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All the breathwork exercises explained here are safe and will enhance your sense of well being in one or more ways.

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Monthly Meditation: Deep Ocean Visualization Meditation - 10 minutes

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31 August 2010
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Aum2H100This 10 minute visualisation video meditation is a collage of pictures from artists on flickr.com for this audio meditation. The meditation is from http://www.meditationdna.com and the specific meditation is titled "Deep Ocean Visualization".

This meditation is used for visualizing future, past, and present. Helps root your core frequency back to the Earth tone (G). Best in the morning or around noon. Allow the micro-tones in the voice to take you on a journey.

Simply start to relax and breathe with your attention on the physical sensation of the breath moving in and out of the body. If the attention wanders, just gently bring it back to the breath.

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3 Part Breath (lying, standing or seated in a comfortable position w spine erect)

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29 August 2010
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Cooling Breath
Begin with 3 part breathing, create a trough with your tongue or allow tongue to hang out of your mouth
like a dog panting, Inhaling fully through your mouth, pause with mouth closed, exhale completely
through your nostrils. Repeat at a steady pace for 5-10 breaths or what is comfortable for you.
gs02H100Begin by breathing at your own rhythm several breaths.
Inhale into abdomen; fill your ribcage with breath and up to and under your collar bones into your neck and head.
Increased awareness or if you are a reverse breather, use your hands to follow your breath, abdomen,  ribs and collarbones
Exhale from the top down in a relaxed and natural manner.
It is like filling up a glass of water, fill up from the bottom up and empty top down.
Allow the breath to be smooth, even and continuous like a wave.

Three Breathing Exercises by Dr Andrew Weil, M.D.

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19 April 2010
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Three Breathing Exercises by Dr Andrew Weil, M.D."Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders."

 

Since breathing is something we can control and regulate, it is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed and clear state of mind. I recommend three breathing exercises to help relax and reduce stress: The Stimulating Breath, The 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise (also called the Relaxing Breath), and Breath Counting. Try each and see how they affect your stress and anxiety levels.


 

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From Head to Heart Meditation by Giten & Rohi

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28 September 2009
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From Head to Heart Meditation by Giten & RohiDear Friends, This week we'll introduce "From Head to Heart Meditation".

 "Visualize yourself as headless; move headlessly, It sounds absurd but it's one of the most important exercises. Walk and feel as if you had no head. it will be difficult in the beginning. it will feel very strange. But by and by you will settle down to the heart.

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Focus on all your senses meditation by Rohi and Giten

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18 August 2009
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Focus on all your senses meditation by Rohi and GitenBioDynamic Breathwork -LIFE CHANGING!-How You Can Benefit from it.


This one is simple to do.
Just take a moment any time you remember to do so - on the subway, in the shower, eating a meal, on the phone, out in nature....
The trick is just to keep remembering to bring yourself back into a moment of being in all your senses...and when you forget again--that's ok--just catch yourself and experience the process all over again!
First, become aware of your body in space--standing, sitting, talking, laying down, walking, and so forth. See what part of your body you feel most easily.

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Therapeutic Breathwork Exercise #1 from Jim Morningstar

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06 January 2009
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Jim MorningstarFor 5 minutes a day (over the next month) simply observe how you breathe. It may be helpful in the beginning to find a quite space in which to do this. But also try it in other locations and notice the differences. For extra credit: Make written notes of your observations about your breathing. These notes will be valuable in future work

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Sleep Relaxation, Calming Breath Exercise

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21 July 2008
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gs01 H100 RS.jpgThis is a nice deep relaxing exercise to try when you want a good nights sleep

  1. Breathing from your abdomen, inhale slowly to a count of five (count slowly "one...two...three...four...five.." as you inhale)
  2. Pause and hold your breath to a count of five.
  3. Exhale slowly, through your nose or mouth, to a count of five(or more if it takes you longer). Be sure to exhale fully.
  4. When you've exhaled completely, take two breaths in your normal rhythm, then repeat steps 1 through 3 in the cycle above.
  5. Keep up the exercise for at least five minutes. This should involve going through at least ten cycles of in-five, hold-five, out-five. Remember to take two normal breaths between each cycle. If you start to feel light-headed while practicing this exercise, stop for 30 seconds and then start again.
  6. Throughout the exercise, keep your breathing smooth and regular, without gulping in breaths or breathing out suddenly.
  7. Optional: Each time you exhale, you may wish to say "relax", "calm", "let go", or any other relaxing word or phrase silently to yourself.
Allow your whole body to let go as you do this.

Breath of Fire (Agni-Prasana)

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20 May 2008
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AumA cleansing & energising breath, powered by abdominal contractions


Once the diaphragm is felt during Long Deep Breathing then there are a couple of ways in which one can begin to do Breath of Fire, where the air is pulled in and pumped out very rhythmically, just like pumping a bellows, without any tension being felt whatsoever on the abdominal muscles, chest and rib cage muscles or shoulders, which remain relaxed throughout the breath, so that it may almost seem that you can continue the rhythm indefinitely with little effort at all.

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The 4-7-8 (or Relaxing Breath) Exercise

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20 May 2008
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This exercise is utterly simple, takes almost no time, requires no equipment and can be done anywhere. Although you can do the exercise in any position, sit with your back straight while learning the exercise.

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Breath Counting Exercise

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20 May 2008
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If you want to get a feel for this challenging work, try your hand at breath counting, a deceptively simple technique much used in Zen practice.

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Chinese Breathing Exercise

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20 May 2008
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A very fine, short (though not shallow) breath exercise comes from the Chinese Tai Chi Chuan. In subtle ways, this exercise uses the body in leading the mind and spirit to greater openness with each other and the environment.

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