Balanced Breathing Exercise To Restore Calm

This is a 5-minute guided breathing exercise entitled 'balanced breathing' meaning that the inhale is equal to the exhale. This is a great exercise for when you want to centre and calm and can be used before any deeper meditation, sound therapy, sound bath, yoga class or to drop into deep and restorative sleep. For more advanced exercises of this kind please see the PolyVagal breathing exercises in our Insight Timer course "Overcoming Anxiety Using Sound".

Transcript

Take a few moments to be still.

Be aware of your body.

Notice your breathing.

Exhale and when you're ready,

Breathe in.

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Reviews

Super great. Did the trick. Can’t wait for more tracks!

Purity ! Thank you

Such a lovely way to wind down for bed. Thank you 💫🙏

Very simple and short. Exactly what I needed this evening. Very relaxing! Namaste 🙏

I really enjoyed this short breathing practice. I especially appreciated how the teacher's voice faded into the background as the practice developed. The music was beautiful to breathe to 💜

I like a guided meditation so this was perfect. It helped me to stay focused on my breath.

Great meditation to take you away for 5-minutes and refocus. Thank you for sharing ❤️

Nice! Gentle, sweet, easy breathing! And the music was perfect. Thanks.💕

A simple but very useful breath practice. Nice background music and the fade out of instruction helps you to be independent in your regular breathing by the end.

Superb ❣️ Short, so calming and grounding. Just what my body needed. Keeping me in the moment. Thank you. 🙏

I will definitely be using this often for a parasympathetic reset! Thank you!

Love this breathing meditation!!! Very relaxing and helps reduce stress!!! Thank you:) 🙏

This made me feel so great and relaxed after. Thank you! :)

This is very helpful. Thank you!

Perfect. The most useful tool for peace and calm in my life. Thank-you Lyz!

nice simple breathing meditation. I feel less stressed. thank you

This was a very good and short breathing exercise and it managed to accomplish its goal, of relaxing myself with ease.

Perfect to calm you down quickly- it’s simple and peaceful, beautiful calming music, goes straight into it and high quality audio. Thank you! 🕊

Fantastic, breathing is so powerful! The sound is quite soft, so turn up the volume. Thank you.