“What you practice gets stronger.
What you focus on gets bigger.
What you keep doing is who you become.”
What is This Next Breath 1 about?
This Next Breath 1 is an online course. It details an elegant, 25 minute breath system that can change your life in remarkable ways. Anyone can develop a big powerful breath practice with the right support and the correct guidance, but you must start small. This Next Breath 1 is simple and builds into something very profound.
Start at the Beginning: The first step is to establish a formal 7 day a week early morning practice! This practice is 25 minutes long and physically easy. Work your way up to 7 days a week, everyday, without fail. Never miss a day.
You might be accustomed to taking days off with exercise or yoga posture. It is healthy to take days off from vigorous yoga postures.
“Praanaayaama” as it is called in the yoga tradition, breath practices are different. Breath practices require everyday practice, 7 days a week and never missing a day. Short practice is okay, but it must be everyday. When you miss your breath practice, you are miss the main intention of Continuous Awareness. We are moving towards every moment awareness of the breath. Everyday practice is what it takes to get to the threshold of a competent breath practice. This is not hard, but you may have to change your mindset. All the effort your put into your breath will be handsomely rewarded.
This Next Breath 1 makes it easy. (Easier.)
Daily Practice: Roll out of bed and the first thing you do is The Posture of Life! You lie on a pillow for 6 to 7 minutes in a way that passively opens your ability to breathe. You create an easy transition from sleep to becoming awake. Really awake! This is the place to begin. Then the heart of the breath course is This Next Breath’s revolutionary methods that Tom Gillette has tested on thousands of students already. We believe this course is a paradigm shift in how breath practices are traditionally taught. To make a new habit in your life, a daily practice is essential.
Breath Check-in: A “Breath Check-in” lasts 20 seconds. The guiding principle of This Next Breath is to be continually aware of this next breath.
It is all about habit. Habits create our character. Character shapes our destiny.
Beginners?
Absolute Beginners are at an advantage.
The practice is physically easy. The practice is fun. You can do it in a chair. You will enjoy the relaxed energizing lift you get everyday. Step by step, day by day, you will safely and slowly build a practice.
Broken Yogis? Old Yogis?
Have you lost your aasana practice? Have you lost the zest for yoga that thrilled you way back when? Is your body broken?
You are ready for praanaayaama. Many Yogis have said they have found their way back to their spiritual life, with the breath. This Next Breath starts off small, and in a few months time, you will rebuild your confidence and self esteem. It will reignite your love for yoga and you will explore the totality of your consciousness new ways. If you fell down into a dark place, come back to the breath. The breath will save you. It is always about the breath.
Yoga Teachers? Experienced yogis?
As an experienced practitioner, you might be at a disadvantage. You will underestimate what this is. This course will surprise you. You will find a plethora of new insights, details and methods happening in this course that you will not find in other breath courses or pretty much anywhere. The material is unique in many ways. You will find gold.
Six reasons why yoga teachers might like this course.
Prāṇāyāma, āsana and meditation are one seamless spectrum. It is useful to intellectually separate the stages and identify them. Prāṇāyāma is classically the next step after āsana. Most yoga teachers have a bookish knowledge of Prāṇāyāma, an inventory of different techniques. Most teachers do a few minutes once in a while, when necessary. Most people just talk about Prāṇāyāma. The next stage is to become “established.” Established means 7 days a week, early morning practice, before the sun rises. Never miss a day, without fail. Don’t stop your āsana or meditation because they are one seamless whole. Do a short breathy practice first. You will find your āsana and meditation will improve.
If you meditate, you probably waste a lot of time. The body and mind take time to settle down into deep meditative states. Prāṇāyāma speeds up the process of the body and mind settling down. Prāṇāyāma is time efficient. You will physiologically develop a slow moving breath which naturally leads to a clear focused mind for meditation.
This Next Breath does not use ratios or breath “holdings.” The English words “hold” and “control” are mental barriers to receptive listening. This course does not “box your breath.” There is a better way. This is a very structured, modern version of Swaamee Kripalu’s spontaneous method. It fun and delightful. You will love to practice again. You will feel amazing every morning, once you are established. Once you become established, then you need to build “Momentum.” Later on, the breath will naturally slow down, and by itself, pause or be suspended. Who is the one who is practicing anyway? We move away from a spiritual ego forcing metabolism to conform to some intellectual concept and all the judgment, stress and problems that arise from a mental approach to “controlling the breath.” Liberate the breath! Free up the life force!
