With Gratitude

Thank you for bringing This Next Breath to life. Your contribution will always be considered priceless.

The online classes are Community Supported. Like the Breath, the classes are free for all. If you feel grateful for these lessons and classes, please make a donation in any amount. Small donations gratefully appreciated. Pay the gift forward so other people can benefit. Support yourself, support your own practice, support the online gatherings, and support Tom in his ongoing development of these fascinating, paradigm shifting practices that the world has not really seen.

If you are new to yoga, you will want to learn some basic yogic breath techniques before attending class.

• A variation of “Kapalabhati” breath is used briefly. We use a slow version of this practice, and often emphasize slow abdominal contractions. It is optional.

• “Nadi Shodhana” Left Right Breath.

Initial Purpose: The purpose of these classes is to help you get to a minimum of 24 minutes of Left Right Breath everyday.

Unique and fascinating, join This Next Breath classes everyday and your life will be full of gratitude and joy every morning. Everyday there is a short reading from poets, saints and sages of all kinds.

A Long Term Practice

Over the long term, your breath will slow down. Ordinary people doing this practice are discovering the power of a slow concentrated breath. Anyone can successfully go very far this practice. It’s easy. You don’t have to be a special person or have special talents. When you build your way up to 24 minutes of Left Right Breath for many months, everyday, you cross over a few thresholds: 21 Days, 90 Days, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 5 years.

All the significant neurological and physiological benefits begin to happen with consistent uninterrupted attention on the breath. What this practice requires is persistence. Show up for your practice everyday. Join the broadcasts if they are helpful to you, get one of the online courses or use the free recordings on YouTube.

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“Dig the well before the house is on fire.”

This was a saying in Kripalu ashram during the 1980's. It means that one needs to practice during the good days of your life, so that when the difficult times come, you are ready to face them. Develop your breath practice now, in the sunny times of your life. Then, when life hits the fan, your practice has strong momentum to carry you through, and "put out the fires."