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Breath Token July 2017

A breath token is a breathing exploration that I develop for friends & clients and send out as a gift.

I‘m just reading „The Oxygen Advantage“ by Patrick McKeown. Practicing one of his basic exercises, I’d like to share it with you. Placing one hand on the chest and the other on the belly, I exert pressure against the chest and belly on the inhale and release the pressure on the exhale. I offer resistance to  the inhale and let the exhale flow freely. As always, at the end of the exhale  I wait for the next inhale to come by itself. The purpose of this excercise is to reduce breath volume and thus prevent overbreathing.

The benefits I experienced were
Relaxation
Clarity of mind
Slower, more regular breathing
Natural diaphragmatic breathing
Extension of the breath pause
Regeneration

There are surely other benefits for you to discover. If you have any questions or feedback please contact me.

 

„The net effect is to store energy“

In The Ancestor‘s Tale, Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong set off on a journey backwards in evolution. They see themselves as the pilgrims in Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales, in their case, each journey resulting in a tale about an aspect of evolution in the „shared archaen goal, our Canterbury“. Oxygen and carbon dioxide feature along the way and the travellers have some enlightening information about cyanobacteria and a word of warning about fossil fuel. Read More