This module can be taken as a standalone immersion or as credit toward BYDC’s 300HR certification. RYS300 - 50 Hours.

At the heart of every yoga practice is the breath—our link between body, mind, and spirit. In this 50-hour immersion, you’ll explore the breath as a powerful tool for transformation, using ancient pranayama techniques to regulate your nervous system, move emotional energy, and awaken your inner vitality.

This training is both practical and profound. You’ll learn breathwork techniques that support digestion, clear emotional blockages, calm anxiety, and expand lung capacity. We’ll study the relationship between breath and asana, introduce kriyas, explore breath adaptations for different bodies, and harness the healing potential of mantra and sound.

Whether you're a yoga teacher, therapist, energy healer, or dedicated practitioner, this module will deepen your relationship with the subtle body and offer tools to integrate breath-based practices into classes, workshops, and daily life.

Topics include:

• The science and soul of deep belly breathing

• Ujjayi for grounding and vagal tone

• Breath thresholds and the subtle art of conscious breath retention

• Cleansing techniques like Bhastrika and Kapalabhati

• Nervous system balancing: segmentation of inhale and exhale

• Energizing flows like Breath of Joy

• Nadi Shodhana and alternate nostril practices for inner harmony

• Cooling pranayama and kriyas for inflammation and emotion

• Mantra and breath: how sacred sound empowers breathwork

• Emotional release through sound, breath, and movement

This module is a doorway into the energetics of healing and a call to awaken the breath as your most loyal and immediate teacher.

Join us for Deep Rest, an in-person restorative workshop at Bhakti Yoga DC in Washington DC, hosted by Path Wellbeing Founder Kirsten Ahern. This workshop blends nourishing and supportive postures with marma therapy (energetic vital point therapy) and aromatherapy to achieve a state of deep release and renewal. At the entrance to Vata Season, when erratic and busy energy can lead to excess stress and activity, intentional rest provides much needed equilibrium to the nervous system, the mind and the body.

Energetic alignment through marma point activation and guided marma nidra (a practice of yoga nidra through the marma points) promotes physiological equilibrium, cellular renewal & deep healing. Includes a customized aromatherapy massage oil to take home, an Ayurvedic adaptogenic snack, and a free marma point guide.

Things to bring: comfortable clothing you can get a little oily and a towel from home.

Join us for a soulful Kirtan event held every Ekadashi, the auspicious day dedicated to fasting and spiritual reflection in Hindu tradition. Ekadashi occurs twice a month on the eleventh day of the lunar cycle, offering a unique opportunity for deeper connection with the divine. Come chant, meditate, and experience the profound peace and devotion of this sacred gathering.