Audio Yoga Breathing Course with Corinne Friesen

There's much more to learn toward mastering your breathing, and lots of ways to apply it. Here's a sneak-peak at what's ahead.

In each breath, there are moments of stillness that can bring a sense of calm. This practice helps you notice them.

You now have the skills for a very special breathing meditation, “Peace in the Stillness”, to notice the stillness you have inside you. As you notice your physical stillness, you'll start to notice your mind becoming quiet.

Let's use Eagle's Wings from last week's episode to help you master 1:1:2:2 Breathing. This will have the added benefit of strongly loosening your neck and shoulders and restoring your energy any time you need it.

Eagle's Wings stretch loosens your neck, shoulders & breathing. We'll be using it in the next episode to help you master 1:1:2:2 breathing. Today, we'll learn its movements. It makes a nice, quick office break, any time your need an energy boost.

Exploring the next step in learning a better breathing pace, extending that wait before breathing in. We'll be using a discovery practice and 1:1:2:2 Breathing,

Let's master your 1:1:2 breathing skills by applying them Butterfly Breathing. Great for energy & mind-body connection.

Relearning your breathing pace often doesn't com naturally. Fortunately, I have some trouble shooting tips. :)

Applying 1:1:2 breathing to the Puppy & Cat stretch combo, you'll feel the new pace connecting you with the movements even more strongly. This mini-routine can also feel calming – as you become confident in matching the movements with the breathing.

Taking the next step in learning to pace your breathing, we explore taking your time holding your breath after you breathe in.

Let's slide into a calming routine using 1:2 Breathing, Puppy & Cat Stretches. This deepens your mind-body connection while taking knots out of your neck, shoulders & lower back.

Using 1:2 Breathing with Complete Breath is a great way to train your breathing pace and start establishing your mind-body connection.

We start practices the shift your breathing toward a better pace. The practices are simple to learn and before you know it, you'll be breathing more evenly; your breath becomes more calming, more focusing and more energizing even though you're more relaxed.

Today's simple practice helps you become more comfortable with pacing your breathing. It prepares you for the next podcasts where we address your actual breathing pace.

Today starts a new adventure in your Breathing Course. You'll learn to notice the four stages to breathing. This leads into learning a better breathing pace in upcoming episodes.

Today, I'd like to guide you into deep rest, using “The Wave”. Be Well, Corinne

I'd like to treat you to a deep rest, as I talk you through relaxing deeply using "The Wave" breathing. This is the introduction. The guided breathing follows. I've separated it from the introduction so you can go to it whenever you want. Be well, Corinne

Let's explore using “The Wave” and see how it improves the feel and effectiveness of your breathing routine. Also, you'll see how using it during your routine will improve your breathing skill with The Wave.

This breathing warm up is more demanding, for those ready for a stronger work out. These routines are meant to strength and loosen all your breathing muscles. An energizing start to your day. They're good warm ups for athletes, asthmatics singers and musicians with wind instruments.

This is the introduction to a more demanding breathing warm up routine that follows. I've separated the introduction from the actual routine so that you can jump to the routine whenever you want to do it.

You now know everything you need for a complete warm up routine. This one is designed to be manageable by almost anyone. Next week, we'll explore a more demanding one. These routines are meant to strength and loosen all your breathing muscles. An energizing start to your day. They're good warm ups for athletes, asthmatics singers and musicians with wind instruments.

You now know everything you need for a complete warm up routine that follows. This is the intro to one designed to be manageable by almost anyone. I've separated the introduction from the actual routine so that you can jump to the routine whenever you want to do it.

This is the alternative to last episode's Frog Stretch. It's a bit easier, while still giving you a full release for the breathing muscles along your back.

Here's a stretch that thoroughly warms up breathing muscles in your entire back, from your sacrum all the way up your spine. It's one of the last things we need to learn before fitting everything together into a complete Breathing Warm Up.

Getting a sense of smooth, flow with your “Wave” breathing.

“The Wave” combines everything you've been learning so far into breathing with your whole body. This lesson gets you introduced to the basic technique and starts you practising it. Be well. :)

Now that you've gotten to know the breathing muscles in your lower back, we're going to practice using them independently of other breathing muscles.

Now that you've found a starting position that works for you, I'll guide you through some calming moments of noticing how your lower back is involved in breathing.

Today, we discover how your lower back is involved in breathing. Part 1, explores setting up for the practice, finding ways to make the set up work for you.

