Of all of life’s movements BREATH is the MOST VITAL

There are many ways to develop the breath and it is important to address individual needs. For instance, a group class in Better Breathing would develop a collective approach touching on the needs of all participants. There are various systems and techniques which provide considerable better breathing guidance:

• Yoga Pranayama—provides numerous breath techniques.
• Alexander Technique—is one of the simplest and most direct approaches to gaining easier, deeper breath.
• Chicoma Breathing—uses deep and/or rapid breathing while standing and maintaining balance; has an invigorating centering effect.
• Lathi and Heart Chakra Centering—works with the ever expanding “heartwind” and develops the lungs with aerobic conditioning.
• Tai Chi—circulates chi internal energy within the middle tantien located near the heart and lungs.
• Dragon Maneuvers—uses many of the techniques from disciplines above with the addition of internal and external alignments in free form movements.

AWARENESS – CULTIVATION – PRACTICE

The work and personal application towards developing better breathing can be done with the “Three Stages of Vital Connections Work”:

Awareness—always, this is a most important starting point

Cultivation—do some reading, research and thinking about processes and goals

Practice—put the exercises to work