Breathing exercise – Breathing Technique to Improve Allergies and Asthma
Breathing technique to improve nasal and lung health. It stretches the lungs and the intercostal muscles, the muscles between the lungs that help with breathing.
You can do the breath any time you feel the need to step back and take few conscious breaths. Always sitting up with a straight back! With timer 2-5min, after shake out hands.
- Inhale trough your nose a little bit. Hold the breath. Hands below the navel.
- Take in a little more; keep holding. Hands above the navel.
- Take an inhale even more: keep holding. All the way up above your collarbone.
- Hold for a count of 8 (only if you can… work up to a 8-count if you feel like you’re struggling).
- Slowly exhale through the nose, using your stomach muscles to push back towards your spine.
This technique works really really well for lots of things!!
I have been practicing it bc I have an injury in my diaphragm and it has been tight on the right side for years. I do it for the other reasons Doris explains as well, of course. It’s great for stretching your entire abdomen.
I have had many deep tissue massages to help my diaphragm where it is tight on the right side from a surgery that I had and honestly this breathing technique along with specific poses Doris teaches have been the most helpful for it.
As I continue to do this breathing technique it is stretching my diaphragm. I can feel the area slowly stretch more and more.
I love this along with all the others!!! Her breathing technique for our heart is such a good one too! I use all of them but at diff times. Right now I am doing the heart breath daily and it has helped me to release some emotions that are wanting to come up and out of me. It’s also very soothing like the humming breath she taught us too. I love how when we are in class with her live, she gives even more wisdom about where the body holds emotions and where it starts to go to in the body and then where it ends up going once time goes on and it isn’t released. That’s the benefit of being in class and doing one on one sessions with her.
She vibrates and lives what she teaches!!! Anyone that is sensitive experiences the shifts to leveling up as they work with her. That happens when the teacher lives what they teach.
Thanks Doris! I just sent this as a link to a friend who struggles with allergies! I don’t have that issue but still find this technique so comforting and a blessing to my lungs! Taking care of the two of them in this simple, quick exercise only makes good sense!! I also find it challenging to do correctly and that means that I feel good about doing it for a benefit that lasts into my day! Challenges are Opportunities to find new “friends” in ourselves or others! This builds a quiet, confident strength in our lungs, two of our best friends forever! Doris?! You are a Wise Jewel!!