Breathing for Life

​​Pranayama for Health, Healing, and Self-Realization

Prāṇāyāma is one of the most accessible and powerful tools we have for meeting the challenges of modern life. In times of stress, anxiety, uncertainty, or change, the breath offers us something essential: ground, steadiness, and the capacity to meet whatever arises with clarity and equanimity.

Yet prāṇāyāma is far more than a stress-management technique. When practiced skillfully, it becomes a doorway into deep wellbeing, balance, and peace—supporting the body, regulating the nervous system, and opening pathways toward self-realization.

In Breathing for Life, Richard Miller invites you into the depth, nuance, and transformative potential of prāṇāyāma as both a healing art and a lifelong practice.

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25 Hour Online Pranayama Course

Why Pranayama Matters Now

Many yoga teachers and practitioners have had limited education in prāṇāyāma. Often, it is lightly touched on, separated from asana, or omitted entirely as a standalone practice. As a result, one of yoga’s most potent tools remains underused.

Prāṇāyāma offers a set of practices that can be done anywhere, at any time, and in any state of being. It does not require special conditions or perfect circumstances. It meets you exactly as you are—and enhances every other intervention you may already be using, whether physical, therapeutic, or contemplative.

When understood and applied correctly, prāṇāyāma supports:

  • Regulation of the nervous system

  • Resilience in the face of stress and anxiety

  • Seasonal balance and adaptability

  • Greater clarity, vitality, and emotional stability

  • A felt sense of inner peace and wellbeing

What You’ll Learn

This course weaves together yogic wisdom, lived experience, and contemporary understanding of physiology to offer a comprehensive and embodied approach to prāṇāyāma.

Topics include:

  • Prāṇāyāma practices for spring, summer, fall, and winter

  • The physiology of breathing, including the roles of oxygen and carbon dioxide

  • The anatomy and structure of respiration

  • The vāyus and how prāṇāyāma influences the movement of energy in the body

  • Breath ratios and their effects on body and mind

  • The role of sound in prāṇāyāma practice

  • The chakras as experiential energy centers

  • Integrating prāṇāyāma as a standalone practice and to accompany āsana

You’ll gain practical tools alongside a deeper understanding of why and how these practices work—so you can apply them skillfully and confidently.

Course Details

  • This self-paced training includes lifetime access and opportunities to join Richard Live on Zoom for discussion and Q&A. 

    • 25-Hours of teachings with Richard Miller, PhD to take at your own pace 

    • A comprehensive prāṇāyāma manual

    • Live office hours for questions, discussion, and integration with Richard Miller (first one Feb 11th, Noon ET) 

    Guided practices you can return to and teach from with confidence

    Course Manual:     All teachings are supported by a detailed course manual containing structured reference materials, practice guidance, and conceptual frameworks to reinforce learning and support long-term integration into teaching and personal practice.

    • Yoga teachers seeking deeper confidence in teaching prāṇāyāma

    • Practitioners wanting tools for stress, anxiety, and overall well-being

    • Therapists and healers looking to complement existing modalities

    • Anyone drawn to breath as a path toward balance, healing, and self-realization

    No matter where you are on your path, this course offers practices you can return to again and again—for yourself and for those you serve.

  • Course Price: $599

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  • "Richard is the ultimate teacher of teachers. His shares his teachings from his personal experience with clarity and precision, offering us the concise path to our true nature."

    Larry Payne, PhD. Founder, Samata Yoga and Yoga Rx Therapy

  • "Gratitude fills my heart for the deep teachings Richard offers. And also gratitude for the clear and gentle way he guides us on a most personal journey—the journey home to ourselves. His teachings are to be ingested slowly on the deepest levels."

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