This course guides the practitioner through a series of steps for life improvement. Focusing on six inter-related and complimentary themes, practitioners learn how to use authentic pranayama breathing methods to induce transformative and beneficial bodily states. These are crucial for developing life awareness, clarity of thought, clear and confident decision-making abilities, motivated & decisive action taking, as well as an inner confidence and calm.

Who’s the course for?

The course is suitable for anyone who wants to increase their happiness levels and lead a more content and fulfilling life, be more in control of their body and mind, less affected by outside influences, develop crystal clear thought patterns for effective decision making, reduce anxiety, stress, and episodes of depression, and improve clarity of thought, resilience, and confidence. 

What’s included?

The course includes:

6 guided training sessions (recorded) – The guided training sessions provide a clear and concise overview of the theory of each breathing technique and how they can be used to induce different & beneficial bodily states, followed by a guided practice for each method.

6 mentoring sessions (recorded)- These sessions provide the opportunity for questions and answers as well as an opportunity to interact with others taking the course.

Optional in-person breathing with cold immersion – We meet up together in Galway for an in-person breath session and cold immersion day (dates TBC).

Personal Yoga50 account – Upon enrolling, you will be given a Yoga50 online account. Here you can access session recordings and course materials any time.

3-months of follow-up support – Following the completion of the course, there will be a 1-hour online session each month for Q&A and guidance.

As part of the course, you will be required to keep a journal of your activities, progress, and outcomes, and (optionally) present your experience of the course to other participants.

This course the same 4 main steps – Breath and move; meditate and immerse; rest and digest; love your tribe.

The course is built around 6 inter-related and complimentary themes. Each theme builds on the previous, empowering the practitioner to gradually increase their knowledge, skills, and confidence to implement the pranayama breathing techniques on-demand to induce different bodily states for life improvement. This includes awareness for…, mind/body balance for better decision making, heat generation for taking action, cooling the body to…, building inner confidence to move forward, and developing calm to step back and return to awareness.

Theme 1 – Awareness: The power of slowing your breath. Deep yogic breathing. Our first step is to improve awareness. This requires stepping back and slowing down. Observing. This is achieved through changing the way we breathe, slowing it down, breathing down to the abdomen, breathing through the nose. Before the session, students should write down an overview of their lives. After, the session they should immediately write down what they did.

Theme 2 – Balance: Improving balance is the next step. To make wise and informed choices we need to be balanced. We can do this through nasal breathing. Assessing the impact of the things in our world, and making decisions. Decision making, but not action.

Theme 3 – Fire: Kapalabati. Creating energy and fire. This gives us the power and impetus to take the action and to manifest the changes we decided in the previous step. Here, we build on the previous section where we have assessed our situation, and use the breath to initiate fire so we can take action.

Theme 4 – Ice: Cooling breath. Cooling our body.

Theme 5 – Power: Ujjayi. Inner strength. Here we are being triumphant but not outwardly. This is an inward signal to tell ourselves that we have acted and achieved. Now we can move on to the next step. This section builds on the previous two – here we are being triumphant, moving ourselves up to the next level, after which we return to calmness. So we can phase as the step up. Then we calm down with retention. And then we see ourselves on this step and return to awareness, then balance (take decisions)

Theme 6 – Calm: Retention. Calming. Returning to the breath at the start and adding retention.