If you are interested in starting yoga or you already love yoga and want to advance in your practice, the key is in your breath.

I'm going to share with you three types of breathing that you can use in your practice whether you need the fundamentals, or you are intermediate or advanced student and you want to take your experience deeper and get stronger results. 

Here we are going to talk about breathing practices that you use while doing a physical yoga practice, not the pranayamas  like alternate nostril breathing you might do before or after the practice of asana.

Three of these go outside the box a little but can deliver new experiences and different results.

Yogis, free divers and high performance athletes have at least one thing in common: they train their bodies so they can stop breathing. The practice goes back hundreds of years (at least), and as it turns out, is a very good practice to learn. Whether you are aiming for high performance, spiritual enlightenment or improving your health, breath holding, or intermittent hypoxia, will add life to your years and years to your life. This is why to do it and how to do it!

Keeping your lungs healthy is essential to feeling your best. Research has shown that what you eat can help protect your lungs and even reduce lung damage and symptoms of disease. There are specific nutrients and foods have been identified to be particularly beneficial for lung function. Here are 9 of my favorite foods which help boost lung function!

One reason among many, to begin a regular breathwork practice is a longer life. There is scientific evidence that shows that the stronger lungs you have, the longer you are going to live.

Perhaps the reason you are interested in this topic is because anxiety is somehow present for you and you want to move on, to return to a life in which you can participate more fully.

You might have been told to "just take a deep breath" or perhaps you felt even more anxiety observing that it's hard to take a full breath in and your breath might feel shallow and fast.

What's in a sigh? For most people, the mere thought of a sigh evokes a picture of our breath shaking off the weight of the world while we're processing a stressful situation. While all of us know what it's like to sigh, few ever stop to wonder why we sigh. It turns out that our brains may be instinctually providing us with a mechanism to calm down naturally when in a heightened state.