Truth-Awareness-Bliss
"Om
Sahanavavatu, Sahanaubhunaktu, Sahaviryam Karavavahai, Tejasvinavateetamasthu, Ma vidvishavahai,
Om Shantih Shantih Shantih"
OM, May we be protected, together.
May we be nourished, together.
May we progress with vigor, together.
May the fire of knowledge be kindled in Us.
May we never be in conflict. OM Peace Peace Peace.
- Taittiriya Upanishad, 600 BCE
Breathe Meditation is a nourishing space that explores the rhythm, stillness and meditative power of the breath.
Photo/Souvik Laha
CONNECT
WITH YOUR BREATH
Learn to cultivate the basic and advanced breathing techniques of Pranayama, to help balance and connect with your life-force energy, Prana.
YOUR BREATH, YOUR EXPERIENCE
“The breathing had an effect of quieting my mind so that I could see or sense the general attitude and emotion that was coloring my awareness of the present moment.”
Randy Chugh, Washington D.C.
FEEL THE PULSE ON NEUROSCIENCE & YOGA
PRANA
Prana, an informational publication on yoga and neuroscience, is concerned with the yogic understanding of existence and awareness as an expression of absolute universal consciousness. As discoveries in neuroscience add to our understanding of how the human brain and biological expressions of consciousness evolve, a fruitful dialogue is taking place between neuroscience and yoga, which has been a science of consciousness for over 2000 years. It involves the entire gamut of yogic practice, encompassing the 8 limbs of Yoga codified in Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. Prana Magazine explores lifestyle, diet, sleep, genetics and a universal human spirituality that is open to scientific innovation and discovery.
ONE BREATH AT A TIME...
The intimate connection between breathing and regions of the brain that control attention, sleep and stress regulation means that loving attention to your breath can make it easier to manage your mind and emotions.
Mahalakshmi
Mahalakshmi Mahadevan has completed a 100-hour Raja Yoga training specialising in Meditation & allied Philosophy at Haven-on-the-Lake in Columbia, MD. Mahalakshmi has a regular Kriya Yoga Practice, which she recevied from Indian spiritual guide, social reformer and educationist, Sri M.
Contact: Mahalakshmi@breathe.center
WHY "BREATHE" IS A MISSION
Breathe Meditation was founded in January 2020 in Washington D.C., in order to cultivate the breath not just as a powerful tool for calm amidst chaos, but as the most effective catalyst for deep meditation. Flash forward to 2024, Breathe LLC., the company under which Breathe Meditation was offered as a paid service doesn't exist. But the mission exists and this website will continue to offer helpful information on yoga and dhyana (meditation).
Just months after Breathe LLC was started, the world was reeling under the onslaught of a pandemic, which is re-orienting the very paradigm of our lives, and compelling us to prioritize space and peace within our inner landscape.
The practices offered here were a timely and modest attempt to support and foster concentration, meditation and peace in our communities, using the one tool that is powerful, supremely nurturing and always available - our breath, our life-force, our Prana. Our breath is that which connects us with our life force energy, Prana, which in turn controls the mind and indeed the entire cosmos. By balancing our breath, we bring our life-force energy Prana, and thereby the mind into a state of balance and equilibrium, endowing us with equanimity. Explained variously in Sanskrit as sthitha prajna and sarvathra sama buddhaya, equanimity is considered the supreme quality of a yogi.
Breathe Meditation is rooted in the infinite love, discipline, devotion and dedication (maha-tapas) with which the sacred knowledge (atma-vidya) of Pranayama has been cultivated and transmitted over millenia by the various lineages of teachers from the Indian sub-continent. The practices offered are infused with the organic flow of mindfulness approaches, my own personal practice of Kriya Yoga and inspired by insights from the field of contemplative neurosciences.
- Mahalakshmi Mahadevan, Ph.D.
