The internal muscle action links with the bowing and unbowing of the spine.
I-mon wrote:Yeah the pushing a car part of the reverse breath is the "natural" bit, but the lifting of the perineum and drawing the muscles of the abdominal walls and lower back inwards during inhalation is the more interesting part for me at the moment. Really nice workout/coordination/unification of all of those deep muscles. Pressurises the whole torso as well.
GrahamB wrote:Reverse breathing increases the 'pressure' in the system. I believe that's its purpose.
If you think of trying to get a stretch on the 'suit' (from finger tips to toes) then the reverse breathing makes it easier to feel that stretch, and then instigate movement that is done by the whole body controlled by the dan tien, like a spider in the centre of a web.
I-mon wrote:Thanks for the interesting thoughts guys. Seems like there are quite a few different types of "reverse breathing" out there, so maybe we'd better be careful of thinking that any particular one is "correct".
Ron P, or anyone else who has done a deliberate reverse breathing practice for some time with pelvic floor contractions and whole-abdomen compression, do you feel like the practice has physically changed the tissues of the abdominal walls and pelvic floor? Obviously that would be impossible to measure, or to be sure that such changes were specifically the result of the reverse breathing, but I'm still curious about what changes people feel. Logically, knowing what we do about how connective tissue changes over time when tension forces are applied to it, we would expect the tissues wrapping the pelvic and abdominal cavities to become thicker, stronger, and more coherent (fibres more aligned so as to contract in a more unified manner) from an extended period of such a practice.
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