This Next Breath will give you rich language, metaphors and inspiring ideas. The good stuff is the details, alignments and language. You will get a treasure chest of 41 topics and themes to explore for your classes. Get the course now and you have it forever. Begin at any time. The course is very inexpensive relative to a teacher training.
This Next Breath 1 is followed by This Next Breath 2: the Advanced Course. You need a rock solid consistent 7 day a week practice, for a minimum of 45 days and understand the alignments and techniques of This Next Breath 1 before moving on, even if you have done lots of breath work before.
Become younger… really
“Forcing your breath into a box of ratios and ego driven, willful dominance is a dreadful experience. There is a better way: “Surrender to the Breath.”
Tom Gillette
The benefits are truly astounding.
What matters most is committed, uninterrupted focused attention on the breath.
The immediate benefits include:
releases tension
reduces anxiety
increases focus
relaxes the body
increases lung capacity
slows heart rate
lowers blood pressure
easy to learn
stimulates the parasympathetic system
deep internal awareness of the left and right sides of the body and different areas of the brain
unbounded joy and enthusiasm for life
Love is the higher principle
Love is the higher law. The rule is “Practice happy. Don’t miss a day.” The philosophy of This Next Breath begin and ends with Love for the Breath. The practice flourishes with a loving, curious and listening mind. Practice with as little mind driven ego as possible. Use the ego to get you to practice. Then stand behind your personality and watch. The Breath is revered as the most sacred center of every moment. The alpha and omega of all breath discussions, is that Breath is your Spirit. When the breath leaves your body, the Spirit leaves your body. Not recognizing its importance, most people lack a proper reverence for the Breath. Be in awe of the Breath. It is life moving.
Commit yourself to developing this simple sequence for 40 days, and you'll have life enhancing results.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is this safe?
A: Super safe. There are a few things that make it safe. 1. The practice is done slowly with time to listen for feedback from the body. 2. There are no long breath holds or extended hyper ventialtion practices, which is where some people run into great trouble. There are no ratios or willful forcing of the breath. 3. Everything is guided with a non-judgmental attitude. 4. We have tested this system on thousands of people already.
Q: Does the 25 minute practice have to be done in the morning?
A: That is the ideal habit. Breath practices are traditionally done upon waking. Everyone misses a morning now and then, and there is no judgment around this. If you miss the first part of the day, make every effort to practice later in the day. The problem is life gets busy. Don’t just Seize the Day; seize the morning! Continuity of practice is an essential ingredient for success.
Q: Is it important to do the practice 7 days a week?
A: Yes, that is the ideal. And, you don’t have to be perfect. Going to a yoga studio 3 to 5 days a week is good, and what many Americans are conditioned to do, but breath practices are different and require everyday continuity. Your practice can be short, but you need to become “established.” Breath practices are actually the most time efficient method.
Q: I made a commitment to do the program fully, but I missed many days..
A: Screw guilt. Just begin again, now. You don’t have to be perfect. When you are starting out, you will probably miss days until you get to the stage of “momentum.” Breakdown of a commitment happens to everyone at some point. The key is to not "breakdown around the breakdown." Drop the guilt. The whole ethos of this program is non-judgmental. Just start again. Start with This Next Breath. And then the next breath. And then the next breath. Begin again.
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Q: Are the lessons in order or can I skip around?
If I really like one particular day, can I do it again and again?
A: Yes. Yes and Yes. Some of the later days only make sense when you have a solid foundation with the earlier lessons. Practices like Forgiveness and Gratitude need to be done hundreds of times. Mantraa practices need to be done hundreds of times in order to be valuable. What is your hurry? You are not going anywhere without your breath. The only place to be is right here and now.
Q: Is this the Kundalini or Kripalu breath sequence that I learned?
A: There are points of similarities, but This Next Breath is different in significant ways. After teaching for decades, Tom’s practice has evolved and continues to evolve. He has eliminated certain yoga breath practices and works with other methods. Details are important! The language and details are what bring a practice into sparkling focus.
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