Breathing, as a subject, tends to be either largely ignored or completely dogmatised. There are dozens of different schools of thought and many would-be experts teaching and preaching all things breath. My position on the topic is fairly much my position on all things physiological: It’s complex, and it’s context dependent. That said, something that is complex from a physiological systems perspective, doesn’t necessarily require a complicated and convoluted approach in practice. Let’s start by looking at the essentials of diaphragmatic breathing.
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