The Connection Between Your Breath & Mental Health: Lucas Rockwood

How have you been coping with your cardiac event? Anxiety, depression, and PTSD are all very common post-surgery, but there are many different ways to manage these emotions. Lucas Rockwood, founder of YogaBody International, internationally renowned yoga teacher, TedX speaker, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author joins us to speak about the power of our breath and how it effects our overall health & well-being.

In this episode, we discuss:

-How Lucas' trauma inspired him to find yoga

-The cycle of our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

-Lucas' analogy of 'Water, Whiskey, Coffee' breathing & its effect on our nervous system

-How to balance our breath to regulate our nervous system in the moment

-Nervous system training/response

Contact Lucas:

Website: https://www.yogabody.com

Podcast: https://www.yogabody.com/yoga-talk-show/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuU6CVWRbw9z0e-MkkZohhA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucasrockwood/?hl=en

Water, Whiskey, Coffee Breathing TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QTJOAI0UoU&t=1s

Contact Devon:

Email: devbrz@gmail.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dev0n_b/