Daily breath practice can greatly improve your physical & mental health.
Just a few minutes each day can lower stress, clear your mind, and balance emotions.
It fosters mindfulness and calmness amid daily challenges, enhancing your ability to cope with stress and overall wellness. Breathing exercises also help with physical health by increasing oxygen intake, aiding digestion, and boosting the immune system. Take time each day for breath work to positively affect your health and move toward a more balanced life.
Spring Tuneup:
Sodarshan Chakra Kriya
A Breathwork Practice for True Transformation
Sodarshan Chakra Kriya is known as one of the most potent and sacred practices in Kundalini Yoga. Through a specific rhythm of breath retention, mantra, and focused awareness, this kriya activates and tones the vagus nerve—your body's secret key to deep relaxation, emotional resilience, and true healing. As the nervous system strengthens and the mind clears, layers of subconscious patterns begin to dissolve. It is said that practicing Sodarshan Chakra Kriya can rewrite karma itself, giving you the rare opportunity to break free from cycles that no longer serve and step into the highest version of your destiny. This isn't just breathwork; it's a total inner revolution.
Why it Works (the Science Behind the Magic):
Stimulates the Vagus Nerve: Slow, conscious breathing and the navel pumping in this kriya increase vagal tone, reducing inflammation, heart rate, and anxiety while boosting feelings of safety and connection.
Regulates the Autonomic Nervous System: Balances the fight-or-flight (sympathetic) and rest-and-digest (parasympathetic) systems, helping the body naturally return to a state of homeostasis.
Increases CO₂ Tolerance: Breath retention (kumbhaka) trains your body to handle higher levels of carbon dioxide, improving endurance, oxygen efficiency, and mental calmness.
Enhances Neuroplasticity: Focused breathwork combined with mantra repetition strengthens neural pathways associated with emotional regulation, clarity, and resilience.
Cleans the Subconscious Mind: Repetitive rhythmic breathing patterns entrain brainwaves into alpha and theta states, supporting deep subconscious clearing and emotional processing.
Optimizes Brain Chemistry: Regular practice elevates natural dopamine, serotonin, and GABA production, leading to more stable moods and a heightened sense of wellbeing.
Lowers Cortisol Levels: Breathwork has been shown to significantly lower the body’s primary stress hormone, cortisol, reducing the harmful effects of chronic stress.
With consistent practice over 40 days, through breath, mantra, and deep inner stillness, Sodarshan Chakra Kriya awakens the hidden currents of your being, dissolving karmic patterns and opening the gateway to your soul’s true path.
DAY ONE - Sunday, April 27th - 9am EST / 8am CST / 6am PST
Opening day. Experience our new practice and set your intention for this 40-day journey
DAY FORTY - Thursday, June 5th - 9am EST / 8am CST / 6am PST
Closing practice! You did it! Share reflections, struggles and gratitudes
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During this six-week container, we will meet live on zoom every morning for 20 minutes
at 9am EST // 8am CST // 6am PST
The practice is structured as follows:
Tune In (Ong Namo Gurudev Namo)
Stretch & Spinal Warm Up
Prime the Lungs with Breath of Fire
11 Minute Breath-Based Meditation
Close out
Class recording will be available, drop in as often as you can, practice live or via recording.
Donations gratefully accepted via venmo @alexandra-moga or Patreon
TESTIMONIALS
“With this last meditation, I felt it disrupt my normal rhythms and open opportunity for expansion in daily tasks that have been difficult to keep up with.”
“Morning Pranayama practice with Alexandra and loving kind community has been a godsend over the last few years. The consistency and practicing with each other, even online, has enriched my life in so many ways. Breath practice for me is devotional but also has potent healing effects on my nervous system, and a calming effect in my entire life. Daily life. So much needed now and every day. I miss it a lot when we’re on break! I highly recommend this practice and this community from my heart of hearts.”
“Daily pranayama with Alexandra is the easiest, most accessible way to make room for the divine energy of the breath—our first medicine, to calm our hearts and minds, and to help us remember who we are—the power of our presence. Showing up for me each day makes all the difference in my life. I can’t recommend it more.”
“Alexandra’s 40-day pranayama session is a calming, restorative practice that helps me stay grounded and fosters a wonderful supportive community. A perfect way to recharge each day!”
FAQ
Do I have to practice the whole 40 days?
Ideally, yes. This is an open community space for you to come as often as you can, and come as you are. However, I do recommend taking a serious and committed approach as this will carry you through the first 10 days, when enthusiasm typically begins to wane. A tip I’ve found powerful: Wake with the intention “Yes! I want to and choose to show up for myself in this way today.”
Consistency is empowering. I'd encourage anyone to do a little of something as best they can than try to bite off more than is possible and give up entirely. No judgment if you miss a day — but expect the best of yourself as you commit to this 40 day period. Know that the more you overcome the resistance to keep going, the more you re-ignite your inner light — and that light thrives with and wants daily tending. So if you miss a day, don’t miss two. Get back on the horse and keep going. You’re worth it.
Is there a recording?
I record each practice twice (one with complete explanation of the practice, once with a simplified, direct practice), so you have a guided experience to come to on the days when you may want to practice but can't make it live. The link will be sent to you when you sign up.
Why 40 days?
According to yogic philosophy, 40 days is the amount of time it takes to develop a new habit and really internalize the effects of the practice. The duration of 40 days of practice lets the meditation work with the cycle-based rhythms of the mind, provoking your subconscious to release any thoughts and emotional patterns that hinder you, put in a seed for a new, more positive pattern, and clear the subconscious.
How much should I donate?
$1 to $400, whatever feels right to you.
I hope this clarifies any questions and inspires you to join. You are welcome to reach out here if you have any further questions.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”