Name: Breath and the Brain
Start: 2024-05-12T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-12T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Yogasara

A 3-hour workshop exploring how the breath can be used as a tool for self-regulation and empowerment.
Drawing on the latest research we will guide you through a number of practices enabling an experiential understanding of how each may benefit you.
Workshop outline:
• The physiology of breathing
• The relationship between breath and mood
• Breath tools for up-regulation and down-regulation#
• Help to understand your patterns to enable choice
Facilitated by:
Anna Powell (PhD) – Neuroscientist and 500-hour yoga teacher
James Dunn – 500-hour yoga teacher and breathwork instructor
Please contact us if you have any questions or to discuss payment options if money is a barrier (one full price bursary place available): [email protected]
About James:
I have been practicing yoga and meditation for 12 years, initially drawn by the positive impact the practices had on my insomnia and mental health. In the last 4 years I have been working with Christopher Gladwell and the Embody team to deepen my understanding of the breath as a tool for healing and transformation, creativity, stabilising energy and establishing a coherent experience of being fully alive. Alongside this work, I am passionate about helping individuals and organisations to be their most powerful and effective, to deliver positive benefit into the world. I work as a strategic manager in the NHS and offer workshops and training skills in wellbeing and organisational culture change.
About Anna:
I am a neuroscientist and yoga teacher. I have a PhD in integrative neuroscience and over 500 hours of yoga teacher training. My spiritual enquiries and scientific training weave together in my practice and teaching, giving contrasting frames of reference and complimentary ways to explore what it means to be human.