Late Winter Yoga Practice Focus: Bellows Breath

You can use your breath to change your mind! Bellows Breath is a great way to wake and warm up in the morning, or any time.

One of the basic tenets of Healing Yoga is interoception — or sensing the inside of your body, which switches your brain out of hypervigilance and stress. It’s important for this to work that you are sensing and not naming or story telling, and staying with sensation can take practice.

So start with standing or sitting comfortably and noticing the natural expansion and falling of your belly as you…