It still amazes me that there is such a gap in information / knowledge / coaching around specific breathing protocols to support you when you run. I remember reading Alex Hutchinson writing about how to mitigate freezing air when running in winter. His advice being to cover your mouth with a buff to help reduce … Continue reading Breathing & running- how one really helps the other.
Two things changed this. Firstly I used Eddied Sterns breathing app set at 4 sec inhales / exhales timed breathing, setting a coherent breathing pattern in place that was appropriate for a child. Using the organ resonant sound as an organ to tune into acted as the initial anchor. Secondly I sat opposite the child … Continue reading Coherent breathing, sound and touch – how our senses work together as anchors.
Our diaphragm has 3 roles, respiration, digestion and stablisation. All equally important, all key to how we work. All wonderfully related and connected by our bodies. What I hadn’t considered, and have been musing on is the challenge the diaphragm has in doing more than 1 job at the same time, ie stablisation and respiration. … Continue reading Things I’ve learnt this week
There are so many wonderful pieces of advice / wisdom within this book I’ve started folding pages when I read something that resonates. The first page I did this to was in response to a combination of Victor Frankl and Edith Eger: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of … Continue reading We can always choose how we respond
Last weekend was not fun, Friday night though to Saturday morning I had serious stomach pains – in what seemed to be focused around my right hand side. The spectre of appendicitis reared its head again, so to be safe I went to A&E on Sat morning, using the new found positivity learnt from Victor … Continue reading Breathe to heal
The new year begun in good fashion, freezing cold swim. I learnt that any swim under 5 degrees was known as an ice swim – so pleased to find that this qualified. There was no-one else in the water when I got in, just me and the birds. 2 1/2 minutes of swimming from in …
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