Pilates instructors: What are your favorite cues for teaching lateral breathing?

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Joy Keller 0 June 12, 2012 0 Comments

Beginners have a difficult time learning how to breathe laterally. What cues have you found helpful?

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I ask people to place their hands on either side of their rib cage and to imagine that they have a very heavy plate on their chest so that the rib cage cannot expand upwards.

At times, I found it helpful when I put MY hands against their rib cages and ask them to ‘breathe in to my hands’.

Pilates instructors: What are your favorite cues for teaching lateral breathing?

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