About the Somatic Yoga with the Five Vayus 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.

This five-part series gently brings these two perspectives into conversation — not to merge them, but to explore how they may be pointing towards similar human experiences, using different languages.

The course

This five-part somatic masterclass explores the Pancha Vayus, the five directional movements of prana described in yoga philosophy, through a modern, embodied approach.

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.

The first masterclass in the Series: Prana Vayu: Receiving & Inward Awareness

This session explores how Prana Vayu may be experienced as inward and upward movement, particularly through the front body, chest, and ribcage.

Somatic mapping, mindful yoga, and gentle breathwork support awareness of receiving the breath and sensing expansion from within. Meditation helps clarify attention, followed by a short period of deep relaxation.

The practice supports qualities of inward openness, receptivity, presence, and ease in breathing.

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

• the respiratory system (diaphragm and lungs).
• the autonomic nervous system (parasympathetic tone, vagal pathways).
• oxygen uptake and gas exchange.
• sensory perception.
• the heart.

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