Guided Visualization

Guided visualizations can help you release stress, relax your mind, and can help with symptoms of pain and depression. Click here for a wonderful meditation for sleep.

Guided Meditation

Benefits of guided meditation include improved focus, increased self-awareness, increased imagination and creativity. Click here for a meditation to spark your imagination.

Pranayama for Sleep

Can’t shut your mind off? Pranayama (breathing techniques) can help! Great for getting you to sleep, reducing snoring, and helps reduce daytime sleepiness.

Nadi Shodhana

Click here for a quick demonstration - this is a pranayama that is available to everyone! One of the more accessible practices, it will balance both hemispheres of the brain and calm your nervous system.

Reading List:

Here are some great books to start you on your journey! Buy them at your local bookshop or borrow them from your local library.

Breathing Book: Good Health & Vitality Through Essential Breath Work by Donna Farhi

Light on Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing by B.K.S. Iyengar

Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living by Donna Farhi (this was the one that started MY journey!)

No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh

You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Ultimate Guide to Self-Healing, Volume 3 by Laura DiFranco and others (Pat wrote Chapter 6 - Inhale, Exhale, Repeat)

The Ultimate Guide to Self-Healing, Volume 5 by Laura DiFranco and others (Pat wrote Chapter 3 - Human After All)

Wholehearted Wonder Women 50+ by Lulu Trevena and others (Pat wrote Chapter 21 - Confidence from the Heart)

On Purpose Woman by Ginny Robertson and others (Pat wrote Chapter 4 - The Crispy Yogi)