🔼: [[Breath]], [[🛠 Pendulation Toolkit]] ##### 🕯️ Breathwork (Pranayama) [[On Tools, Skills, and Practices...]] Breathwork is a key ingredient in [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘]] and [[👟 Asana Practice]], but it can also be done on its own to great benefit. Some people may struggle with breathwork, but it becomes easier and more effective with practice. Ideally we practice when we aren't [[💡 Emotional Dysregulation|dysregulated]]. [[🔑 The breath is not a neutral place of focus for everyone]]. Breathwork is often [[💡 Protector Parts|Protector]]-driven in that we're breathing in a particular way in order to change the way we feel ([[🕯️ Self-Regulation]]). This isn't necessarily a problem – [[🔑 We need Protectors]]. It's just also important to remember that [[🔑 Emotional Regulation is not the end goal]]. - [[🔑 Breathwork can be either Presence-led or Parts-led]] %% Learning to breathe. Breath awareness, breath checkin. %% ###### Breathwork Practices 1. [[💨 Natural Breath]] 2. [[💨 Belly Breath]] 3. [[💨 Full Breath]] 4. [[💨 Triphasic Breathing]] 5. [[💨 Elongated Exhalation]] 6. [[💨 Connected Breathing]] 7. [[💨 Voo Breath]] 8. [[💨 Re-Centering]] 9. [[💨 Balloon Breath]] 10. [[💨 Cooling Breath]] 11. [[💨 Bellows Breath]] 12. [[💨 4-8-12 Breath]] 13. [[💨 Bee's Breath]] 14. [[💨 Box Breathing]] 15. [[💨 Nadi Shuddhi]] 16. [[💨 Prana Shuddhi]] 17. [[💨 The Physiological Sigh]] 18. [[💨 Wim Hof Method]] 19. [[💨 Shanmukhi Mudra & Brahmari Pranayama]] 20. [[💨 Holotropic Breathwork]] 21. [[💨 Anuloma Viloma]] 22. [[💨 Co-Breathing]] 23. [[💨 Singing, Chanting, and Toning]] 24. [[💨 Nine Breathings of Purification]] ###### Sites - [Breathwave](https://www.breathwave.net/) [^1]: