Coherent breathing
If you feel dizzy, hear ringing in your ears or start feeling anxious, stop and breathe the way you normally do. Safety and limits
Headphones make this easier 🎧.
Lie down or sit comfortably and stay still. Breathe to the rhythm of the circle, as if to a pendulum.
Where to focus: keep the breath in the belly. Hold your attention in the body.
How to breathe: inhale for 5 counts — exhale for 5 counts, with no pauses between them. Inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth. If 5 is hard for now, shorten to 4 — no less.
On every exhale release the tension in turn, from the top down: face, tongue and throat, diaphragm, hands, pelvic floor, feet.
Preparing the practice…