The power of the breath is incredible. It has the ability to impact your life in ways you may not imagine.
I invited Harsha, a Breathwork Coach, to talk about the benefits of breathwork and to share his personal story, where he shifted from a hectic corporate/expat lifestyle in Hong Kong to now living in Spain and then Bali, now working as a Breath Work coach. Harsha shares how much it helped him during a time of grief, when his Mum died traumatically.
Discover simple tools you can use right now to enhance your life, improve your sleep, your focus, have a calmer mind, more resilience and less stress.
Harsha Dharmana is a certified Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor, XPT Breathwork Instructor, and Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator. As a Breathwork Coach, in the online space, Harsha teaches you how to manage stress, optimise performance and improve your total health using scientifically proven breathing techniques.
Key Points
6:24 How breathing impacts various functions in the body and can influence your stress response, which is linked to many illnesses
18:32 The 3 steps Harsha teaches for breath work
34:44 Begin with small, consistent steps in breathwork to see tangible results over time
37:03 The importance of breathing through the nose for overall health and physiology
40:46 Harsha recommends mouth taping to encourage nasal breathing and improve sleep quality, for better heart health and emotional resilience
46:02 Harsha shares an client example, of the struggle with stress and emotional reactivity outside of work, and how they worked together to address sleep and breathing habits to improve the client's ability to pause and think before reacting
51:12 Beginners tools - 3-4 minutes of box breathing or coherent breathing for those interested in getting started with breath work
38:03 Harsha recommends breathing through the nose as much as possible and only using mouth breathing during physical exercise or high-intensity activities.
41:16 A note on snoring
Resources mentioned;-
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