Try inhaling and holding your breath for four second with your lungs full for four seconds, and exhaling with your abdomen contracted inwards and holding your lungs in for four seconds. Plus, nasal hairs act as a natural filter for various pollutants (so never get them waxed). Nose breaths stimulate neurons in the olfactory bulb, which is connected to the hippocampus, and warms and moisturises the air, which can increase blood blow and produce nitric oxide, a healthy molecule that can reduce blood pressure. If only! Many breathwork coaches focus on inhaling and exhaling deeply through the nose and into the diaphragm, not the shoulders or chest.
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
‘You can utilise it anywhere once you have learnt the techniques – it’s practical.’ So why not give it a try? You may be able to exhale your problems away – but only if you do it correctly ‘Once you come away, it’s free,’ points out Dhillon. You may be sceptical, but the real appeal is that it’s not a commitment and doesn’t require a pricey gym membership or mandatory number of sessions. So breathwork could be the ultimate anti-wrinkle, de-puffing glow machine, after all.
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In her book, The Mind-Beauty Connection, Dr Amy Wechsler argues that the lymphatic system gets a ‘serious boost from deep breathing’ and that the toxins it disposes of ‘include those that can downgrade your skin health’. Other specialists have claimed that it can even help with eczema and acne. ‘You’re oxygenating all of your cells, which promotes skin healing and prevents ageing,’ Dhillon explains. Where there is a definite correlation, they say, is skin. There is no correlation, she says, but she and Sandeman do agree that if overeating is caused by emotional triggers, such as stress or trauma, breathwork can help balance things out. But what about the beauty benefits? Ekta Dhillon, a breathing physiotherapist at Nimaya Mindstation in Clerkenwell, sounds mildly horrified when I inquire whether breathing correctly can help shift that extra couple of kilos (let’s be honest, that would be a major attraction).
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Breathpod are currently offering free sessions on Instagram Live far, so serious. He has held sessions for the workforces of Nike, Google and JP Morgan, and claims to offer an alternative cure for infertility, addiction and insomnia. Sandeman started training in breathwork himself and went on to set up Breathpod in Shoreditch. Stuart Sandeman, a former DJ who began his career in finance, discovered breathwork after the death of his girlfriend and found it a ‘cathartic, profound’ experience that helped him cope with grief. It doesn’t help that it’s often marketed as an unleashing of emotion – although for some that’s the appeal. After all, let’s face it, when confronted with the choice between, say, a calorie busting workout or a rejuvenating facial, and an hour or so lying on the floor breathing, our vanity takes precedence. ‘The difficulty is getting people into a class,’ Dowler adds. ‘It’s like therapy without a therapist because you’re working into the body on a somatic level and working with emotional charge and the stuff you’re carrying, but you don’t have to talk about it,’ he explains. James usually offers 80-minute one-to-one sessions at Lifespace Healing in Notting Hill, however during this time of isolation he is offering free classes over Instagram Live on his account For many of his stiff-upper-lipped clients, it’s a way of processing repressed emotions without having to sit on a shrink’s sofa. ‘It’s about bringing the mind back to where we started, breathing naturally, like a baby.’ He’s explaining it to me as I’m lying with my legs propped up vertically against a wall, encouraging me to breathe into my pelvis. ‘It’s all about belly breath,’ says Hannes Brandl, breathing specialist at Austria’s renowned medi-spa Lanserhof Lans, who practises a form of breathwork called the Middendorf technique. The ‘correct’ way to breathe is deep and low through the nose, expanding from the lungs rather than the shoulders. But it’s not just as simple as taking a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth.
We’re breathing short, sharp and shallow, as if in a constant state of fight-or-flight panic. The aim of breathing coaches is to get us inhaling and exhaling in ways that oxygenate blood flow, strengthen muscles and combat anxiety.Īccording to certain experts in the field, as many as 80 per cent of us have dysfunctional breathing patterns. Hyperventilation may be the most visceral symptom, but the thinking is that even our ‘normal’, subconscious breathing is askew. Over recent years ‘Breathwork’ classes have been popping up across London, in tandem with increasing awareness of mental-health issues such as anxiety, depression and burnout.
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