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rosalind 𓅮

@wholebodyprayer

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Feb 14

& they are very very tight & are part of what hunches us forwards… This is why we teach breath into the chest first before diaphragm down/belly out. It trips out those w yoga experience as theyre used to going direct to belly, missing the chance to stretch/expand these Like this

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bosco

@selentelechia

· Feb 13

holy shit this is incredible did you guys know there are MUSCLES between your RIBS bc I didn't twitter.com/PrinceVogel/st…

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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Feb 14

yes! i've released tension in the ribs before and been astonished how much bigger my chest can get while breathing, i mean damn

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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Feb 14

in grad school i got into the habit of breathing as shallowly as possible all the time b/c i was coughing a lot and it minimized coughs :/

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rosalind 𓅮

@wholebodyprayer

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Feb 14

Ooouu what a good one to unlearn This is pretty much everybody for some reason or other though (posture, self protective clenching, fearful/anxious, pollution, sucking tummy in all the time, mouth breathing) Smokers are usually quite good at deep breathing funnily enough

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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yeah i got the anxiety and the tummy stuff too, what a mess smokers practice long exhales, this came up on twitter a few times! i’ve started singing long sustained notes for fun and i think it’s been good

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rosalind 𓅮

@wholebodyprayer

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Feb 14

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I wonder if this was half the benefit of mantra chanting practices, the elongated, sustained exhale

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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Feb 14

ooooooooooom maaaaaaaaaaaaaani paaaaaaaaaadme hummmmmmmmmmmmmm

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