Breathing is involuntary, which means most of the time you probably don’t give it much thought. Yet when things go awry, like when you’re stressed, anxious, or afraid, you’ll probably notice changes ...

There’s a reason “take a deep breath” is a phrase people often say to each other during moments of stress. “Breath work is the foundation for stress management,” says Alistair Hawkes, a licensed ...

Trauma has a significant impact on the body. It sensitizes the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which is the area of the brain responsible for our body’s central stress response system. The ...

Breath work can do phenomenal things. James Nestor writes about this in a fascinating book I just finished, "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art." Nestor spent years digging into the art/science. He ...