(28 min PRACTICE) Breathwork to Frame & Fulfill Autumnal Energies w/ Greg Hines

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The air is crisp in Autumn. As the sap descends and daylight wanes, green leaves relinquish their pigments to uncover their true colors. Like Metal (the season's corresponding element in Chinese Five Element Theory), Fall reminds us to cut back excess, prune the perennial and reveal our most essential structures.

In Autumn, Chinese medicine appoints the lung network with important functions of exchange, assimilation and elimination. In breathing out or saying no, we make more room to inhale and say YES! Just as metal coins obtain value when given away for goods, metal reminds us to emphasize our values by letting go and reinvesting in good boundaries.

In this practice, you will explore the frame of your shoulders and volume of your lungs. An embodied, numerical narrative takes you thru a nine-step gomukhasana arm variation.

MEET YOUR TEACHER

Greg is a yoga educator and street philosopher. Over the last decade, he’s brought a whole-person approach to yoga teaching in Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota, as well as in Denver, Colorado. In 2021, he will complete a Masters of Science Degree in Yoga Therapy at Maryland University of Integrative Health and a certification in Katonah Yoga, a Taoist-based yoga form exploring sacred geometry, Chinese five-element theory and hatha yoga practices.

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