The Cooling Breath is a handy Breath to learn.  It is not a basic Breath, but it does just as it implies - cools you off when you are overheated or just plain hot.  It has no spiritual implication, other than the Healer can use it to cool off after performing Healing Work.

1. To use this Breath, sit cross-legged on the floor, or seated upright in a chair, spine straight and feet flat on the floor.
2. Inhale deeply through your tongue.  Your tongue should protrude slightly past your lips, curled up along its length.
3. Exhale through your nose.
4. Continue inhaling through your tongue and exhaling through your nose for about 5 minutes.
5. Inhale, pull your tongue in and hold your Breath briefly.
6. Exhale and relax.

This Breath soothes and cools the body and has been used by yogis to reduce fever.
When practiced daily, this Breath is excellent for rejuvenating and detoxifying the Physical Body.

This set of maneuvers usually produces a substantial increase in breathing capacity.
STARTING POSITION: supine with knees up, feet planted near buttocks, arms back (on the table near their head)

1. Place your hands over (and gently ride upon) the client's belly over the diaphragm.
2. Spread your fingers so they define the shape of the diaphragm; place equal pressure on each finger.
3. Client inhales, then exhales; meet, match, resist, and follow the movement in.
4. Multiple repetitions will get you deeper.
5. Client holds their breath OUT (closes epiglottis -- the air-stopping muscle of coughing).
6. Client exerts the muscles of inhalation while keeping air out.
7. INSTRUCT: "Suck in your gut. Now, push your belly against my fingers."
8. Feel the diaphragm push out; meet and exactly match that resistance.
9. Client gradually, slowly, and smoothly relaxes. Assist movement of the diaphragm into the shape of a deep dome.
10. Have the client rock their pelvis to aid relaxation of the diaphragm.
11. Client relaxes completely, then inhales.
12. As your client inhales, lift off gradually. Coach them into filling fully.
13. Have your client take deep breaths and watch for what doesn't move.
14. Move your hands there and repeat to a satisfactory result.
15. LOCK-IN: Have the client take and hold a breath. Have them force the ball of air back and forth between their belly and their chest.

1. Position yourself in the correct seated posture; sitting knee-ling, lower back in. leaning slightly forward over your center. This will be referred to as the neutral position.
2. Concentrate correctly; imagine your mind at your center (3 inches below your navel)... let your muscles naturally relax but do not collapse... focus your Ki (attention/energy) away from your body and your center.
3. Exhale first: open your mouth and begin to let your breath flow naturally out. As you exhale, create the sound "HAAAA" as softly as possible. Use your throat muscles to control the flow of your breath. If you do not control your breath, the exhalation will be done much too quickly. When you cannot exhale any longer, bend slightly forward from your center. This will compress the diaphragm and allow you to exhale a bit more. After shifting forward and exhaling completely, return to the neutral position and concentrate on your center, still imagining that you are exhaling. Remain in the neutral position for 5 seconds. The exhalation cycle should take 35 seconds in total... exhale for 30 seconds and hold for 5 seconds.
4. Inhale next: close your mouth and begin to let the air flow naturally through your nose. Use your throat muscles to control the flow of your breath. If you do not control your breath, the inhalation will be done much too quickly. When you cannot inhale any longer, bend slightly backward from your center. This will expand the diaphragm and allow you to inhale a bit more. After shifting backward and inhaling completely, return to the neutral position and concentrate on your center, still imagining that you are inhaling. Remain in the neutral position for 5 seconds. The inhalation cycle should take 25 seconds in total...inhale for 20 seconds and hold for 5 seconds.

1. Lie on your back on the floor, feet stretched out and feel your body against the floor, eyes closed. Can you feel how your legs lay on the floor? What parts do not touch the floor? Can you feel the back of your calves, your knees, and your thighs? Your hips-do they touch the floor evenly side to side? Is one higher than the other? Can you feel your low back? Your mid-back? What part of your neck touches the floor? Does your head roll to one side or the other?
2. Now take a deep breath-really deep -enough to move as much of your body as you can. Can you feel your body move against the floor? Can you feel your ribcage, your back, and your feet? Let it go and feel what releases in those same areas. Let your body fall into the floor.
3. Repeat this for 10 minutes if you can and vary the depth of the breathing -inhaling and exhaling as needed, slowly and with awareness. Notice the difference when you get up. Do you feel more relaxed? Don't worry if you don't yet. Just notice what your breath can do.

