Pranayama for Stress and Sleep

YogaBharati is pleased to offer a 21 day pranayama workshop as part of community outreach and a small informal study on pranayama and its efficacy on stress and sleep.

We will conduct a 3 week pranayama/relaxation (yoga nidra) sessions to ‘Destress and Rejuvenate’ your body and mind. This will help improve your stress, improve your quality of your sleep and overall feeling of wellness. This workshop will help you build resilience to enhance everyday life.

Duration: Sep 16th to Oct 3rd 2024

Mode: Online

Fees: FREE 

What does it involve:

  • live online classes on Mon-Thurs at 9pm PST

  • Completion of Pre and Post Health Assessment forms.

    Enter Health Survey using the below link to participate in the pranayama workshop

Benefits of Pranayama

  • The goal of pranayama is to improve lung capacity, get more energy and bring peace and tranquility to mind.

  • Pranayama helps oxygenate the cells even while breathing slow and with some gaps between the breaths (Kevala Kumbhaka - effortless suspension of breath).

  • Pranayama helps with cardiovascular system. Deep breathing helps create negative pressure gradient in the abdomen and more blood flows from lower extremities into the heart, thus increasing Stroke Volume.

Benefits of Aum Chanting

  • The goal of yoga is to silence the mind. Aum acts as a peaceful sound that replaces the clutter of sounds in the mind. Silence after Aum is the most important aspect of chanting.

  • Chanting 27 rounds of Aum will be a great pranayama practice as one regulates and coordinates breath with along with chanting. It helps expand the lung capacity when practiced with deep breathing.

  • Aum is a passive syllable that does not have any emotion or meaning associated with it in the regular sense of the word. Hence it removes any thoughts and emotions of the mind.

  • Aum can be broken down into A — for resonance in the lower part of the body; U - for resonance in the middle part of the body; and M - for resonance in the head region; Thus it produces vibrations in the entire body from toe to head.

  • Mandukya upanishad associates A with wakeful state, U with dream state and M with deep sleep state. The silence after the chanting is the ultimate state called Turiya, the transcendance of body and mind.

Benefits of Shavasana

Shavasana is a wakeful sleep called Yoga Nidra. It helps bring awareness to the body and provides complete rest to the entire body and mind with all its inner organs and faculty of thinking. 

Contact Us

Email: workshop@yogabharati.org

Phone: 408-341-YOGA (9642)

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