The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath
Many people today are living with a nervous system that’s on overdrive. Anxiety, depression, poor sleep, emotional reactivity, chronic fatigue, and the inability to fully relax are no longer rare.
They’ve become the new normal.
But they don’t have to be.
Your breath is the bridge.
The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath: A Transformational Pranayama Training
Level One: Foundations & Fundamentals of Pranayama
Level Two: The Subtle Body & Therapeutic Applications
Pranayama—the ancient science of conscious breathing—gives you direct access to the systems that regulate stress, mood, energy, and resilience.
Unlike many wellness practices that take months to feel, the effects of breathwork are immediate. Change the breath, and you change your state: mentally, emotionally, and physiologically.
In Sanskrit, Prāna means life force, and Yama means to direct or regulate. Together they describe the ability to consciously guide your vital energy through breath.
What yogis have understood for thousands of years, science is now confirming: your breath is one of the most powerful tools you have to influence your nervous system, your focus, and your overall well-being.
Pranayama is an entire field of study devoted to working skillfully with life force. When practiced consistently, it restores our natural ability to self-regulate, rebalance, and expand our capacity for vitality and presence.
Breathing is the only bodily system that is both automatic and under conscious control. This extraordinary gateway gives us direct influence over the nervous system, the mind, and the energetic body.
In this training, you will not simply learn techniques—you will experience the transformational power of breath in your own body. Through guided practice, study, and integration, pranayama becomes something you live, not just something you do.
From that lived experience, you will naturally gain the confidence and skill to share these practices with others.
Pranayama is not about adding another wellness tool to your list.
It is about reclaiming your innate capacity to regulate, restore, and thrive.
INTRODUCING ….
In Level 1 sessions, you’ll create the foundations of understanding how to use the breathwork and exploring, practicing with Lauren the fundamentals in this powerful Pranayama program.
In Level 2 sessions, you’ll take your knowledge further with a deeper dive into the structural, energetic, therapeutic, and spiritual applications of pranayama.
This program reveals pranayama’s essential and subtle spiritual aspects and is more than just an interactive catalog of techniques.
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on the earth – Sanskrit Proverb
This course provides 20 credits towards Yoga Alliance Continued Education requirements
About Your Teacher
Lauren Toolin has been studying and practicing yoga and pranayama for over 40 years and is widely respected for her depth of knowledge and ability to make complex yogic practices accessible and transformative.
A Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500, Lauren is the founder of the Yoga Vidya School and has mentored hundreds of yoga teachers, therapists, and dedicated practitioners through advanced training programs. Her teaching is known for its breath-centric approach, weaving together classical pranayama, subtle body understanding, and modern anatomical insight. She is also a Master Life Coach and utilizes these modalities with her private clients.
Lauren’s career in yoga spans editorial work with Yoga Journal, producing the The Practical Power of Yoga PBS special, and presenting at renowned retreat and educational centers including Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Menla, Himalayan Institute, and Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.
An expert in experiential anatomy and subtle body practice, Lauren has trained teachers around the world through her work. Her passion is helping students discover the profound intelligence of the breath and its power to regulate the nervous system, awaken vitality, and support deep personal transformation.
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on the earth – Sansrit Proverb
What You’ll Learn in This Program
Breath is essential to life. From your first inhale at birth to your final exhale, you will take nearly half a billion breaths—most of them without a second thought.
Yet the mind, body, and breath are intimately connected in ways that influence every aspect of your well-being. When you learn to breathe with awareness and skill, you gain direct access to the systems that regulate your energy, emotions, and resilience. Pranayama offers a powerful pathway back to balance, vitality, and clarity.
