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5/15/2020 0 Comments

Easy Breathing (Part 2): Three Sounds

So, how’s your breathing been? Have you noticed it become easier or more stressed over the past few months? Stressful times too frequently create a stressful body and mind, which in turn creates stressful breathing. And even if you feel your breathing is easy, maybe, just maybe, it can be even easier.

In case you missed them, I posted 2 other entries on our blog about Easy Breathing. The 1st was The Double Exhale, an easy and quick way to use your breath to calm down any time you’re nervous, fearful or anxious. The 2nd was Part 1 of 2, which had you look and feel more closely your normal breathing patterns, and perhaps helped you soften even more into a fuller breath. Because a bigger breath is not necessarily a fuller or deeper breath.

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3/29/2020 1 Comment

Easy Breathing (Part 1)

Take an easy, full breath in, and allow your breath to release naturally and fully. What did you notice? Where did you inhale end, and what did it feel like? Where did your exhale end, and how did that feel? What is an easy breath, in or out? Are you breathing easily?

Do this a few more times. Easy, full breaths in and out, but without pushing, pulling, forcing or straining. Notice how you, your body, your mind, your breathing feels as you take a few more easy and full breaths in and out.

You may know that I pretty much never say, “Take a full or deep breath in," in class. So why did I say it just a moment ago? Simply to let you feel your body a little bit differently. To feel where and how you breathe and what that may mean.

Now return to your normal breathing pattern and pacing. No need to do anything deliberate. Simply return to breathing normally.

What do you notice?

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3/17/2020 0 Comments

Easy Breathing For Uncertain Times

It’s scary out there. You don’t know if you’re sick, or if your family is safe. You’re angry. How did this happen? How could this happen? When will this end? And how?

In these uncertain times, with the never-ending updates and speculations, you may be stuck in a stress-induced inhalation. Stuck there. Waiting for the news to tell you something more, something that will help you relax and return to normal. When we are startled, we often get stuck in a partial, sharp, inhalation. An inhalation we may not fully release.

Help is just a breath or two away.

Here is a simple stress-reducing breathing technique that you can use anywhere, and at any time.

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Meet Kris.

Kris Montigny
Somatic Intelligence Expert & Explorer
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Kris started her journey in movement and somatic (body) exploration before she was even born. Her mother was a dancer, and dance instructor, and was dancing and teaching until only a few weeks before Kris made her brilliant entrance into this world.

She took to her mother’s calling, and danced with her in the living room, and on rare occasions, in her classroom, until she started her own training at 2.5 years old.

She loved how she felt when dancing, flying through the air and rolling around on the floor. Mostly she was entranced by the opportunity to self-explore. First at the gross physical level, which then opened her up to the energy of life moving her, filling her, moving through her, and out into the world. She became very familiar with life itself expressing itself, as her and through her, for the world to see and experience.

Well, Kris was a rebel and took a few detours in her teens, and all the way to 40, before returning to a holistic, somatic self-exploration and practice that included yoga. When she returned to the path, she went in fully.

Her 1st teacher training was with Joseph Lapage in 1998, and 200 hours in Integrative Yoga Therapy. Of course she started right off with yoga therapy! After that she dove into the dynamic practice of Ashtanga Yoga, and was just about to start teacher training, when a few things happened that caused the trainer and school to put off the training for several months. Enter Svaroopa® Yoga.

Kris fell in love. She was so tuned in to the practice and principals that she spent 3 years moving through 500 hours of training, yoga therapy and advanced teacher training, and finally became a Teacher Trainer for Master Yoga Teaching Institute (MYTI) in 2003. She dedicated the next 10 years to teaching teachers and yoga therapists around the world through MYTI.

Kris started to experience some serious health issues in 2009, and by 2013, resigned from Master Yoga, and focused on her recovery and the Niantic Yoga community.

Since then she continues studying with some of the world’s leaders in yoga therapy, movement integration, breathing, sound therapy, anatomy, physiology, the psychology of wellbeing, all alongside self-study and self-improvement.

Kris now dedicates her time, gifts and talents to expanding the reach and efficacy of Blanket Yoga to include more and more and more. Myo-fascial yoga and movement integration, Buteyko Breathing Method, ancient philosophy and modern science all contribute to living in a body, and experiencing a life, that is Pain Free, Fit & Strong!

Kris will support you with humor and precision, seriousness and flow, technique and open-ended self-exploration, the here, the now, and the ever-present and ever-expanding possibilities. Check it out. Enjoy!

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