The Exhale.

While it’s nice to speak about the ways breathing can improve our lifestyles, it’s worth mentioning that things can work both ways and that you can change your lifestyle to improve your breathing. Lifestyle changes are some of the simplest things you can do to improve your health in the long term, especially when it comes to breathing. At Breathwrk, we always recommend using breathing as a tool to optimize your lived experience and engage with your mind and body more readily.

The mind and body work as a tandem offense when facing the troubles of daily life. We’d argue that breathing is the method in which these two aspects of life mesh together. Like any system involving more than one party, it takes training to ensure that everything runs as smoothly as possible. As the mind wanders or falls into bad habits, so too does the body and vice-versa. Thankfully, like any muscle in the body, we can train ourselves to influence that relationship between the mind and body.

While the primary function of our work at Breathwrk is to facilitate better health with education on therapeutic breathing techniques, our goal is to help others take greater consideration of their self-care and lifestyle. Part of that is by harnessing the power of a solid routine. Routines are unbelievably helpful for self-care and improved wellbeing, providing structure to the day and lessening the need for constant decision-making, with can be profoundly fatiguing after a time.

The power of breathing to help manage our mental and physical wellbeings is what we believe in wholeheartedly. The benefits are clear and, more often than not, the solution to many issues with anxiety and emotional management can be as simple as knowing and applying the correct techniques for you. However, there is the obvious problem that arises when your air quality isn’t up to scratch either. A healthy lifestyle starts with the environment we live in.

If there’s one thing you’ll learn with us at Breathwrk, it’s that there’s often a breathing technique for everyone and everything. Like a toolbox brimming with hardware, our bodies have a range of different solutions to the problems life presents us, and it only takes a little bit of knowledge to know what to use. While we like to talk a lot about the ins and outs of how specific techniques can aid our mental and physical wellbeings, rarely do we go into the nitty-gritty

One of the more challenging aspects of daily life is regulating your emotions. Scientists and philosophers from modern-day to as far back as the classical age have wrestled with the idea of how emotional responses affect us. Marcus Aurelius, famed roman Emperor and stoic, regularly contemplated the role emotions play in our lives, devoting much of his memoir, Meditations.

There was a time when all humans used to breathe deeply and efficiently when we were young children. Just watch a newborn as it sleeps, each inhale and exhale as slow and rhythmic as the last. If you’re watching closely, you’ll probably be immediately struck by how peacefully young children sleep, hence the phrase “sleeping like a baby.” However, as time went by, the need to breathe at a shallower rate became more crucial, despite how detrimental it can be to our health in the long term.

Starting mornings right is crucial to maintaining energy and brainpower through the rest of the day’s activities. It’s a well-known fact, and it’s worth it constantly tweak your daily routine to make sure you maximize your energy returns from a well-earned rest. One element of a healthier and happier morning comes from how you use breathing to capitalize on your improved health. Taking the time to learn the best breathing exercises goes a long way to improve your heart and brain...

Breathing is an essential function of the human body, and humans are responsible for around 17,000 breaths per day to live their lives simply. Breathing properly has never been more critical, with bad habits built up from one generation to another over decades, if not centuries. However, one section of the population has managed to keep good habits - musicians. As a result, wind instruments have become the surprising saviors of human wellness and health when it comes to the music community.

Sleep deprivation has been on the rise in recent years, with more and more people struggling to get adequate sleep during nightly hours. While there are a lot of different factors that contribute to your quality of sleep, such as the time you go to bed, the food you eat and when, and how routine your nights are, one of the most critical factors in sleeping is something much more straightforward - breathing. Shallow breathing is often a crucial part of poor sleeping and arguably does more to ruin

If you’ve had a panic attack before, then you’ll be familiar with at least a few of these symptoms: Sweats and Chills Dizziness Racing Heart Loss of Control One in four Americans will likely experience a panic attack at some point in their lifetime. Panic attacks are sudden, intense feelings of terror when there is no apparent reason to feel as such and are usually out of proportion to the danger you may be feeling. In many cases, panic attacks are an emotional response to trauma.

While we have spoken a lot about achieving deep breathing states and using the proper techniques to enhance your wellbeing, the crucial aspects of breathing will always be dependent on one thing - your lungs. Lung capacity is critical to a fulfilling life and can be compromised in various ways that go beyond simply smoking. For example, suppose you’re having trouble breathing deeply or feeling difficulty going through some of the breathing exercises we’ve detailed before.

Getting burnout can feel terrible and comes from suffering stress for long periods of time. Learn how breathing can keep you from feeling.

In this blog, we’ll be showing you some of our favorite breathing exercises that you may have never heard of. Give them a try.

One of the key focuses and goals of Breathwrk is to combat the prevalence of shallow breathing in daily life. While newborn babies and younger children instinctively know how to breathe correctly, at some point, many of us lose the ability to naturally achieve a state of deep breathing, leading to a habit of shallow breathing that can adversely affect our health in the long term.

The benefits of proper breathing have become strangely lost to recent generations despite how invaluable breathing is to our lives. Breathing is one of the most crucial functions of the body, if not the most vital, and it’s done almost entirely automatically! Of course, that also means that we have all probably developed our fair share of bad habits along the way. Like anything with bodily processes, poor functionality is bound to occur and will only worsen if uncorrected.

High blood pressure is a rising issue globally, with rates of high blood pressure increasing amongst populations year-on-year. While many choose to use medication to help alleviate their symptoms, many decide to take a more natural route. Remedies such as meditation, mindfulness techniques, and certain types of herbal teas can help reduce high blood pressure when done correctly. However, if you have significantly elevated blood pressure, these techniques should be supplementary...

A wealth of different studies in the neuroscientific community have proven that breathing has a far more significant impact on an individual’s overall health and wellbeing than previously believed. Certain revelations have gone so far as to claim that utilizing deeper, more focused, and conscious breathing techniques can be vital to relieving a person of a variety of different common psychological ailments. With knowledge and understanding of the power of deep breathing becoming more nuanced...

Breathing is the crucial mechanism all of us humans rely on to live our lives. Breathing converts oxygen to the bloodstream and pumps the body with vital molecules while simultaneously getting rid of waste by expelling carbon dioxide. Most of this happens literally right under our noses, and it happens so often that we quickly stop taking notice of it unless it’s explicitly being pointed out. Of course, this mechanism of breathing is not always as simple as it sounds.

There are many similarities between flying and a breathing practice. Both start out turbulent. Your mind will not immediately go quiet. Just like when the plane is taking off and bouncing around, you might even wonder why you started in the first place. It’s hard to just sit there and breathe. But once you reach altitude, autopilot kicks in. You feel more comfortable just breathing.

With practice, our breath can help us improve in many aspects of our life, including but not limited to: (1) using our breath to handle the stressors of life in a more relaxed manner; (2) giving you a quick pick me (similar to a cup of coffee); and, (3) quickly putting you to sleep.

Discover how horizontal breathing vs vertical breathing allows for healthy blood flow & oxygenation. Shallow breathing is linked to health issues like anxiety, fatigue, etc.

Understand the physiological and psychological benefits of breathwork versus meditation.