All About Breathwork: Understand How It Works & Learn Breathing Techniques To Increase Wellbeing

Breathwork refers to a wide variety of techniques and exercises which encompass regulating the way that one breathes, particularly in order to promote mental, emotional and physical health.

It is a conscious practice of deliberately manipulating how one breathes with awareness and intention that has been used therapeutically and as a path of spiritual awakening for thousands of years in various ancient traditions.

This recorded session will introduce you to a series of breathwork practices designed to enhance your physical, mental and spiritual health.

"Breathwork has been shown to increase parasympathetic activity, heart rate variability, physiological flexibility, [and] is one of the greatest tools I have in my medical toolbox to help individuals manage stress, [which] has become an epidemic in our society.”

-Mark Hyman, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

Research Studies

• Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials

• Breath of Life: The Respiratory Vagal Stimulation Model of Contemplative Activity

• The Effectiveness of Diaphragmatic Breathing Relaxation Training for Reducing Anxiety

• The effect of deep and slow breathing on pain perception, autonomic activity, and mood processing - an experimental study

• Effects of breathing exercises on lung capacity and muscle activities of elderly smokers

• Self-Regulation of Breathing as an Adjunctive Treatment of Insomnia

• Yogic breathing helps fight major depression, study shows

• Breathing-Based Meditation Decreases Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in U.S. Military Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Longitudinal Study

• The Use of Breathing Exercises in the Treatment of Chronic, Nonspecific Low Back Pain

• Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder with Iyengar Yoga and Coherent Breathing: A Randomized Controlled Dosing Study

Additional breathwork instruction:

• Dr. Weil explains how to do his 4-7-8 breathing technique. Relaxing Breathing Exercise

• 5 Minute Guided Cyclic Sighing - Andrew Huberman