Dakota Mays

Yoga Teacher & Breathwork Guide

This breath technique is perfect for those who are feeling overwhelmed. This breathing exercise will give you the opportunity to relax and let go of any built-up anxiety or stress. Full yogic breath is an ancient breathing technique that helps us control the flow, duration, and location of our breath, helping us send the appropriate signals to our nervous system to induce relaxation.

The full yogic breath technique helps control breath flow, duration, and location, inducing relaxation and reducing anxiety and stress.

Full Yogic Breath To Destress

This breathwork will grant you the chance to enter relaxation. By directing our breath to only our stomach, we're able to send the appropriate signals to our vagus nerve that it's time for relaxation and digestion. This is one of my favorite routines to practice when I need help sleeping, or when I'm going through digestive issues. Hope this helps you and your practice!!

Breathwork directs signals to vagus nerve for relaxation and digestion, useful for sleeping and digestive issues, according to author's favorite practice.

Rest & Digest: Stomach Breathing

When low on energy, connecting to our heart space can dramatically increase our energetic state of being. This breathing exercise will give you the chance to relieve some of the tension/resistance that's keeping you from breathing in full breaths of energy into your chest. A supported fish pose is optional during this breathwork, as it helps express the opening of our heart space. Hope you enjoy this practice!

Connect to your heart space with a breathing exercise and optional supported fish pose to increase energy and relieve tension.

Tapping Into The Heart Space

This breathing exercise helps you tap into the Sun's energy through Sun Salutations with your arms. In a seated or standing position, we'll give salutes to the Sun with our arms and connecting our breathwork to our movements. This will have you feeling vibrant and warm after only a few rounds. Hope this resonates with you today!

Sun Salutation breathing exercise: connect breath to arm movements for vibrant energy, warmth in just a few rounds.

Sun Salutations Energy Grabber

This breathwork will help you let go of those deeper layers of bodily tension. As we breathe through the main areas of the body, the goal is to have you feeling like you pressed the "refresh" button. Hope it helps!!

Try this breathwork to release deep bodily tension and feel refreshed like hitting the refresh button.

Body Reset Breathing

This breathwork is intended to induce relaxation and have you feeling refreshed. The breath routine is practiced in a supported bridge pose, to aid in activating the lymphatic system. It also includes breath retention, so you should feel very restorative and at ease by the end of our rounds together. Hope you enjoy it!

Breathwork in a supported bridge pose for relaxation and lymphatic system activation with breath retention for a restorative and easeful experience.

Bridging The Gap With Breath

This flow will help prepare your body for sleep. Through slow breathing and gentle spinal movements, you'll find that relaxation you were looking for. Hope this helps!

Prepare for sleep with slow breathing and gentle spinal movements for a relaxation benefit.

Bedtime Yoga Spine Flow

This breath routine cleanses and balances the pathways that our breath energy flows through. Known as "Nadi Shodhana" in Sanskrit, meaning "pathway cleansing." Hope you enjoy!

The Nadi Shodhana breath routine cleanses and balances energy pathways for improved respiratory health.

Alternate Nostril Breathing

This relaxing yoga routine is great for stepping into your body as you wake up in the morning!

Morning yoga routine to awaken and relax your body.

Gentle Morning Wake Up Yoga

This breath routine activates your lymphatic system, helping you relax and remove blockages in the body. You'll have your legs up a wall to help enhance the effects of this practice. Hope you enjoy it!!

Legs up the wall breath routine activates lymphatic system, helps relax & remove blockages.

Lymphatic Release With Breath

This relaxing yoga sequence will help you prepare your body and mind for sleep. Hope you enjoy it!

"Yoga sequence for better sleep - Relax your body and mind before bedtime with this soothing routine."

Soothing Yoga For Bedtime

This breathing practice will help you bring more gratitude into your day. Here, we combine breathwork and affirmations to raise our vibrational state.

Breathwork and affirmations can raise your vibrational state and bring more gratitude into your day.

Breath Of Gratitude

This breathing practice helps you tap into your abundance. We'll be combing breathwork (including breath retention) and affirmations, leaving you in a state of abundance and joy!

Breathing practice with affirmations to tap into abundance and joy through breath retention.

Breath Of Abundance

This breath routine will help you energize your body in just a few minutes. The routine is synced with simple cat/cow movements to get you tapped into the most energetic area of the body, your heart space. Enjoy!!

Sync your breath with cat/cow movements to energize your heart space in just a few minutes with this routine.

Cat/Cow Energizing Breath

This yoga flow will help you wake up with the sun in a relaxing manner, energizing your body and mind for the day ahead!

Get energized for the day with a relaxing yoga flow that wakes you up with the sun.

