Healing with breath, bandhas and the vagus nerve
ONLINE COURSE
LIMITED NUMBERS, CLOSED GROUP. STARTS 24 MAY
20 hours | Lifetime access | £397 or £39.70 over 10 months
Healing with breath, bandhas and the vagus nerve
Transform your life experience and that of your students with these powerful techniques taught in a new, inclusive and transformative way.
- Understand the interplay between yogic teachings on the subtle body and the nervous system
- Experience the power of breath with bandha and how this stimulates the vagus nerve
- Be able to support healing of both body and mind through breath and bodywork
- Learn a clear, practical and trauma sensitive way to practise and teach pranayama
This online course covers the content through a mix of talks, workshops, classes and course notes with practical advice and strategies, to study in your own time.
I share my years of experience and research with this in-depth exploration of breath work, pranayama & bandhas techniques.
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Ready to teach these powerful techniques?
Bandhas and breathwork together are the most powerful techniques of the yogis, taught with a contemporary understanding of relationship to the vagus nerve. Teaching these techniques in an inclusive way can transform your life experience and that of your students.
I share my years of experience and research with this in-depth exploration of breath work, pranayama & bandhas techniques.
Discover the relationship between the bandhas, the breath and the vagus nerve. This course shares powerful practices to support healing of both body and mind through breath and bodywork. We trace evidence based practices, back to their roots within the yoga tradition, from the Upanishads through Tantra to Hatha Yoga.
Gain a thorough understanding of the “Subtle body”, integrating the “models” of the prana vayus, koshas, bandhas and chakras. Understand how all of these techniques influence and transform our nervous system & therefore our experience of life.
What the course covers:
Understanding yoga philosophy
Understand the development of the subtle body in yoga history and philosophy and how to integrate key themes from yoga philosophy into your class.
Understanding bandhas
Go through an explanation of bhandas and thorough exploration of mula bandha, uddiyana bandha and jalandhara bandha and follow practices you can use to explore and work with each one.
Understanding the nervous system
We give you a contemporary understanding of the nervous system and vegus nerve and how this relates to finding stillness and connection using yoga practice.
Finding stillness and connection
Discover new depths to your practice by connecting to prana as a way to find stillness and connection.
Teaching breath and bodywork
Learn a clear, practical and trauma sensitive way to practise and teach pranayama and powerful practices to support healing of both body and mind through breath and bodywork.
Sequencing for subtle body work
Gain a thorough understanding of the subtle body and learn ways to sequence your practice and classes with reference to the subtle body to deepen the practice.
Complete course syllabus:
Module 1 -Foundations of Pranayama
Module 2 - Science of Breath
Module 2 -Trauma informed Breathwork & Pranayama: Stage One suggestions
Module 3 -Trauma informed Breathwork & Pranayama: Stage Two suggestions
Module 4 -Trauma informed Breathwork & Pranayama: Stage Three suggestions
Module 5 - Bandhas + the Subtle Body
Why take this course:
- Explore the subtle world of prana, the powerful techniques of pranayama and the bandhas
- Discover trauma sensitive techniques for breath work and pranayama; and deepen your own practice
- Discover new depths to your practice by connecting to prana as a way to find stillness and connection
- Understand how this relates to contemporary understanding of the nervous system and vagus nerve
- Learn a clear, practical and trauma sensitive way to practise and teach pranayama
- Understand the development of the “subtle body” in yoga history and philosophy
- Learn to integrate key themes from philosophy to your class
- Sequence your practice & classes with reference to the subtle body to deepen the practice
About your teacher
I'm Laura
Bandhas and breathwork together are the most powerful techniques of the yogis and here I share my years of experience and research with this in-depth exploration of breath work, pranayama & bandhas techniques, taught with a contemporary understanding of relationship to the vagus nerve.
Yoga has been my life path- I started practice when I was at uni and was struggling with my mental health. I didn't make it through that first degree, but I did bring a love of yoga with me when I left. For me it has been a path from fear, shame & isolation, to a sense of self-worth. Today I live with my teenage son & our three dogs and work at my own studio in Bristol with my incredible team. It's been a long process of figuring out what works and now the yoga I share combines movement with stillness, science with philosophy. Because this is the practice that has transformed my life and that I see inspiring my students. I'd love to share this with you too
What our students say:
Laura seamlessly integrates yoga traditions with science informed learning in a trauma sensitive and inclusive way. Making it all very relevant today. Her hugely in depth knowledge and experience is shared with love and compassion.
Hannah Young
"“Thank you so much for a really inspiring course, full of relevant, accessible and key knowledge that I can feed back into my personal practice and teaching with complete confidence of understanding."
Sue Turner
Over 30 years
of teaching transformative yoga and yoga teacher training courses
Over 15 years
of training teachers at the longest running yoga studio in Bristol
Over 1000 teachers trained
through my 200 hour and 300 hour advanced teacher training courses and intensives
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