COURSE

Breathe With Me: Heal With Me

Learning to breathe again could change your life. We were born breathing perfectly in perfect mind, heart, breath, coherence. But since we didn't have any training, we picked up a lot of bad habits and non-nourishing behaviors along the way. And we've learned to live with allergies and asthma, restless sleep, blocked sinuses, snoring, shortness of breath, high blood pressure, and brain fog. All these challenges can be helped and healed by simply learning to breathe. Journey with me over 20 days, and your clarity will increase, your lung capacity will expand, and your next doctor visit could be amazing. Each session is about 10 minutes and will introduce a different gentle technique. There is no rapid breathing in this course.

Pain Recovery & Healing Stress Stress & Anxiety Yoga Spirituality Pranayama Movement

Meet your Teacher

davidji

Los Angeles, CA, USA

davidji is a globally recognized mindbody health and wellness expert, mindful performance trainer, meditation teacher and author of three award-winning books. davidji has taught millions of people around the world to heal their hearts, plant powerful intentions and manifest their dream lives. His grasp of time tested solutions combined with real-world practical applications, have helped people at every life stage and circumstance find balance, heal deep wounds, and transform into their best versions.

21 Days

20.0k students

5.0 stars

11 min / day

Pain

English

Lesson 1

My Breathing Mechanics – A Self-Diagnostic

Let's get really granular on witnessing our breathing. Take note: How fast (or slow) do I inhale and exhale? How does my breath enter, move through my body, and leave my body? What does it feel like? What does it sound like? Witnessing our breath in this way is the foundation for our process.

Lesson 2

The Space Between Our Breath

When we control the length of the space, that is the thing that can help us speed up or slow down our breathing, which will speed up or slow down our heart rate, our thoughts, our mind, our physiology and every aspect of who we are.

Lesson 3

Healing Swing Breath

In lesson two, we learned to master our breath simply by lengthening the space between the inhale and the exhale by just a beat. This process can slow your heartbeat substantially, it can lessen and lower your blood pressure effortlessly, and it can bring you into the space of clarity. In this lesson, we learn a new, gentle technique to engage our breath.

Lesson 4

Healing Ninja Breath

Today we explore one of my favorite breathing techniques I like to call Ninja Breath, also referred to as Quiet, Continuous Breathing. With this method, we place our attention to the sound of our breath correlated directly to how slowly or quickly we breath.

Lesson 5

Healing Cooling Victory Breath

In the ancient Sanskrit language, the word ujjayi translates to one who is victorious. Ujjayi breath, or victory breath, is a technique used to enhance concentration and focus, quickly release anxiety, tension, stress, and anger, and it regulates body temperature. In today's lesson, we practice this powerful breathing method to thwart the fight-flight response, whatever trauma, tragedy, or trigger we're about to experience, so we won't.

Lesson 6

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Continuing with our exploration of ancient pranayam techniques, nadi shodhana is Sanskrit for energy cleansing. It is used to infuse our body with oxygen, and relax, rejuvenate and resetting our nervous system. Nadi shodhana also helps to cleanse our lungs and our sinuses/nostrils of any debris or any irritants.

Lesson 7

No-Hands Nadi - A New Twist On An Ancient Technique

Anytime we practice alternate nostril breathing, we clean our left channel, our right channel - our channels of prana, of breath, and our lungs. But sometimes nadi shodhana isn't practical, such as if we're in a public setting, to suddenly lock ourselves down and close our eyes and rest our thumb on our right nostril and our middle finger on our left nostril. So that's why I developed a more practical process that we'll learn today.

Lesson 8

Evolutionary Breathwork

True pranayam is taking one more beat on the exhale before we inhale. So in this lesson, we will ever so gently expand the capacity in our lungs. If you've ever struggled with shortness of breath, with allergies or asthma, or if you've just never really been able to take long, slow, deep breaths, this can be a solution for that. Remember that consistency is key for this technique to have long-term positive effects.

Lesson 9

Breathing In The Light

Welcome to lesson nine. Using gentle breathing for this body scan, together we'll awaken the present moment inside of us to help us become more creative, more patient, calmer, more expansive and more abundant throughout the day.

