This question goes out to the ones who know the Be Breathed program by Scott Sonnon.

Already with the first exercise (the Butterfly) I have difficulties getting how to do it correctly.

Let's say he lies there straight and then comes up with the body into the sitting position. He does an inhale. Now going back to the straight lying down position he does a sudden exhale (between straight sitting & starting to lie down)... now: does one continue to the exhale while slowly lying down vertebra by vertebra or does one keep a completely exhalated position (so no breathing part at all) while doing this?

Same problem with coming from the butterfly position into the straight lying position. He does a quick exhale (abdominal wall contraction) short before getting into the lying down position... but the descritpion again does not tell you if you have already reached full exhalation before moving on to the straight lying down position or if one continues to exhale after the first exahaltion contraction...

I know: that all is probably not easy to understand, but I lack the ability to describe it better...

thankx for any help

Harry

I'm not familiar with Sonnon's "Be Breathed" program, nor "the Butterfly" in particular.

But, in qigong in general, the movement of the body is in sync, in tempo, with the breath. Its a foundation principle.

Could be that Sonnon is doing something very specific & other than that.

yeah, its weird.

i havent practiced it or looked at it in a while, but i remember that the slow version and the fast version are different.

i remember just practicing it slowly at first and as i sped up chenging the breathing pattern, which seemed to conflict with the idea of the exercize, which is to "be breathed" and not to force air in or out. eventually, i got to where i could let go and just to the exercize and let it breathe me with the volume of air increasing each session.

when i start it again, in a couple of weeks i'll let you know, and we can discuss

Hey Keith. So many Qi gong styles. So many different breathing patterns. Not always that easy to understand.

Turbo. Here the reply by Coach Sonnon.

http://circularstrengthmag.com/forum/viewt...p?p=42247#42247