Breathing exercises – Part 3 – Brugger Exercise
This is the full Brügger exercise and builds upon the steps given in Part 1 (Blowing out the candle) and Part 2 (Head retraction). I have broken it down so that you can build up to these exercises without straining your breathing pattern. Here we add a gentle...
Breathing Exercises – Part 2 – Head Retraction
Once you have become comfortable with Blowing out the candle, then you can start to add in a gentle head movement as you breathe in. This is to help to train your body not to tighten at the front of the neck as you inhale. This is another step on the way to the...
Breathing exercises – Part 1 – Blowing out the candle
The aim of this exercise is to help to move from a more upper chest breathing pattern to one that uses the full capacity of the lungs. When under stress we can move towards breathing into the top of our lungs, with little movement happening at the bottom of the...