Pilates Has Saved My Life

I have been running from my body since I was diagnosed with scoliosis in the 7th grade. I grew up in Macon and we would come up to Emory a few times a year for x-rays and each time my curve was worse. But I knew that without the x-rays because the pain was getting worse.

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Breath

Often when we begin a discussion about the breath, we hear words such as: short, long, holding, full, pause, deep, relaxed, chest, belly and ribs. So how should we breathe? There is a ton of information out there to read and listen and learn about breathing. Breathing is automatic, but we do have control over our breathing patterns through practice. In my personal studies about the breath (pranayama / study of the breath a term used related in yoga and meditation). I have concluded three important factors.

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Samantha Ingram