BREATHING CYCLES

In your core, there is peace

Breathing slower is the easiest way to get there

GET STARTED BELOW

Use headphones

Let your breath follow the music from the left side as you inhale to the right side as you exhale

Concept of Breathing Cycles

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Vagus Breathing Focus - for headphones

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BREASE - Ready in 3 minutes - Breathwork - Breathing Cycles

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BREASE - 478 - Breathing Cycles

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ALBUMS

Breathing Cycles is on Spotify, Apple Music and other Streaming Services

Vagus Breathing

Vagus Breathing is made to stimulate your vagus nerve. By breathing in for 5 seconds and out for 5 seconds for a total of 10 minutes, it’s proven to stimulate the vagus nerve. By using this vagus breath technique you activate your parasympathetic nervous system. In other words, this will activate your bodys rest and digest system.

When you breathe in this tempo, you’re telling your mind it is safe and that it ok to turn off the stress.

Slow Breathing Meditation

With this easy to follow music, you can practice breathing like a turtle or an elephant. The animals that live the longest, are the ones breathing slowest. Only 2 times pr minute. On the other side, a dog has 40 breaths pr minute.
An average human is breathing 20 times pr minute in our western stressful world. Imagine what will happen if we can slow this down.
«Slow Breathing Meditations» will help you breathe 6 seconds out and 3 seconds in, 8:4, 10:5 all the way up to 20:10. Each piece of music is 10 minutes.
We recommend starting with 6:3 and working your way down.
Additionally we have made a track where you breathe for 2 minutes in each time cycle, from 6:3 to 20:10 This is a great track to use after working out.

5 Stille Moments

As a musicologist and composer, I have always thought of music as something more than just sound. I am driven by the idea that sound waves are pure energy with unknown potential. In my quest for the meaning of sound, I discovered elements that I have implemented in 5 STiLLE Moments. Breathe with the music and enjoy your mind.

Singles

As always, don't push yourself.
Epic Power Breathing is made for getting ready to preform before the olympics.
478 wake up (short) is made to get started with the day.
478 sleep (long) is made for getting to sleep. (Search for Dr Weill's instructions on the 478 technique).

Golden Ratio

The exhalation time is 1,618 times the inhalation time.
Each track is 3 minutes. This is for short exercises and rebooting yourself on the go.

Hold After Inhalation

Breathing meditations with the breathing ratio 1:4:2.
Headphones are recommended when doing these exercises!
Breathe in 1x, hold 4x, breathe out 2x.

Hold After Exhalation

Practice holding your breath after breathing out.
Start with 2 sec hold, practice all the way to 15 sec hold.
The last one (hold2-15 for 28 minutes) is not for beginners.

Breathe Out

Breathe Out is a hybrid track between breathing music and pop music.
Breathing music on the go!
I hope this track will reach a younger audience. It is 5 seconds out and 5 in, just like the other vagus breathing tracks.

"Breathe Out" has vocals like a regular track.
"Breathe Out - Guided" has a guided vocal throughout the entire track.
"Breathe Out - Instrumental" has no vocals, just the breathing pattern known from all other tracks by breathing cycles.

BREASE

"I'll be there in 5, just gotta BREASE first". 55 songs to build your own breathing playlist

THE STORY OF
BREATHING CYCLES

"Breathing Music" is a concept I made many years ago, after experiencing my first panic attack. Realizing my breathing pattern could prevent it from happening again, I made music with a fixed and slow breathing pattern. Now I had an exit and a strategy for the next time. It worked so well, that after a short time, I had it implemented in my routine and I continued my life as usual. Some years later someone close to me struggled, and I made the first album of breathing music: 5 Stille Moments. It was magic.

After that experience I've made many hours of breathing music, but always the same concept:

Use headphones
Lay or sit down comfortably
Press play and follow the music with your breath. Inhale when the music comes in from the left side and exhale when it goes out to the right side. (The music guides you).
Close your eyes
Let the feelings come. Crying, yawning, smiling, laughing, etc = tension release.
Practice belly breathing. Don't force yourself. It takes time to strengthen your breathing muscles like the diaphragm.
When you're done, think of someone you love before opening your eyes.
Stay in this moment for a little while before getting on with today.

There are many benefits of intentional breathing that I've discovered since I made it for just that one task.

As a father of 3 girls, I need to reset my mind, and get my focus right quite often. Without this method, I'm not sure how life would have been.

Made with love,

Øyvind

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