Venue: St Richards Church Hall, Sydney Road, Haywards Heath.
Cost: £7.50/class
Time: An 8 week course every Tuesday evening starting 24th April til 12th June 2012. 7.30-8.30pm.
Taoist Breathing
With no complicated physical movements to learn, conscious breathing allows a quick and easy way to feel internally. By gaining control and developing the spring-like nature of the diaphragm, breathing becomes a form of internal massage with changes in pressure gradually aiding the process of opening up your body. The reciprocal effect is to increase the blood flow throughout your body. It is easier to control your breath than your heartbeat!.
Breathing also allows the calming and strengthening of your nervous system which in turn gets your muscles to relax. If your breath tenses by becoming shorter and uneven, your body will also tense. By becoming aware of your breath during stressful periods in life, breathing can become a tool for overcoming and ultimately preventing the damaging side effects of stress, anxiety and neurosis. This is primarily achieved by releasing and softening restricted movement in the diaphragm and the soft tissue attached around the organs. This furthers the process of enhancing the motility and mobility of your organs. By gaining control over the diaphragm through breathing the diaphragm can be used to create pressure into the belly. This massages the organs. They become softer, function more efficiently as the flow of fluids through them becomes even.
This beginners course will develop:
• Correct posture so that the breath is not restricted;
• A circular and smooth breath and how this influences your nervous system ;
• Fully engage with the diaphragm;
• Learn to direct your breath into the organs of your belly;
• How the breath can open your midriff;
• How your breath can massage, open and consequently alleviate any lower back pain.