Hummingbees Breath: Transform Your Stress and Focus with Breathwork

Imagine a simple breathwork technique that feels like a soothing facial massage and helps you reduce stress, improve concentration, and even alleviate headaches. Today, we’re diving into the transformative practice of Hummingbees Breath, Join Lunden as she guides you through this powerful breathwork session that you can access anytime, anywhere to come back to center and regulate your nervous system.

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Breathwork is a phenomenal tool for anyone looking to find balance and focus in their daily lives. In this episode, you’ll learn how to perform the Humming Bees Breath, a technique that stimulates your vagus nerve, increases nitric oxide production, and promotes relaxation. Whether you’re at home or on the go, this practice will help you relax your jaw, face, chest, and shoulders, leaving you refreshed and centered. Tune in, close your eyes, and let’s hum our way to a more relaxed and concentrated state of mind.

Transcript

Lunden Souza: 0:01

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Lunden Souza: 3:42

So, humming bees breath, you're going to inhale through the nose and exhale through the nose. But when we exhale we're going to hum. So big, inhale through the nose, exhale through the nose quickly to clear the runway. So we're going to do a big inhale, let it out. And then we are going to inhale through the nose, exhale through the nose, with a hum this time.

Lunden Souza: 4:08

So inhale, close your eyes, exhale, hum, and that's humming bee's breath. Keep going, inhale through the nose, hum it out, and when you do this, relax your jaw, relax your face, relax your chest, relax your shoulders. Inhale through the nose, exhale, hum, hmm. And now, wherever you are, we're going to do this for a few rounds together, whether you're listening to this on the podcast or I actually happen to be going live on Instagram now as well, sharing this breathwork technique. So we're going to do this together for a couple minutes, okay, and just close your eyes. Get lost in this breathing technique. Inhale through your nose, exhale through your nose with a hum, fill up the belly, fill up the chest on those inhales, inhales.

Lunden Souza: 5:28

Inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales, inhales.

Lunden Souza: 5:58

Inhales, inhales.

Lunden Souza: 6:06

In.

Lunden Souza: 6:10

Three more. Last one exhale, hum it out and release your hands down into your lap. You can keep your eyes closed and then just enjoy the little after effect of all the vibrations from the humming Feels so good within our brain and body and then, when you're ready, you can open your eyes. It feels so good within our brain and body and then, when you're ready, you can open your eyes and come back. I hope you enjoyed this hummingbees breathing, hummingbees breath breathwork technique. I hope you're enjoying these episodes on the podcast where you get to learn a little new I should say not really little, but a very easily accessible, very impactful breathwork technique that you can do anytime, anywhere. And thank you for joining me to do some hummingbees breath today. We'll see you at the next episode. Bye.

Lunden Souza: 7:42

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