The Body of Breath - A Physiotherapist’s Guide to Healthy Breathing with Michelle Edmison

Let's Talk Yoga

Arundhati Baitmangalkar

Business, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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As someone who's deeply passionate about Pranayama, I couldn’t wait to bring this conversation to you. I sat down with physiotherapist Michelle Edmison to take a deep dive into the anatomy and function of breathing from both a clinical and yoga-informed perspective. Michelle breaks down complex ideas with such clarity and gives us practical ways to understand and teach breath in more effective, grounded ways. If you're a yoga teacher or a breathwork enthusiast, this episode will absolutely s...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. If you have been a long time
0:06.0	listener of the podcast, you know I am a pranayama nerd and we have had so many conversations about
0:12.1	pranayama and breathing on this podcast. I have also shared my very deep personal story of how my mom
0:19.7	passed because of a lung disease and it took me a long
0:23.2	time to make peace with the fact that I indulge in pranayama and taking free deep breaths. But it is
0:30.6	my mission to turn pain into purpose that we get very nerdy about praniyama and breathing on this podcast. On the show today,
0:41.2	I have a conversation about breathing as well as the anatomy of breathing. My guest today is Michelle
0:50.4	Edmison. She is a registered physiotherapist at a clinic in Vancouver, Canada. She has
0:58.3	been an instructor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia for over 15 years
1:05.2	and has been a movement educator teaching classes online and group classes and been in conversation with
1:13.2	yoga teachers and other professionals for over two decades. Michelle blends her clinical
1:19.0	experience and research and several specializations into what she teaches today. Her goal is to
1:27.2	optimize movement and physical longevity. And I came
1:31.0	across Michelle on an Instagram reel and she was talking about breathing and she had the lungs as a
1:37.9	prop and that's when it caught my attention. On the show today, Michelle and I deconstruct breathing.
1:49.1	She answers a lot of questions that come up very often in the yoga circles.
1:56.5	So I would highly encourage you to dive deep into this conversation about breathing and anatomy.
2:02.3	She also gives you some walkaway practices that you can take with you into your classes.
2:14.9	I know most of you listen to this podcast as a non-visual audio podcast, but I would recommend that for this episode, you check out the YouTube version if you can.
2:21.3	Michelle does have her ribcage model and she also explains a specific breathwork technique which a visual medium will just make it so much easier. So listen to the
2:27.2	episode as you usually do but also click on the YouTube links for it so you can get the visuals as
2:32.9	needed. I have linked to everything about Michelle in the show notes as well as the podcast description.
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