When exhaling, the diaphragm relaxes and the lungs contract, moving the chest back down. The mechanics of breathing: When inhaling, the diaphragm contracts and the lungs expand, pushing the chest upwards. There are other methods, including Buteyko and holotropic, as well as the ancient pranayama, or breath control practice, in yoga. Hartley is a Transformational Breath coach, the method created by Judith Kravitz in the 70s. There has been a huge rise in interest in “breathwork” in the past few years, in the western wellness world at least (spiritual practices such as Buddhism and Hinduism have long known about the benefits of breathing well). The exception, she says, is “babies, until they’re about three”. Watching her students in her yoga class, and observing people in everyday life, she started noticing that almost nobody breathes that well, by which she means in a way that makes your belly expand and your upper chest and back lift slightly, in a fluid motion. So I then became fascinated by how we breathe.”
He then taught me this conscious breathing and I felt my lower belly open, and I felt myself breathing a lot better after just one session. He pointed out she wasn’t taking the air into her lower lungs, but was, she says, an “upper chest breather. But then she took a lesson with a breathing coach, who told her where she was going wrong.
She had also given it plenty of thought, having trained as a yoga teacher.
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Aimee Hartley, like most people, thought she knew how to breathe – she had, after all, been doing it all her life.