1. Continue the breathing exercise from day one.
2. Follow your breath as it moves.
3. Place one hand on your stomach below your navel and one hand above your navel.
4. Let your hand rise and fall with each breath. Notice what each hand does. (Use one hand at a time if you want and alternate hands) When do the move up? When do they move down? Do they move together? Does one go up and one down? Do they always move? What happens when you change your breath? Can you make one go up while the other goes down? 
5. Now place one hand below your navel and one on your upper chest near your sternum.  Feel what your breath does. Do your upper ribs move? Can you feel how your diaphragm moves up and down?  This is a difficult one to feel.

1. Lie on the floor again-comfortably. We are going to put a little stress on the breath. Don't do this if you have severe heart problems.
2. Exhale all the air in your lungs-expel every last bit. Now hold your breath and cover your mouth and nose so you don't cheat. Hold it as long as you can- and then hold it a little longer. Keep going as long as you can-until you feel like you can't take it anymore.
3. Now let go and inhale! What happens? Yes, you take a huge breath. Now what happens to the next one? Did you feel all your ribs expand and your head clear?
4. This is how each breath should be at each moment. That deep. If we did breathe that deep we would breath less often, but get more oxygen.  When we are stressed, the general tendency is to have shallower, shorter breaths.  This type of breathing can actually cause stress or at least add to it.
5. Try a few short fast breaths that almost make you feel like you are hyperventilating.
   Notice what happens to your muscles, especially in your neck and shoulders.
6. Now try a few long, deep breaths and notice the difference.
7. When you are under stress, it will help to breathe more deeply and slowly.
   

1. Start by breathing high in your chest as you inhale - and on the completion of your exhale, "suck-in" your abdomen expelling OUT two more small puffs of exhaled air. These last two puffs empty your lungs more completely of the remaining stale air.
2. Then inhale deeply into your chest and notice how much more oxygen you can take in.
3. Repeat this type of breathing - but, this time breathe in lower and -GENTLY- fill your abdominal area on your inhale (like filling up a balloon) then exhale completely as before with the two final outward puffs. Start out slowly with only one or two sets of each. Two complete high in the chest inhales/exhales with two puffs - then two complete low in the abdomen inhales/exhales with two puffs. Work your way slowly up to ten of each - once or twice a day.

1. Find a quiet place to sit or lie down. Are your legs crossed? If so, uncross them. If they were not at first, cross them now. This helps to prepare your mind for something new.
2. Let either hand rest on any convenient and comfortable surface.
3. Take a deep breath, gently hold it for a few seconds, then exhale and let your eyes close.
4. Now, allow any finger or combination of fingers to begin to stroke the surface. Allow your mind to enter your fingertips, almost as if you were living inside of them. Now pay attention to everything your fingertips feel.
5. Use different parts of your fingertips, letting them move by themselves, tracing imaginary patterns. Notice any textures, and the different curving motions of your hand and fingers.
6. As you let yourself breathe deeply, slowly, and comfortably, notice every subtle variation and continue as long as you wish. If appropriate, you can let yourself drift off to sleep. Otherwise, when you are ready to finish, take a deep breath, exhale, open your eyes, and connect with your surroundings. Shake your arms and hands and move your body about so that you feel fully awake and alert.

1. Best if seated and not driving. Spine straight.
2. Imagine that you are blowing a piece of dust out of your nose by sharply pulling in on the abdomen and at the same time blowing air out the nose.
3. Relax and a natural inhale will occur to fill the lungs again.
4. Again, sharply blow air out the nose by pulling in on the abdomen. Continue with the cycle so that your abdomen is functioning like a bellows, blowing air out.
5. Do this for 22 cycles and then stop and take a big breath and rest. Do three rounds of 22.

1. Comfortable seated or standing, take a deep breath into the abdomen, through the nose, so that it expands out like a balloon.
2. Next continue the inhale to now expand the ribcage with air.
3. Next continue the inhale further to now expand the chest all the way to the upper chest, like a balloon.
4. Then reverse the procedure by exhaling out first from the chest, then the ribcage, then and the abdomen. Pulling in on the abdominal muscles at the end of the exhale, getting out all the air.
5. Then reverse the process by breathing in again. Imagine that your torso is a glass and that the glass fills up from the bottom to the top and then empties from the top down to the bottom. Do this for up to 15 minutes.

Used by Rebirthers in sessions. It has profound healing and transformational qualities when done properly with a Rebirther. Can safely be done on own for short times to relax and release stress.

