Best Psoas & Diaphragm Exercise for Improved Breathing 

This is so much more helpful than just saying "breathe into your belly" Thank you so much

So much I am ignorant of,so much youtube makes available to us.Yet the yogi in the old days,hundreds of years back knew and were aware of all those Body and Soul intricacies.Thank you to Yogi of very long time ago.

My whole life makes sense now. Seriously. I've been putting the pieces together for awhile but this really explains so much. I recently had surgeries for 2 issues concerning my diaphragm I had adhesions attaching my diaphragm and liver and then I had Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome when the ligament is slightly hooked and creates all sorts of issues. Before I knew I had all this I was attempting to "fix" myself with yoga and diet but when I got to stretching my psoas all kinds of things started going funky. NOW it ALL makes sense. As I begin my long recovery I am very grateful for this information. It will help me very much moving forward. I would say, "I wish I knew this 2 years ago" but all good things in all good time. I learned about it today and it's just the right time. Thank you so much.

Wow! That felt awesome, thank you! I've been struggling with on & off silent reflux, and am starting to realize that my diaphragm is constantly tight (chest breathing instead of diaphragmatic breathing). I also have had on & off sciatic pain...I had no IDEA my hips and my breathing could be connected, so this is just brilliant. Thank you, I'm going to keep practicing this stretch!

I have had pain in my right hip flexor and buttock and i think that led to some indigestion/constipation... I did some of the exercises in this series for like 20 minutes and the next morning I feel so much better! OMG thank you so so much this is so informative and generous.

Dealing with hiatal hernia, digestion, tight hips, and stress - basically my body is in dis•ease. I typed in diaphragm exercises bc im seeing a connection between stress, short lung capacity, whole body synergy and so glad this came up. Thank you for this video🥰

Love love love it! You want to see a gifted teacher in action well here you go!

Thank you so much for sharing about that connection! I have issues often with my diaphragm and psoas muscle, but I didn't know they fed into each other😳 This will be very helpful!🙏

In the 5:38 minutes you took to show and explain the exercise and how to perform it, you have unlocked a problem I've been seeing Chiropractors, Massage Therapists and doctors for. Thanks so much for uncovering the mystery of tightness, how to fix it and how it relates to my left diaphragm issue and psoas problems. Greatly, appreciated!!!

psoas I was saying...

Thank you so much. You ve "saved "life..they gave me anti depressed médecines for my breath problem...although this was exactly my problem ! Thanks, thanks !

Thank you for the video. This video is what I needed. This is going to save my life, literally. 🤗🤗

Thank you so much for your video, finally I'm able to exercise my diaphragm & psaos at the same time. It relieved the pressure over my QL area. Thanks it's really helpful.

Thank you so much Jill!😊

Love the information, thanks for sharing!!

I am going to do this! I literally cant breathe !even while lying down sleeping! i get woken up cuz my diaphragm is so tight ! I am going to try this! thank you so much!

You're an angel! I'm experiencing lots of problems with posture, movement of my left foot (sometimes also left arm) through a seemingly tight left psoas, neck pain on the left, tight left jaw, problems breathing (not being able to inhale and exhale fully). I recently figured out my left diaphragm seems to do basically nothing. My pelvis seems to be forward on the left side and thus twisted to the right side, so my whole upper body is in a pattern twisted to the left, in order to compensate for that lower body twist to the right, to be able to see straight forward. A chiropractor told me once that i have somewhat of a scoliosis and tried to brute force my pelvis back. This (obviously) didn't work and made it hurt even more. Physiotherapists only suggested stretching exercises, but if i'm twisted along my whole body like this, seemingly because of the left diaphragm not breathing, what are stretches going to do? Not going to lie, i'm kind of angry that the "specialists" i'm going to do not notice this and are just trying to fix the symptoms. At the same time, i'm immensely grateful for people like you on the internet that get to the root cause and that through simple exercises. Honestly, when i saw you protrude the underside of your rib cage after fully exhaling, i thought i would not be able to do that, but it seems i can. And somehow it feels like that is crucial in getting to my left psoas. I have one question though: What do i do with my lower back during all this? I notice that my lower back wants to arch. Is that okay or do i have to push my lower back to the ground?

This is exactly the education I need. Thank you ❤️🙏🏼

I rarely comment on videos but I had to sign in to say thank you! This was great! ❤

My breathing got better just from watching the video!

I am wushu athlete and have always suffered with pinching and tight hips, especially in side split and crouch stance. I only discovered that the psoas can cause this. I’ve been using breathing techniques and stretching to target it, and the results great.

Very nice in-depth explanation ! That's the kind of conrent I'm looking for on RU-vid.

Thank you! I really felt it under my right rib and it really helped loosen the entire area.

Thank you Miss. This is a very important information.

