In this breathing exercise we will be exploring the depth of our breath! By focusing on our breathing patterns, depth, and holds, we will focus on expanding our lung capacity! This is a great overall tool to add to your toolbox of life!
Deep breathing class focuses on restoring any sort of lost lung capacity. If you're getting over a cold or something, this is going to help to re increase your lungs. It's almost like yoga for the lungs. You can do this in five minutes or 20 times as many.
Waiting for the notification. Okay. How's it going, guys? Good morning. We're here in southern California, and we're going to be doing a deep breathing class. So this is on restoring any sort of lost lung capacity. So we're going to be doing very deep breaths. We're going to be holding at the top and giving a exhale on the way out. So I apologize. I'm a little bit stuffy this morning, but I figured it would actually be a good way to kind of, like, help alleviate some of my chest congestion, because I've been going through some of these things.
So the way we're going to start is we're going to go ahead and deeply inhale all the way in. So I'll give you a few examples to start. So go ahead and inhale either through your nose, I would recommend through your nose. Mine again, is a little bit stuffy. So I'm probably going to use my mouth for this session. So we're going to go all the way in like this and slow that out. Not all the way out, but let it decompress. And then we're going to inhale, take another sip and let it decompress. Yes. This is great for someone.
I mean, like, if you're getting over a cold or something, this is going to help to re increase your lung capacity. So we're going to be utilizing all of our capacity here. So keep working with me. I'll go through this example again. And we're building on top of our lungs. We're not releasing. We're just decompressing a little bit and inhaling again. Take another sip. And once we're at the top, let's hold here and take another couple sips in. This time, don't decompress. We're gonna try and fill it to the maximum amount.
Now we're going to decompress with a side. Okay, we're going to go over that just a couple more times. You can either follow along with me or you're welcome to go at your own pace. So go in again, hold here. Or when you get to the top, hold and take those last couple slips in to really maximize. And we decompress all the way out. And we begin the practice again. So we'll do about five of these rounds. You're welcome to do as many as you want, but for the sake of the practice and keeping it short, I just want to allow you to have this lesson, and then you can bring it on and do it, you know, up to ten, even 20 times as many as you feel the need to really kind of open up and stretch.
This is almost like a lung stretch, if that's the best way to put it. So let's go ahead and do just a couple more. So inhale again. Hold and inhale. A couple more. Couple sips in, all the way out. And we start again. Couple sips and release. All the way out, and let's go again. This will be the last round. A couple more sips. And release. And if you really want, you can hold at the bottom, too. This is a really great sensation. No oxygen in the lungs. Release everything out, all the sips out, and just go as long as you can there.
And that's a really great practice. Maybe we'll get into in another lesson. But for this exercise, that's. That's pretty much the basics of that practice. If you're ever looking to kind of, like, stretch out your lungs, you know, you want to bring in a lot of oxygen, take those last couple sips, and let it just sit there. You know, it's just. It's almost like yoga for the lungs. Let's look at it that way where we're literally increasing our lung capacity. So anyone that gets sick, or if you're just looking to increase it for sports or health benefits, anything like that, this is super beneficial to get over your cold.
You know, I'm still struggling with a cold from a couple weeks ago. I even had, like, a bit of a sinus infection, so I'm still going about this. And, you know, it's. It's gonna help you out to clear out the mucus or just literally just oxygenate your blood or, you know, kind of increase your energy for the day. You know, all of this kind of stuff is beneficial for. For you moving forward. Great morning practice, great for any time during the day, really during your work day. It doesn't matter. You can do this in five minutes, just for a short period of time, or you can make a full practice out of it and go 2030, even 50 breaths like this.
Just careful where you are, because this can get you lightheaded. And I have even become unconscious for a split second from doing these breathing exercises. So just watch where you are. And with that, you know, that's pretty much the end of the practice for today. I hope you have a good one and keep on breathing, folks. See you on the next one.
