Taoist Breathing for Tai Chi and Meditation - 03/14: Learning to Avoid Holding Your Breath

Taoist Lineage holder Bruce Frantzis leads you through the 3rd lesson in a series of 14, all of which help you to extend the length of your breath and to fully bring oxygen to the back and side of the lungs, areas rarely engaged by shallow breathers.

You will also learn to feel your breath, to avoid holding your breath, as well as how to breath into different parts of the body to strengthen and massage the internal organs and spine. Understanding these techniques enables you to become aware of your emotions and deepen your meditative focus.

*Please note that this track is one of several. We encourage you to treat the program as a whole and recommend listening through them, in order, before practicing. In part, this is because Bruce presents a large volume of information at a fairly rapid rate, but we assure you that as the lessons progress, the guidance becomes less instructional, the pacing slows, and the meditatations become the main focus of the program.

May you practice well!

Transcript

Lesson 2 Learning to avoid holding your breath.

Focus now on your tongue being on the roof of your mouth.

If you put your tongue straight up or you say the word LL will be where your tongue will touch the roof of your mouth.

How can you keep your tongue on the roof of your mouth,

Relax your tongue and relax your whole face.

You'll notice that as you're breathing,

You may feel a lot of energy in your head or a lot of heat in your head which can come from too much blood not draining out of your head.

So as you breathe on each exhale,

Let the sense of heat leave your head and flow out your nose and down your body.

Relaxing the inside of your brain,

Releasing the heat that's inside your brain and your face and all your blood vessels.

Take a full complete breath now.

A complete breath consists of a smooth inhale and exhale with no holding of the breath whatsoever after the end of either the inhale or the exhale.

No holding of the breath whatsoever.

Gradually you want to make your breath longer and longer but even more important you want to make your breath more and more relaxed.

Feel now how when you breathe your nerves tense up or your nerves relax.

Allow your nerves to release every time you exhale.

When you inhale,

Let your nerves energize in your body refreshing and awakening them and when you exhale let the tension out of your nerves and let the muscles of your body relax.

Very often we find that when we breathe emotions begin to happen.

Do you feel in the tension of your breath anger or fear or sadness or grief or any other emotion anything you may not have paid attention to for a long time.

Gradually and to the best of your ability allow each breath to become soft and relaxed and quiet and continuous allowing your nerves and your mind to relax with each breath.

Reviews

wonderful qi gong lesson in breathing. thankyou.

Excellent deepening of the experience of a simple breath. There is so much in 2 minutes. Thank you.

Thank you. Excellent instruction.

Clear explanation.

I love the brief explanation ..helps me for next step

Very relaxing, nice voice and loved the bells in back ground.
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Namaste 💕

Quick simple guide to easy breathing flow...
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Nice technique to improve my breath while practicing Tai Chi. Thank you