Could a breathing exercise designed to calm you actually make you feel worse?

In Part 2, Abby explains why carbon dioxide is essential to healthy breathing and how overbreathing may contribute to dizziness, tingling, chest tightness, brain fog, air hunger and panic.

She and Celest explore why popular techniques such as box breathing, resonant breathing, physiological sighs, Wim Hof-style breathing and breath holds are not appropriate for everyone.

They also discuss abdominal gripping, pursed-lip breathing, hypermobility and why breathing better often starts with doing less, not trying harder.

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What happens when you feel like you cannot get enough air, even though your medical tests are normal?

Hannah and Celest are joined by senior respiratory physiotherapist Abby Stewart, who specialises in breathing pattern disorders, long COVID, anxiety, panic attacks and complex respiratory symptoms.

Abby shares how developing a breathing pattern disorder after COVID led her into clinical work and PhD research in this area. Together, they explore air hunger, overbreathing and why breathing difficulties are so often dismissed as anxiety.

Abby also introduces her ABC approach to breathing retraining:

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In part two, we go deeper into Hie’s teaching philosophy, his creative process and what it truly means to evolve as a teacher.

We explore Inside Flow, the role of technique in teaching, and the tension between excellence and self-worth.

This episode is full of insight, honesty and a few unexpected moments that will make you think differently about teaching, learning and even yourself.

In this episode we explore:

What Inside Flow is and why it’s such a powerful teaching method

How music, movement and storytelling can transform a class experience

Why technique, not talent, is what allows teachers to deliver consistently

The idea of building “internal tools” rather than relying on inspiration

Why there are no shortcuts to excellence, even in the age of AI

The role of discipline, patience and working without reward

The relationship between dissatisfaction and growth

Imposter syndrome, humility and the fine line between confidence and ego

Why your uniqueness as a teacher is your greatest strength

How to support students without creating unrealistic comparisons

About Hie

Hie Kim is one of the main teacher trainers of the legendary Inside Yoga Studio, which holds its teacher trainings in more than eight locations. There, he takes the role of the compassionate teacher trainer, that will let you conquer obstacles with knowledge and uncomfortable moments with humor. Hie teaches hundreds of yoga teachers every year and is well known in german speaking Europe and Asia. Hie Kim writes poems, books on yoga specific topics and organises the Yunion Yoga Festival in Gastein, Austria. Furthermore, Hie teaches multiple video series on the premium online yoga platform tintyoga.com

Hie’s biggest premise in his Yoga classes is, that the class itself is created in the space between teacher and student. This reactive teaching style called “ECHO SEQUENCING” is an advanced training, that Hie teaches to established Yoga teachers. With a keen sense of methodology and a sensitive mind Hie Kim picks up his students right where they are and takes off to a journey where body, mind and emotions cross roads. His self-written shavasana poems are especially popular.

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