Audio Yoga Breathing Course with Corinne Friesen

You now know everything you need for a complete warm up routine. This one is designed to be manageable by almost anyone. Next week, we’ll explore a more demanding one. These routines are meant to strength and loosen all your breathing muscles. An energizing start to your day. They’re good warm ups for athletes, asthmatics singers and musicians with wind instruments.

You now know everything you need for a complete warm up routine that follows. This is the intro to one designed to be manageable by almost anyone. I’ve separated the introduction from the actual routine so that you can jump to the routine whenever you want to do it.

This is the alternative to last episode’s Frog Stretch. It’s a bit easier, while still giving you a full release for the breathing muscles along your back.

Here’s a stretch that thoroughly warms up breathing muscles in your entire back, from your sacrum all the way up your spine. It’s one of the last things we need to learn before fitting everything together into a complete Breathing Warm Up.

Getting a sense of smooth, flow with your “Wave” breathing.

“The Wave” combines everything you’ve been learning so far into breathing with your whole body. This lesson gets you introduced to the basic technique and starts you practising it. Be well.  :)

Now that you’ve gotten to know the breathing muscles in your lower back, we’re going to practice using them independently of other breathing muscles.

Now that you’ve found a starting position that works for you, I’ll guide you through some calming moments of noticing how your lower back is involved in breathing.

Today, we discover how your lower back is involved in breathing.  Part 1, explores setting up for the practice, finding ways to make the set up work for you.

Today we piece together a new daily routine. We’ll use Abdominal Lifts, Butterfly Breathing, Hug and Posture Clasp to get your day started. Then Abdominal Breathing or Back Breathing to slow you down after your day.