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Expanding Your Limits: Neuroscience, Yoga and Breathwork for Building Your Capacity

Expanding Your Limits: Neuroscience, Yoga and Breathwork for Building Your Capacity

Examining our inner judgments, there are 9 types of bias as shared by educator and author Clay Drinko, is not only opportunities for developing more self-awareness, but is also a way to identify where edges are in the first place. 

Yoga and Breathwork Practices for Growing Capacity

These practices are designed to help you connect with your edge while fostering a sense of joy and renewal.

Wild Thing (Camatkarasana)
This heart-opening pose e
mbodies freedom and vitality. As you flow into Wild Thing, you’ll feel a playful release, inviting both physical and emotional renewal.

Cultivating Your Inner Landscape: Practices for Enhanced Self-Awareness

Cultivating Your Inner Landscape: Practices for Enhanced Self-Awareness

why self-awareness matters

Psychologists Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund have formulated this definition of self awareness, "Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards. If you're highly self-aware, you can objectively evaluate yourself, manage your emotions, align your behavior with your values, and understand correctly how others perceive you."

Mindset Matters: How Yoga and Breathwork Can Help Build Resilience and Accelerate Learning

Mindset Matters:  How Yoga and Breathwork Can Help Build Resilience and Accelerate Learning

Our mindset shapes how we perceive and respond to the world. A resilient mindset doesn’t eliminate life’s difficulties but helps us move through them with greater ease, clarity, and agency. Studies have shown yoga and breathwork offer practical tools for building resilience, grounding us in the present moment while enhancing focus and increasing a deeper trust in life.

Resilience isn’t about perfection or control; it’s about showing up and empowered to embrace life, even in the face of mistakes, disappointments, setbacks, or grief. In a recent Andrew Huberman’s podcast episode, he discusses failure triggers the release of dopamine and other neurotransmitters, which are essential for learning and neuroplasticity. He also discusses how movement, including yoga, teaches us that balance and strength emerge through consistent practice, not through instant mastery (or the pursuit of mastery at all). By accepting that there is no final destination, and recognizing that the way we navigate our journey shapes our character and sense of fortitude, we can begin to shift our perspective. Through mindful self-talk and small, daily habits, we can cultivate a deeper capacity for resourcefulness, empathy, and gratitude. Imagine what the impact is as we do this collectively.