Beginners Breathwork

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06:54

Beginners Breathwork

by Sandra Nikson

Type

guided

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

Plays

1

This guided meditation is for beginners or anyone who feels resistance to breathwork. This 7-minute guided meditation is a way to bridge your breathing practice from where you are now to where YOU want to go. This is best suited for someone who has the space and time to lie down flat for 7 minutes. Background Music by - Music Of Wisdom as a contributor (composer).

Breathwork Beginner Guided Meditation Relaxation Diaphragmatic Breathing Body Awareness Hand Placement Breath Observation Rhythmic Breathing Beginner Friendly Trauma Informed Hand Techniques

Meet your Teacher

Two Rivers, WI, USA

Meet your Teacher

Two Rivers, WI, USA

Transcript

Welcome to Beginner's Breathwork. This meditation is for beginners and especially people with trauma or stress where your breathing has been compromised in one way or another. We're going to start the meditation how we're going to end it. This meditation is also best lying down first time you do it. So lie down in a comfortable place. Put your hands right on top of your belly button. Now the goal is to when you breathe in to expand your pull all the air into so your stomach expands. Big deep breath in. Fill up your lungs and then let it out. Let the air out. If your hand is on your belly button you should feel your stomach go your stomach go down and you let the air out. That's what we're working towards. Now if you've been breathing differently like I have for a fair amount of years this feels very weird. So this Beginner's Breathwork is going to be a discovery process on where our breath actually is. So I'm going to play a little music and I want you just to breathe normally but use your hand to figure out where your breath is. Where do you normally breathe from? Is it your ribcage? Is it your chest? I'm just going to take a minute maybe two just to like breathe normally and find where your breath is coming from. Pay attention to the rhythm. There's no wrong answer. Does it change? Sometimes does it come from the abdomen sometimes? Does it come from the chest sometimes? Have one hand on your on your stomach right by your belly button. Have one hand on your chest. See where it's coming from. Which place feels more natural to you? Once you find that place have your hand in that place if it's not your stomach. One hand on the place that you feel most relaxed, Most normal breathing. Put one hand there and then put the other one on your stomach right on your belly button. Now see if that feels better. Taking a deep breath in and out. In and out. I want you to take five breaths. They don't have to necessarily be deep breaths. Keep one hand on your stomach and one hand on wherever you feel like breathing feels normal. Let's do it for a count of five. One and out. Fill up your lungs as much as you can. You can deep breathe or not whatever feels most comfortable to you. Three and out. Four Five. Now remove your hand from the other spot and only have both hands on your stomach. And let's do one deep breath filling up our abdomen with air. All the way up as high as you can go fill up those lungs. Oh was it different not having your hand in the first spot? Was it better than the first time we did it? Do this meditation anytime to work yourself into other breathwork practices.