Inhale-Exhale: How Breathing Techniques Affect the Brain and Body and Relieve Stress Even in a Shelter

When the world around you is keeping you tense, the most reliable way to calm down is right under your nose. Proper breathing can be medicine, exercise, and even a brain trainer.

How exactly it affects our body and mind is explained by: the instructor from freediving, breathing and meditation instructor Natalia Rusak, candidate of sciences in the field of brain physiology Maria Bondarenko, and pulmonologist Oleksandr Ivashchenko.

Photos: Maria Bondarenko, Oleksandr Ivashchenko, Natalia Rusak

Types of breathing practices

All breathing practices can be conditionally divided into two groups, says Natalia Rusak:

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Inhale-Exhale: How Breathing Techniques Affect the Brain and Body and Relieve Stress Even in a Shelter

Types of breathing practices

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