How To Relax Your Diaphragm | How easy can the exhale be? | Somatics for Protruding Belly?

In this video, learn How to Relax Your Diaphragm. Explore this gentle yet powerful somatic movement, diaphragmatic pandiculation, designed to release tension in your diaphragm, the primary muscle of breathing. Whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, or simply want to improve your breathing and overall well-being, these techniques can help you find deep relaxation and greater ease in your body. Join me in this journey toward improved breathing and inner calm.

Remember, do not go into any strain, discomfort or pain while doing these movements. These are the practice videos for my clients.

This sequence was developed by Eric Cooper Somatics ©2023

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Learn to relax the most stuck parts of your body, the tension patterns that make your pain, and also relax the patterns that make your mind busy, anxious or depressed.
Use these gentle somatic movements to teach your brain out of the tension holding patterns that it has you trapped in.
Look deeper to change the course of the ship.

0:00 The roots of how your stuck are in your breathing tension limits.
0:16 Tight low back is breathing constriction
0:22 Depressed chest is breathing constriction
0:30 the Diaphragm is the primary muscle of respiration
0:38 Other breathing muscles of the neck, ribs, back
1:10 You are a pulsatory breathing organism
1:23 We get caught in spatial distortion of our breathing
1:33 The anatomy of the Diaphragm
2:11 The diaphragm tightens to breathe in.
3:25 Your diaphragm is very strong
3:46 Arch the back like in the Whoa, Nellie movement to trigger the diaphragm
4:09 Don't cheat with pursed lips
4:25 Begin to learn a slow relax of the Diaphragm
5:08 Breath in, deep into the body
5:59 Add opposition to make it a pandiculation
7:12 Frequent urination problems and tight low abs
7:25 Tag sagging plank sequence
9:09 Diaphragm tightens to push abdomen to one side
10:48 Compare the two sides
11:10 Diaphragm breathes to the second side
12:48 Gentle symmetrical breathing


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