Practicing the Pause

Guided breathing meditation with the following intentions: to create and maintain integrity in the spine, and to practice slower paced breath cycles emphasizing the pause between inhale and exhale. Through this practice you will learn to slow your breathing and settle into a parasympathetic rhythm. With consistent practice, you will learn to consider the spaces between out-breath and in-breath as part of a full breath cycle; breathing in this way more regularly allows for the nervous system to reset and for tensions to be released from body and mind.