Breathing for Life: Pranayama for Health, Healing, and Self-Realization
30-Hour Online Course
25 hours of lecture & guided practice plus 5 hours of additional reading and study
85-Page Digital Manual
Reference materials to support learning and integration.
Online with live office hours
This self-paced training includes lifetime access and opportunities to join Richard Live on Zoom for discussion and Q&A.
About the Course
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.
Why Prāṇāyāma 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.
What’s Included
- 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 (ongoing, quarterly)
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.
Learn from a Master Teacher
Richard Miller, PhD, has spent decades studying, practicing, and teaching. Gifted with extraordinary teachers and many years of direct experience, he brings a depth of understanding that bridges traditional yoga, modern science, and lived wisdom.
Richard’s teaching is grounded, compassionate, and practical. His intention is not only that you experience the benefits of prāṇāyāma yourself, but that you feel empowered to share these teachings with others—students, clients, friends, and family.
This is knowledge meant to be lived, practiced, and passed on.
Who This Course Is For
- 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.
Begin Breathing for Life
Prāṇāyāma gives us the ground to meet life as it is—steady, open, and resilient. Join Richard Miller in exploring the art and science of the breath, and discover how conscious breathing can support health, healing, and a profound sense of inner peace.
Enroll now and begin your journey with the breath.
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One time paymentUSE CODE PRANAYAMARM100
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Immediate and lifetime access
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Group access
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Certificate on completion
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Ongoing Live Office Hours with Richard
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One time paymentUSE CODE PRANAYAMARM100
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Immediate and lifetime access
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Group access
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Certificate on completion
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Ongoing Live Office Hours with Richard
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About Instructor
Richard Miller
Richard C. Miller, PhD, C-IAYT, ERYT-500 is the Founder, and senior consultant of iRest Institute, Co-Founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and Founding Member and past President of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology.
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Course Includes
- 12 Lessons
- 83 Topics
- Course Certificate
