Private Pranayama & Breathwork · Maitland, Florida + Virtual

The breath is always with you. Learn how to let it lead.

Private pranayama and breathwork sessions teach you to notice, organize, and use your breathing with greater skill. Begin with simple breath awareness, deepen an established practice, or learn techniques you can return to when you need steadiness, focus, energy, or a different relationship with effort.

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In person or virtual Beginners + experienced practitioners 60- or 90-minute sessions
Private pranayama and breathwork practice at The Yoga Shala
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The goal is not the biggest breath.
It is a breath you can feel, understand, and use.

What pranayama and breathwork mean here

Breathing harder is not the same as breathing better.

Pranayama is the yogic study and regulation of breath. Breathwork is a broader term for intentional breathing practices. Private instruction begins with your natural breathing pattern, experience, goals, and health considerations before a technique is selected.

What private sessions may support

Your breath may need something different than someone else’s.

Sessions may help you build awareness, find steadier breathing, support focus or rest, or develop a more traditional pranayama practice with individualized guidance.

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Breath awareness and ease

Learn to notice rhythm, effort, pauses, posture, and where the breath feels difficult to sense without forcing a larger breath.

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Steadiness, focus, and rest

Practice simple breathing tools that may support meditation, sleep preparation, demanding days, and a calmer relationship with effort.

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Traditional pranayama and yoga integration

Refine technique, pacing, alternate-nostril practices, ratios, sound, and the relationship between breath, attention, and movement.

What a session may include

The technique comes after we understand the purpose.

You do not need to know which breathing exercise you need before you arrive. Krista will begin with what you notice, what you want to change, and how your body responds. From there, the practice can remain simple or become more structured over time.

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Breath Awareness + MechanicsNotice rhythm, effort, posture, and what interrupts or supports the breath.

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Slow Breathing + Extended ExhalationExplore cadence and exhalation without turning the practice into another performance.

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Traditional Pranayama PracticesLearn alternate-nostril breathing, sound, ratios, and related techniques progressively.

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Pauses + RetentionIntroduced only when appropriate for your experience, goals, and health considerations.

Krista Shirley guiding a private pranayama and breathwork session
The quality of the breath is the practice. Technique matters, but awareness tells you whether the technique is serving you.

What happens in a session?

Discuss. Observe. Practice.

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Discuss

Share your goals, previous experience, current breathing concerns, yoga practice, and relevant health considerations.

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Observe

Krista notices rhythm, ease, effort, posture, pauses, and what changes when you bring attention to the breath.

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Practice

Learn one or two appropriate techniques and leave with a manageable practice or clear next step to repeat between appointments.

Practice should be appropriate—not extreme

Please share relevant health considerations before your session.

Breathwork and pranayama are educational practices, not medical diagnosis or treatment. Tell Krista about pregnancy, medical restrictions, cardiovascular or respiratory concerns, recent surgery, dizziness, panic responses, or anything else that may affect how you breathe. Forceful practices and breath retention are not appropriate for everyone, and your session can remain entirely gentle and non-retentive.

Enrollment + tuition

Flexible pricing for private breathwork.

Sessions are offered in person at The Yoga Shala or virtually through Zoom. Packages are valid for 12 months.

Single session
$165

One focused 60-minute private pranayama or breathwork appointment.

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Save 10% Five sessions
$742.50

Five 60-minute appointments for progressive instruction and ongoing support.

Purchase 5 Sessions
Save 20% Ten sessions
$1,320

Ten 60-minute appointments for deeper continuity and practice development.

Purchase 10 Sessions

Private sessions and packages are non-transferable and non-refundable. Packages are valid for 12 months from purchase. Purchasing a session secures session credit; appointment time is scheduled separately with The Yoga Shala.

Common questions

Before you book.

No. Private instruction is an excellent place to begin because the practice can start with simple observation and be taught at your pace.

Ready to begin?

Choose an appointment or ask a question first.

You do not need to know the name of a technique. Share what you are noticing, what you hope to change, and whether you prefer to meet in person or virtually.

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