Breathwork: Align Your Mind and Body | Audio Only Guide

welcome to mindru meditation and awareness Studio I am your host Elizabeth duo with those aha moments for today you know the moments of learning and living growing and sustaining the practice of mindful awareness through meditation breath connection and Alignment so today I want to talk a little bit about why breath and definitely why breath first now when I think of yoga um and I love yoga I do it every single day but when we do yoga though I think in ancient times and the true nature of yoga is breath breath guiding the body what seems to happen is that we're in those postures and we get a little bit distracted by keeping our balance or the musculature that might be involved and what I like to do is teach my clients about breath comes first no matter what whether we're doing yoga or just living our life breath is so accessible it's accessible as a practical tool it's functional and as a Virgo and as a physical therapist I love that when it's accessible we get to use it for a precursor possibly to a trigger that might be trigger our nervous system into a fight ORF flight response you know a stress response resp and we have the opportunity to notice that become aware of those triggers and shift our nervous system through the breath we can also shift our nervous system when we've completely derailed and are already in a a a flooding reaction and we can access our breath at any time now when I guide meditations you will hear me say often and the breath breathes itself because it's true no matter what you're focusing on if you're in a body scan um if you're focusing on a mantra no matter what you're focusing on your breath is going to breathe itself during meditation during yoga during our life experiences and that's good to know it's good to know because it allows us to feel safe and secure and grounded in our body right so I guide my people who listen to my meditations to go right back to the breath and anchor in because it's there for you all the time the breath can also lend you so much information about yourself it serves as a barometer if you woke up one morning and did your breath work your breathing practice that perhaps it's part of your meditation perhaps it's a precur cursor to your meditation when we breathe and have a practice every day we have a knowingness about ourselves we we have a knowingness about where our nervous system is is it activated is it calm there's lots of information our breath can give us so breath is accessible all the time it's our powerful super tool for shifting our nervous system when need be or staying calm when need be breath also stimulates our immune system it supports our nervous system our glandular system and it really helps bring us into alignment with our body mind and our spirit all in Harmony and I love I truly love that breath is both sacred and scientific you know there's some deep physiology around breath and there's also that robust sacredness that juiciness that really enables us to access our Creative Energy it unlocks our potential and it elevates our Consciousness really for self-development and it is a channel for living our life from the inside out thank you for joining me today for this aha moment I invite you to meet me back here tomorrow for more aha moments