78: How to use breath as a tool for growth and change
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Do you understand the importance and power of your breath? In Pilates, we focus on breathing intentionally, but do you know how important proper breathing is in your everyday life?
You may be surprised to discover that something as simple as breathing can be used as a tool to impact both your physical and mental health.
In this episode of The Balanced Life, you’ll learn just how important the breath is and how proper breathing can change your body and life. If you are interested in a simple, free way to impact your health you won’t want to miss this episode.
Resources & People Mentioned
- BOOK - Breath by James Nestor
- BOOK - Raising Worry-Free Girls in an Anxious World by Sissy Goff
- Wim Hof
- Episode 40 - How I overcame paralyzing anxiety
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of Lindy Well. Here on the Balance Life |
| 0:14.7 | podcast, you'll find honest conversations about health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all |
| 0:24.4 | and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you become the healthiest version of |
| 0:30.3 | yourself, inside and out. Hi, friends, welcome back to the podcast. I am so excited about today's episode. I have been |
| 0:40.1 | wanting to dive into this topic for a while, and it is finally time. Today, we're going to talk about |
| 0:45.0 | breath. Yes, our breath, the importance of our breath and the power of our breath. To be honest, |
| 0:52.0 | I was completely unaware of my breath or how to use it or why it |
| 0:57.1 | mattered until I started doing Pilates. Breathing, how I was breathing or how to use my breath for |
| 1:03.2 | various benefits, never even crossed my mind until I was in my 20s, until I found Pilates. Fast forward |
| 1:10.3 | 13 years and I am now aware of my breath |
| 1:13.3 | every single day. And not just aware of it, but I use it intentionally as a tool for health and |
| 1:20.2 | wellness, both mental and physical health, every single day. And not just with myself, but also with my |
| 1:26.2 | kids, my family. And I realize that while we talk |
| 1:30.2 | about it quite a bit in our workouts, in our Pilates workouts, I haven't really had the opportunity |
| 1:34.4 | to share this aspect here with you on the podcast and to dive into the importance of our breath |
| 1:41.1 | and get really, really practical about how we can use it for our benefit |
| 1:44.8 | and why we need to. Our breath can literally change our life and our body. No exaggeration. |
| 1:54.0 | So let's go ahead and dive in. You know that I'm a Pilates instructor. I've been teaching Pilates for |
| 1:59.4 | more than a decade. And one of the |
| 2:01.6 | key principles in the Pilates method is breath. This is unique to other forms of exercise. |
| 2:08.0 | Often other forms of exercise focus solely on the exercises, right, what you're doing with your body. |
| 2:12.6 | And it doesn't matter if you're huffing and puffing or holding your breath. It's just an |
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