We unconsciously acquire our habitual breathing patterns from those close to us. We become attached to these patterns and we experience people who breathe differently as being not ‘one of us’.

A recent book by Angela Ashwin questions the conventional view that pranayama is about working with your breath. However, this conventional view can be easily substantiated by reference to our founding teachers and our personal experience.

According to research reported in Dr Michael Mosley’s book Just One Thing, a simple forward bending exercise ‘dynamic uttānāsana’ can benefit us in multiple ways.

I prepared this video for my parent organisation, TSYP, as part of a weekly series of simple, short practices designed to help us all navigate these often challenging weeks between mid-January into March, and to brighten the gloom of those winter days as well as other...

Here I’m going to talk about the modern disease where people habitually gasp for breath before speaking and how being more breath-aware can help us reduce and finally lose this habit.

As one of the UK’s most experienced practitioners of Ujjayi, who’s practised it daily for over thirty years, I would like yoga enthusiasts to both understand and experience that Ujjayi is an important pranayama for contacting the heart centre.

A handy term may be needed to describe the directional breathing taught by TKV Desikachar. In this blog, I argue from three main points that the term ‘forward breathing’ is both helpful and descriptive.

Palliative or soothing practices and challenging or transformative practices go hand-in-hand, both in the way we teach breathing and yoga and in our own approaches to personal practice.

Humming has healing potential at both a physical and at a psychological level. It can help both to clear your sinuses and to reduce your stress levels. You can do it anywhere it won’t bother other people.