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The Alexander Technique and the Art of Breathing

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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Is There a Lung in the Belly?

The diaphragm is a flexible dome that s just beneath the lungs and the heart, and it separates the chest from the abdomen. The motion for the breath is in the middle of the torso, and that it expands through the abdomen and through the ribs and the back. People have very, very strange ideas about s. I'm sure you you've run into. It's an involuntary muscle, and it lies on the cusp. We can all hold our breath. But we know also that most of us don't ever spend any time thinking about breathing. And it's only when we notice that we are,. if we we become aware that we're inour breath, that we

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