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When “just breathe” makes things worse — try moving first. 🧘♀️ Learn how to calm stress and stop overwhelm with gentle, nervous system–soothing yoga moves. In this week’s 20 Minute Miracle video and daylong retreat at Padma, Alison shares mindful movement and breathing techniques to reset your body, mind, and spirit before burnout hits. 🌿
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      [Breathing] This is a BEGINNING.
This is just the beginning. 🌬️ Celebrate 10 days of transformation with the Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge! Discover how consistent, mindful breathing brings deeper sleep, steadier energy, and stress relief. Keep growing with Alison’s 20 Minute Miracle Toolkit — 70+ yoga and breathing practices designed to keep your body and mind in flow.
 
      
      Are you breathing backwards?
Are you breathing backwards? 🧘♀️ Discover how inverted breathing could be causing tension, pain, and core instability — even in experienced yogis. In this week’s 20 Minute Miracle podcast, Alison unpacks common dysfunctional breathing patterns and simple yoga-based techniques to restore ease, balance, and flow. Breathe better, move better, live better. 🌬️
 
      
      Quiet Cranky Knees with 3 Poses.
Soothe cranky knees in just 5 minutes with 3 gentle therapeutic yoga poses. 🌿 Open your feet, release tight hips, and restore smooth, pain-free movement. Perfect for achy knees, better balance, and lasting relief.
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      [Breathing] Week 2 Preview!
Discover Week 2 of the Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge! 🌬 Dive deeper into mindful breathing with daily live sessions from expert guides — improve focus, energy, and calm. Join the journey to better breathing and lasting well-being.
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      [Breathing] Halfway there — let’s go deeper
Halfway through the Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge, Alison invites you to explore the deeper power of your breath. Each mindful session releases stress, restores clarity, and enhances sleep and energy. In this week’s focus, discover why breathing affects everything from digestion and hormones to core strength. Watch the 13-minute video, reflect on your progress, and connect with the community to share your experience and inspiration.
 
      
      You’ve studied everything for your health—except this
You’ve studied everything for your health—except this. Alison reveals how breathing, often overlooked even by the most health-conscious women, is the hidden key to better posture, hormone balance, circulation, and calm. In “How to Breathe Better’’
 
      
      Tight Hamstrings? Give me 6 minutes.
This is a short therapeutic routine of three yoga poses designed to gently release tight hamstrings, especially after activities like hiking. The practice focuses on rhythmic breathing to calm the nervous system and enhance the body’s ability to stretch. Viewers are also invited to join the Fall in Love with Your Breathing Challenge to deepen their breathing practice for better relaxation and recovery.
 
      
      10 days. 5 teachers. 1 life-changing practice
10 Days. 5 Teachers. 1 Life-Changing Practice.
Balance, clarity, and calm begin with your breath. When the breath steadies, everything within you follows.
In just 20 minutes a day, you’ll learn to reset your body, quiet your mind, and awaken lasting ease. Each teacher blends science, spirit, and lived wisdom to guide you back home — to your breath.
 
      
      Breathing IS Your Core (I’ll show you how)
Breathing Is Your Core
True core strength isn’t about crunches — it’s about connection. Your diaphragm and pelvic floor create a natural pressure system that stabilizes your spine, improves posture, and fuels your whole body.
When these parts fall out of sync — ribs flaring, pelvis tipping — your “core work” stops working. The fix? Breathing. Learn how breath restores alignment, strength, and energy that lasts.
 
      
      Feeling Drained? 3 Poses to Recharge in Minutes
Feeling Drained? 3 Poses to Recharge in Minutes
Tired, tense, or running on empty? These simple poses combine breath and movement to refill your energy tank — fast. In just a few mindful minutes, you’ll unlock flow, release fatigue, and recharge from the inside out.
Your breath is the switch that turns power back on — for your body, your mind, and your day.
 
      
      3 Breathing Myths—Busted
3 Breathing Myths — Busted
Think you already know how to breathe? Think again. Most people breathe in ways that drain their energy and limit their potential. In this episode, we bust the top three myths keeping you stuck — and reveal how proper breathing fuels strength, clarity, and calm.
Learn the science, stories, and simple shifts that turn every breath into your most powerful tool for change.
 
      
      Core Strength: it's NOT what You Think!
Your Core Starts With Your Breath
Crunches, bracing, sucking it in—none of it gets you true core strength. The secret? Breathing.
Deep, sustainable support for your lower back and body begins with the way you breathe. This therapeutic video walks you through 3 poses for deep core activation—simple, smart, and surprisingly effective.
 
      
      What if Your Sensitivity is a Superpower?
For the Highly Sensitive Nervous System
If the world hits you a little harder than it does others—this one’s for you.
This week, I’m re-sharing a powerful interview with Erica Belanger—HSP coach, somatic experiencing practitioner, and yoga teacher. We talk about breathing with a sensitive nervous system, the science of sensitivity, and how to transform it into a superpower.
 
      
      Create Calm in 3 Simple Poses
Could You Use More Calm?
Technology promised ease, but it’s left us buzzing with urgency—notifications, pings, endless demands. No wonder calm feels rare and patience even rarer.
This week’s therapeutic video offers 3 simple poses to keep calm—a reset for your nervous system and your mind.
 
      
      Deep Breathing = Inner Alchemy
Why Your Breathing Might Be Holding You Back
You eat well, move often, maybe even meditate—yet still feel stretched thin. The missing piece? Your breathing.
Your breath is the bridge between your conscious and unconscious mind. What messages are you sending?
 
      
      Unstable Ankles? 3 Poses to Help.
3 Poses to Stabilize Your Ankles
Ankle sprains aren’t just about ankles—they’re tied to your feet, hips, and even your breathing. Functional breathing creates a cascade of stability through your whole body, including your lower legs.
This new therapeutic video shares 3 simple poses to reorganize and strengthen your ankles from the ground up. Try them out and feel the difference.
 
      
      Someone Who Makes You Bristle?
Emotions Live in Your Fascia
Ever tense up just thinking about someone? That shoulder-clenching, breath-holding reaction isn’t just in your head—it’s in your connective tissue.
This week’s podcast explores how emotional residue gets stored in your fascia, shaping patterns of bracing, tensing, and collapse. You’ll also learn how your posture reveals real-time signals from your nervous system—and how to work with them to release what your body’s holding.
Because sometimes, healing starts with what you feel in your structure.
 
      
      Rigid v. Resilient Strength
Not All Strength Is the Same
Some strength is stiff and rigid—isolated muscles, tight effort, tension masked as power. But true strength is different: it’s fluid, connected, and sustainable.
What makes the difference? Fascia—your body’s living web. When you train fascia along with muscle, strength becomes integrated, springy, and smart. You feel it not just in the gym, but in daily life: carrying groceries, walking stairs, or relaxing with ease.
This is strength that feels like yoga—graceful, grounded, and resilient.
 
      
      Knot in your shoulders? Tension in your jaw? Try these.
Your Body’s Living Web
3 Gentle Poses to Release Your Upper Back
Your shoulders feeling tight? Jaw clenched? Upper back stiff? This new therapeutic video walks you through 3 floor-based stretches that gently unwind tension from the top down.
Perfect for anyone doing awkward, repetitive upper body work (hi, stylists, dentists, bodyworkers!), this practice rinses and resets your system. It’s also the perfect follow-up to last week’s standing shoulder stretches.
Fascia weaves through every part of your body. It’s sensory, emotional, and always recording. The good news? It’s constantly remodeling based on how you move, breathe, hydrate, and rest.