ฌ Say and do this daily, see the peace that washes over you, see that weight that lifts off your chest, just a few conscious breaths daily can be a nice little habit to cultivate for your practical well-being.
๐ Nia
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