Now on to my favorite part, breathing and posture. One of my favorite inspirational quotes from a yoga guru that I've trained with his breath is life. And if you're breathing, you're making progress. As long as you're breathing, you are definitely making progress. Our volume and rate of speech is dependent on our respiration, the way we breathe. We speak on exhalation.

The longer our inhalation, the more words we produce clearly, as we breathe out. The deeper the breath in, the more we can project our voice. So breathing practice is very worthwhile. I'm going to give you two very powerful breathing exercises. One resonant breathing and one hissing breathing. These will help you not only to find the best and most powerful voice, but these will also come nerves and help you to be in control and grounded and centered.

And they will also help you to not rush when you're talking. So there are many, many benefits to these two styles of breathing. You can practice these types of breathing anywhere. An ideal time to practice would be as your head is on your pillow just before you go to sleep. When you wake up in the morning, anytime during the day that you take a break from work, and especially if you're feeling overworked or stressed or you're struggling to focus this breathing will also really help with focus. And I'm going to be adding this breathing into both your daily practice for finding your best voice and also For the event practice, if, if that's relevant for you.

So first of all resonant breathing, I'd like you to stand as tall as possible. and place your hands just onto your ribcage, breathing in through the nose. I'd like you to fill your diaphragm and feel it lift. Breathing out through the mouth. You want to make as much sound as you possibly can with both the inhalation but especially the exhalation. The most important bit about this breathing is that when you breathe in, your stomach rises.

So imagine you're lying flat. practicing this breathing lying flat is a great way to practice it and when you get ready Strong. This is a great way to strengthen your core, strengthen your diaphragm and increase your lung capacity. You can practice this lying down with light books to start with on your stomach. visualize this, you're lying flat. You have the light books on your stomach and when you breathe in, the books should rise.

When you breathe out the books First of all, come in, but then you're going to really compress use your core muscles. And you'll find that if you do practice this breathing on a regular basis, you'll be amazed at how much you can strengthen your core. So one last time let's do this together, breathing in. Everything rises and pause on the after the inhalation and then shaping the lips as if you're going to whistle And at this point, at the end of your exhalation your stomach should be as it's practiced and taught us. So you need to make sure that you really feel your core. Okay, the second style of breathing, which I'd love you to practice at any given opportunity, this will help you in all areas of life, from anxiety, to helping combat stress to helping with sleep, and it will really help with lung capacity and the voice.

So from here breathing and again, filling everything up and everything the diaphragm, the lungs, the chest, the stomach is rising here. the added benefit of this type of breathing is that it's detoxifying is highly detoxifying. And it's cleansing. I often give this to students of mine who have asthma, and people that really want to boost their fitness. It might sound a bit funny or feel a bit funny doing this breathing, but the reason for it is because it gives you the ultimate control as you're breathing out. So really, really try to practice that one and you'll definitely feel the benefits and you'll especially feel the acute calmness that gives you and the clarity and focus of mind.

It's it's amazing the effect that breathing has on the central nervous system.