The way you breathe has a direct effect on your mental-emotional state, and the opposite is also true: like a catch 22, an anxious state triggers shallow dissociated breathing, which in turn increases your body’s fear response, experienced often as what we call anxiety.

We are working on diaphragmatic breath, and learning to release the psoas, hip flexors, diaphragm and pelvic floor through our foot-work in standing and supine poses and through our awareness. Here are some really great images to illustrate these muscles and hopefully help you deeply get the connections of what we are up to! Teaching on these relationships thru September and October at all locations.

Reside in your desire for the wellbeing of all beings. Know that your efforts on and off the mat deepen the breath of everyone on this planet, not only your own.

Know that even your tiniest shift and healing contributes more to the healing of our entire species than a thousand words could - trust that example moves the world more than doctrine.

Know that your embodied wisdom is enough to shift time and space around you. .
Know that your goodness and peace will bring out the goodness and peace in others just like your anxiety and despair would bring out same. We are resonant beings. Shift your inner state as a way to love your loved ones - help them shift theirs just by osmosis.

When you see something as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When you see something as good,
something else become bad. .
Being and non-being arise together.
Difficult and easy complement each other.