Breath Work For Calming Panic

How we breathe affects how we feel and how we feel affects how we breathe so when we're experiencing panic, high stress or overwhelm, it follows that our breath will be short, shallow and rapid. In this practice, I'll guide you to relax your body away from tension and the fight/flight response so that you can slow, soften and deepen your breath over several rounds. In this way, you'll viscerally override the panic signals being sent around the brain and body and learn how to overcome feelings that threaten to overwhelm you.

Use any time you need to calm, settle and soothe. Practicing regularly increases vagal tone which helps balance the nervous system and manage the communication between the brain and body so for optimum health, I would recommend making this a daily practice.

If you're coming to this after an initial practice or need an SOS response to get straight into the breath work, feel free to skip the body relaxation and head straight in at the 6' mark.

Reviews

Thanks Ellie. I blended this breathing with the physiological sigh breathing and the seemed to work well together 🙏

Your meditation sessions are incredibly beautiful and help me find my breath and center. 🙏✨
With gratitude,
Anne M