Women and the Breath

How can we teach pranayama safely and effectively when potentially half of the people in a class setting will have a dysfunctional breathing pattern?

When we guide and prescribe a powerful breath practice or pranayama on top of breath dysfunction do we potentially just dig a deeper groove for the habit?

More than two thirds of students in our classes are women, women have a different respiratory system to men and a different physiology ( most of the popular breathing practices are taught by men)

A women’s experience of her breath and her breathing capacity are influenced by her cycle, hormones and time of life.

Women have a nervous system that has evolved to differ from a mans, our individual nervous system responses influence and are not separate from the quality of our fascia, the unique amount of elastinous and collagenous tissue we each have plays a part in the kind of breathing practice that will be helpful for us and support nervous system regulation.

This is a little slither of some of the areas we dive into in the being breathed training, you can read more about the training on the going deeper page.