Healing Breakthroughs & Transformation
Use these techniques to…
- Reset and regulate the nervous system
- Improve sleep quality and deepen your ability to truly rest
- Reduce anxiety, depression, and emotional reactivity
- Interrupt cycles of stress, negativity, and rumination
- Increase overall vitality and support the body’s natural healing capacity
Mindful Balance & Growth
Pranayama strengthens your inner stability and mental clarity. In this training you will:
- Cultivate greater ease and emotional steadiness
- Sharpen focus, creativity, and mental clarity
- Increase energy, motivation, and resilience
- Feel more nourished, connected, and open to change
Expert Guidance & Practical Understanding
You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how breath works within the body and the subtle energy system, including learning to:
- Integrate breathwork into your personal practice and daily life
- Understand key principles of anatomy and physiology related to respiration
- Skillfully share pranayama practices with others
Contribution & Connection
As your own practice deepens, your capacity to support others naturally expands. Through this training you will learn how to:
- Bring these powerful practices into your teaching, healing, or personal relationships
- Inspire others through accessible and transformative breath practices
- Help restore balance—both within yourself and in the communities you serve
Who is this For?
The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath is a foundational training designed for curious beginners as well as experienced practitioners. You do not need to be a yoga teacher to benefit from this work.
This program is for anyone who wants to understand and work skillfully with the breath to restore balance, clarity, and vitality in their life.
It may be especially meaningful for those who:
- Struggle with anxiety, poor sleep, chronic stress, or emotional reactivity and are ready to reclaim their well-being
- Feel called to cultivate greater balance, resilience, and inner steadiness
- Are interested in learning how specific breathing practices influence the nervous system, energy levels, and emotional states
- Want to deepen their personal yoga or meditation practice through the intelligent use of breath
For Professionals and Practitioners
- This training is also an invaluable resource for professionals who want practical tools they can share with others. Breathwork offers simple, accessible practices that can profoundly support nervous system regulation and overall well-being.
This includes:
- Yoga teachers
- Bodyworkers and somatic practitioners
- Coaches and wellness professionals
- Therapists interested in integrating breath-based tools for reducing anxiety, stress, and depression
Whether you are seeking personal transformation or tools to support others, pranayama offers a powerful and time-tested pathway toward greater health, awareness, and vitality.
Unlock Exclusive Access:
Dive deep into a special 2-month series of Q&A sessions. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to connect directly with Lauren Toolin LIVE
The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath: Join Lauren Toolin for two Live Q&A’s
Join Lauren for 2 live Q&A’s
Lauren will provide guidance about the techniques and principles of The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath in a conversational setting. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, share your breakthroughs and learn about the foundations of this enlightening program.
Lauren will provide personal coaching and support for your journey through the course.
- Session 1: Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 — Course Kickoff & Getting Started
- Session 2: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 — Progress Check & Integration
The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath LEVEL I & II
Exclusive Two-Part On-Demand Workshop
LEVEL 1 WORKSHOP:
THE FOUNDATIONS & FUNDAMENTALS OF PRANAYAMA
SESSION 1: Pranayama From the East and West
In this powerful session, Lauren explores the physiological and energetic foundations of conscious breathing. You will learn how breath influences the nervous system, energy levels, and overall well-being, while being introduced to a foundational breathing technique that you can immediately integrate into your personal practice.
Together, we’ll explore the essential principles of pranayama through both Western science and traditional yogic wisdom.
Western Perspective
Gain a clear understanding of the anatomy and physiology of breathing, including the mechanics of the breathing cycle, the role of the diaphragm, and the process of cellular respiration. This foundational knowledge helps demystify breathwork and allows you to understand why these techniques are so powerful and how they influence the body.
Eastern Perspective
Explore the traditional yogic understanding of the subtle body, including the role of prana (life force) and how breath connects the physical body, mind, and energetic system. These teachings provide a deeper context for how pranayama affects both physiological and mental-emotional states.
Experiencing the Flow of Prana
Lauren will guide you through a detailed exploration of the Complete Yogic Breath, with special attention to developing healthy diaphragmatic breathing. Through both explanation and practice, you will begin to experience how breath becomes a tool for cultivating vitality, balance, and inner awareness.
You will also learn how to integrate these foundational techniques into your own practice—and how to safely introduce them to others.
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
SESSION 2: Transform Your Energy System – Merging of Breath, Body, and Mind with Action
In this workshop you’ll learn about yoga philosophy and lifestyle, giving you a supportive blueprint to follow for happiness, health, and peace. Lauren will guide you through powerful methods to do just that. Learn how the breath can help free you from thoughts, clutter, and excess energy weighing you down.
