Float Away With CultureShift’s Deep Breathing Exercise

Erin Allen, yoga teacher and audio producer for WDET, says mindful breathing can help both mentally and physiologically.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has stress levels peaking. Here’s a technique you can use to calm down.

“We forget how to take a full belly breath, it’s something we haven’t done since we were children.” 

Erin Allen is a yoga teacher and audio producer. She says mindful breathing can help both mentally and physiologically. 

“Breath is so vital,” Allen says. “Oxygen gets into our brains and into our muscles. That carbon dioxide needs to leave our body, our lungs, completely.”

In CultureShift’s newest segment, “Take A Deep Breath,” we invited Allen to lead mindful, deep breathing exercises for listeners. 

“We forget how to take a full belly breath, it’s something we haven’t done since we were children,” she says. 

Click on the player above to hear Erin Allen lead a deep breathing exercise.

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Author

  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning host and producer of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She’s a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, and a former host/reporter for Arizona Public Media. Amanda is also an artist, certified intuitive and energy healer, and professional tarot reader.