Diaphragm Dynamics

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Hi everyone!

Today I’m moving on to Chapter 2 of Body by Breath, Diaphragm Dynamics. This chapter gets into the nitty gritty of all things related to the diaphragm.

It’s dense and it helped me to break it up by doing some of the exercises in the book. The timing couldn’t have been better for me, because I’ve been sick this week and my whole breathing apparatus needed some TLC.

Here are some standouts for me from this chapter:

I love that Jill just dives right into her love of the diaphragm, pointing out that the heart has been worshipped as the premier muscle of the body with odes and sonnets and billboards devoted to it, whereas the diaphragm, “sitting beneath the heart anatomically, has been treated like a doormat by culture for too long. The diaphragm shall no longer demur. I want to alter its destiny by shining a light upon its magnificence.” 🤩