In yoga, breath is said to carry a person’s life force. B.K.S. Iynegar in "Light on Yoga" writes, “Breath is the King of the Mind.” Pranayama, the regulation of breath, is an essential part of a yoga ...

Awareness of the breath is the key to practicing mindfulness. Breathwork is a 2,500-year-old practice, but celebrities and yogis alike have rediscovered the deep value of alternate-nostril breathing ...

Your nose acts as a filter for the air that comes into your body. You’ve likely been told that breathing through your nose is better than breathing through your mouth. There are scores of articles on ...

As living creatures, we live to breathe, or we breathe to live. Maximizing the benefits of breathing can be beneficial for many common ailments, provide immediate stress relief, and improve mental ...

Take a deep breath in. With one single inhalation, the human nose takes in a bunch of information about your environment. And unlike vision and hearing, that information goes straight to the limbic ...

Most people rarely think about how they breathe unless experiencing respiratory distress. Yet emerging research suggests that the pathway through which we inhale and exhale – nose versus mouth – ...

Do you find that you struggle to fall asleep at night because your mind is racing? Then you might be suffering from stress and overthinking. But don’t lose hope – there are some simple breathing ...

Breathing is subconscious. We don’t have to think about it — it just happens. But when we exercise, many of us become more aware of it than we normally are — sometimes thinking about every breath we ...