Give yourself more breathing space
A Feldenkrais breathing series for more space, freedom, and softness within yourself
The breathing lessons developed by Moshe Feldenkrais are special, subtle, and sometimes surprisingly challenging. They are not meant to teach you a “correct way of breathing.” In fact, according to Feldenkrais, there is no such thing as one right breath.
Instead, these Feldenkrais breathing lessons invite you to make the entire area around your breathing more mobile and more conscious. Through these movements, you discover how much space is actually available in your chest, ribs, belly, and back — space that often remains unused because we make ourselves small, hold tension in our posture, or let our breathing follow only one familiar pattern.
More and more people notice that these lessons:
- bring more ease and space into their breathing
- reduce tension in muscles that unconsciously try to “hold you upright”
- create space in the body and in how you experience yourself
The result usually feels like one big moment of relief.
What participants say
Why this series works so well
Many people breathe in the same way all the time — one fixed pattern with little variation.
That limits your breathing space and can even create tension.
In addition, breathing muscles are often busy helping us stay upright.
When those muscles are given a chance to let go, more movement, ease, and freedom immediately become available.
As Tjitske beautifully puts it:
“When we make ourselves smaller in the world, we often do so quite literally in our bodies. These breathing lessons use the breath to rediscover that space within yourself.”
Through the movements, your body becomes more accessible to both the in-breath and the out-breath, while less muscular effort is needed to stay “upright.” You become softer and more yielding, and you feel that immediately throughout your whole system.
What you get in this Feldenkrais breathing series
After purchase, you get immediate access to six breathing lessons, each with its own entry point to more space, depth, and ease.
- The see-saw movement – belly out and belly in
- Pausing the breath – variations in pauses
- Keeping the belly gently expanded during both inhalation and exhalation
- Guiding the inhalation so the rib cage opens
- Drawing the belly in with each exhalation
- Sensing your lungs opening from the nostrils