How is Your Breath?

Lately, I have been doing a deep dive into breathing. I recently had the opportunity to teach a class on Breathing for Singing and I’m also in the middle of a Yoga Teacher Training program. In yoga, a great emphasis is placed on awareness of the breath as well as pairing your movement with your breath. Because I’m spending many hours of my day consciously thinking about this topic, I have a question for you:

Here are a few breathing facts:

Our lungs are housed within our ribs. The ribcage expands due to the movement of our diaphragm and our external intercostals (muscles on the inside of our ribcage), which in turn fills the lungs with air
Our diaphragm not only helps our lungs inflate but it also gives us a little back and internal organ massage
The bottom of our lungs serve to oxygenate more blood than the top of our lungs

Armed with this information, throughout this week can you take time to ask yourself: How is my breath?