Nose or mouth breathing?
I've been reading Free Your Breath, Free Your Life by Dennis Lewis and he takes a pretty strong position against mouth breathing.
I tend to like cardio and aerobic exercise and find myself naturally mouth breathing to keep up the oxygen demand. Lewis argues against that and suggests learning how to nose breath at all times unless you are doing a specific breathing exercise.
My ashtanga yoga instructors are always at me to "shut my mouth" but frankly I find the aerobic demand of the practice requires mouth breathing. So when I'm at the yoga school I mind my manners but when I'm on my own I don't worry too much.
When we partner train and juice it up at ILC it can get aerobic and I also find myself mouth breathing and I've always used a mouth exhalation for fa jing and other types of chi qong.
Is it a question of one or the other? Is it about awareness and depth of the breath? Is there an ILC postion?
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