Prepare for your breathwork session
Avoid eating 1.5 hours before your session
Wear comfortable waist line clothes
Bring a blanket (eye mask/pillow optional)
Refrain from alcohol, tobacco, other substances, especially during the session
Women on moon cycle: consider refraining from wearing tampon to breathe with greater pelvic floor awareness
Additional Online Zoom Session Instructions
Select a room/area of house where you have total privacy to express
Stack 2 or 3 large pillows for upper body and neck support
Point laptop/iPhone camera down toward your head and torso (see photo). I need to see your face, to your upper thighs
Tip: elevate camera above body using chair, stacked books, coffee table
OPTIONAL: blue tooth speaker/earbuds for better music/instruction audio quality
FIND YOUR IDEAL HRV BREATHING RATE
The highly rated Resonant Breathing App (iPhone OR Android) helps you practice HRV (Parasympathetic) Resonant Breathing by finding and then practicing your ideal breath rate. Created by former monk and longtime Kriya meditator/qigong practitioner Forrest Knutson.
As you breathe, remember to bring 'the substance of your feeling awareness' to the heart region -- aka feel loving awareness, 'soft inner smile' in the heart region/between back of heart and spine
No pauses between inhales and exhales. During each slightly extended exhale, feel a slight pressure on the backside of your heart in your chest (activates parasympathetic nervous system via dorsal vagal nerve at the back of chest/thoracic cavity)
In the beginning, all breath rates are created equal so don't effort to aim for a fast or slow HRV rate
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Transdermal magnesium is the superior way to absorb magnesium and benefit your nervous system, and in turn, the experience of presence (YouTube: Forrest Knutson analysis)
Once or twice a week I soak in a hot bath for 45 minutes using 1/4 cup of Living the Good Life Naturally's Undiluted Liquid Magnesium Soak in bathtub.
Some people I know use foot baths.
There are natural mineral hot springs outside most major cities.
Sound Medicine: $40 Discount on all Feeltone Monochords
Buy a Feeltone Monochord
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Sound Medicine: $20 Discount on Sound Wings + ALL BeautifulSounds Instruments
BUY A SOUND WING
Based on a series of pure fifths - the universal "Pythagorean" tuning - the Sound Wing by SVARAM is a large, portable chime set featuring the dynamics of expanding spirals, ever widening in the ascending scale, or descending, inward moving, centering spirals.
Be sure to use code BREATHING at checkout for $20 off the Sound Wing, or any BeautifulSounds.co instrument.
Sound Medicine: Peruvian Rattle
my favorite peruvian rattle: $88
The most gentle, watery sound when played softly; the perfect cleansing clash when shaken more vigorously. All sales support the Peruvian village where they were made.
TO ORDER: Please email Aaron your shipping address and how many rattles you’d like to purchase. He will respond with a total to send via Venmo , Paypal or check.