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**Benefits:**
 • Improves breathing efficiency
 • Increases awareness
 • Develops focus
 • Relaxation response

**Cues:**
 • Start by placing one hand onto your stomach and one hand onto your chest
           • This will give you feedback as you build your three-part breath
           • Take a few breaths to notice what your natural breathing pattern is at this point
                     • Do you breathe through the nose or the mouth?
                     • What is the path of the breath through the body?
                               • Where do you feel expansion on each inhale?
 • What is the length of your inhale and the length of your exhale?
 • The three parts of the breath are the stomach, the ribs, and the chest
 • First, empty the lungs
 • Breathing in through the nose slowly feel the stomach fill, the ribs widen and the chest rise
 • Exhaling through the nose feel that same wave-like rhythm in reverse the chest falls, ribs narrow and the stomach empties
 • Over the next few breaths slowly allow the body to expand a little bit more on each breath cycle using more of your lung capacity

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Three Part Breath