If you’re feeling stressed, the advice to “take a deep breath” is as cliché as it comes. But even if you know that slowing your respiratory roll really can calm you down and make you feel rested and ...

The healthy adult at rest involuntarily inhales and exhales some 20,000 times a day, as naturally as seawater slides back and forth in a tidal zone. This cycle is so routine and rhythmic that we ...

Slow down, and pay attention to your breath. It’s not merely commonsense advice. It also reflects what meditation, yoga, and other stress-reducing therapies teach: that focusing on the timing and pace ...

Editor’s Note: Join Dana Santas for a four-part series to learn how you can breathe better to live better. Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist ...

Professional waterman Laird Hamilton shares his favorite breathing exercises for improving fitness and relieving stress on and off the water. We tend to overlook the importance of breathing because it ...

My Pilates instructor is a fan of telling my group fitness class, “Breathe or you’ll die.” Sure, it sounds obvious: You need oxygen to survive. Breathing is 100 percent in your best interest. But, ...

Each Olympic cycle, athletes and support staff chase the latest cutting-edge knowledge in pursuit of Gold. In the Winter Olympics, both environmental (ie, cold) and sport-specific constraints present ...

How Breathing Effects Eye: The process of breathing not only affects other parts of the body, but it can also affect our eyes ...

While many of us take the process of breathing for granted, Megan Callus — founder and owner of Boundless Breath in Atlantic Highlands — takes pride in showing others how the power of proper breathing ...

New research suggests that the natural rhythm of breathing plays an important role in organizing the brain activity required for human memory. The study indicates that successful memory retrieval is ...