Day 3 - Breath Awareness - 21-Day Breathwork Challenge

This session is part of the 21-day Breathwork Challenge. If you follow my profile, you can find all the available previous sessions there. You can also find all the other tracks in the playlist "The 21-Day Breathwork Challenge".

This practice session is about Mindful Breathing. One of the most important steps in a healthy breathing practice is to become and stay aware of your breathing. First, become aware in your breath practice, and later, as you learn to apply this awareness more broadly, become aware during the rest of your day.

We visualize the important breathing muscles, so you will become aware of how you can use them to assist inhales and exhales and create maximum range for your diaphragm (the primary breathing muscle), to move.

If you want to learn more about the mechanics of breathing, I recommend listening to the science sessions in Module 1 of my course: The Science & Practice of Breathing.

Reviews

Thank you. I appreciate the 21 day challenge. Looking forward to doing one every day.

I love the visual of the upside down tree. Really beautifully led journey into this beautiful breath. Thank you! 🙏

So I really enjoyed this track. The guidance was spot on as well as rich and complex and surprisingly simple to follow and actually practice. A great gentle pace andI soothing voice. loved it until the very end where I felt it was a bit abrupt. I still igve this five stars and will revisit again.

My pelvic floor remains a ‘challenge’. It doesn’t move as automatically as my diafragm. I have to move it consciously.

A great narrative that helped me visualise (and appreciate) the mechanics of breathing and the interplay of the various body parts that perform this life giving function. Marvellous for sure. The lungs described as an upside down tree with 500 million leaves was memorable.
I was unaware of the role muscles in my pelvic floor played in breathing and found taking the time to be present and aware of the passage of air in and out of my lungs and of my heart beat (and the connection between the two) interesting.