MAUNA

Breathwork and Meditation

Dinesh Rai

Nobody arrives wanting to sit still. They arrive wanting to sleep, and sitting still is how we get there.

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Dinesh spent eleven years building software and describes the burnout at the end of it as entirely predictable and entirely his own doing. Breathing practice was the first thing that helped that did not involve buying anything.

He trained for three hundred hours in pranayama and meditation, took the MBSR teacher track, and is careful and repetitive about the limits of what he does: breathwork is not therapy, he is not a clinician, and some patterns are wrong for some people.

He teaches the pranayama classes and the Friday evening silence, and he is the person to ask whether a practice is likely to help with sleep, because he will give you an honest and often disappointing answer.

Teaching here since
2022
Practising since
2018
Hours taught
600+
Languages
Nepali, English, Hindi

Training

  • Pranayama and meditation, 300 hours
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, teacher track
  • First aid, current

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What Dinesh teaches

Breathwork

Sitting still and learning to breathe.

Dinesh’s week

Room

The Alcove — Eight mats, no mirror, the quietest corner of the building.

Before you come

Nothing assumed. Come half asleep.

Practice

Breathwork, 45 minutes. A cushion if you have a favourite one.

Taught by

Dinesh Rai — Breathwork and Meditation

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Room

The Alcove — Eight mats, no mirror, the quietest corner of the building.

Before you come

Best after two or three classes elsewhere on the timetable.

Practice

Breathwork, 45 minutes. A cushion if you have a favourite one.

Taught by

Dinesh Rai — Breathwork and Meditation

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Room

The Alcove — Eight mats, no mirror, the quietest corner of the building.

Before you come

Nothing assumed.

Practice

Breathwork, 45 minutes. A cushion if you have a favourite one.

Taught by

Dinesh Rai — Breathwork and Meditation

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Room

The Alcove — Eight mats, no mirror, the quietest corner of the building.

Before you come

Ends in ten minutes of silence. Stay for it.

Practice

Breathwork, 45 minutes. A cushion if you have a favourite one.

Taught by

Dinesh Rai — Breathwork and Meditation

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