One of the most vital aspects of physical confidence is your posture, and posture and breathing go hand in hand. If you're breathing properly and consciously, with control, paying attention to the sound of your in breath, and your exhalation, then it's going to dramatically improve your posture. And if you're very focused on your posture, this is going to open everything out to give you more lung space, and more space here to breathe. So they really do go hand in hand and together are a powerful team for your voice and for speaking, proper upright posture, and alignment of our trunk especially the spine and the neck. And head facilitates effective and efficient respiration your best breathing for clear and audible Sound for your best projected voice. Posture also helps in many other areas.

For example, lots of lots of students come to me, hoping for a flatter stomach and to train a flatter stomach. A lot of that lies in your posture. posture is one of the best ways of boosting not only your physical confidence, but your mental confidence. It's very important. It causes a lot of release of endorphins, endorphins and other important chemicals and hormones that are going to come on to like guide you through your daily practice and the event practice as well. Here are some exercises that are brilliant for posture.

I really recommend doing these every single day even if you only have one minute in the morning and one minute in the evening. But especially if you're sitting at a desk very often, these really, really are for you. But anytime These are brilliant because they have the multi benefit exercises with no downside. So first of all, what you're going to do is standing upright, simply pull your shoulders down and back and breathe in this position. So breathing and posture best friends. You could practice some resonant breathing, or some hissing breathing or feeling a bit tired.

Just relax your breathing. And just really focus on the posture squeezing your shoulder blades, training all those minor muscles, training your muscle memory. Next one, squeezing into the trapezius muscle and squeezing into your neck as much as you can get all the blood flowing around your shoulder area. And then pull down. Breathe in as you squeeze up and exhale. As you pull down, rolling the shoulders back, please take your time with this to begin with be nice and gentle because this is a little bit like giving yourself a massage, so you might feel a few clicks and conks and this might highlight a few areas of weakness or aches and pains.

But this will help absolutely will help if you do this everyday. Next one, interlocking the fingers, pulling the arms out in front and rounding the shoulders as you tilt your pelvis up, ideally squeezing the gluteus muscles. So squeezing your bottom muscles standing upright and interlocking the fingers behind your back and squeezing back, drawing the shoulder blades together. This also creates more room in the lung for you to breathe especially in the upper level, this is vital for inhalation. So really practice your breathing here to begin with this may feel quite challenging, but it's really worth it for the results. I hope you enjoy some of those and there's plenty more to come in the daily practice.