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Yoga & Breathwork
Private Sessions
Yoga, Breathwork & Spiritual Guidance
The amazing benefit of Private Sessions is the deeper connection you receive with your mind, body and spirit.
Yoga & Breathwork are ancient tools that help give you peace of mind, flexibility of body and vitality of spirit.
Working one on one with a facilitator increases these benefits exponentially!
Yoga Asana
Modern day yoga pictures throughout the internet, fashion & fitness magazines portrays people in incredibly difficult postures that make practicing yoga look like a contortionist act.
The main goal of yoga is union. Union of what?
Mind, Body and Spirit
Learning the basic postures (asanas) of yoga is the main function in cultivating a flexible body. You don’t need to be flexible already to practice yoga. All you need is willingness to practice the postures to help bring you flexibility.
Yoga Asana
The ancients found that the unity of mind, body and spirit excelled when the mind is still and the breath is long, unrestricted and retained. The physical movement was developed because after sitting for long periods of time the body cramped up and needed movement.
The physical movement of yoga is to loosen tense muscles, bring mobility into the joints and spine, and to increase overall strength and flexibility. Yoga is intended to create a balance between your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. The journey of practicing yoga starts with the willingness to try something out of the ordinary.
Yoga For Each Season
Autumn. During this season, it is best to schedule your yoga practice every day at the same time and for the same duration. This routine will help calm your nervous system and create balance from the changing environment. Do yoga poses that include twists, backbends, side stretches, sun salutations and standing postures. With the cooling weather patterns in the air, you want to encourage warmth in the body, mind and spirit - what better way to do that than saluting the sun!
Winter. If there ever was a best time to practice hot yoga, it’s during the winter season. Please be very mindful of your sweat and going into the cold air after your practice. It is imperative to stay warm and bundled up after an intense practice, if you’re not able to immediately shower. Hot, intense and vinyasa flows are the best to practice during this season.
Spring. Postures that open up the airway and chest such as backbends and standing postures will help your respiratory system as pollen enters the air. This is the best season to practice Breathwork (Pranayama). Your practice is best at a moderate pace and can incorporate vigorous as well as restorative postures. This is the best seasons for a vin-yin practice.
Summer. You will focus on more cooling and relaxing postures. Taking your practice at a much slower pace will keep your body, mind and spirit in balance for the intensity of the heat. This is the season you probably have the most energy to practice invigorating sequences. These sequences should only be practiced during the hours of 6am-9am or 6pm-9pm.
Breathwork - Pranayama
Cultivating a discipline of using your breath to increase your Life Force Energy not only increases your own inner healing power but also the confidence in yourself to be your True Self.
During your private session with Shamanic Yoga, you will have one on one Breathwork lessons with founder and creator Athanasia Medenas.
Whether you have been practicing yoga for years or have never done a class in your life, starting a Breathwork practice can truly change your life.
Pranayama refers to the practice of extending, expanding and controlling prana - Life Force energy. When you extend your Life Force, you extend your life. You build stronger respiratory and immune systems, a calmer nervous system, and cultivate a deeper sense of awareness of yourself and the way your life is unfolding.
Breathwork Benefits
There are numerous studies coming out regarding the health benefits of yoga and breathwork.
The benefits specifically of practicing breathwork:
Increase your vagal tone (the main nerve in your parasympathetic nervous system).
Decrease sympathetic discharge (this is associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, heart failure), renal pathologies, and metabolic disturbances (diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome).
Improves vital capacity of lungs (the maximum amount of air you can forcibly exhale from your lungs after fully inhaling).
Induces calm, relaxation and clarity of mind
Alkalizes your blood PH and has an anti-inflammatory effect
Spiritual Support
Yoga and Breathwork are spiritual practices that take you on a special journey to getting to know yourself on a deeper level.
The intricacies of this ancient science and art bring about healing, positive change and more awareness to your life.
‘Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.’
- K. Pattabhi Jois
“You must purge yourself before finding faults in [yourself and] others…Do not look at others’ bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare [yourself] with others. Each one’s capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Private Yoga & Breathwork
Terms and Conditions for Private Yoga & Breathwork
Individual Sessions vary according to your needs in the present moment. A session can include: Yoga Asana, Breathwork, and/or spiritual support.
Session options: In-person local to Downey, Ca (address given after payment is received). Virtual sessions through Zoom.
Not included in in-person pricing: Transportation to and from location of session.
Payment Processing: All payments non refundable. In-person sessions are $150/hr. Virtual sessions are $120/hr. Packages are available for a discounted rate.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel for any reason or do not complete your package during the allotted timeframe, there will be no refunds given.
Additional Information: For in-person sessions, the exact address will be sent via email once you complete the registration in the link below. For virtual sessions, the Zoom link will be sent via email once you complete the registration below. You are asked to arrive no earlier than 5 min. before your session. Sessions start and end on time.
Contact: If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to info@shamanicyoga108.com. We are happy to help!
Thank you for choosing Shamanic Yoga as your spiritual compass for Yoga-Asana, Breathwork and Spiritual Guidance!!
Thank you for trusting our Private Sessions for your Spiritual Journey 🙏
“Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.”
— K. Pattabhi Jois
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