Can You Really Use Your Breath To Reduce Anxiety?

Can You Really Use Your Breath To Reduce Anxiety?

There are a lot of new-age wellness techniques touted that make even the least cynical among us roll our eyes – yes, we’re looking at you jade eggs. But on the flip-side, in times of unprecedented uncertainty, there are useful, yet often overlooked approaches that deserve more of the limelight. Breathwork is one of them.

The Science Behind Breathwork + 5 Benefits Of The Practice

The Science Behind Breathwork + 5 Benefits Of The Practice

Take one big inhale that expands in your belly. Hold it. Now exhale deeply.

Congratulations, you've just engaged in breathwork, an ancient practice that's quickly gaining popularity. If you're thinking, "Wait, I've been inhaling and exhaling continuously since the day I was born. Does that mean I've been practicing breathwork this whole time?" the answer is, unfortunately, no.

What Breathwork Can & Can’t Do For Your Health, According To Experts

What Breathwork Can & Can’t Do For Your Health, According To Experts

Breathing may seem pretty intuitive — breathe in, breathe out, continue until, well, death. An increasing amount of people are hyping up a more involved form of the practice. They claim that breathwork — breathing with intention and with certain rhythms — can help blood pressure, digestion, stress, and even mental health. Research on breathwork, however, reveals that while there's definitely some benefits to breathing therapy, it's a long way from a cure-all.

Breathing to Support Peak Performance with Dr. Belisa Vranich

Breathing to Support Peak Performance with Dr. Belisa Vranich

The Leadership Under Fire Optimizing Human Performance Podcast provides a platform to prepare performance
leaders to navigate the moral, mental, emotional, intellectual and physical rigors in high-risk and ultra-competitive settings by developing strength of mind, body, character and critical thought.

The Secret To Meditative Breathing Lies In Letting Go Of This One Thing, Expert Says

The Secret To Meditative Breathing Lies In Letting Go Of This One Thing, Expert Says

What if I told you that, in order to relieve stress through something as simple as your breathing, all you have to do is make yourself look pregnant? Yeah, you heard me: I'm not talking about literal pregnancy, though, so don't freak out just yet.

This New Mindfulness App Wants You to Be “Happy Not Perfect”

This New Mindfulness App Wants You to Be “Happy Not Perfect”

“Breathe in,” says Poppy Jamie, a 27-year-old doe-eyed former TV personality who is regularly spotted alongside Suki Waterhouse and Cara Delevingne. An odd request, but nevertheless, I inhale. “You’re not doing it right!” the Brit squeals giddily, pointing out that I’m raising my shoulders rather than expanding my stomach.

Breathe: The Simple, Revolutionary Program to Improve your Health

Breathe: The Simple, Revolutionary Program to Improve your Health

As founder of The Breathing Class™, Dr. Belisa has taught and lectured nationwide on topics related to dysfunctional breathing patterns and stress. Unique in its straightforward approach, The Breathing Class™ addresses both physical and psychological problems related to oxygenation that is out of balance, and teaching people to breathe in an anatomically congruous way that maximizes balanced inhales and exhales.

You’re Breathing All Wrong—Here’s How To Do It Right

You’re Breathing All Wrong—Here’s How To Do It Right

Are you doing anything right now? Of course you’re not—you’re reading wellness articles on the Internet. Why don’t you take a moment out of your rigorous afternoon of self-improvement and indulge in a long, deep breath? Inhale for six whole seconds, expel that air, and record, very specifically, what your body is doing while this is happening.

Sportshour on BBC Radio, March 10, 2018

Sportshour on BBC Radio, March 10, 2018

Now we do it up to 20 times a minute, around 30,000 a day... so you would assume that we would be experts at it by now... but think again - according to Dr Belisa Vranich, breathing is something we could all improve on. The correct breathing by an athlete can give the 0.1% increase in performance; the possible difference between gold and silver.

RECLAIMING YOUR BREATH WITH DR. BELISA- EP048

RECLAIMING YOUR BREATH WITH DR. BELISA- EP048

Dr. Belisa Vranich is the Director of Breathing Science at the Ash Center for Comprehensive Medicine in New York City. Dr. Belisa began her career as a clinical psychologist with the intention of having a long-standing therapy practice. As she explored different methods of reducing stress, Dr. Belisa developed an interest in yoga breathing and martial arts-based breathing techniques.