Why do we yawn? Why is yawning so contagious? What causes our body to yawn? I’ve been taught that yawning is your body’s attempt to rebalance your oxygen & carbon dioxide levels in your blood. In other words, if you hadn’t been breathing efficiently, you’ll body will want to reset by taking a yawn. And […]
Breathing and Posture are intimately interconnected. Your diaphragm, your main breathing muscle, is the top of your core, whereas your pelvic floor is the bottom of your core. Every time you breathe, you’re impacting your intrabdominal pressure, spinal and core stability. Your posture impacts your breathing. How you breathe impacts your posture. Good posture allows
Notice your breath to gain insight into your autonomic nervous system. Intentionally alter your breath to communicate to your unconscious body and your autonomic nervous system. Your autonomic nervous system controls your breathing pattern, your heart rate, your digestion, your hormones, your state of arousal, and your body’s involuntary actions that keep you alive. Your
Hormones and your nervous system affect your breathing. Your breathing pattern is a result of your life history and your body’s current emotional and physiological condition. When we need to be alert and active, our breathing pattern is a little quicker. When we’re at peace and relaxed, our breathing pattern is a little lighter, softer,
What is anxiety and does breathing help? Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something an uncertain outcome. From psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Jud Brewer’s book, Unwinding Anxiety: Anxiety is everywhere. Many people don’t notice that they have anxiety since it hides in bad habits. Anxiety is
In our modern lives, we rarely have a truly life threatening event, we typically are NOT being chased down by a lion, bear, or violent invader. Yet we often feel like something major is happening, as we work on a big project at work, determine who to date, decide which product to buy, choose which
What does breathwork have to do with inflammation? To explain this connection, let’s first start by explaining why the body creates inflammation. Inflammation is the body’s response to a threat. This threat could be a bacteria or a virus, or this perceived threat could be physical, psychological, or emotional stress. Inflammation is your body’s defense
We need Carbon Dioxide. When we first learn about breathing, we learn that humans inhale in oxygen and exhale out carbon dioxide. While that isn’t wrong, it’s not completely correct either. We actually exhale most of the oxygen we inhale. We typically don’t exhale all of the carbon dioxide we produce. The stimulus or urge
