Even if you don’t regularly notice symptoms of stress or panic, depending on your lifestyle it can be common for your nervous system to have trouble fully relaxing. Under the surface, this can put you in a chronic state of stress where you aren’t able to completely recuperate from stress and blood flow is cut off throughout your body. Deep, intentional breathwork can have a positive impact overtime not only on stress and anxiety, but also conditions like arthritis, psoriasis, depression and more.

This easy-to-follow breath-work exercise, created by Inward Breathwork, will teach you how to intentionally raise physical stress for short bursts so that you can recognize it and, most importantly, take the right steps to calm and restore yourself afterward.