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Breathing Exercises

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FREE BREATHING EXERCISES

Self confidence

This is a breathwork exercise you can practice everyday to boost confidence. Suitable for beginners (12 mins)

Conflicting emotions

A deeper breathwork practice that can be used when you have space and time to process. Suitable for beginners (27 mins)

Dissolving Stuckness

A powerful breathwork exercise for when you have space to do a deeper practice. Suitable for beginners (21 mins)

Come back to your senses

Feeling anxious, unable to wind down? Use this exercise to soothe your nervous system and return to the present. Suitable for beginners (13 mins)

Gratitude

Combining a gratitude practice with the breath can change the way we feel and think. Suitable for beginners (14 mins)

Anxiety relief

Stop anxiety in its tracks with this exercise. Suitable for beginners (10 mins)

The art of letting go

Thoughts and words hold energy. Use this exercise to let that energy go. Suitable for beginners (20 mins)

Making space in the mind

Instant reset to clear the clutter from the mind and find calm in its place. Suitable for beginners (7mins)

Four Suns Meditation

This Four Suns Meditation is a powerful way to begin your day or if you need to get some balance and clear the mind.

Breathing Through Lockdown

Breathing Through Lockdown Whether your mind is in another place, in a conversation that hasn’t happened, stuck in past stories, or feeling overwhelmed or anxious about the future, your breath has the power to pull you back to the ...

Mini Episode – Breathing Through Anxiety with Rebecca Dennis

Breathing Through Anxiety with Rebecca Dennis These shorts are exclusively created by Rebecca Dennis to help you find the space to breathe and experience moments of self-care through reflective, empowering and relaxing exercises. You can come back and listen ...

Mini Ep – Gratitude Breath Exercise

Mini Ep – Gratitude Breath Exercise with Rebecca Dennis These bespoke shorts are here to help you find the space to breathe and experience moments of self-care through reflective, empowering and relaxing exercises. Rebecca has exclusively created a breathing ...

Breath Exercise: Chakra Meditation

Breath Exercise: Chakra Meditation This is a short chakra meditation that is really relaxing as well as rejuvenating. In India the chakras are regarded as the main energy centers of the body. Think of them as pathways that promote ...

Breath Exercise: The Art of Letting Go

Breath Exercise: The Art of Letting Go In this exercise we are going to practice the art of letting go. Limitations are often creations of the mind. Fear of failure and making mistakes prevents us from moving forward ...

Sleep With Awareness Exercise

A simple breathing exercise based on Yoga Nidra which basically means Sleep with Awareness. This helps calm the nervous system especially if you’ve had a busy day or have a busy mind. They say a few minutes of Yoga ...

MORE BREATHING EXERCISES

Are you a belly breather or a chest breather?

You can do this sitting up straight or lying down. If you’re sitting up, keep your spine straight. Relax your shoulders, try not to hunch them.

Close your eyes.

Take a deep inhale through the nose and let go of the exhale through the nose.

Repeat this two or three times, breathing in and breathing out.

Now place one hand on your belly and the other hand on your chest.

Breathe in through the nose and out through the nose. Notice where you can feel the breath more.

Can you feel it more in your chest or can you feel it more in your belly?

Breathing Through Anxiety. You can practice this at home or at work

Feelings of anxiety are based around fear. Fear is a very old pattern and often it stops us in our tracks. Our body can sense it before we can, it tenses up and our breathing pattern changes. We can feel it reacting in our body and by remembering that it is simply energy we can take hold of it and alter the feeling rather than it taking hold of us. Here’s a simple exercise to notice the pattern, breathe through it and come out the other side.

Try this….reframe the story and remember it’s just a story. It’s not real.

You can do this anywhere, sitting at your desk or at home.  Remember to sit up straight and relax your shoulders. Feel your feet connecting to the ground. First be aware of the feelings and sensations that you are feeling in your body. Track them and get curious, is it in your belly, is it in your chest or perhaps somewhere else? Notice your breathing pattern, is it rapid, is it shallow, does it feel restricted? Now breathe deeply into the diaphragm, allow the belly and ribcage to expand as you inhale and contract as you exhale.  Place your hands on your lower abdomen and breathe into here.

As you inhale the belly expands like a balloon. Notice the feelings and greet them like an old friend, become the observer rather than entertaining the feelings and feeding them. Connect to your feet on the ground and imagine that they are growing roots into the ground. As you breathe in and out imagine the breath is coming all the way down to your feet. Be aware of the sensations in your body as you breathe in and breathe out. Try not to fight the sensations or push them away just notice them and eventually they will fade away. Breathe through the sensations in your body and as you breathe in and out use affirmations ‘I let go’. Continue to breathe deeply into the belly inhaling and exhaling and stay present with your breath. This will help to ground and centre you bringing you back to the present moment.

Balancing Breath for Centering Self

If right handed, place the thumb of the right hand over the right nostril and exhale through the left nostril.  Breathe into the left nostril to the count of 8 and hold the breath to the count of 8. Cover the left nostril with the index finger of the right hand and exhale through the right nostril to a count of 8 and hold the breath for a count of 8.  Cover the right nostril with the thumb and repeat the cycle ten times.

‘Ha Breath’ For Digestion and Joyful Energy

Stand with the feet placed shoulder width apart with knees bent. Place your hands on your lower abdomen and inhale through the mouth expanding the diaphragm.  Exhale quickly through the mouth making the sound, HA. Repeat rapidly for 2 minutes.

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