Audio Yoga Breathing Course with Corinne Friesen

Your obliques are important for taking completely full breaths.  When you feel like you’ve filled up with air, your obliques are fully engaged, they’re stretched open as far as they can go.

They’re part of the process that makes you feel energized and focused.

To make them work better for you, we’ll practice making them stronger, more flexible and able to expand farther.

Now that we’ve built up the strength and flexibility in your chest, we’re ready to practice Chest Breathing. This will make you more aware of the breathing you do with the front of your chest, and make the breathing that you do there, more efficient and more complete.

Today we’re going to start shaping up your breathing muscles in the front of your chest, using “Bust Expansion”, so that you can have good, full breathing.

It’s time to develop the breathing you do with the front of your chest. We’ll still be keeping up your skills with your abdominals, but there are lots of breathing muscles to train. So the next group are the ones between your ribs, the ones that help your rib cage open and close as you breathe. We'll start with a discovery practice, and then, in the next podcasts, learn exercises that strengthen & loosen these muscles. Then we'll learn Chest Breathing, which is a bit like Abdominal Breathing, only with slightly different benefits.

Wrapping up your day with Abdominal Breathing is now a calming part of your daily breathing routine. Let me guide you there.

You now know enough for a zesty day starter routine, using Abdominal Lifts and Butterfly Breathing. Let’s get that going!

Let’s piece together what you know so far into a daily breathing routine. We’ll use Abdominal Lifts and Butterfly Breathing to boost you into your day. Then, to calm you into your evening, Abdominal Breathing.

Abdominal Breathing can be the easiest form of breathing to master.  It's calming and comes fairly easily to many people.  The practices in this podcast can make you more able to breathe just with your abdominals, and will improve your breathing even when you're not thinking about it.  

Now that you have a good, all purpose breathing practice, from the previous podcast, let's start whipping your abdominals into shape.  We'll be using "Abdominal Lifts", a zesty little exercise!  Then, we'll be moving on to Abdominal Breathing in the next podcast.  

Let's get your upper body rebuilt for better breathing with this simple, yet effective exercise.