Prana is sankrit for breath or life force. Some say in yoga, if you can control your breath you can control your mind. And if you can control your mind you can control your reality. Ever notice racing thoughts under stress? Stress alters the way you breathe, engagement of breathing muscles and brain functions.
Buteyko Breathing with Higia’s Program is a unique wholistic offering curtailed to your needs. Rewriting and relearning how to breathe appropriately for management of anxiety, panic disorder, ADHD, sleep apnea or insomnia. Practice and rewriting is imperative for proper breath work. Higia’s program utilizes Dr. Buteyko breathing exercises, exercises and fundamentals in somatic body work and hypnotic tracts.
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In 1957 Ukrainian Dr. Konstantin Buteyko observed that unhealthy people have noticeable breathing during rest. Whizzing and huffing at times? Their breathing is often through the mouth, using the upper chest with a respiratory rate and volume greater than normal. On the other hand, healthy people have regular, effortless and quiet breathing during rest. Dr. Buteyko spent 40 years perfecting his exercises and researching air hunger. He taught us to take slow, low breathes , learn our air hunger number and to practice towards longer intervals of tolerable hunger.
During his research, Dr. Buteyko turned to Eastern breathing techniques and combined these with the science of Western Medicine. Buteyko exercises are more direct and specifically tailored to each child and adult, regardless of condition. From the individual experiencing severe asthma and panic attacks to the healthy adult, a program is available depending on the age and health. For more information: https://buteykoclinic.com/about-dr-buteyko/
Retraining how your body and mind respond to stressful stimuli is a process integral to Higia Buteyko Breath Program. Eastern meets Western, this program utilizes clinical measurements with yoga prana techniques, Buteyko exercises and hypnotic tracts. Higia’s program focuses on implementing somatic body work especially core centered this allows for proper breathing technique and recoupment of proper muscles.
By practicing breathing exercises from the Buteyko Method you can experience more open airways and improved blood circulation in a matter of minutes. This alone is enough to demonstrate the relationship between your everyday breathing and state of health. How you breathe and your body disposition to stressors is integral. Not everyone is a wiff off breather! Air movement through the nose activates the parasympathetic and yogi’s feminine energy. You must slow down your breathing to increase blood flow and oxygen delivery to the tissues this is done via less air entering the body to disrupt the balance.
Higia’s program starts with an initial health evaluation where breathing issues are discussed. A baseline control pause number will be evaluated. This number will be utilized to monitor progress. An informal discussion follows with answering some simple questions like; do you snore, sigh often or wake up with a dry mouth ? These overlooked details provide a lot of clinical details about your sleep patterns and breath. We will discuss your goals, benefits of breathing low and slow, techniques to practice and utilization of hypnotic tracts. Somatic body work is utilized to clear energy centers and trapped prana. We end each session with Buteyko exercises and mindfullness.
At the end of each Buteyko session you may wish to add on a sound bath.
