Change Your Breath, Change Your Life | Lucas Rockwood | TEDxBarcelona

We do it as long as we live but mostly aren't aware of it: breathing. In his talk Lucas breaks down the fundamentals of yoga breathing in a way that you can easily remember and apply to your practice. Lucas shows us how three breathing practices - water, whiskey, or coffee -
can be used as a tool and help us to overcome any situation.
With a formal yoga training background in Hot Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Gravity Yoga, and the Yoga Trapeze®, Lucas has studied with some of the most well-respected teachers on the planet. His most influential teachers (all of whom he studied with personally) include Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Paul Dallaghan, Alex Medin, Gabriel Cousens MD, and SN Goenka.

Lucas founded Absolute Yoga Academy in 2006, one of the top 10 yoga teacher training schools in the world with 2,000 certified teachers (and counting) and courses in Thailand, Holland, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.

In search of nutritional products designed specifically for achy yoga students’ bodies, Lucas worked with senior nutritional formulator Paul Gaylon and founded YOGABODY Naturals in the back of his yoga studio a year later. The company has gone from strength to strength and is now a world-renowned nutrition, education, and publishing organization serving 81 countries.

In 2013, Lucas founded YOGABODY Fitness, a revolutionary new yoga studio business model that pays teachers a living wage and demystifies yoga by making the mind-body healing benefits of the practice accessible to everyone.

[amantin]

4:09 - Water breathing - 4:4 - anytime/ all day
5:27 - Whiskey breathing - 4:8 - before sleep
7:02 - Coffee breathing - 0-20x - 3 rounds on Morning - before workout - afternoon

[russellbrooksable]

9:34 Summary of the Three Breathing Practices:
1. Water Breathing, 10 rounds, count of 4 on the way in, count of 4 on the way out. During stressful times.
2. Whiskey Breathing, 10 rounds, count of 4 on the way in, count of 8 on the way out. To relax, to help induce sleep.
3. Coffee Breathing, 3 rounds of 20 count, sharp breath out. In the morning, before exercise, 3:00 in the afternoon.

[huong]

I'm so lucky. I was/am one of his students. He makes everything so simple and easy to understand, no matter how difficult it is. It's really an art 'cause not every teacher can do that. He's humble and very friendly. His classes are always funny. He makes everybody feels at ease. Wonderful teacher 💚💚💚

[SanjayDalal]

A Yoga Guru from India had taught me these breathing techniques a long time ago. It’s such a great refresher! Love how these breathing techniques are so simple yet powerful to use every day for our own well-being. Thank You 🙏🏽

[williamdenton]

I tried water breathing during my daily walks. 4 in and 4 out. counting. My speed went from 2.9 mph to 3.3 mph and it was effortless. Not only that, I felt lose, relaxed. It was easy. Before at 2.9 it was hard work and I felt tight, anxious. And the counting cleared my mind. Before it was like a washing machine of thoughts that had nothing to do with the task at hand. I guess this is called mindfulness. Thank you Lucas.

[nh--]

Breathing is a gift that is always available. The power costs nothing and provides everything. Thank you.

[creative]

Take control of your mind, body and nervous system through breathing:

Water - inhale 4, pause a beat, exhale 4, pause a beat - repeat. Balancing effect on nervous system. Practise all the time. Do any time you need balance.

Whisky - inhale 4, exhale 8 - repeat. After 10 rounds parasympathetic nervous system engages - rest and digest. Use sparingly eg to help sleep or if your head is buzzing after a busy day.

Coffee - use sharp shooting exhale breaths from lower abdomen. Relax shoulders and body. Exhale repeatedly to fast beat eg 3 repetitions of 16 breaths. Use sparingly as this cranks up your body energy eg 3 rounds of 20 in the morning or before exercise or at 3pm in the afternoon when you have a dip.

[ctkjmyg]

Sir, U had
help a 75yrs old man with heart problem improving so much on breathing, thankyou n appreciated!

[env_d_ak]

Kapal Bhati, anulom vilom, Bhastrika - these are the ancient breathing techniques which India has provided to the world interms of Yoga. 🇮🇳🙏

[Bellabxyz]

This speaker is very likable - I LOVE him!

[amazinghumans]

Communication skill at its best, sharp, easy and crisp

[raphael]

That must have been the most to the point and enjoyable ted talk I have ever seen. Great stuff

[irinack]

In all these three techniques use your belly to inhale and to exhale. It's very important. When you're inhaling start expanding your abdomen, then ribs, then chest, when exhaling - all the way back- chest, ribs, abdomen. Except for the "coffee" breathing. There you only use your abdomen, concentrating on diaphragm 🙏

[dakshbhandari]

BRILLIANT. CHANGED MY LIFE AND HELPED ME SIGNIFICANTLY WITH ANXIETY

[justinmcgraw]

as somebody who has been struggling with psychosomatic breathing for 3 years, this video gave me hope. thank you

[instamdgram]

Water breathing: anytime, all the time inhale:exhale::4:4

Whiskey breathing: sleep
Inhale:Exhale::4:8

Coffee breathing: power, sparingly:: only exhale count of 20. (Short rapid exhaled like a sneeze)

[paulthomas]

Great. Indian spirituality and knowledge is spreading over the world! This is just 1 out of 1, 000, 000 teachings.

[rishabhtiwari]

Your So Called "Coffee Breathing " is popularly known as "Kapalbhati"
Prayanam(Yogic Culture), which is one of the best breathing excersizes out here to cure mental & physical illness .It's has tremendous health benefits even to cure chronic diseases, if done correctly for 5-10 minutes in an fresh air environment.(EDIT:You can adjust duration as per your comfort & results)
Love from India 🇮🇳 🙂.

[EssentialBalance]

My anxiety instantly went away with the water breathing. This is insane! 🤯🙌🏽🙏🏽

[UncompressedWAVmusic]

This is his 3 types of Breathing.
Breathing: Take control of your mind, body and nervous system through breathing:
Water - inhale 4, pause a beat, exhale 4, pause a beat - repeat. Balancing effect on nervous system. Practise all the time. Do any time you need balance.

Whisky - inhale 4, exhale 8 - repeat. After 10 rounds parasympathetic nervous system engages - rest and digest. Use sparingly eg to help sleep or if your head is buzzing after a busy day.
Coffee - use sharp shooting exhale breaths from lower abdomen. Relax shoulders and body. Exhale repeatedly to fast beat eg 3 repetitions of 16 breaths. Use sparingly as this cranks up your body energy eg 3 rounds of 20 in the morning or before exercise or at 3pm in the afternoon when you have a dip.