Breathwork has been steadily gaining popularity around the world, but many people still haven't heard of it.

With all of the benefits that can be gained from practicing breathwork in your life, it's definitely

something you'll want to know more about. Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with

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hearing from you. Today, we're excited to talk to Jen Broils all about breathwork and the

benefits it can provide. Jen, thank you so much for being here to talk with us today.

Well, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

My first question for you, which is one that maybe quite a few people have listening to

this intro, is what is breathwork?

Yeah, that's such a great question.

And it's a little complex, but at its most basic level, breathwork is having breath awareness and then

conscious breathing. Breathwork is really a practice that we could speak to from both a scientific

perspective and a spiritual perspective. With breathwork, we are really tuning into our breath

and breathing in a conscious way. And I find it interesting

when we really think about the breath. It's one function that is both involuntary and voluntary.

And so while it happens in the background under the influence of our autonomic nervous system

and we really don't have to give it much thought or focus on making sure we are breathing.

It is one of those functions that we can actually voluntarily control.

And so when we start to tune into our breath and start to manipulate it and change it in

certain ways, we can begin to correct our breath for better health and for meditation and for tuning

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