Playing with the Main Breathing Spaces
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Playing with the Main Breathing Spaces

Playing with the Main Breathing Spaces

This is a very simple breathwork meditation/exercise. The idea is to break a full inhale up into two parts. Focus on filling the belly first. And then fill up the chest. When you are completely full, just relax and exhale.

Then focus on filling the chest first and then the belly. When you feel full, relax and exhale. Go back and forth like this for several breaths. Do it slowly at first, and then play with speed.

It may help to put one hand over your belly button, and one hand over your heart.

Breathe only into the belly until it is full (this is the first half of the inhale). Hold that fullness in the lower breathing space and then breathe into the upper space until it is full (this is the second half of the inhale). When completely full, simply relax and release all of the breath at once.

Then breathe only into the chest (make this the first half of the inhale), and then breathe into the belly (make this the second half of the inhale). Then relax and release all the breath.

Use this practice to isolate these two main breathing spaces.

Belly, chest, release.

Chest, belly, release.

Belly, chest, release.

Chest, belly release.

The focus of this exercise/meditation is to transformation any tensions or restrictions or resistance in the belly and the chest into a sense of full flowing easy spaciousness.

Be conscious of the intention to awaken, harmonize and balance your physical, and mental energies.

Written by Dorian Cabral.