by Tim Harwood | Mar 18, 2025 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises
Friday 14th March 2025 was International Sleep Day, apparently. Sleep is one of those things that is so important for our well-being, but gets overlooked at many times as we’re often told that sleep is a waste of time. Which really is not the case. We need...
by Tim Harwood | Jul 13, 2022 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises, Yoga
This is a breathing technique that I learnt on my yoga teacher training. It is said to cool the body and so should only be practiced during hot weather. As I write this in July 2022, we are experiencing a heatwave (temperatures over 27C and rising) and I am finding...
by Tim Harwood | May 3, 2019 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises, Yoga
Like the three breathing exercises based up on the Brugger Exercises (First one is here) the aim of this exercise is to help identify the way that we breathe. One of the areas that often needs investigating is how much (or little) our ribcage actually moves during...
by Tim Harwood | Sep 13, 2017 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises
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...
by Tim Harwood | Sep 13, 2017 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises
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...
by Tim Harwood | Sep 13, 2017 | Breathing Exercises, Exercises
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...
