Spine Align

Breathing

Why is breathing so important?
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Breathing is Life!

How you breathe affects your brain, sleep, digestion, posture, energy levels, nervous system, ability to focus, muscle tension and more.

There are many details to breathing and entire courses dedicated to different techniques and methods.

This program will focus on awareness of your breathing mechanism and stretching/strengthening the muscles that help you to have the most efficient breath.

Be patient with yourself as you practice the videos in this module. I recommend doing the breathing exercises when you can have several minutes of uninterrupted time to focus.

Your breathing awareness will eventually overlap into your other workouts in the Posture and the Balance modules.

Joe Pilates famously taught that “Above all things, learn to breathe correctly,” and the Pilates method has many exercises that work the muscles of breathing.

👉🏻Just having an awareness of what happens when we breathe, how the diaphragm works and how to control the breath and keep it moving will be helpful in all of your activities.

STRETCHES FOR BREATHING

The stretches in this sequence help to open up and mobilize the muscles around the thoracic cage and diaphragm to help you to be more aware of...

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Pilates

Posture

Breathing

Balance