 Hello Earth citizens. In this video, I will show you a 10 minute routine to open stuffiness from your chest. Whether it's from stress or physical symptoms like asthma or difficulties breathing, you can benefit from this exercise to open up breathing passageways inside of your lungs and chest area. All right. So first to start, let's do some exercises to open the front side of your chest. So what you're going to do is place your palms down and roll them into a fist and push, push the middle of your chest forward like this. As if someone is pushing you from the middle back, so your middle chest comes forward. Let's just do this first for a count of 30. One, two, three, four, five, six, push the middle of your chest, seven, eight, nine, ten, one, two, three, if you feel pain, push out and exhale. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, twenty, ten more, one, two, three, four, breathe, five, six, seven, eight, nine, thirty. Now we're going to do the same thing except twice like this and then two times palm up and open. Down. We're going to do this 20 times to make 50 total times. Ready? One, two, three, four, keep pushing from the middle of your chest, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, twenty and stop. Now let's rotate your neck. If your chest area is stiff, you'll feel some stiffness in your shoulders and neck right now, so let's loosen that up. All right, so place your hands on your knees and let's make rotations from your neck, big circles, rotate so you can feel every angle. If you want a little added benefit, I suggest breathing in for half a circle and exhaling out through your mouth for the other half. Now switch the other direction. Make sure you're breathing. Breathing is very important to release stuffiness in your chest. Great job. Let me reiterate that breathing is very important to release stuffiness in your chest. When you're moving, but you're holding your breath, all that trapped energy stays inside. Make sure you're breathing more. Okay? So now this time clasp your hands behind your back. So it looks like this clasp your hands behind your back and push your chest. Push, now bounce your arms like this. Help your chest open. Let's do this 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Relax. Now take a deep breath in. Push and exhale, bend your upper body forward. Now here too, bounce 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Return. Everyone, let's breathe three times like this. Take a deep breath in and sigh out. One more. Make it really good. From deep in your lungs, sigh out. Great job. Okay. Now next, you want to stretch your sides a little bit to open the passageways here. So place your right arm down, so elbow down, left hand up and over. You'll feel the stretch on your side. So keep your right elbow down, stretch. Look up at the ceiling so you're not doing this. Look up at the ceiling and let's bounce here 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Stay here. Take a deep breath in through your nose and exhale out through your mouth. Two more times. Breathe in. Sigh out. One last time. Deep breath in. Sigh out. Return to center. Okay. Now let's even it out on the other side. So now left arm down, so left elbow down, right arm up and stretch over. Stretch and let's bounce here 10 times. One, two, make sure you're looking up at the ceiling. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Stay there. Take a deep breath in through your nose, exhaling out through your mouth, letting out the stuffiness from your chest. Breathe in. Exhale. Two more times. Breathe in. Exhale. Last one. Deep breath in. Exhale, return. Great job. Now let's open up the middle of our chest a little bit more. This time you should feel some progress, more flexibility. You're going to bend your elbows 90 degrees, palms facing each other, but roll them into a fist. Keep your gaze straight and you're just going to twist your torso like this. Keep your gaze straight, then you'll feel more in here. Ready? Let's do this 20 times. One, two, three, twist like you're twisting. Four, five, like you're twisting a can. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten more. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 20. Return. Now roll your hands into a fist. Keep your hands there. And with the pinky side of your palms, tap your chest. Kind of like Tarzan. Tap your chest, especially focusing on the middle of your chest. This is where a lot of us have tightness from stress. So you want to put your chin a little bit up. I'll show you from the side to open your breathing passage a little bit more. Put your chin up and tap. Keep your mouth slightly open. And as you tap, let out a gentle ah sound. So not a pretty ah sound, just like that. That sound you make when you're exhausted. Okay, keep your chin up and tap. Tap up and down your chest. Letting out an ah sound for just one minute. Okay, I'll tell you when to stop. Keep going. Keep going. 30 seconds. 10 seconds. Let out a deep sigh from underneath your lungs and your diaphragm. And sweep down your chest. Sweep down the front side of your chest. Like you're pushing, dusting off any remaining tension, heaviness in your chest. Sweep it all off. And now sweep down your arm. Wipe away all of the stress that's on your arms and shoulders. One more time on the chest. Okay, to now place your hands on your knees. We're going to take three deep breaths. In through your nose, sigh out through your mouth. When you sigh, let out a sound from deep underneath your diaphragm area. From there. Not from your throat, but from a deep place. So all of your tension can come out. Okay, three breaths. Deep breath in through your nose. Sigh out. Breathe in. Sigh out. Last one, make it a good one. Deep breath in. How you feel? Do you feel your chest is a little bit lighter? Sometimes if your chest opens, your voice will sound more clear. Try speaking and see if your voice is more clear. If your chest is very tight, it takes more than just 10 minutes to open up your chest area. So feel free to re-watch this video as many times as you need and redo the exercises so that you can open your chest more and more and more until you can feel the lightness from within. You did a great job. To experience a full one-hour brain education based class, please visit a local Body and Brain Yoga Studio near you.