Sur ma chaîne Youtube… The benefits of Breathing Exercises

Why bother doing breathing exercises?

I’m sharing my thoughts about the importance of breathing exercises, especially if:
– you are anxious
– easily upset
– afraid of some situations
– difficulties to focus
– lack of flow in sport
For all of these there are breathing exercises that can help!

You can find all the best exercises that I have gathered the last 7 years from the best teachers on this topic in my course Breathwork course:
In English: https://www.ready2perform.com/breathwork

En Français: https://www.ready2perform.com/respiration

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Sur ma chaîne Youtube… The place of Breathing Exercises in Yoga

In this video I share my thoughts about the place of breathing practice in yoga (also called pranayama). It used to be more important than the movements (asana), while nowadays it’s the opposite…

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In English: https://www.ready2perform.com/breathwork

En Français: https://www.ready2perform.com/respiration

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In October last year (2021), my wife Elena and I gave back the keys of our beautiful rented house near Annecy, France. 4 years after we came back from Hong Kong to land in France and it was time to move on…to a nomadic life style! Today I’m going to explain the current idea of

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Sur ma chaîne Youtube… Breathing Exercise for Stress and Anxiety

Portia Mead instructs us Box Breathing, a technique to reduce stress and being focused, almost instantly.
Watch the full interview about Teenagers, Breathing Exercises for Anxiety and Performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSSlMgLryo


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The video course is here: https://www.ready2perform.com/breathwork

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Sur ma chaîne Youtube… Teenagers: Breathing Exercises for Anxiety and Performance | Portia Mead

Breathwork online course with the best breathing techniques I have gathered:
1: Breathing exercises for optimal breathing
2: Breathing exercises for anxiety (stress)
3: Breathing exercises for athletic performances
4: Breathing exercises for health (immune system)
5: Breathing in tennis

The online course is here: https://www.ready2perform.com/breathwork

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Here is an interview with Portia Mead, Yoga instructor and Breath Coach.
We dive into the topic of breathing, especially when you’re a teenager, and how you can reduce your anxiety and stress, and how you could also improve your mental and physical performances.

00:00 depression and physical struggles that lead Portia to become yoga teachers then breath coach
04:40 struggles and challenges of being a teenager
07:30 meditation at school, the issues with current education not related to real life
08:55 what can you gain from breathing exercises
10:15 improvements you can measure when you improve your breath
11:30 continuous practice
12:30 the differences between pranayama (yoga breathing exercises) and Oxygen Advantage methods.
14:24 the first exercise to do regularly
17:24 the issues breathing through your mouth
19:03 breathing exercise for performance athletes
20:20 any issue with breathing exercises?
21:19 snoring
22:45 BOLT test
23:20 books to start with
25:10 Portia’s links

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Teenagers: Breathing Exercises for Anxiety and Performance | Portia Mead

Here is an interview with Portia, yoga teacher and breath coach. From a thyroid condition and doctors telling her she won’t be able to live normally anymore, Portia started a journey that lead her to heal through yoga. More recently, she used the challenge of her first marathon to dive this time into the power

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10 Fiction and Non Fiction Books To Start Becoming Mentally Strong

I’ve just finished an intense 3 week training period with Ronan, a 19 year old tennis player. At the end of it, we were discussing on how he could continue on his wave of improvements. This is when I remembered about the saying “you are the average person of the 5 people you spend the

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sur ma chaîne Youtube… Advanced Serve Tennis Drill: Disguise

I ve learned this drill from Guillaume Peyre when he was coaching Marcos Baghdatis. He told me he learned it from Bob Brett when he was coaching Boris Becker. So, this is not a new drill!

The goal is to have the same toss all the time so that your opponent cannot read it.

Enjoy.

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