Discover how to put Pranayama into practice:
- Gain clarity on what’s draining your power
- Awaken your life force – balance your energy
- Understand how Pranayama fits into the 8 Limbed (Astanga) Path of Yoga
- Experience how Pranayama influences the energy body and integrates the intelligence of the breath
- Understand the dimensions of Self, and the Pancha Maya Kosha Model
- Practice Teaching
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
SESSION 3: Integrating the Wisdom: Awaken Your Pranayama Practice
Continue your transformational journey and awakening your body’s natural abilities to heal, adapt and expand. Lauren will cover more physiology, precautions, and therapeutics. In this workshop, become familiar with:
- Nadis (energy channels) and their significance in breathwork
- Swara Yoga emphasizes the study, control, and manipulation of breath
- Learn three swaras or modes of breathing and their specific applications
- Specific practices to infuse your body with oxygen, clear and release toxins, reduce stress and anxiety, help balance your hormones, and so much more…
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
SESSION 4 & 5: Question and answer, Mid-course Check-in, and Certification
These two sessions are especially designed to check in on your progress with Lauren. The final call will focus on students who want to get the certification.
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
Important note: This course provides 10 credits towards Yoga Alliance Continued
Education requirements, once the final comprehension check and practicum
assignment are completed.
LEVEL 2 WORKSHOP: THE SUBTLE BODY & THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS
SESSION 1: Anatomy and Physiology
In this session, Lauren explores how the structures of the body—including muscles, nerves, and skeletal support—work together to facilitate healthy, efficient breathing.
You will also be introduced to Prana Mapping, Lauren’s unique experiential system that integrates the physical mechanics of breath with the energetic flow of prana to cultivate greater awareness, regulation, and healing.
Through this framework, you will explore how prana moves through the body with a fluid quality, traditionally described as flowing through channels that resemble networks of rivers and streams moving within and around the body.
This session includes:
• An introduction to Prana Mapping, Part One
• Foundational breathing techniques to help regulate key bodily systems and functions
• A deeper understanding of the anatomy and physiology of respiration
• The relationship between breath and other bodily systems
• The role of the vagus nerve in pranayama and nervous system regulation
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
SESSION 2: Energetic Anatomy — Understanding the Subtle Body
In this powerful session, Lauren expands on the foundations of Prana Mapping to deepen your understanding of the subtle energetic systems that underlie breath practice.
You will explore the subtleties of pranayama and learn how different breathing techniques can be applied for specific situations and conditions, offering practical tools to refine and expand your breathwork practice.
This session includes:
- Prana Mapping, Part Two – a deeper exploration of the energetic channels through which prana flows
- Practical ways to incorporate these energetic principles into your breath practices
- An introduction to The Three Bodies — the Physical, Astral, and Causal bodies
- Understanding how these layers of being relate to other subtle body teachings in yoga
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
SESSION 3: Pranayama as a Sacred Act
Breathwork for Psychospiritual Awakening
In this session, pranayama is explored as a whole-self practice—one that refines the body, steadies the mind, and awakens deeper spiritual awareness.
You will learn how to consciously purify, regulate, and direct prana to support both health and higher states of consciousness.
This session includes:
- Understanding pranayama as an integrated Body–Mind–Spirit practice
- Learning how to thoughtfully curate breath practices for the needs of others
- Exploring the synergistic relationship between breath, the body-mind, and spiritual awareness
- Scriptural references and traditional textual inspiration
- Purificatory pranayama practices and guided practicum
- Breathwork applications for specific conditions
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
SESSION 4 & 5: Question and answer, Mid-course Check-in, and post Office Hour & Certification
These two sessions are specially designed to check in on your progress. Lauren will spend some time answering questions and checking in on your progress. The final call will focus on students who want to get the certification. This session will be recorded and available on-demand—lifetime access.
(Exclusive Pre-Recorded Session —lifetime access.)
Important note: This course provides 10 credits towards Yoga Alliance Continued Education requirements once the final comprehension check and practicum assignments are completed.
