Natural breathing

Breathing is a demand led system and it will be done entirely by your body if you allow it to do it for you.

Most people tend to believe this is not really possible, wrongly believing they need to learn how to breath properly.
Actually what they need to do is to stop the habits they created by collapsing the skeletal structure when breathing. We must realise that in our short lives we will never be able to control something evolution took care of, millions of years were needed to get here, we might as well give it a chance and trust it.

When we look at vertebrate animals, we see that their ribcage is moving all the time. It moves side ways and not up-and-downwards. We are also part of this vertebrate animals and our ribcage is also meant to move sideways during breath.

Have a look at babies and very young children, they are still very connected with their bodies, they too have their breath going without doing anything for it, the ribcage moves side ways without any problems.

Children can run the whole day long and they don’t have to think at all of how they breath, babies can cry the whole night long without any lack of breath nor lose their voices.

Breathing is a continuous movement and it changes all the time. It becomes an issue in singing, speaking for an audience, playing an instrument, running, dancing... Never the less the effect of poor breathing affects everybody’s movement, poise, balance.