Day 2 Learning To Breathe Belly Breath

In Day 2 of learning to breathe we are now coming into breathing into the belly breath practice. Learning to inhale and extend the belly and exhale contract the belly. Knowing that any practice is diaphragmatic breathing

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Welcome to day two of learning to breathe with Carrie Joy of Sagewood Wellness. I hope you feel so rejuvenated after day one. Here we go on day two. So today we will be working on belly breathing. So in belly breathing we are allowing our body to breathe fully into our belly on our inhales and on our exhales we are taking our belly button back towards our spine. This allows the air to completely escape our lungs. Now there's a bit of a myth to bust here. All breathing is diaphragmatic breathing so we're constantly breathing with our diaphragm but also if you are exhaling belly out and inhaling belly in this is just an adaptive form of breathing. There is nothing wrong with it. So why belly breath? When we are in a stressful moment or we have a big assignment due we can use our belly breathing technique to allow our nervous systems to calm. So here we go for practice. On our inhale we're gonna come into just a nice comfortable seat again. Hands can be on your thighs. They can also be in a bowl in your lap. Whatever feels most comfortable for you. We're going to take our hands now to our belly and on our inhale we're going to inhale through the nose filling our belly up like a balloon expanding expanding expanding. Inhale belly falls naturally contracting. Inhale we're expanding expanding expanding and exhale contracting contracting contracting. Inhale breathing completely into the belly. Exhale allowing breath to fall and belly to fall. Inhale breathing in belly expanding and exhale belly releasing and contracting. Noting while you're practicing as we inhale expansion. You are also welcome to lay on your back. Exhale contraction. Whichever means allows you to bring the air right into the belly and exhale. All we're doing here is focusing on the inhale and exhale as our breath is something to carry us through our daily life and it is completely natural and it is always here. Inhale into the belly. Exhale out belly contracting. Inhale in exhale out. From here we're releasing our practice and we are just coming into a normal breath cycle to take a couple moments to observe. Observe how you feel post-practice. Observe if you feel more in your body. Observe if maybe this practice was a bit challenging. I know for me at first seven to ten years ago that it was. Knowing that you're completely not alone. Just taking a moment to ground yourself. Taking a moment to come back into the room. We're going to allow that movement into the fingers and the toes. We're going to allow ourselves to feel the temperature of the air on our skin. Next we're going to open our eyes and come back into the room around us. Thank you so much for joining me today. Look forward to seeing you in day three.