Lesson 10

The 365 Healing Technique

Maybe you're not yet aware, but just showing up with me over these past nine days has improved the capacity of your lungs and the ease of your breathing - you are totally leveling up! Your overall health plus your cognitive function is powerfully transforming your physiology and your emotional state. Let's take it a step further with the 365 technique: the three stands for three times a day; the six is how many cycles per minute; and the practice is five seconds in, five seconds out.

Lesson 11

Healing Energy Exchange

In lesson 10 we practiced the 365 breathing method, and a perfect complement to it is today's technique. Known as tonglen in Sanskrit, tonglen means energy exchange and we use it to release emotional or physical constrictions, let go of grievances, and awaken peace, acceptance and unconditional loving kindness.

Lesson 12

Mastering The Science Of Breath

Welcome to lesson 12! Now that we've mastered several healing breathing techniques over the past week and a half, we're diving deep into the science of breath work in today's lesson, and some of the powerful anatomical aspects of breathing. Then we'll practice what I like to call the 6-4-8 breathing technique.

Lesson 13

16-Seconds to Healing

Today I share with you a practice that I have shared with Marines and other special forces, first responders and law enforcement, and so many people who are in high pressure, high stress professions. And I consider this to be one of the most therapeutic techniques, which is why I refer this practice as therapeutic breathing.

Lesson 14

The 4-7-8 Transformation

Continuing on this path to master our breathing, the 4-7-8 method allows us to mindfully hold our breath just a beat longer, thus allowing the oxygen-rich aspects of the blood to be released more deeply into our system. It's a great technique to get rid of brain fog, too!

Lesson 15

The 6-8 Two Step

Since we have explored six seconds, and four, seven, eight, today we're going to tighten it up just a little bit when we practice the 6-4-8 technique without the holding in between, and we'll get to experience the difference between those two processes.

Lesson 16

Fill 'Er Up

In this lesson, we practice one of my favorite breathing techniques known by many names - double dip, two-step breath, double tap, fill it up, or tap it off! One of the things I love about this breath is how multidimensional it is. It fills me with energy at the same time it brings about a catharsis, sort of like inspiration followed by a sigh.

Lesson 17

Progressive Expansion

We've made it to lesson 17! And, today I share with you an oldie but goodie known as progressive expansion. It's a gentle expansion of breath, something you can practice in the car, while you're walking, sitting at your desk, or just about any situation that you find yourself in. We'll gently cleanse and heal our lungs, while working toward expanding our lung capacity.

Lesson 18

One Breath Per Minute

We've explored so many different types of breathing techniques, but we're going to take it even deeper today with a more advanced breathing practice so we continue to build our lung capacity. I encourage you, if at any time during the practice you feel uncomfortable or lightheaded or dizzy, pause the practice and settle yourself.

Lesson 19

The Secret Of The Diaphragm

Our breath work journey today brings us to place our attention on our diaphragm, which sits right below our lungs and right above the solar plexus. In many different traditions, diaphragmatic breathing is called belly breathing or abdominal breathing. In this lesson, we'll combine this technique with a yogic technique called bumblebee breath that uses the healing power of sound to release cerebral tension, stimulate the pineal and pituitary glands, soothe nerves, relieve stress and anxiety and dissipate anger.

Lesson 20

Full-On Stress Release

Our final lesson introduces a breath work technique that is quite powerful. This particular method requires that you sit up, so find a comfortable position to feather your nest. Be prepared to surrender and release all the tension from your body simultaneously.

Lesson 21

Bonus Day! Freestyle Breath

Surprise! How could we NOT spend one more day meditating together! Pick your favorite breathing technique and together, let's connect to the stillness and silence that rests within. You and I are connected forever through the breath, beyond space and time. Namaste.

