Our topic for this episode is Breath Julie discusses a study with healthy humans on the physiological effects of slow breathing. Wendy interviews her friend,  teacher and scientist Mina Lebitz, who explains how the human body uses oxygen. Amin recounts his own experience with sleep apnea, explains the 20 Sufi breaths and talks with Ingrid Berg who has been making and playing reeded flutes for over 50 years, she shares experience with breathing practices and gives us steps on how to relieve pain thru breath work. Alice Wyatt uses her mother’s gardening style to bring attention to the need for tending to our souls in If Not Now, When? Conversations with Alice Wyatt. She points out the folly of allowing bad habits or unhealthy relationships to zap our time and energy.

In our field report from the Innernaut, we learn that breathing in and breathing out provides two opportunities to expand our consciousness.