As the gateway to your inner world, your breath can connect you to your emotions, thoughts, and spirit. When you become more attuned to the subtle movements and sensations of your body, you begin to understand the interconnectedness of all things. In this way, conscious breathing is a powerful tool for spiritual growth and personal transformation.

In this opening session, you’ll learn an ancient exercise to determine which specific breathing techniques you can use to develop a personalized “path of least resistance” to sustainable, holistic health.

In this module, you’ll:

• Unlock the hidden key to properly begin any breathwork practice
• Experience Padadirasana (or Breath Balancing Pose) to balance the levels of oxygenation of the left and right hemispheres of your brain
• Learn a fresh way to connect with your internal intelligence to help you find inner balance
• Discover how to assess your nervous system’s current functionality so you can determine if you’re spending or receiving energy
• Give yourself the gift of a simple mindfulness practice and experience the subtle shift into increased awareness

You may unknowingly be invalidating your own emotions or finding them difficult to regulate in a healthy way. This can result in suppressing or ignoring your feelings, which can lead to a cycle of emotional disconnection and bodily tension.

Suppressed or repressed emotions can create obstacles within the body, resulting in psychological and physical distress.

Fortunately, there are specific breathing techniques that you can use to release trapped trauma and increase oxygen levels, relax muscles, and discharge tension held in your body. These techniques can also help bring your awareness to suppressed emotions and encourage their expression in a safe and controlled way.

You’ll honor the lunar feminine channel, redirecting source energy to the right hemisphere of your brain — which is responsible for creative and receptive thought processes. You’ll begin to release the trauma that may have been held in your body for years, leading to a greater sense of emotional wellbeing and physical relaxation.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn a simple technique that will help you get more done with less effort
• Experience Chandra Bhedana (or Moon Piercing Breath) to increase oxygen and vital force to the right hemisphere of your brain
• Develop a greater sense of emotional wellbeing and physical relaxation in the present moment
• Access greater emotional intelligence as you practice the power of pause… to become less reactive and more proactive
• Dissolve anxiety and deepen your ability to cool overactive thought patterns and unhelpful belief systems

The restless nature of the brain is a constant challenge. Often the brain is preoccupied with thoughts and emotions that take us away from the present moment — creating stress and anxiety.

Eastern traditions often focus on mindfulness as a way to address this difficulty. Another way is to focus on pure presence or mindlessness.

Sometimes, mindfulness can inadvertently become another task for the brain to accomplish, leading to self-criticism and further distraction. Mindlessness, however, allows us to be completely present without judgment or expectation — simply existing in the moment — which can help reduce stress and anxiety and increase a sense of inner peace and contentment.

You’ll ignite the active, analyzing, calculating, and formulating left hemisphere of your brain for an extra boost of energy. Through right respiration, you can increase energy and awareness, embrace pure presence, and uplevel your overall wellness.

In this session, you’ll:

• Improve your ability to be present without distraction as you discover the importance of clearing your thoughts
• Experience Surya Bhedana (or Sun Piercing Breath) to increase oxygen and vital force to the left hemisphere of your brain
• Understand how to navigate brainwave activity to support increased focus and concentration
• Realize the blessing of neutrality as you gently begin to develop more will power
• Learn new ways to determine if you’re leaking energy before you hit burnout, so you can take control of your health through daily self-care routines

To experience deep peace and contentment, you must successfully detach from material things. This detachment allows for a shift in perspective and a realization that true happiness doesn’t come from external possessions, but rather inner tranquility. By removing your attachment to the outside world, you can discover a profound sense of inner peace and happiness.

When you turn inward for guidance, you’ll experience deep layers of healing, recognizing and releasing patterns of attachment and craving that may have previously caused suffering. You can align your life with your innermost desires and values, leading to a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment and a more authentic expression of your true self.

You’ll ground your personal experience in balance. The subtle will become more clear as your awareness of your resistance to change becomes apparent. While imbalance creates dis-ease, balance equals ease.

Consistent practice of the breathing technique you’ll learn in this session can provide significant relief from asthma, allergies, constipation, acidity, snoring, cardiovascular disorders, and many other physical issues.

In this session, you’ll:

• Understand how to improve mental stability and keep anxiety and depression at bay
• Experience Anulom Vilom (or Alternate Nostril Breath), which provides equal, measured oxygen flow and vital force to both the right and left hemispheres of the brain
• Boost and enhance your mood and develop more focus
• Unlock increased energy and get better sleep
• Ignite a rejuvenative glow, which can have restorative effects on the body

Om Mani Padme Hum roughly translates to “The jewel is in the lotus.” A lotus begins as a seed stuck deep in the mud at the bottom of a murky pond until it eventually sprouts. It then begins its journey through the dark water to the surface, where it returns to the light and blossoms as a beautiful lotus flower.

Michael uses this as a metaphor for the soul seed, or bija, that resides within us all and awakens as you live a more conscious life.

In this module, you’ll learn how to unearth that awakening. You’ll experience a playful practice that will prime you for a second method of awakening.

You’ll move your focus from balancing — which you experienced in the previous module — to subtle movement through vibration, in a fun and joyful practice.

In this session, you’ll:

• Replace negative thoughts with compassion through a personal experience of Anugraha (or grace)
• Experience Bhramari (or Bumble Bee Breath) — stimulating your vagus nerve and calming your nervous system
• Develop and increase your understanding of clarity and joy to support your own awakening
• Direct awareness throughout your body to enhance latent potential

As beings composed of subatomic particles, friction and heat are important to our expansion.

Key respiratory techniques can create gentle and gradual movement within your primo vascular system. The heat that’s generated from these practices begins healing and detoxifying your body. When this process is complete, your sensory organs are replenished and you’re better prepared for spiritual awakening.

You’ll explore a semi-advanced breath exercise to help you regulate your temperature and focus heat toward parts of your body that aid in your spiritual awakening.

In this session, you’ll:

• Build immunity, clear brain fog, and increase sustained energy throughout your day
• Learn Kapalbhati (or Breath of Fire), which has widespread benefits and a few important contradictions that Michael will detail in class
• Enhance digestion and accelerate the uptake of nutrients into your bloodstream
• Find calm and clarity as you regulate your nervous system and purify your blood
• Reduce excess body fat without strenuous physical activity

By this time in the course, you’ll have developed a greater understanding of the chemical, physiological, and biological shifts that take place during deep connection with infinite Source Intelligence.

In this final module, you’ll explore the magic of a simple kriya to place you in the seat of your true power and help you merge with All That Is. This is an opportunity to experience a shift like never before.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn Vasi Yogam, Kriya Pranayama, and Vyana Vayu — the sixth method of awakening — using gentle, inner breath that ignites the nadis (or energy channels) and amplifies your vascular system of consciousness
• Experience heightened states of perception and dissolve duality to merge with the divine and release suffering
• Transmute repressed or suppressed emotional blockages and leave the past behind once and for all
• Understand that you have the capacity to experience nirvana, samadhi, and expanded quantum consciousness

The Active Breathwork Home Practice Bundle
Three Audio Meditations With Michael Brian Baker

Follow along with these three audio meditations from The Breath Center — designed to support mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual realignment. You can access these meditations whenever you’re grappling with issues like writer’s block, lethargy, lack of confidence, or waning willpower.