https://freebrea.pages.dev/Let go. Then breathe.en-ca https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/why-the-out-breath-is-longer/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/why-the-out-breath-is-longer/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe body has its own brake pedal, and it is pressed on the way out. A short, honest account of what slow breathing does — and what it doesn’t. https://freebrea.pages.dev/journal/roam-breath-as-a-vehicle/https://freebrea.pages.dev/journal/roam-breath-as-a-vehicle/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe third way we practise, after Still and Gather. Zhuangzi pictured riding the changes of the six qi to wander without end; we start smaller, with one breath out. https://freebrea.pages.dev/journal/the-caves-had-no-technology/https://freebrea.pages.dev/journal/the-caves-had-no-technology/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwenty-two years of building rooms that help people feel, and the one thing the oldest rooms already knew. https://freebrea.pages.dev/journal/why-no-annual-memberships/https://freebrea.pages.dev/journal/why-no-annual-memberships/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe fourth of the four rules we hold ourselves to: no year-long lock-in, no streaks, no nudges. You come back because you want to. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/the-inner-four-limbs/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/the-inner-four-limbs/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTBreath, withdrawing the senses, gathering attention, steady watching: the inward half of yoga’s eight-limbed path, in plain words, with one small way to try each. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/resting-through-winter/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/resting-through-winter/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTShort days, dry cold, and a chinook that can turn an afternoon around. Notes on resting with the season instead of against it. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/riding-the-six-breaths/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/riding-the-six-breaths/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe first chapter of the Zhuangzi pictures someone who rides the changing weather of the world and wanders without a destination. What it might mean to be at ease anywhere. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/why-we-dont-score/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/why-we-dont-score/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTNo points, no streaks, no rankings. The reasoning behind a studio that keeps only two words about your practice: how you arrived and how you left. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/mountain-air/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/mountain-air/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThinner air, cooler air, quieter air. A careful look at what time in nature is associated with, and at claims, such as negative ions, that the evidence does not settle. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/the-room-breathes/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/the-room-breathes/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLight and sound that rise and settle at the pace of a long out-breath. What we mean when we say the room breathes, and what we are careful not to mean. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/supported-shapes/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/supported-shapes/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwo slow styles of yoga where the floor and a few props do the holding. How they differ, one shape to try at home, and what the research can and cannot say. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/spirit-is-breath/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/spirit-is-breath/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGreek pneuma, Latin spiritus and the English words they gave us all began as ‘breath’. A short walk through a word that never forgot where it came from. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/a-twenty-minute-lie-down/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/a-twenty-minute-lie-down/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow to take twenty minutes lying down, awake, with nothing to achieve: where, how, what to do with your mind, and when to get up. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/smoke-season/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/smoke-season/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGeneral, non-medical advice for Alberta’s smoke days: check the AQHI, keep your practice gentle and indoors, and know when to get help. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/noticing-without-fixing/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/noticing-without-fixing/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe fourth passage of a class asks for something unusual: watch what comes, and do nothing about it. Why that is harder, and kinder, than it sounds. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/deep-rest-is-not-sleep/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/deep-rest-is-not-sleep/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLying still and awake, with attention resting in the body. How deep rest differs from sleep, and what the small studies can and cannot say. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/the-double-inhale/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/the-double-inhale/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwo short in-breaths through the nose, then one long out-breath. What a sigh is for, what one small study found, and what it cannot tell us. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/fasting-of-the-heart/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/fasting-of-the-heart/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA short passage from a 2,300-year-old book about listening: first with the ears, then the heart, then the breath. What fasting empties, and what it leaves. https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/through-the-nose/https://freebrea.pages.dev/library/through-the-nose/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA plain guide to breathing in and out through the nose: what the nose does with the air, how to try it, and when the mouth is the better door.