Description

Audio recordings of a recent workshop on Calming the Nervous System with Breath.

This download contains two audio files:

Part 1: Science and physiology of breathing

• What is stress and how does it affect the body – Mary’s story
• Stress and breathing
• Adrenaline and Cortisol
• Getting stuck in fight or flight
• The sympathetic vs the parasympathetic nervous system
• Important features of the respiratory system including nasal breathing, the diaphragm, and the phrenic and vagus nerves
• Vagal tone, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, heart rate variability
• How to improve your vagal tone

Part 2: Breathing exercises

• Feeling your breath
• What a functional breath should feel like
• Slow paced breathing, 2-to-1 breathing, cupped hands breathing, cyclic sighing, bee’s breathing
• Developing new habits and building new neural connections