Audio Yoga Breathing Course with Corinne Friesen

Posture Clasp will develop the muscles in your upper back,  take out tension in your neck and shoulders, and, as the name suggests, do great things for your posture.  With better posture comes better breathing.

It’s time to develop the breathing muscles in your upper back. Today we’re going to discover them and develop their action for richer breaths in.

Today we’ll apply your growing skill at isolating your breathing muscles, to practising breathing with just the front of your chest.

This practice will be a lot like Chest Breathing that you learned in Lesson 3, only now, we’re going to add to it, by having you consciously relax the muscles that you’re not using when you breathe.

So our goal for this is to just use your chest when you breathe in and out, and let everything else rest.

Before we work on developing more of your breathing muscles, we’re going to revisit your abdominals and learn how to use them independently, so, when you want to, you can use just them, and no others, when you breathe.

This is the episode wrap up for the guided, step-by-step relaxation.  

Namaste,

This is the full, step-by-step, guided relaxation, part 2 of this three part episode.  

This episode is in three parts: the introduction, the guided relaxation, and an episode closer.   This is the main, step-by-step, guided relaxation.

Namaste,

Lesson 7 - A Guided, Step-by-step Relaxation

My holiday treat for you is also a step on our breathing course journey. It’s a guided, step-by-step relaxation. It’ll help you learn to deliberately relax your breathing. In the meantime, it’s just a lovely way to let go and relax.

This episode is in three parts: the introduction, the guided relaxation, and an episode closer.

Simple Side Bend is a good, all purpose side stretch that loosens the breathing muscles at the sides of your chest.  It's also great for relieving tension in your neck & shoulders and for building core strength.  It will be one of the stretches we'll tuck into a daily Breathing Warm Up Routine as the podcast progresses.

I do not have this week’s episode ready quite yet.  This short audio message advises you on where to focus your practice and attention until next week.  Keep up the good work.  And keep breathing in and out!

A zesty beat while you practice your breathing exercises.  This one goes especially well with the Abdominal Lifts.