Relaxing Sunrise Yoga

This gentle flow will help you move into your heart space as you prepare for sleep. If you're feeling achy in your chest, or simply want to connect to your heart space before going to sleep, this small flow is what you're looking for.

A gentle flow to connect to your heart space before sleep and alleviate chest discomfort.

Gentle Bedtime Heart-Opening Yoga

This yoga sequence will help guide you into a restorative and restful mid-day nap.

A yoga sequence to aid in a restorative mid-day nap.

Yoga For Mid-Day Nap

This flow will help you release tension from your hips and low back as you decompress the body before sleep.

Relax your hips and low back with this flow before bedtime to release tension.

Bedtime Hip-Opening Yoga

This breathwork will give you a chance to find stillness within yourself. Through deep breathing and breath retention, you'll experience a fresh wave of relaxation!

Experience stillness within through breathwork involving deep breathing and breath retention, resulting in a fresh wave of relaxation.

Breath Of Stillness

This breathwork is designed to rejuvenate your body and raise your energy levels. Your blood flow and lymphatic system will be stimulated from the arm movements that are incorporated with our breath rhythms.

Breathwork to rejuvenate body, raise energy levels, stimulate blood flow and lymphatic system with arm movements.

Quick Energy Boosting Breath

This short yoga flow takes you through 3 traditional Sun Salutations to energize your body and mind!

Energize your body and mind with 3 traditional Sun Salutations in this short yoga flow.

Energizing Sun Salutations

This mindful breathwork is performed in a restorative inversion with your legs up a wall to help boost your lymphatic system.

Boost your lymphatic system with mindful breathwork performed in a restorative inversion with legs up a wall.

Mindful Lymphatic Boosting Breath

This intention-setting breathwork will help you align with what you want more of in your day ahead.

Align with your intentions using breathwork for a more fulfilling day ahead.

Setting Your Daily Intention With Breath

This breathwork, performed in a supported fish pose, will open up your heart space and have you feeling abundant!

Heart-opening breathwork in supported fish pose for a sense of abundance.

Heart-Space Breathing For Abundance

This relaxing sequence will help you prepare for sleep by creating stillness in your body and mind through intentional restorative yoga postures.

Restorative yoga postures create stillness in body and mind to prepare for sleep.

Nighttime Restorative Yoga

This yoga sequence will help you bring some self-love into your nightly routine as you prepare for a deep and relaxing night's rest!

"Improve sleep and self-love with this yoga sequence for nightly routine."

Self Love Yoga For A Deep Sleep

This breath routine will help you let go of stress and bodily tension by creating deeper connections to the body regions you breathe into. This is a great routine to practice when you're feeling anxious or stressed. Hope you enjoy it!

Breath routine relieves stress & tension by connecting body regions with breathing; recommended during anxiety/stress; enjoy it!

3-Part Breathing To Relieve Stress

This yoga sequence and its healing intention will have your back feeling opened and restored in under 10 minutes. It's great for relieving spinal tension and stiffness at a gentle pace.

10-minute yoga sequence relieves spinal tension & stiffness gently, restoring back's openness & flexibility.

Gentle Flow For Spinal Health

This flow will help you invigorate your body through intentional spinal movement & breathwork. You may also notice that your digestion and metabolism receive stimulation from the flow.

Invigorate your body with spinal movement and breathwork to stimulate digestion and metabolism.

Energizing Seated Spinal Breathing

This yoga sequence will help you mindfully bring a morning spark into your body. Through gentle movements, your hips and spine will feel lubricated and ready for the day ahead. As always, find variations that work for you and your practice. Have fun with it!

A gentle yoga sequence to lubricate your hips and spine and bring a mindful morning spark into your body.

Relaxing Morning Wake-Up Yoga

This yoga sequence will help you relieve tension and stress from the hip region. Expect to experience "new space" in your hips after completing this session. As always, find variations to poses and movements that feel good to your body. Hope you enjoy yourself!

Relieve hip tension and stress with this yoga sequence, creating "new space" in hips. Find variations that feel good to your body for an enjoyable experience.

Soothing Yoga For Tight Hips

This breathwork will help you warm up your system while creating an internal point of focus, helping you become less distracted by the external world. This breathing is commonly used in yoga, helping you keep an internal focal point as you flow from pose to pose. Stay warm out there. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do!

Breathwork warms up the system & creates internal focus, helping you stay less distracted by the external world; commonly used in yoga.

Ujjayi Breathing: Warm Victorious Breath

This guide will help you endure cold therapy (cold plunge, cold shower, etc.) in a conscious and energizing way! The breath rhythm will help keep you from the common hyperventilating breath that comes with cold exposure.

Learn to endure cold therapy with a conscious and energizing approach by using your breath rhythm to prevent hyperventilation.

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