Greetings!
A few weekends ago, while I was at the Ranch- (for those of you who were at the gym and missed my article, I traveled to Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Massachusetts with eleven other women,
where we gave ourselves full permission to enjoy ourselves-
No one even accused us of being completely irresponsible for missing the Sunday soccer games
or ridiculed us for splurging on such a self-indulgent luxury.
At least not to our faces.)
Anyway, back at the RANCH (are you annoyed with me yet?)
I took a few revelatory workshops on Breathing.
I know the words "revelatory" and "breathing" don't usually appear in the same sentence but after all,
what is the first thing people advise you to do when you are freaking out? ("Take a breath.")
How about during the extreme moments of childbirth? ("BREATHE!!!!!!")
What it the recommendation for when you step up to a podium to deliver a speech? (breathe)
Or up to bat in the bottom of the ninth when the score is tied? (breathe)
Not to mention at the crest of a rollercoaster (big breath),
or when you are trying to stop crying?
(this is the classic kiddie hiccuping breath-Often demonstrated in the grocery store by the kid who can't have the candy.)
Then there is the "sigh" of relief when you get the call from the doctor that the test results are negative, before which you were "holding your breath".
Don't forget the life-or-death CPR rescue breathing or the brown bag for hyperventilation breathing.
And of course, the most annoying advice from your Kickbox Instructor, "Don't forget to breathe!!"
Do we all concur that Breathing is VITAL?
Now this workshop was not an
Extreme Sports Version of Breathing,
although that's an interesting thought.
I figure that,
either I am getting noticeably geriatric by getting all turned on about breathing techniques
or as I get more chronologically enriched, I'm just becoming more in awe of the ingenious biomechanics of this machinery we call our body.
Here are some tidbits I learned in my Breathing class.
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