Where is the AIR in your Breathography Breath Cycle?

There are many of you advanced HypoXonauts who have returned back to Level 1 Breathography (with no breath holds) as we round back to Weeks 1 and 2 of the Breathography series in ALL of the classes. I have been getting the feedback that it is profound to go back to the foundations because some of these components of the Breath Cycle get lost when combining the hard exercise WITH the advanced levels of Breathography. Here is a review of what is happening to your AIR as you go through your Breathography cycle:

In a Breathography cycle, you:

1. HISS ZipUp
2. Double Engaged Inhale
3. Blow
4. Hiss
5. Soft Shhh
6. Loud Shhh
7. Breath Hold (or no Breath Hold) and back into Double Engaged Inhale

NOTE: if you are post-natal, you need to be less aggressive with the exhale and just imagine that you are moving the inhaled air out. You should still be gently hugging your TVA and using internal obliques and TVA to expel air, but not quite as aggressively as you will when you are recovered and through your First 8 and PostNatal programs! Additionally, if you have some other contraindication such as cardiovascular, hernia, or neurological impairment, be gentle with your breathing. If you ever have any feelings of dizziness or nausea, you are pushing yourself too far!

If you are healthy and do not experience negative symptoms when going through your 8 second exhale with Breath Retentions, then you are indeed exhaling PAST where you are at your resting volume of air on the LOUD Shhh. On the Blow, Hiss, Soft Shhh, you are using the AIR from the ENGAGED inhale to assist in stabilization of the spine as you exhale. I generally say “loosen the ribbon by Soft Shhh” but you should still have some of that Engaged Inhale air in your lungs on the Soft Shhh. You are working with this air to assist in eccentric diaphragmatic control of your spine. On the LOUD Shhh, here is where you move past that resting air volume and hugely ignite your TVA and obliques concentrically as you loosen the AbRibbon around your waist!

To review:

1. HISS ZipUp (the inhale prep is just enough to cover you to HISS ZipUp)
2. Double Engaged Inhale (get that AIR IN! You are filling your lungs to use as a support mechanism for 75% of the Engaged Exhale)
3. Blow (Expel 30% or air)
4. Hiss (Expel 30% of air)
5. Soft Shhh (expel the remaining 40% of air)
6. Loud Shhh (this is moving your to lower than your normal resting air!) IMAGINE the Loud Shhh is twice as intense as the Soft Shhh, so even though the Engaged Inhale air is moved from the lungs, I want you to imagine you are removing -80% of the air from lungs (80% = 2x as much as Soft Shhh = 40%!)
7. Breath Hold (or no Breath Hold) and back into Double Engaged Inhale

WHEN we add in the END breaths at the end of some of the higher intensity work, the inhales are a bit smaller because we perform 4-6 in a row with breath-holds in between (keeping the neck and face as relaxed as possible!)

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