54 Simple And Direct Playing Cards To Harness The Power Of Breath

Your body is your house, the most valuable real estate on the planet. This book and companion deck features 54 cards with breathing techniques to make your house a home, a sanctuary. These practices are simple, practical and efficient, furnishing a technology of safety for your nervous system. Organized space and time are the brick and mortar of building a practice, and breath is the portal to presence. 

Written and Drawn by Dages Juvelier Keates
Design by Jason Bacasa

This deck of cards (and accompanying descriptive 150-page book) offers 54 simple and direct playing cards to harness the power of breath to cultivate vitality and regulate the nervous system.

Drawing on Dages’ 22 years of teaching and scholarship in somatic praxis and yoga, these syncretic playing cards distill ancient practices into concrete and specific plays that can be done by almost anyone. Traditionally, breath work has been accessed almost exclusively in privatized, exclusive, and often expensive spaces: yoga studios, meditation retreats, and spa facilities. The bar to entry has simply been too high.

This deck offers short and effective exercises ranging from one breath to one hundred so that you play anytime, anyplace.  

Based on a traditional pack of playing cards (four suits of 13 cards each, two jokers), each unique card maps an imaginative circuitry:

Catch Fire
Kickstart the day, cultivate focus and productivity, fight fatigue and tap vitality

Chill Out
Soothe your senses as you unwind on the sound current of your breath

SOS
Self-regulate and cultivate insights through attuning to the mind-body connection

Sneak Your Technique
Instantly get centered, grounded, and ready to imagine creative possibilities

The player can enjoy the spontaneity of drawing a daily card and having a practice selected by chance: less overwhelm, more breathing.

Benefits

• Improves HRV

• Soothe Anxiety

• Fight Fatigue And Tap Vitality

• Release Stress

• Elevate Mood

• Improves Sleep

• Build Lung Capacity

Breathwork Practices Include

• Guided Meditations

• Visualizations

• Vocal Toning

• Gentle Stretching

• Lymphatic Movement 
  
  

Availability & Shipping

• Currently only shipping in the United States.

• All decks/books will be sent via USPS Priority Mail at a flat-rate of $10.85, and are set to arrive in 2-3 business days.

• As I’m a small ship, orders will be mailed once a week, on Fridays. Orders must be received by 11:59pm (ET) on Thursdays to be part of that week’s mailing. Any questions, just ask. :)