Breathwork
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The use of breathing as therapy, particularly in the form of consciously controlling one's breathing rhythm. uncountable
"In his classes at BOUT Boxing, Bishop intentionally includes a lot of focus on breathwork. He used to have panic attacks that he thinks, looking back, could have been eased with slow, intentional breathing—like the kind of breaths you learn to take during recovery after an intense three-minute round of boxing."
Example
More examples"In his classes at BOUT Boxing, Bishop intentionally includes a lot of focus on breathwork. He used to have panic attacks that he thinks, looking back, could have been eased with slow, intentional breathing—like the kind of breaths you learn to take during recovery after an intense three-minute round of boxing."
Etymology
From breath + -work.
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