Breathe Better with Yoga Therapeutics

Your breathing mirrors your internal state.

When life moves at a relentless pace, your breath adapts without you realizing it. It becomes shorter, higher in your chest, and less efficient. As your breathing changes in these ways, your nervous system responds by becoming more vigilant, and that heightened state can create even more muscle tension, making it harder to take the full, easeful breath your body is craving.

The “Breathe Better” class collection teaches you how to deliberately shift that pattern.

These Yoga Therapeutics practices will help you release tissue tightness that limits your breathing, purposefully enhance your breath capacity, and regulate your nervous system so each breath becomes a little easier than the last.

My sincere hope is that these practices become more than another “to-do” item.

Instead, I hope they become a reminder that every intentional breath is an opportunity to soften, become present, and return to yourself.

May you breathe a little deeper, move a little easier, and find more space within your body and your day.

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Breath Enhancer  (10 minutes)

If you've been breathing shallowly from stress, tension, or long hours at your desk, this 10-minute practice is a powerful reset for your respiratory system. Using gentle myofascial release, side body stretches, and an extended 5:8 exhale breathing practice, you'll restore elasticity in your diaphragm and rib cage, calm your nervous system, release stagnant tension, and create a more effortless breath.

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Build Breath Capacity (30 minutes)

This therapeutic practice combines purposeful movement with pranayama techniques to help you build breath capacity. Using gentle myofascial release, chest and side body opening, and guided breathing practices, you'll restore mobility through your diaphragm and rib cage, breathe more fully, and finish feeling more energized, present, and positive.

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Inclusive Breath (45 minutes)

Create more space for your breath with therapeutic movements that open your ribs, chest, and accessory breathing muscles so breathing feels easier and more natural. Throughout class, you'll use 4:4 equal duration breathing to cultivate balance, focus, and nervous system regulation. The mantra is: "I include all that is."