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# The Breath and Balance

Move, Feel, and Sleep Better.  Breathwork Facilitation.

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://thebreathandbalance.com/blog) - Discover how your breath connects to your posture, performance, brain, and overall wellbeing. Why do yawn? What happens at altitude? Read more in the blog.
- [Power your brain's cleaning system with your breath](https://thebreathandbalance.com/power-your-brains-cleaning-system-with-your-breath) - Breathing influences your brain's environment. CSF bathes your brain, removing accumulated waste products. CSF movement is driven by your heart and lungs.
- [Sleep Apnea & Breathing](https://thebreathandbalance.com/sleep-apnea-breathing) - Breathing influences your risk of sleep apnea. How you breathe influences your airway health, your respiratory control, and your physiological state.
- [Breathwork and asthma](https://thebreathandbalance.com/breathwork-and-asthma) - Reduce and manage your asthma symptoms with breathwork. Encourage relaxation, exhale completely, pause between breaths, and breathe in and out with your nose.
- [Improve memory by nose breathing](https://thebreathandbalance.com/improve-memory-by-nose-breathing) - Your breathing pattern influences your brain activity For example, your hippocampus neural activity patterns are synchronized with your respiration. Not only does your breathing influence oxygen going to cell tissue, when you breathe through your nose, you create an air pressure stimulation across the olfactory bulb of your nose. Your olfactory bulb sends signals directly
- [How should we breathe?](https://thebreathandbalance.com/how-should-we-breathe) - There is a breathing style that tells your body your safe and uses the least amount of energy, allowing your body to focus on doing other things.
- [Breathing & Emotions](https://thebreathandbalance.com/breathing-emotions) - Every emotion has a breathing pattern. Noticing how your breath provides clues into your feelings, sometimes before you're consciously aware of these feelings.
- [What's your tolerance to carbon dioxide?](https://thebreathandbalance.com/carbon-dioxide-sensitivity) - Tolerance to carbon dioxide creates resiliency and improves your breathing efficiency. Read about some ways to get a sense of your tolerance to carbon dioxide.
- [Breathing at Altitude](https://thebreathandbalance.com/breathing-at-altitude) - Breathing at altitude can be challenging. Why is it harder? Why does it get easier over time? What can you do to support yourself when you're at altitude?
- [Your Diaphragm - one of my favorite muscles in the body](https://thebreathandbalance.com/your-diaphragm) - Your diaphragm is the largest muscle that supports your breathing. By strengthening your diaphragm you can improve your respiratory stamina and endurance.
- [Carbon Dioxide - Why we need it](https://thebreathandbalance.com/carbon-dioxide-why-we-need-it) - Carbon dioxide plays multiple roles in the body. Carbon dioxide dilates your blood vessels and allows oxygen to leave your blood and enter your cell tissue.
- [Reboot the Nerves](https://thebreathandbalance.com/reboot-the-nerves) - Help your body and nervous system reset. It's often easier to relax after a challenging activity for the body. Take some action and then release.
- [Autonomic nervous system](https://thebreathandbalance.com/autonomic-nervous-system) - Your breath is a bridge to your autonomic nervous system. By intentionally breathing your conscious self can influence your nervous system.
- [Why do I teach movement classes?](https://thebreathandbalance.com/why-do-i-teach-movement-classes) - Movement classes support the breath and are a great addition to breathwork training. Movement improves your posture and rib mobility, enabling a better breath.
- [Mental Health with Breathwork](https://thebreathandbalance.com/supporting-mental-health-with-breathwork) - Your mind is always doing stuff - noticing sensations, thinking, keeping your body going and helping you to navigate the world. Sometimes our mind sends us in a direction or creates a feeling that we wish wasn't happening. In order to help the mind and body readjust to a more desired state, we need to
- [Coherent or Resonance Breathing](https://thebreathandbalance.com/coherent-or-resonance-breathing) - Coherent or Resonance Breathing You have many internal rhythms. Rhythms exist all over your body. You heart beats with a certain pattern. You breathe a certain way and muscles often move with a rhythm. Your stomach and intestines pulsate to digest your food. Your spinal and cerebral fluids flow. Inside your body, many systems move
- [Breathing for Champions](https://thebreathandbalance.com/breathing-for-champions) - Relax your shoulders. Use your diaphragm and make it stronger. Breathe Like A Champion When you're tired and you can't catch your breath, you can't perform. While cardio training can help, training your breathing muscles is also important. Identify your breathing habits and how to work less as you breathe. Get stronger through breathwork. Challenge
- [Interoception](https://thebreathandbalance.com/interoception) - Interoception - Your Body Sensing Sense How do you know when to go to the bathroom? When to eat? When to drink? When to go to bed? When to breathe? How do you know when you're upset? How do you know when you feel safe? Your body senses what's happening inside you and sends a
- [Yawning](https://thebreathandbalance.com/yawning) - 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
- [Posture & Breathing](https://thebreathandbalance.com/posture-breathing) - 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
- [Inflammation & Breathwork](https://thebreathandbalance.com/inflammation-breathwork) - 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
- [Interrupt the anxiety cycle, Breathe slowly.](https://thebreathandbalance.com/unwind-anxiety) - 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
- [Breathing & Female Hormones](https://thebreathandbalance.com/pellentesque-adipiscing-iaculis-hac-aliquam) - 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,

