Here, Jordan interviews yoga teacher and yogi Carter Miles, who teaches at Present Practice Yoga in Austin and offers a signature program, The Art of Breathing, focused on healing breathing habits and empowering people through breath awareness. Carter describes yoga as a lifelong practice for understanding and improving the body, breath, and mind, and discusses the Pranamaya Kosha as a subtle “in-between” medium through which thoughts influence physiology and vice versa, accessed most directly through breath. He emphasizes that breath knowledge is common but consistent practice is rare, and critiques overly absolute, scientific, or branded notions of “real” yoga while advocating depth, simplicity, and lived experience. Carter shares his path from weightlifting, psychedelics, meditation, and Buddhism into heated power vinyasa and wide training exposure, explains “breathe less” via carbon dioxide’s role in oxygen delivery and endurance, and outlines practices like breath holds, mantra meditation, and building resilience. He closes with quickfire reflections and where to find him on Instagram and at Breath Club.
Here Jordan interviews yoga teacher and therapist Carter Miles, who teaches at Present Practice Yoga in Austin and offers a signature program, The Art of Breathing, focused on healing breathing habits and empowering people through breath awareness. Carter describes yoga as a lifelong practice for understanding and improving the body, breath, and mind, and discusses the Pranamaya Kosha as a subtle “in-between” medium through which thoughts influence physiology and vice versa, accessed most directly through breath. He emphasizes that breath knowledge is common but consistent practice is rare, and critiques overly absolute, scientific, or branded notions of “real” yoga while advocating depth, simplicity, and lived experience. Carter shares his path from weightlifting, psychedelics, meditation, and Buddhism into heated power vinyasa and wide training exposure, explains “breathe less” via carbon dioxide’s role in oxygen delivery and endurance, and outlines practices like breath holds, mantra meditation, and building resilience. He closes with quickfire reflections and where to find him on Instagram and at Breath Club.
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