by Dr Monica Gauci | Mar 30, 2017 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Pranayama
Our breath represents life and is the basic movement pattern that enables us to exist and experience. Just as breathing is our most primal, natural movement pattern, so is dysfunctional breathing our most significant aberrant movement pattern. Our primary muscle of...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 1, 2016 | Asana, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama
In Part 1 of this article I will explain the importance of extending ones inversions, headstand and shoulder stand. I will show how for meditation to succeed what yogis call prana or amrita (nectar) needs to be accumulated or preserved. The process to do so is called...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Jul 16, 2016 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Pranayama
Most of us are familiar with the importance of our thoracic diaphragm muscle and our pelvic diaphragm or pelvic floor muscles. Both of these are recognised for their importance both as respiratory muscles and their crucial role in core stability. Our cervical...
by Gregor Maehle | Jul 2, 2016 | Pranayama
Imagine how great it would be to have a switch that, when operated, would enable you to consciously choose between your right and left brain hemispheres, intuitive and analytical intelligence, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, fight/flight reflex and...
by Gregor Maehle | Mar 19, 2016 | Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
After my last article “Researching Pranayama” I was asked to expand more on the idea of Prana, what a ‘rejecter of prana’ is, whether people can be ‘deficient’ in Prana, and how it can be stronger in some people than in others? What are some of...
by Gregor Maehle | Feb 20, 2016 | Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama
I have recently been approached by the new Center for Consciousness Science, which is part of the University of Michigan’s Medical School, in regards to advise for their project on brain and psychological dynamics associated with yogic breathing (pranayama)...
