53: The Important Connection Between Breath and Posture - 3 Quick Tips!
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The way you stand, sit, or even walk can be impacting your health in ways you didn’t even know. Our posture affects the way we breathe and, in turn, our health. Addressing your breath and posture is one of the best ways to optimize your long-term health.
In this episode, Robin shares how our breath can affect our blood pressure, circulation, energy, focus, and much more. She also shares how we can use it as a tool to reset our nervous system and manage stress. Join Robin to learn more simple strategies you can do to improve your health and wellbeing by focusing on breath.
Show Highlights:
- Indicators that you may not be breathing properly
- The importance of breath
- Why breath is integrated into the Pilates practice and how we can use it as a tool
- How Robin has used breathwork to reset and combat anxiety
- The effects of shallow breathing
- How does your breath affect your pelvic floor
- Ways posture can improve our health and our breath
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates Instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:12.9 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all |
| 0:22.8 | and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create your own uniquely |
| 0:29.3 | balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. Hey friends, |
| 0:36.4 | welcome back to the balanced life podcast. I'm so excited for today's episode. |
| 0:40.1 | We're going to be talking about our breath, but not just our breath. We're going to talk |
| 0:44.6 | about the connection between our breath and our posture. So my goal is to keep this |
| 0:49.3 | episode pretty short and sweet so you can pop it into your earbuds, learn a few things, and take some |
| 0:55.4 | key takeaways into your day so that you feel empowered to improve your health by addressing |
| 1:00.7 | your breath and your posture. So breathing is one of the most natural things we do. It's central |
| 1:06.5 | to our vitality, our health, our well-being. And it's something we do throughout the day |
| 1:12.0 | without even thinking about it, right? Oftentimes we're just on autopilot and we breathe |
| 1:16.7 | and our body does that for us. And it's absolutely incredible when you stop to think about it. |
| 1:20.8 | But what if I told you that you might be breathing in properly or less than optimally without |
| 1:27.1 | even knowing it? In fact, your posture, |
| 1:30.1 | the way you sit and the way you stand throughout the day could be causing problems that you |
| 1:34.5 | aren't even aware of. But don't worry, I have good news. In this episode, I'm going to help you |
| 1:39.3 | to improve your breath by addressing your posture and provide some quick and practical |
| 1:43.8 | tips for you to take |
| 1:44.8 | into the rest of your day. First, let's talk about the importance of breath. The way we breathe can |
| 1:50.2 | affect our blood pressure, circulation, heart rate, energy levels, focus, and stress levels. I'm going to say |
| 1:58.6 | that again because that's pretty significant. The way we breathe |
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