Hey,
Welcome to this Breathwork Bells session.
Now if you are not sure what you're doing here and how to do it then I suggest you go check out my other track which is called Breath Retention Resilience,
It'll explain exactly what we're doing here and how to do it.
I'm going to assume that you do know what we're doing and I'm going to remind you that we'll have five minutes of breathing,
Five minutes of breath hold,
Try stay relaxed throughout and enjoy the process.
Keep coming back and keep building up to that one minute breath hold.
We're going to get going in just under 30 seconds so make sure you're in a nice comfortable seat or laying down,
Just make sure that diaphragm is open,
You're breathing in through the nostrils and you're breathing using that diaphragm.
Good work.
Let's get started with the first round of breathing in three,
Two,
One,
Let's go.
First round really important just to set the pace,
Set the intention and really to simplify everything.
Just breathing in and breathing out using that belly with ease and flow.
Keep that expansive breath coming,
I'm going to go into our first breath retention which will be on an inhale in five,
Four,
Three,
Two,
One.
Deep inhale and hold.
First round just reminding yourself of how this feels,
Being vigilant to make sure the body is relaxed in every way it can be and knowing that you can breathe anytime you want but you have a choice.
If you need to breathe before I give the cue feel free and just join us when you're ready.
Recovery breath in two,
One,
Inhale.
Good job.
Back to normal breathing now,
Re-establish that belly breath,
Re-establish that nice calm soft pace.
Nowhere to be and nothing to do.
Resist the urge to think about the future,
Stay with that breath.
Breath retention now on the exhale,
Exhale out fully and retain.
Notice how this may feel different to the inhale retention,
Totally natural,
Totally normal but don't let your mind trick you and think that you have less air in inverted commas.
Feeling a sense of ease and relaxation.
Recovery breath in and back to normal breathing and by normal of course I mean using the belly,
Using the nostrils,
Making the most of each breath.
The irony is that we prepare for the breath retention by not thinking about it but rather thinking about each breath and making it as quality as possible.
Inhale breath retention coming in and retain.
More familiar now with the feeling?
See if you can explore it a little bit further.
Ten more seconds.
Recovery breath in and back to normal breathing.
Each round of breathing trying to get a little bit better,
A little bit more focused and a little bit more relaxed.
Last few breaths.
Exhale straight into that breath retention.
Find that freedom where you don't even have to breathe,
You can just sit and be.
Find the luxury in the practice.
Fifteen more seconds,
Hold on if you can.
Inhale recovery breath in and back to normal breathing.
Last round now of breathing,
Make it the best one yet.
Big slow inhales,
Big slow exhales.
Signaling to your body it's all groovy baby,
You got this.
This last breath retention is totally up to you whether you want to do it on an inhale on exhale,
So decide in three,
Two,
One,
Your choice and then into that retention.
Stay with it.
Recovery breath in and back to normal breathing.
Stay with this experience,
Stay with any sensations in your body,
Be aware of it,
Enjoy it.
Good work.
You can slowly bring yourself out of that meditation.
Feel free to come back and do this as many times as you want.
You can build up to that one minute breath retention or just come back to enjoy the experience of not needing air and seeing what your body does without it.
I'm The Downward Dog,
You've been awesome,
I'll see you on the next one.
