Ujjayi Breathing

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Ujjayi Breathing

The practice of pranayama helps reduce waste matter in the body by directing the agni, the fire of life.  Pranayama consists of two parts: prana and ayama. Ayama means stretch or extend and prana is “that which is indefinitely everywhere” or energy and is something the flows continuously inside of us—vitality. If there is every a time where there isn’t enough room for prana it means it’s being forced out by the rubbish, so pranayama removes that junk to create space for prana to flow. 

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On yoga teacher training

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On yoga teacher training

Yoga training! I had big dreams of creating a website right off the bat and blogging everyday and giving a play by play of yoga training and write down everything I learned and then yoga training started. Yoga training is the best experience ever but it’s a massive time suck emotionally, physically, energetically, mentally, all the things.. in the best way possible. What I thought was about 12 hours a week was actually 18 plus hours contemplating the homework assignment. The basics class that we are required to take are only offered at 7:15pm M-TH and you aren’t “supposed” to take class on Asana days. (I learned I’m actually a rule follower. shocking!) They say it’s up to you what you get out of training.

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