1. Only to be done lying down and for just 15 minutes. Further use of this breath requires the guidance of a trained Rebirther.
2. Begin with a full inhale into the chest through the mouth.
3. Without pausing or holding, immediately allow the exhale to gush out of the mouth without pushing it or holding it back. A simple relaxed exhale.
4. Then without pause begin the inhale again, pulling air up into the chest.
5. Continue with a relaxed exhale as soon as the inhale stops. This is also called the circular connected breath. Meaning that it has no pausing in it at all, but is one continuous loop.

This exercise is done while sitting in a chair or on the floor.

1. Take a deep breath in through the nose, then exhale quickly and forcefully, out through the mouth.
2. Inhalation through the nose will happen naturally after each exhalation.
3. Placement of hands is optional. It must be performed for one full minute followed by one minute of rest and then another minute of breathing exercise for a total of five minutes.

This technique helps in the metabolism of fat. Avoid cold drinks afterwards. This activity is equivalent to running two miles.

The fact is that ample research evidence exists to indicate that arousal levels can be markedly reduced via the incorporation into habitual use of specific patterns, which can be incorporated into breathing retraining.

1. The pattern calls for a ratio of inhalation to exhalation of 1:4 if possible but in any case for exhalation to take appreciably longer than inhalation. This pattern markedly lowers arousal.

1. Wrap a belt or tape lightly around your lower ribs crossing the tape over in front as if you were about to tie it. Do Not Tie!
2. Loosen the tape as you inhale and your lungs expand.
3. Pull the tape tighter as you exhale, squeezing the air out of your lungs.
4. Do this several times but stop if you get light headed. After a very few sessions you should feel your chest begin to move, expanding and contracting on its own, helping the abdominal muscles to move air.

1. Start out by lying down on the floor.
2. Put one hand on your chest and the other on your abdomen.
3. Keep the hand on your chest free of movement while the one on your abdomen goes up and down.
4. Put a Kleenex box on your abdomen and watch the box go up and down.
5. Practice this often during the day but only for a few minutes at a time. If you get lightheaded, stop. When you can do it lying down progress to trying it while sitting, and then while standing. Advancing to diaphragmatic breathing while walking is the hardest of all but it can be done.

1. This technique is used to remove trapped air from the lungs, so that energy levels can be increased and relaxation can be achieved simultaneously
2. Inhale through the nose while your mouth is closed
3. Then exhale through pursed lips (lips loosely held together shaped as in kissing motion and blow gently, as in blowing a kiss).
4. The exhalation should be twice as long as the inhalation, for example count of four in, count of eight out, but this will be dictated by what is comfortable for the individual

1. Breathe through your nose first 
2. Purse your lips together for exhale.
3. Breathe out 2 or 3 times longer than you breathe in.

1. Make sure you are in a comfortable position, either lying down or in a reclining position.
2. Place one hand on the middle of your stomach at the base of the breast bone, so that the movement of the diaphragmatic muscle can be felt.
3. Place the other hand on the upper chest, so that the chest muscles can be felt.
4. Exhale slowly through pursed lips while pulling your stomach inwards at the same time, so the movement of chest muscles can be detected.
5. Inhale slowly through the nose as your stomach expands outwards, so that the movement of the diaphragm is obvious.

Make sure you are in a comfortable position before attempting this technique.

1. Place your hands on your sides at the base of the ribs.
2. Exhale slowly through pursed lips and as you do so you should be aware of your ribs moving downwards and inwards.
3. Inhale through the nose and allow the ribs to move outward and upward against your hands
4. Each breath should be slow and deep, and rest after 3 to 5 breaths or you may become lightheaded.

This technique is useful when feeling tired and lethargic

1. Exhale completely, and then take a deep breath from the Abdomen, the stomach should move outwards.
2. Exhale through the nose, pulling in your abdomen quickly and sharply, so air is pushed out forcefully, then relax the abdominal muscles for a moment, then pull them in again, allowing more air to be removed from the lungs. Repeat until the lungs are completely empty.
3. Inhale in a long slow manner and retain it for three seconds (or as long as you can manage), and gradually exhale.
4. Repeat as often as necessary, however if you feel lightheaded it is time to stop and rest.

1. Sit upright and remain in a comfortable position
2. Close your eyes and visualize your upper body (from the head to the hips) as a decanter, with which you are going to fill slowly with your breath.
3. Inhale slowly while simultaneously imaging that you are becoming full, and continue to take in as much air, without forcing it as you can until you are full.
4. Hold your breath for a second and experience how full you are.
5. Exhale slowly and imagine that your decanter is emptying.
6. Repeat as necessary, you may feel a little light headed, however this is usual.