Breathing Workshop
Awaken the Breath
When: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 10:00 to 2:00
Cost: Only $40
Location: Robert’s beautiful healing studio at
1095 East Axton Road, North of Bellingham.
Sign Up: (360) 398-7466, or rbbatesdc@comcast.net
Breathe Bigger, Better and Easier
Breath Practices are some of the most powerful healing exercises you can do. You can insert conscious breathing into just about any part of your day and be better off for it. You can benefit from conscious breathing practices virtually your entire life. Any amount of good breathing you do adds to your health.
With These Breathing Practices You Will
- Massage the internal organs for greater all around health
- Keep the head clear and promote mental clarity
- Help move the lymph throughout the body, increasing immunity function
- Increase your energy
- Calm your emotions
- Increase your lifespan
- Decrease tension
- Sleep deeper
- And much, much more
What We Will Cover in This Workshop
- Qigong breathing practices, each with different health goals
- Simple tests to assess how well you are breathing
- Easy ways to integrate vastly more quality breathing into your everyday life
- The Framingham Study: How your breath capacity can accurately predict your lifespan; and how to definitely increase your lifespan with breathing practices
Breathing Exercises We Will Practice
Follow the Breath. Just watch. Notice how you are actually breathing. You can learn a lot about yourself this way.
Graduated Quiet Breathing Meditation. Build awareness and sink into a relaxed, healing mode of being as you activate your parasympathetic nervous system, coordinate your consciousness and balance your brain
Abdominal Breathing. The foundation of proper breathing. Breathe into and out of your abdomen, letting it expand with the inhale and flatten with exhaling.
Belly Book Breathing. Re-teach yourself how to use your diaphragm to pull air into your body by expanding your abdomen, instead of lifting your shoulders to bring air in.
Pelvic Breathing. Sometimes breathe low into your pelvis to build power and prevent many problems.
Low Back and Kidney Breathing. Drawing the air into the lower back to expand that area and fill the Kidney’s with Qi.
Filling the Vase. Fill your torso with breath like pouring water into a vase; the water fills up the lower parts first before working up. Empty your breath in reverse.
Gentle Breath Holding. Holding the breath for a short time—repeatedly—to help relax tensions in the breathing apparatus.
Plus
The Remembering Breath. Put up green dot stickers. Every time you see the dot, take a deep breath. This will give you many deep breaths each day.
10 Percent More. Add just a little to the size or seconds of each breath.
Breathing Awareness Set (to take home.) Begin to take more control of your daily breathing habits.