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Teaching the breath, for yoga teachers

Not just the breathing practices — the craft of seeing and leading the breath of a whole room. From Tuấn Anh's own root, “the breath is the root”, through the breathing apparatus, reading your students, the call, and safety; then the advanced part, opening the whole body of named practices together with the postures, mudras and locks. Written by Vũ Trọng Tuấn Anh — Energy Yoga.

01The breath is the ROOT — why technically strong teachers still teach it short→02The real breathing apparatus: a whole crew of muscles→03A “filling belly” is the RESULT, not the aim→04Posture first, breath second: why a rounded back cannot breathe deeply→05Reading a student through the breath: look – listen – touch→06The foundational breath, by degrees: slow – long – deep→07Why a long out-breath settles you — the science a teacher can pass on→08The practices (1): Ujjayi & alternate-nostril breathing 🔧→09The practices (2): the cleansing breath, the bee, the cooling breath 🔧→10The call: leading the breath with voice, image and rhythm→11Threading the breath through a session: opening – leading movement – the final rest→12Safety & contraindications: the line you do not cross→

The advanced part · the complete body of practices

13The breathing posture: sit properly and the breath goes deep→14Mudras & the three bandhas: a safe introduction→15The practices (3): the settling & balancing group 🔧→16The practices (4): the waking – heating group (strong) 🔧→17The practices (5): sounding & releasing breaths (lion, Om, 4-7-8) 🔧→18Holding the breath (Kumbhaka) & the map of the whole set→19The practices (6): the belly fire group — Agnisara, Nauli, the three ways into Kapalbhati 🔧→20The practices (7): what is left in the old books — teachable, or only worth knowing 🔧→

Lesson 1 is open to all. From Lesson 2 on, leave your details to open the whole set. 🔧 = a lesson on the named practices. The content follows the professional literature (Iyengar, Satyananda, DK Science of Yoga, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika).

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