Today we piece together a new daily routine. We'll use Abdominal Lifts, Butterfly Breathing, Hug and Posture Clasp to get your day started. Then Abdominal Breathing or Back Breathing to slow you down after your day.

Posture Clasp will develop the muscles in your upper back, take out tension in your neck and shoulders, and, as the name suggests, do great things for your posture. With better posture comes better breathing.

It's time to develop the breathing muscles in your upper back. Today we're going to discover them and develop their action for richer breaths in.

Today we'll apply your growing skill at isolating your breathing muscles, to practising breathing with just the front of your chest. This practice will be a lot like Chest Breathing that you learned in Lesson 3, only now, we're going to add to it, by having you consciously relax the muscles that you're not using when you breathe. So our goal for this is to just use your chest when you breathe in and out, and let everything else rest.

Before we work on developing more of your breathing muscles, we're going to revisit your abdominals and learn how to use them independently, so, when you want to, you can use just them, and no others, when you breathe.

This is the episode wrap up for the guided, step-by-step relaxation. Namaste, Corinne

This is the full, step-by-step, guided relaxation, part 2 of this three part episode. This guided, step-by-step relaxation will help you learn to deliberately relax your breathing. In the meantime, it's just a lovely way to let go and relax. This episode is in three parts: the introduction, the guided relaxation, and an episode closer. This is the main, step-by-step, guided relaxation. Namaste, Corinne

Lesson 7 - A Guided, Step-by-step Relaxation My holiday treat for you is also a step on our breathing course journey. It's a guided, step-by-step relaxation. It'll help you learn to deliberately relax your breathing. In the meantime, it's just a lovely way to let go and relax. This episode is in three parts: the introduction, the guided relaxation, and an episode closer. This is the introduction.

Simple Side Bend is a good, all purpose side stretch that loosens the breathing muscles at the sides of your chest. It's also great for relieving tension in your neck & shoulders and for building core strength. It will be one of the stretches we'll tuck into a daily Breathing Warm Up Routine as the podcast progresses.

A zesty beat while you practice your breathing exercises. This one goes especially well with the Abdominal Lifts. The music is from my own upcoming release, "Out of Nowhere", created in collaboration with Michael Jay.

Your obliques are important for taking completely full breaths. When you feel like you've filled up with air, your obliques are fully engaged, they're stretched open as far as they can go. They're part of the process that makes you feel energized and focused. To make them work better for you, we'll practice making them stronger, more flexible and able to expand farther.

Now that we've built up the strength and flexibility in your chest, we're ready to practice Chest Breathing. This will make you more aware of the breathing you do with the front of your chest, and make the breathing that you do there, more efficient and more complete.

Today we're going to start shaping up your breathing muscles in the front of your chest, using “Bust Expansion”, so that you can have good, full breathing.

It's time to develop the breathing you do with the front of your chest. We'll still be keeping up your skills with your abdominals, but there are lots of breathing muscles to train. So the next group are the ones between your ribs, the ones that help your rib cage open and close as you breathe. We'll start with a discovery practice, and then, in the next podcasts, learn exercises that strengthen & loosen these muscles. Then we'll learn Chest Breathing, which is a bit like Abdominal Breathing, only with slightly different benefits.

Wrapping up your day with Abdominal Breathing is now a calming part of your daily breathing routine. Let me guide you there.

You now know enough for a zesty day starter routine, using Abdominal Lifts and Butterfly Breathing. Let's get that going!

Let's piece together what you know so far into a daily breathing routine. We'll use Abdominal Lifts and Butterfly Breathing to boost you into your day. Then, to calm you into your evening, Abdominal Breathing. This Podcast is split into an Introduction and then two sections, so you can quickly go to the parts of the routine you want to do.

Abdominal Breathing can be the easiest form of breathing to master. It's calming and comes fairly easily to many people. The practices in this podcast can make you more able to breathe just with your abdominals, and will improve your breathing even when you're not thinking about it.

Now that you have a good, all purpose breathing practice, from the previous podcast, let's start whipping your abdominals into shape. We'll be using "Abdominal Lifts", a zesty little exercise! Then, we'll be moving on to Abdominal Breathing in the next podcast.

Let's get your upper body rebuilt for better breathing with this simple, yet effective exercise.

In this part of Lesson 2, you'll learn a bit about how breathing works. Then, when you move on to Lesson 2 - Part 2, you'll be ready for the first breathing exercise.

Before we move on, here's a map of our journey ahead.