Breathing
(Extracted from Aikido-L)

Date:    Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:22:45 +0100
From:    Ruth Mc William
Subject: Re: Breathing - was Mike Haft's Garage Dojo

Ciemon Dunville asked:

>Ruth,
>Do you have any pointers for this? I'm interested for stress busting
>initially, but don't really want to get into a class right now (we do next
>to nothing at the dojo).

>> So you'll be down there at 6am for a bit of meditation and
>> breathing every morning then? ;-)

Hmmm... I have been told that breathing and meditation is good for my health, but need to learn a bit more about it. One of my Shiatsu contacts runs a class on this on Thursdays and suggested I went along, so I'll try to arrange that soon. In the meantime, he told me that it's a good idea to learn several different types of breathing so you don't get bored sitting still for 10 minutes, which strikes me as the only way I'll be able to do it! I'll let you know what I learn when I've learned it, in the meanwhile try a web search as I'm sure there are a few exercises out there which you can try for yourself.

Breathing is definately good for stress busting - good luck with your search!

Ruth

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