BONUS: Breathe
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🗓️ 24 January 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Guests include former world champion freediver Tanya Streeter, journalist Beth Gardiner, activist Yvette Arellano, paleontologist Emma Schachner, scent historian Caro Verbeek and mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, consider this listeners, Audi Cornish here, and it's Sunday. |
| 0:03.6 | We have a bonus episode for you. |
| 0:05.8 | This one comes from our colleagues at NPR's Ted Radio Hour. |
| 0:09.6 | That's a podcast that explores big ideas with the help of Ted Talk speakers. |
| 0:13.6 | This episode is kind of a palette cleanser from the news. |
| 0:16.8 | It's all about breath since we could all use a reminder to breathe. |
| 0:22.0 | Ted Radio Hour hosts Manusius Amaroti. |
| 0:24.1 | It takes it from here. |
| 0:30.3 | It's the Ted Radio Hour from NPR. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Manusius Amaroti, and today on the show, the power of breath. |
| 0:41.3 | It's all about the breath. |
| 0:43.1 | Everything that I'm doing from gosh, from the time I open my eyes that morning, |
| 0:47.7 | it's really focused on my breathing. |
| 0:50.0 | This is Tanya Streeter. |
| 0:51.5 | She's a world champion free diver, which basically means taking in as much air as possible |
| 0:58.0 | into her lungs and then going down, down, down into a body of water as deep as possible. |
| 1:05.9 | The thing about free divers is that we're very tuned into a breath, and it's at the forefront |
| 1:13.3 | of whether or not we're going to be able to achieve this sport. |
| 1:17.0 | So a few minutes before a big dive, Tanya's main job is to breathe. |
| 1:22.7 | Because the idea is to super saturate my entire system with oxygen, |
| 1:28.6 | and we can achieve that by these long slow inhales and long slow exhales. |
| 1:33.1 | So if you were listening or you would hear would be me like... |
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