## Pages

- [Challenge & strengthen your breath](https://thebreathandbalance.com/) - How do you breathe? When does it change? Improve your breath and improve your health. Work with Nicole Carpenter. Do breathwork and invest in your wellness.
- [Privates](https://thebreathandbalance.com/privates) - Your breath can help you self regulate, get in the flow, perform, recover, and relax. You're already breathing, why not breathe better?
- [Nicole](https://thebreathandbalance.com/nicole) - Blending modern science, different breath modalities, and ancient traditions, Nicole supports you to increase your breathing efficiency and function.
- [Classes](https://thebreathandbalance.com/classes) - Breathwork classes to increase resilience and improve your health. Connect to your breath and relax. Nicole Carpenter blends ancient and modern styles.
- [Intake Form Confirmation](https://thebreathandbalance.com/intake-form-confirmation) - Thanks for completing the client intake form. I look forward to working with you.
- [Conscious Circular Breathing](https://thebreathandbalance.com/consciouscircularbreathing) - Nicole needs help practicing before she includes this as an official offering. Participate in complimentary breathwork sessions in exchange for feedback.
- [Practice page](https://thebreathandbalance.com/practice-page) - How to make a cool sign - Move and Breathe. Breathe and Move. What is breathwork?Breathwork is developing your awareness of how your body breathes in different situations. Breathwork is intentionally altering your breath to create an effect on your body. Breathwork is exercising your respiratory system to develop or maintain your capacity, function, efficiency,
- [Contact](https://thebreathandbalance.com/contact) - Contact Nicole. Review the Breath and Balance studio location on a map. See images of the studio space. Offering intimate classes and private sessions.
- [Breathwork](https://thebreathandbalance.com/breathwork) - Why breathwork? Why the breath? Breathwork is increasing awareness of your natural breath or intentionally altering your breath to create an effect in the body. Your breath is connected to every system in your body and is a window into your unconscious body. By adjusting your breathing, you can self-regulate and connect to your nervous
- [Newsletter Confirmation](https://thebreathandbalance.com/newsletter-confirmation) - You signed up for The Breath and Balance Newsletter! Congratulations! Check out the things you can do right now to get started on your breathwork journey. At the beginning of next month, you'll receive The Breath and Balance Newsletter. Upcoming ClassesThere are virtual and in-person classes. Some are 30 minutes, some an hour, others longer.
- [Breathing 101 Quiz](https://thebreathandbalance.com/quiz)
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- [Eric](https://thebreathandbalance.com/eric) - Eric Coker What seems like ages ago, Eric (he/him) was trained as an engineer and scientist. While this background provided him with many adventures, employment, and a deep mechanistic understanding of the world, it left a yoga sized hole in his heart. Luckily, when the mental and physical toll caused by decades of being embedded
- [Functional Breathing Explained](https://thebreathandbalance.com/functional-breathing-explained) - Efficient Breathing ExplainedDownload
- [Privacy Policy](https://thebreathandbalance.com/privacy-policy) - Who we are : Our website address is: www.thebrethandbalance.com. Comments, Media, Cookies When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. When you send a message via the contact form, the content and
- [Liability Waiver](https://thebreathandbalance.com/liability-waiver) - WAIVER and RELEASE OF LIABILITY FORM ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HEALTH, PRACTICE AT YOUR OWN RISK. While breathwork, coordinated movement, and yoga can provide benefits, they do have inherent risks that could result in serious injury. I confirm that my health condition is fit to safely participate and that I

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- [Be Well](https://thebreathandbalance.com/category/be-well)
- [Relax](https://thebreathandbalance.com/category/relax)
- [Performance](https://thebreathandbalance.com/category/performance)
- [Health](https://thebreathandbalance.com/category/health)
- [Sleep](https://thebreathandbalance.com/category/sleep)

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