Thank you!!!! After practicing this along with your video i realized i naturally have been moved ro stretch this way, because ive had some chronic issues after covid. Thank you souch now i can add this into my practice and also yes, ive been hearing siaphramatuc breathing etc... but noone actually walked me through it so I didn't understand. Thanks for showing the skeleton midel too i didnt know the connections were so real.

This was absolutely awesome. Never knew about that psoas connection and I'm dying to try out the stretch

WOW I havent done this exercise in ages. Felt so good. Thank you

I played basketball, baseball and football. I hike, bike, walk, box, lift, jog and do yoga and stretching and I feel like that’s the first time I’ve ever stretched that part of my body! Lol

My diaphragm is blocked on the right side and I have IBS with more pain at palpation on the right colon. Doing this exercise gave me a quite sharp (but bearable) pain in my right colon, at the bottom where the psoas is

Thanks that has made a great difference.

This is such a great video and stretch!! thank you!

Thank you, pleasure to watch. Very helpfull ❤

Many thanks for this!!!! great exercice and very well explained !

underated. thanks.

Excellent!!!

Thanks!

Incredible info, thanks 🙏

This has been most helpful.

I love the wholesome puns like "Match made in fascia" and "Breath Friends Forever" 😂🥰 Is it okay if I use those phrases in my yoga and meditation classes? 🧘🏼‍♂️

Thank you. This was amazing 🙌🏼

Amazing 🤩 ❤

Might this help with jaw tension and grinding?

Awesome, thank you🙌🏼

Doc youre a genius

Thanks for the video! I think it would be easier to follow, if you had 2 people- one to demonstrate, one to explain. Might be a bit easier to follow and understand it.

@Tuneupfitness have u got any that are good for ingunal and fermoral Hernia ?

I heard a chiro say you shouldn't do vakuum breaths if you have a hiatal hernia. This does look like it would make it worse.

Hello , many thanks for this video, Do you have a version of this exercise that can be done at work , it would be very helpful. Many thanks in advance

What about the QL ? It attaches to the last rib, if right can pull down on the rib cage affecting the diaphragm and low back pain..

This is great. The first 1-2 reps felt like I was just going through a motion But once I got 3-5 on each side I could start to feel the stretch she was talking about

Somehow I think this explains why I cramp up in the diaphragm sometimes when i do hand behind back pancake or foot behind hand.

Could I do this on a physio roller length of spine finishing on tail bone? And holding table legs? May allow deeper psoas stretch and ribs to flair further..

1:11 no problem, already started

I've been loving this exercise. Where do you position the towel to prop up the Sacrum?

Reps and sets?

Excellent

Hi is it possiblle to do this exercise in standing position?will it work?

Healing

Could a weak psoas be a cause for a hiatal hernia?

Interesting!

Is opening the rib cage at the end necessary? Why? And secondly. I sometimes feel if I have a yoga block under my hip and stretch my leg out I can feel it

I had hip displacement/ too open hipsocket as a baby and wore spreading trousers to correct that. My diaphragm is very tight. When I do this exercise and strectch out my left leg ( My left hip is worse than my right) while having my ribcage opened up, it is very uncomfortable somehwere around the area where i think my stomache is and that seems somewhere around where you are pointing out where the medial arcuate ligament is. ( I also have digestive problems.) Is that the connection you are talking about? Something is wrong there and nobody could tell me what it is. In the back around that area also something isn't right. When I stretch my left leg in that position it 's quite sore and when I sit up again and press the spot that normally is very tight, around the stomach area, it's not tight anymore!!! Is this the exercise to do to loosen it up? When I go to a fysio what can I say is wrong? That I have a problem with the Medial arcuate ligament? Is that the same as Median arcuate ligament? That seems to be something else: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TtnWj5qfDwo.html

So can this be achieved through a lunge raising hands and a slight back Bend

Is it possible that this exercise could help bring down an elevated hemidiaphram?

so there is no contraction or tensioning in the stomach/core area? and no arching of the back? I find in attempt to open the ribs, these happen to me

Very interesting ! Is there any other lesser known part of the body that, if tight, might hinder the diaphragm's optimum function as well ?

Could this help a elevated left hemidiaphragm

What if you have limited to no ROM over head or in external rotation of the shoulders?

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Lay down and hopefully you're on a mat. Fuck, I'm not on a mat, Im on the cold hard floor. IM DYING!!

Going to need to wait til I’ve given birth as I don’t think this is good for pregnancy 🙊 Damn!

The problem with surgery is then there will be scar tissue. Once the scar tissue forms then you have a new problem to deal with.

How to get the breath connected to the 'tanden'/'hara'/'navel energy center'?

Is there a reason I spit up and burp doing this

Looks easy on video actually impossible for me. Feel pain dizziness and almost puked.

This is chest breathing

What did I just watch?