In This Episode of Prescribing Lifestyle Podcast, I guide you through a deeply calming 20-minute breathwork practice designed to help you wind down, relax your nervous system, and prepare for a restful night’s sleep. Whether you're new to breathwork or already using it as a tool for stress relief, this session is a beautiful way to reconnect with your body and breath.

💤 Ideal for evenings or any moment when you need to pause, reset, and return to calm.

• 🌬️ Superhero stance: How to breathe deeply into your ribs and feel your breath moving your body
• 🛏️ Body scan + grounding techniques to invite relaxation and stillness
• 🧘‍♀️ Box breathing: A method used to regulate your nervous system and calm racing thoughts
• 💚 Coherent breathing: Inhale and exhale in rhythm to bring your heart rate and emotions into balance
• 🔁 Breath ladder technique: A guided breath extension practice to deepen relaxation step by step
• 🍃 Light breath practice: Finish with whisper-light breathing to quiet the mind and body

This is more than just breathwork—it’s a moment of self-care, presence, and reconnection with yourself. You can return to this episode any time you need a reset.

✔ Breath is a powerful tool for calming the nervous system

✔ Longer exhales help shift the body into rest-and-digest mode

✔ Breath awareness can improve sleep, mood, and emotional regulation

✔ There is nothing to fix—only to feel and allow

✔ You are grounded, you are enough, you are safe

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