
Begin a seven-day pranayama journey rooted in Indian tradition to build vital life force and breathing potential, improving digestion, stress, memory, immunity, and sleep.
Explore pranayama, the control of life force energy, through breath awareness and four-part breathing. Build diaphragmatic strength and intercostal engagement to expand your breath and regulate mind and nervous system.
Explore the anatomy of breathing by focusing on the diaphragm, intercostal muscles, and rib movement; learn to start inhalation from the diaphragm and observe controlled exhale.
You only need you; these breathing techniques work from a chair, couch, bed, or floor, with the video guiding seated or reclined positions to choose what feels best.
Explore three pranayama positions—sitting in a chair, seated on blankets or cushions, or lying down with chest supported—to tailor your breathing practice.
Practice day one of seven days of pranayama with ujjayi breath, cultivating a comfortable posture, nasal inhale and exhale to calm the nervous system and expand the chest.
practice day two of the seven day breathing program, guiding samavritti and visamavritti breathing with counts for inhale and exhale, and using clearing breaths to calm the nervous system.
Explore a three-part Viloma breath, teaching a three-layer inhale and exhale with pauses, using a three-layer cake visualization to balance rib cage breathing.
Day four introduces kumbhaka, a breath retention practice using Ujiri breath with guided inhale, hold, exhale, and hold counts. Sit or lie, follow the counts, and observe breath and mood.
practice day five of seven-day pranayama with anuloma, an alternate-nostril breathing technique. use hand cues to plug nostrils and breathe slowly, promoting calm and awareness of mind and body.
Learn day six of better breathing with Nadi shodhana, using Vishnu mudra to alternate nostrils, keep the chest open, and breathe mindfully through both nostrils.
Day seven introduces brahmari pranayama, the bumblebee breath, to calm the nervous system with a humming exhale. Practice seven rounds, with optional ear coverage and jaw relaxation.
Restart day one and repeat the seven days of pranayama, select resonant techniques, and incorporate them with reference material into a doable schedule, three, two, or four times a week.
About this course:
In this course, you will embark on a seven day journey to better breathing through Pranayama (breathing techniques) to achieve:
Vitality
Clarity
Better sleep
Reduced stress and anxiety
A vibrant experience as a human who breathes deeply
Join Amber Green as she guides you through each step of the practice, starting with:
What is Pranayama?
What will you need to practice Pranayama?
How does it work?
What you will get out of this course.
How to continue practicing better breathing once you've completed this course.
Course structure:
The course is structured with an introductory section to familiarize you with Pranayama (breathing techniques), the anatomy of the breath, and some of its deeper benefits. Next, you will learn variations for how to practice Pranayama. The following section contains guided video courses to get you on your way to seven days of better breathing through Pranayama. You will also find a helpful resource guide to download for continued practice on your own.
Meet your Udemy Instructor, Amber Green:
Amber Green has been teaching yoga for 14 years, has over 2,000 hours of training, and 10,000 of teaching experience.
Amber grew up in Flint, Michigan. She teaches yoga, breathing and meditation classes ranging from vigorous Vinyasa, alignment based Hatha, candlelit slow flow, restorative, yin, and Ayurveda influenced.
Amber holds a poetry degree from Columbia College Chicago, and has recently embarked on a digital yoga journey offering a variety of live and recorded content online.
Amber is a teacher who upholds and honors the roots of yoga by taking a psychologically sensitive approach, and considers yoga and social justice closely related. She specializes in one-on-one sessions for students with injuries, leads yoga workshops and retreats globally, operates a yoga teacher training school, large events, workshops, and mentorships.
Join Amber as she offers pranayama, psychological theming, and movement - meeting you wherever you are in your yoga practice right here on the Udemy platform.