Hildegard of Bangin’

When you breathe in through your nose, you want to breathe in as if the nose over the skull hole is not necessarily there and imagine only the hole of the nose there (as if nose was temporarily removed) Imagine not breathing through nostrils or up into the head, but instead breathe through the hole in your skull and not up but back and down. Make the hole entering the skull your intake location. Then, have the air go back into head like it’s going to the very back of your head and skull and turning downwards vs up into the top inner region of your head. This will better engage the diaphragm and for some can even feel miraculously different in how much air take one feels they are taking in per breath. Do this for better air and for better engagement with proper diaphragmatic breathing. Most people do not know that our human ancestors experienced shrinking nasal cavities and airways (which used to take in a lot more air) as their brains grew larger over our evolutionary timeline. As early humans learned to process, mash and eventually cook their food with fire, eating became easier and required far less intense chewing. The rapid surge in human intelligence and this massive calorie intake required to fuel it, drove our faces to reshape themselves to keep up with change. People like James Nestor (and many anthropological sources) also highlight an evolutionary irony in that our brains got bigger because of these things, but they have actually shrunk over the last 10,000 years, even as our airways continued to get worse. Lmk if you want to know more on this subject and enjoy this way of breathing.