John Di Carlo Wagner is a cancer survivor and certified yoga instructor. John created this instructional video specifically for patients with lung cancer. It shows us how diaphragmatic breathing exercises can help open the chest for fresh breath. These exercises can help lower your heart rate and blood pressure before bedtime.
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Transcript :. ATMA Yoga Breathing
Hello, my name is John Di Carlo Wagner, and that tape is made for Asbestos.com. It is a soft, relaxed breathing ribbon. You'll need a pillow that you can ride like a pillow or two pillows if you do not have a good thick round cushion like that. A blanket or towels, thick towels, and five pillows.
This is my friend Kat McKee, is a yoga instructor and will help me demonstrate. Kat will set up the pillows in the middle of the bed so that there is a single hulls buckwheat pillow on the bottom and a second pillow shells buckwheat. You are not required to have them, they are just a little more stable if you do. And a pillow to rest. Then, the cover will go to the center, or the towel, folded along your spine which will rest. Then you have a pillow on each side so that your arms are resting comfortably and not just hanging, it is much more comfortable. Then your pillow roll or two pillows, so that your thighs are resting. So Kat will enter.
So the pillow under her legs under her thigh, is pulled back towards his buttocks. His spine is relaxed on the cover. His palms are open, the elbows are bent, and if you can raise the palms up. Now, feel rest on the supports. There is a soft opening between your kneews so that your inner groin is relaxed, your feet are relaxed. Even the heels have blankets underneath. We feel the spine have good contact with the cover. Close your eyes and notice how you breathe. Feel the weight of your body and make your body weight on the supports.
The supports are supported by the earth, so feel gravity and breathing, relax and release tension from your entire body. We will focus on our spine, which is getting a little gentle lift through this folded blanket. Place your hands on your lower abdomen, elbows bent, and slow breathing easy relaxed breathing. Low and slow and deep. You can feel the breath coming in your hands.
Leave one hand to stay planted on your abdomen and float the other hand on your chest all the way to the diaphragm. The diaphragm is, the lower ribs on each side and there hungry, and sternum protect your heart is right over there. So we breathe in the abdomen, in the diaphragm and around the heart. This is a challenge if you've never done diaphragmatic breathing. If you are getting confused, release the breath, and let you take a normal breath and exhale until you feel ready to explore this deeper, concious, diaphragmatic breath.
We also want to ensure that our faces are relaxed, relaxed eyebrows, eyelashes, cheeks, nose, mouth. In fact, take a sip, and allow your lower jaw to release and rest, so that the space between the teeth. And if you want to breathe in and out soft lips parted, some people find it more relaxing, kinder. Especially if you have lung problems
Keeping in touch with your torso, slide both hands on the chest, with your fingers touch your heart. Thus, the palms of your hands will be on the upper chest. Feel your heart beat under your fingers. And bring your breath, slow and easy abdominal, mid chest, and also higher than the fingertips. Keep your shoulders, your neck and collarbone relaxed.
I suggest you do this band first thing in the morning, sometimes during the day and night. Your heart rate will be lowered, your blood pressure will be lowered, all kinds of Relaxtion chemicals are released, which is the most important thing we can do for our health and wellbeing. Blessings, namaste, John and Kat. Nameste.
