6 - What’s the difference between regulating our breath (i.e. creating a full, rhythmic breath through a meditation practice) and the exercises from this week’s lab to cultivate our inhale and exhale? It seems that both of these practices promote conscious breathing with the goal of learning to breathe to our fullest capacity.

The difference is intention. Our intention here is not to regulate the breath, it is about exploration, so that we may find any stuck bits of old survival energy hiding out in our lungs and chest, or that we are unconsciously managing with our breath. They aren’t really about breathing better, though as we release any old stuff we find in there, that may well happen as a side benefit!