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breathwork

breathwork noun: the use of breathing as therapy, particularly in the form of consciously controlling one's breathing rhythm.

Noun

breathwork (uncountable)

  1. (psychotherapy) The use of breathing as therapy, particularly in the form of consciously controlling one's breathing rhythm.
    • In his classes at BOUT Boxing, Bishop intentionally includes a lot of focus on breathwork. He used to have panic attacks that he thinks, looking back, could have been eased with slow, intentional breathing—like the kind of breaths you learn to take during recovery after an intense three-minute...2023 December 2, Anna Gibbs, “Punch Your Way to Inner Peace”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023

Origin of breathwork

From breath + -work.

Questions about breathwork

What does breathwork mean?
Breathwork means the use of breathing as therapy, particularly in the form of consciously controlling one's breathing rhythm.
What part of speech is breathwork?
Breathwork is a noun.

Words near breathwork in the dictionary

  1. breathtaker
  2. breathtakers
  3. breathtaking
  4. breathtakingly
  5. breathtakingness
  6. breathwork
  7. breathy
  8. breathy voice
  9. Breau
  10. Breault
  11. Breaults

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