Included in This Program is An Amazing Bonus Bundle
For a limited time, when you register for this program, you’ll get Lauren Toolin Bonus Collection. Explore your inner wisdom, master the art of meditation, and clear away the negative energy that’s keeping you stuck, in this powerful collection of teachings valued at OVER $500.
Bonus #1:
Foundations and Fundamentals Master Class
In this workshop, explore Tadasana as the most fundamental of all asanas. When you can master this fundamental form, you uncover a foundation for all other yoga postures. With Lauren as your teacher, fall in love with your physical foundation as you explore and adapt elements of Tadasana, the ‘home base’ of yoga poses. Understand and experience what ‘anatomical neutral’ really is. Use props creatively to establish physical steadiness. Connect with the breath as your primary source of energy and awareness.
Bonus #2:
Introduction to Tantric Meditation
Tantra seems a mystery, but at its core is fundamentally a path to self-mastery. And in these trying times, this spiritual science has more relevance and applicability than ever. Tantra is to be experienced, not just studied, as a yogic system that catalyzes your self-knowledge, personal empowerment, and connection to the Sacred. This course introduces you to the world of Tantra through meditative practices that celebrate and weave spirit and matter in a very practical expansive way. The result? More capacity, connection and freedom. Suitable for new meditators and teachers alike.
Bonus #3:
Transforming Negativity Kriya
Channel your inner power to transform your negative perceptions into positive ones with this 7-minute guided meditation for positivity. The world is full of negative thoughts, feelings, and actions, but these emotional barriers keep us discontent and fearful. This Kriya meditation is based on Yoga Sutra 2.33, which teaches that we should learn to cultivate the opposite thoughts, pratipaksha bhavana, and create positivity.
By developing positive thoughts, we can begin the process of self-healing. Replace rage with compassion, disdain with love, and violence with peace to bring contentment. Lauren Toolin’s guided meditation for positivity can clear our psyche and balance our mind and body.
If you are new to meditation or a beginner, this is the perfect place to start your journey. If you’re an experienced practitioner, meditation will help you further develop your physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Browse Pranamaya Yoga Media to find the practice that works for you. We bring master classes to the comfort and convenience of your own home.
NEW BONUSES FOR 2026
Free the Breath
A restorative yoga practice for enhanced respiration.
Did you know that, ideally, pranayama is best practiced when we are calm and relaxed in body and mind? In this 25 minute session, Lauren guides you through four restorative yoga poses that not only aid in opening your breathing space structurally, but also soothe your beleaguered nervous system. You will then be better prepared to practice and receive the greatest benefit from your breathwork.
Tips and Pointers
Using the breath as a real-time energy management system.
Pranayama does not always need to be done in isolation from the rest of our lives. Here, Lauren shares how you can take your pranayama experience ‘on the road’ as an aid to more easeful interaction with our inner and outer environments.
Here’s What You’ll Get When You Register Now
The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath
A Transformational Pranayama Training
Level 1 – The Foundations & Fundamentals of Pranayama
✓ 5 Pre-Recorded Video Training with Master Teacher Lauren Toolin (Over 10 Hours of Training)
Level 2 – The Subtle Body & Therapeutic Applications
✓ 5 Pre-Recorded Video Training with Master Teacher Lauren Toolin (Over 10 Hours of Training)
LIVE
2-month series of Q&A sessions
This course provides 20 credits towards Yoga Alliance Continued Education requirements
Your Registration Bonus Bundle includes:
✓ Foundations and Fundamentals Master Class, Introduction to Tantric Meditation, Transforming Negativity Kriya
✓ Free the Breath: A restorative yoga practice for enhanced respiration.
✓ Tips and Pointers: Using the breath as a real-time energy management system.
✓ Certification from Pranamaya School for Yoga Mastery: priceless
✓ Your beautifully Illustrated Printable Workbook
✓ Your beautifully Illustrated Digital Study Cards
Total course value: $1,995
You pay $295
The Transformative Power of Conscious Breath: A Transformational Pranayama Training