The Failure of Yogic Breathing

There are many different systems of breath work out there that focus on relaxed breathing and stress reduction that also talk about how to increase breath control and expand the practitioner’s lung capacity.  Unfortunately the majority of these systems fall short due to the fact that they tend to focus the bulk (or all) of their work on…

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Breath and Body Coordination

Matching breath to body movement is a key skill in learning how to power movement with the breath.  This matching can be as simple as inhaling on an expanding, opening, or lengthening movements and exhaling on contracting or closing movements. Under resistance though we begin to look at the idea of exhaling on effort to…

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Breathe Through Your Heels

Chuang Tzu (c.370-286 BC) said, “The breathing of the superior man comes from his heels, while men generally breathe only from their throats…”   When performing these types of exercises it is important to realize that breathing is not simply a mechanical process where we see our lungs operating as a kind of bellows, drawing in…

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Who is This Program for Anyway?

It recently came to my attention (yesterday, as a matter of fact) that several people are under the impression that my Evolve Your Breathing program is only meant for a small demographic of the population, ie – male martial artists. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but the last time I checked 100%, that means…

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