This session explores Apana Vayu as a quality often experienced as downward movement and release, sensed through the pelvis, legs, and feet.

Floor-based somatic movements, slow and mindful yoga, and lengthened exhalations support the settling of attention, the release of unnecessary tension, and a sense of being held by gravity.

Meditation cultivates steadiness and a feeling of safety before moving into deep relaxation. The session supports experiences of grounding, emotional steadiness, and letting go.

In parallel, and for contextual understanding, we may refer to related areas of science, including:

the pelvic floor and lower abdominal muscles.

digestive elimination (colon and rectum).

urination and reproductive functions.

the legs and feet.

These references are offered as points of comparison, not as direct explanations of the vayu.

About The Five Vayus as Somatic Experience Series

Ancient yoga teachers used clear conceptual ideas to understand how human beings move, feel, and relate to life. Today, we also have scientific and medical language to describe our inner experience.

By combining the traditional framework of the vayus with somatic movement and breathwork, the course bridges understanding and felt experience.This supports embodied learning, nervous system awareness, and a more intimate relationship with how we move, breathe, and respond to life.

The vayus are explored as practical maps for sensing flow, grounding, integration, expression, and whole-body connection.

Depending on what you are navigating in your life — nourishment, stability, integration, energising, expansion, or growth — you will explore different ways of meeting these experiences through the body.

A note on perspective

While some functions of the vayus can be related to bodily processes, there is no direct one-to-one scientific model for them.

The vayus can be understood as a traditional yogic way of interpreting somatic, sensory, and neurological experience — how movement, breath, sensation, and regulation are felt and organised from within.

Anatomy and physiology, by contrast, describe observable structures and measurable processes.

The comparison offered here is conceptual and intended for educational and experiential exploration.

The sessions

Each session offers an inward exploration using a range of practices to experience the vayus as organising principles of movement, breath, sensation, and regulation.

Somatic movement, breathwork, mindful yoga, meditation, visualisation, and deep relaxation support an embodied understanding of these concepts through lived physical and sensory experience.

The approach is practical, accessible, and exploratory, encouraging insight through experience rather than theory alone.

The series is suitable for all levels and supports greater bodily awareness and comfort.

Each session is recorded and available for a further 30 days.