Hello,
My name is Jake and welcome to today's Breathwork Practice.
In today's practice we're going to be working with reducing our volume of air.
Meaning that we're going to be taking in smaller breaths.
We want to reduce our volume of air until it becomes comfortable enough to manage for several minutes.
You're going to want to take a deeper breath but the goal here is to feel the air hunger and allow the body to get used to it.
So without further ado,
We'll first find a comfortable position either laying down or upright in a chair.
If you're upright in a chair just have your hands on your lap.
If you're laying down you can raise your legs up so that your feet are on the ground but your knees are up high.
And we're going to begin by just taking some deep inhales and exhales through the mouth.
So with me we're going to inhale and again inhale.
A couple more times fully in and letting go.
Fully in and letting go.
Last time fully in and letting go.
And just return back to normal breathing and just take a moment to feel into those sensations.
I'm going to now guide us into the breathing light exercise.
So with me taking a normal breath in,
A normal breath out,
A smaller breath in,
A normal breath out.
Reduce the volume of air and breathe so lightly that it doesn't even feel like you're breathing at all.
Taking in smaller breaths,
Staying with a volume of air that's comfortable for you.
Training the body to become more tolerant to CO2.
Improving the oxygenation of our blood,
Flowing down the heart and allowing the body to sink deeper and deeper into a state of pure relaxation.
Taking smaller and smaller breaths until it feels manageable.
If you feel like you need to take a bigger breath,
You're doing the exercise correctly.
So just keep continuing here for a couple more minutes,
Expanding with each inhale and just letting it go with each exhale.
Reducing that volume of breath,
Improving our lung capacity and training our focus to one object of meditation.
Following the breath from the inhale to the exhale and just allowing the body to sink into a state of deep relaxation.
Continuing here to reduce the volume of air for another 30 seconds.
Staying with the exercise,
Counting down now from 10,
9,
8,
7,
6,
5,
4,
3,
2,
1.
Take a deep inhale and sigh.
And just take a moment here to see how that feels for you and your body.
What sensations are happening and just to round off the practice,
We're going to take a deep inhale together and sigh.
Deep inhale and sigh.
Last time,
Deep inhale and sigh.
And when you're ready,
Just begin to open your eyes.
Thank you so much for sharing your time with me here today.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
With love,
Jake.
