To practice Wim Hof’s breathing method, start by finding a quiet place and lying flat on your back with a pillow under your head. Relax the shoulders, chest, and legs. Take a very deep breath into the pit of your stomach and let it back out just as quickly. Keep breathing this way for 30 cycles. If possible, breathe through the nose; if the nose

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The stance, the expansion of the chest, the widening of the shoulders, the breathing: all of it must work in unison to hit the target dead-center. Archery and Yoga share the principles of breathwork. If we hold our breath, we are too tight, too tense, and our movements mechanical. If we hyperventilate, we lose focus and flood ourselves with too... See more

“There are as many ways to breathe as there are foods to eat,” said one female instructor who had held her breath for more than eight minutes and once dived below 300 feet. “And each way we breathe will affect our bodies in different ways.” Another diver told me that some methods of breathing will nourish our brains, while others will kill neurons;

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