341 | The Power of Breathwork to Release Stress, Relieve Pain and Heal with Samantha Skelly

The Optimal Body

Struggling with anxiety? Feeling overwhelmed? - What if something as simple as breathwork self-healed? A tool constantly overlooked, but within us, is our breath. Samantha dives into her story about breathwork and how her first experiences changed her mental and bodily state. In addition to diving into the science of how breathwork can be a primary determinant of the state your nervous system is in, Samantha provides you with solutions to integrate breathwork when you're busy or stressed, types of breath practices for different events in your life, the optimal frequency for breathwork, and what it means to truly pause. Finally, she dives into how you can begin teaching breathwork at an early age and the impact this has on the younger generation. Let's dive in!

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What You Will Learn in This Interview with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Samantha Skelly⁠⁠⁠⁠:

3:33 - How did Sam become interested in breathwork

11:04 What does it mean to shift the nervous system?

15:00 - Busy or stressed? How to use our breath to self-heal?

19:07 Are there different breath techniques for different life events?

26:25 Frequency of breathwork to self-heal

32:03 Here’s why you need to take 5 minutes of breathwork!

36:56 How to utilise the concept of “pause.”

39:55 How can a parent utilize breathwork with their children

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