The Living Breath: Cultivating Space and Ease in Your Body-Mind

Description

This free workshop explores the body as a breathing structure—one that can open, soften, and expand with awareness and simple techniques. Through a combination of gentle movement and breath practices, you’ll begin to notice how your body holds tension and how that affects your ability to breathe with ease. We’ll work with both larger, external movements—opening the arms, chest, ribs, spine, and hips—and more subtle, internal breath awareness practices, done sitting or lying down. Together, these approaches help reveal habitual postures and patterns that may be limiting your breath. As you develop awareness, you’ll learn gentle ways to create more space. A more open, easeful breath can help regulate and calm fight-or-flight, ease stress and anxiety, and support overall well-being. This class is less about learning techniques and more about understanding your own body—so you can move, breathe, and live with greater ease both in daily life and in practices like yoga, Qigong, or meditation.

What you will need for the class:

- Loose layers for freedom of movement and to regulate temperature

- Pillow that feels best for support under your head if you choose to lie down for the more meditative internal exercises. 

- Yoga mats are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own.

Dr. Kelly Meyer, DACM, L.Ac. & Certified Acutonics Therapist is a practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, on and off body tuning fork therapy and the founder of Auria Lume Health. With over a decade of experience as an Iyengar yoga teacher, Kelly brings a refined understanding of alignment, tension patterns, and the relationship between posture and breath. Her clinical work integrates acupuncture, bodywork, dietary and lifestyle guidance, and subtle energetic practices to help patients restore their overall health—supporting the body physically and structurally, while also tending to the mental, emotional, and deeper aspects of well-being such as family patterning and life traumas that are woven into the individual’s consciousness and physiology. Her teaching style is warm, intuitive, and experiential—guiding people to feel and understand what is happening within their own bodies, minds and habituated patterns, so that real, lasting change can unfold. Her healing practice is in a peaceful nook of the Asheville Montford neighborhood. You can find her at aurialume.com.