Hi, and welcome to your breath. My name is Elizabeth. And I'm so excited and grateful that you've decided to take a look at this course on breathing and breath work. Because we know that breath work is the single most important act that we do every single day. Do you know that you can go for about three weeks without food, you can go for about three days without water. But you can only go for about three minutes max without oxygen and the average adult Takes a Breath every 30 to 60 seconds.

It doesn't matter your age or your ability or limitations. It doesn't matter your race or your gender. It doesn't matter your sofas socioeconomic status, breathing and breath work is at the very core, the very essence of your health and well being if you want to change truly transform any area of your life physical health, mental, emotional, spiritual, financial, relational or professional. You need to begin with your breath, breathing and breath work is beginning to garner a lot of attention from the scientific community because of its evidence based research base benefits. scientific communities now showing that breathing and breath work just may be the secret to better health and wellness, as well as to a more peaceful and productive mind. And that is why I'm so excited that you've decided to take this journey with me, learning how to harness your breath, this free gift to truly change the way you act, feel and live.

In this course, we're going to look at the benefits of breathing. We're going to take a brief look at the respiratory system and some surprising facts about the respiratory system. Look at the effects of stress Some conscious breathing in terms of emotional health, sleep, digestion and mental clarity. And then we'll conclude by doing three different breathing labs looking at three different breathing techniques. Welcome to your breath.