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Recent Reviews

Maja

January 31, 2026

I absolutely loved this course from the beginning to the end. The breathing techniques that we learned here are very useful. Most of them i already knew from my YTT but I still learned more about them and th3 course reminded me of importance of breath in everyday life. Even tho pranayama is one of the eight limbs if yoga i tend to neglect it, so i'm glad that i got reminded of it. I only wish i heard the phrase 'feather your nest' more often 😅 Thank you so much for your knowledge and effort 🙏❤️

Misha

January 27, 2026

Absolutely incredible journey. Became part of my routine. This was first on the list, as soon as I woke up. Felt like I had been given an oxygen boost for the day. Will continued this habit of breathwork as soon as I wake up. Extemely grateful 🙏❤️

Tanita

January 25, 2026

Enjoyed exploring different breathing techniques. Have seen an impact in my mental clarity and breath capacity. The sessions are easy to follow and have a lasting effect. Thank you

Lucia

January 22, 2026

Powerful course. With gratitude for your teaching Davidji 🙏💚

Bridget

January 16, 2026

Thank you Davidji for helping me to relax and breath! This class was so great. I think I’m going to repeat it!

Stephanie

January 15, 2026

So helpful! I will be repeating it. Thank you!

John

January 15, 2026

Definitely going to keep repeating the course

January 10, 2026

This was great, simple yet effective! I found it to be most noticeable when going to bed at night and having lots of thoughts, busy mind, and just focused on my breathing and has been helping a lot. I will repeat again. Thank you 😊

Lisa

January 6, 2026

Loved this course and plan on doing it again abcs again. Thanks so much!

Jane

January 4, 2026

Fantastic course

Eleni

December 27, 2025

Really life-changing and worth it.

Villa

December 14, 2025

I could not get past day 14. I adore davidji, truly truly truly, and there have been many many many of his tracks that have genuinely helped me. But as the course went on, it was more explanation than breath work. On day 13 (if I remember correctly), he specifically said he’ll spend 1 min explaining something…only to explain it for the next 4-5. It wasn’t until the last 3-4 minutes of the track that we did the breath work and it was only 1-2 cycles. That is what made me stop the course completely. For a 12min track, I would prefer to have 2 minutes of explaining and have the rest be actual pranayam. Outside of that, I learned so much and I’m grateful. I am a Yoga teacher so it was insightful (pun intended) to learn of different practices. I even taught one in a class (ujjayi + kapalbhati together). For that I thank you!

Ingrid

December 11, 2025

An amazingly powerful and effective course!! Not only has it certainly increased my lung capacity, but starting every morning with a new lesson gave me a boost of energy and motivation! I will be using these techniques on a daily basis, and they were taught so thoroughly that I feel confident I can do them on my own. Thank you, Davidji!!!

Joy

December 7, 2025

Davidji - thank you for leading us with this excellent primer on breathing. Not only is it a wealth of information but challenges us to try difficult techniques with the breath! Will keep up my daily breathing sessions and plan to return to the course again in the near future! You deserve more than 5 stars for this one!!

Satya

December 4, 2025

Davidji patiently and systematically takes us through different breathing technologies that can help us heal emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Our breath is what allows us to live in this realm. Gaining mastery of it, or simply improving our ability to breathe allows us to move forward in whatever area of our life that we choose. If you are afraid this might be too woo, you needn't worry. Davidji always gives you the science behind the technique. I truly loves this course and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to relieve stress, improve their health or increase their lung capacity. Thank you Davidji. See you all in the gap.

Sally

November 30, 2025

A treasure! I’ll be starting it again tomorrow with a notebook to help me remember and to keep the powerful energy going. Davidji is a masterful teacher and his courses are among the best on Insight Timer.

Jeannie

November 27, 2025

Beautiful just beautiful! 💖

Alexandra

November 25, 2025

It's incredible all the different ways such a basic yet critical function like breathing can heal and provide what we need whether that be enhanced energy or calm. Loved this course, learned so much, and was challenged in a good way! Will be coming back to this one for sure.

Dawn

November 21, 2025

This was amazing! I definitely have increased my lung capacity and just feel better about breathing in general. Thank you so much, Davidji!

Cindy

November 21, 2025

Blessings of gratitude for this fabulous course in breathing 🙏 I have learned many ways of breathing that I had no idea existed, and the biggest Takeaway is how simple it is to calm down by my breathing. I love your soothing and healing voice 🙏🙏🙏 I look forward to doing more courses from you🤗

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