Average Reading Time: 2 minutes and 59 seconds If you are a nose breathing geek like me, or obsessed with the “runner’s high,” “the zone,” or “the flow” state, this newsletter will be a gold mine for you! It will offer some very compelling evidence that we can achieve “the zone,” actually enjoy exercise, and […]
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Nose Breathing Exercise: How To Breathe While Running
Exercising without stress isn’t a fantasy. By learning how to nose breathe during exercise, it can be a reality. Research shows nose breathing may be the key to tapping into the zone, runner’s high or flow. The Body, Mind, and Sport book Body, Mind, and Sport is a best-selling book of health and holistic fitness […]
032: Exercise, Fitness, Nose Breathing Podcast
In this podcast, I talk about the groundbreaking research into a “less is more” approach to exercise that has allowed many folks to enjoy exercise perhaps for the first time ever. Listen and learn about the benefits of effortless exercise, nose breathing (nasal breathing) and exercise techniques, along with tailored exercise programs according to your needs and […]
15 Benefits Of Breathing Through Your Nose During Exercise
The importance of regular exercise incorporated into a healthy lifestyle and diet cannot be stressed enough in our quest for optimal health and longevity. In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about why nose breathing exercise (or Ayurvedic exercise) is so important as we strive for health and fitness. Stress during exercise causes the production of […]
The Right Exercise Can Lengthen Your Telomeres
What Type of Exercise Should I Do? New research once again points to health and longevity benefits of endurance exercise compared to resistance training. Now, no one is suggesting resistance (weight) training is in any way harmful— numerous studies tout its many health benefits, as they do with any type of physical exercise.1,2 Recently, however, […]
Kapalabhati Breathing for Blood Sugar, Weight Loss + Brain Cleansing: the Science
Pranayama, Nitric Oxide + Stress Reduction As rising levels of stress are linked to ever-rising levels of chronic disease, researchers look to time-tested stress reducing techniques to break this cycle. Recently, more and more studies are published on the science of breathing, also called pranayama. The word prana means life force and ayama means to […]
Strong but Not Stressed: Ayurvedic Exercise vs HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training)
Fitness trends, much like diet trends, change so quickly it’s hard to keep up. Constantly changing health strategies are confusing and exactly why I turn to time-tested ancient wisdom, backed by science, at LifeSpa. My first book (published in 1994), Body, Mind, and Sport, is all about Ayurvedic exercise, employing nose breathing to keep exertion […]
Change Your Life Overnight with Mouth Tape: 20 Reasons to Nose Breathe While You Sleep
Do you wake up with a dry mouth, bad breath, or a scratchy throat? Do you suffer from snoring or sleep apnea? Curious about an unorthodox technique based on ancient wisdom to stop snoring and protect your teeth and gums, while boosting your parasympathetic nervous system and putting fight-or-flight responses at ease? Read on for […]
How & Why to Nose Breathe While Swimming
In the late nineties, when I first came back from India and was writing my nose breathing exercise book, Body, Mind, and Sport, I was fascinated by the benefits and feedback I was seeing when people learned how to nose breathe. As a triathlete, I was set on figuring out how to nose breathe while […]
3 Ayurvedic Pillars of Effortless Exercise
Recently, I competed in a sprint triathlon with my family here in Colorado. With only a couple of weeks to train for this event, we incorporated a few Ayurvedic training techniques and successfully used them for this triathlon. The Personal Scoop Originally, my 24-year-old daughter and 18-year-old son were going to join me for this […]
10 Breathing Exercises (Pranayama) to Restore Mind-Body Balance
The body has two opposing nervous systems that act to either speed up or slow down various functions of the body. How you breathe determines which nervous system is activated. Startled by a bear, you would likely take a mouth wide open, gasping breath. When under stress, we cry, scream, yell or gasp, and run […]
Boost Fat Metabolism with this Breathing Technique
Most people think we lose weight by converting body fat into energy, creating heat, and by sweating off the pounds during vigorous workouts, but the way the body actually rids itself of fat may surprise you. In a study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers investigated where the fat goes when one loses weight […]
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