Nerve system connections - your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

Female hormones impact our breathing and our tolerance to carbon dioxide. Progesterone is a respiratory stimulant and women tend to have a lower tolerance to carbon dioxide during the last two weeks of their menstrual cycle. During the perimenopause transition, anxiety and breathlessness symptoms may occur.

Anxiety is everywhere. Intentional breathing practices can help. You are not an inherently anxious person.

Shake up the body. Get out of the chronic half stressed, half relaxed state. Deliberately shift your body’s biochemistry through breathwork and then recover and deeply relax.

Carbon Dioxide is required for oxygen to be released from our red blood cells into our muscles, organs, brain, and cell tissues.

Giraffes use their diaphragm to create changes in their lungs causing air to travel all the way through their very long neck. Thankfully we don’t have to work that hard to breathe.

Hiking around the Huayhuash Mountains in Peru

How does it work? Why is it so hard?

Our sensitivity to carbon dioxide varies over our lifetimes based on our experience, history, and emotions. Our carbon dioxide sensitivity determines when we feel the need to breathe.

Our breath is a bridge for our conscious body to communicate with our unconscious body.

Efficient Breathing