Breath Meditation

This meditation focuses on the breath and different types of breath work during your meditation practice.

Transcript

Breathwork Meditation Series.

To sit nice and comfortably,

Nice and easy.

In this practice we're going to focus on your breath and how we can create calm and ease throughout your body and your mind just by using your breath.

So right now,

As in before in the introduction part,

I just want you to sit quietly and don't think about anything right now as far as what to do with your breath.

Just take note of it right now.

How does it feel?

Is it shallow?

Is it deep?

Is it short?

Is there any tightness anywhere in your body?

If you haven't closed your eyes,

Do so.

Think about how your breath is in this present moment,

Your awareness of your breath.

So that's what you do,

Take a nice easy breath.

Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

Exhale through your nose,

Exhale through your mouth.

One more time,

Inhale and exhale.

And return to your normal breath,

Nice and easy,

Nice and light.

Take note of how it felt taking deeper breaths.

Was it hard to get breath in and out?

Was there any tightness in your chest and your lungs?

And during this practice,

Let's create some space,

Some lightness to your breath that causes ease in your mind and your body.

So return to that space in front of the eyes,

That blank space,

That dark space.

Again,

With your meditation practice,

Again,

It's not about not thinking,

It's about being right now in the present moment.

Take a breath in a way that can create ease and lightness and calm so that your mind is able to relax in your body.

So this time,

I'm going to count your breaths.

You inhale through your nose,

Exhale through your mouth.

Each breath is going to be one inhale,

Two exhale,

Three inhale,

Four exhale.

So it's just easy in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale three,

Exhale four.

Inhale five,

Exhale six.

Inhale seven,

And exhale eight.

Inhale nine,

And exhale ten.

And just start over back at one in your own time all the way back to ten.

If you get to ten,

Start back over at one.

Your inhale is one,

Exhaling is two.

Now bring your awareness back and return into your normal breath,

Taking note of how that felt to count each one of your breaths.

Are you able to focus on the inhale and the exhale?

And did you feel maybe a little ease slowly starting to come over your body and your mind?

Your mind became more focused and less of the chatter,

Less of the monkey mind.

This time I'm going to move a little pranayama breathing,

Which is inhaling through your nose,

Exhaling through your nose.

It's going to sound like an ocean sound.

So we're going to inhale,

Exhale.

Inhale,

Exhale.

Inhale,

Exhale.

And keep repeating that pattern.

And this is your life force breath.

It creates energy and fire and space as you're breathing in through your nose,

Out through your nose.

Inhale,

Exhale.

Inhale,

Exhale.

Inhale,

Exhale.

Return into your normal breath.

Take note of how that felt.

Maybe you felt a little more energy take over your body.

Now that you're out of that practice,

Maybe your breath feels a little easier,

A little lighter,

Maybe less restrictive.

So return into that pranayama breathing in through your nose,

Out through your nose.

We're going to move to pranayama chaton breathing,

Which is an inhale for one,

Exhale for two.

Still in through your nose,

Still out through your nose.

So inhale is one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale one,

Exhale two.

Inhale 1,

Exhale 2.

Inhale 1,

Exhale 2.

Inhale 1,

Exhale 2.

Inhale 1,

Exhale 2.

And return to your normal breath.

Again,

You may feel a little more energy on that.

Maybe your breath now is becoming softer and lighter as you get deeper into your meditation practice.

Your mind is slowly starting to soften.

Your body is slowly starting to lighten a little bit and become at ease.

So moving now to a little bit of belly breathing.

This is just going to be in through your nose,

Out through your mouth.

We inhale,

Let your belly expand.

And we exhale,

Let it contract back towards your spine.

Inhale,

Let it expand.

Exhale,

Let it contract.

Inhale,

Let it expand.

Exhale,

Let it contract.

Inhale,

Let it expand.

Then exhale,

Let it contract.

Inhale,

Let it expand.

Exhale,

Let it contract.

Inhale,

Let it expand.

Exhale,

Let it contract.

Inhale,

Fill up with air.

Exhale,

Let it contract.

One more time.

Inhale.

Exhale and return to your normal breath.

And as your breath inhales and exhales and your belly expands,

You should feel a little less restrictiveness in your shoulders,

In your traps,

As your belly does the work.

The key is to let your shoulders relax.

So now moving on to a little more number counting breathing.

This time it's going to be more for stress and release.

So you're still going to inhale through your nose,

Exhaling through your mouth.

You're going to inhale for two seconds,

Exhale for four seconds.

So it's going to be inhale,

One,

Two,

Exhale,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Inhale one,

Two,

Exhale one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Inhale one,

Two,

Exhale one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Inhale one,

Two,

Exhale,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Inhale one,

Two,

Exhale,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Inhale one,

Two,

Exhale,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Inhale one,

Two,

Exhale,

One,

Two,

Three,

Four.

Into your normal breath and taking of how that breath felt.

Do you feel your body become more relaxed as you're exhaling out all the stress,

All the tension?

Now taking note of your breath now from maybe the beginning when you started.

Is it easier?

Is it lighter?

Is your mind more calmer,

Relaxed?

Return into that space in front of the eyes,

That blank space,

That dark space.

And knowing your breath is your life force.

Without your breath,

There's nothing else.

Enjoying your breath,

Being grateful for your breath.

So again,

I'm going to let you sit for about a minute.

Allow whatever to come up,

Come up.

Maybe you want to focus on your breathing techniques or again you want to let the mind think it's okay.

There's no right or wrong way to meditate.

And we'll let you be now just for about a minute.

Slowly bring your awareness back and taking note of what came up in that time.

Were you able to focus on your breath or was your mind able to calm and relax or were there a lot of thoughts coming in?

As you got deeper into your practice,

Maybe now your body slowly is starting to calm.

You're getting into your practice a little bit more earlier when you start from the first time,

From our intro session.

So now go ahead and bring a little life back to your body.

Wiggle the fingers,

The toes.

Maybe take in another deep stretch,

Maybe an easy breath in and out.

Softly,

Gently,

Blinking the eyes open.

Again,

Thank you for this practice.

Until our next series,

We'll speak to you again.

Namaste.

Reviews

Thanks!

I loved this! I do feel like the music was a bit distracting for me.

Grateful to have found this 🙏🏻

Thank you, thank you. Thank you. We need more of these! Keep them coming 🙏

Thank you for this. I enjoyed learning more about how the various breathing techniques you used can help bring energy or help me to relax. 👍😊

Highly recommended! Already bookmarked and definitely will come back to this breath meditation. Thank you Jason! 🙏🏼

Thank you,Jason.
I found the pace and exercises to be most helpful and energizing. A daily practice for me for sure.
Blessings to you and yours.
Namaste 🙏🏻

I enjoyed this breathing meditation practice! Excellent techniques for clearing the channel!

I found this to be deeply relaxing. A great practice to focus on breath and be present.

I enjoy this practice. I have lung problems and these gentle exercises seem to be deepening my breath.

My first thought was; "why this annoying music", but I stuck with it. Very good breath meditation. Nice voice. And actually the "annoying" music held my attention so I had less thought interruptions than usual. If I listened to this music without meditating, it would make me tense I think. So the fact that I was relaxed, calm, and not tense is a testament to the pracrice

Music was a bit busy, but super otherwise!