Breathing Exercises

Breathing Exercises is a calm, patient-friendly exercise chart designed to help clinics teach simple breathing awareness, rib movement, relaxation and core pressure control. The chart presents a clear set of breathing exercises that can be used in everyday clinical conversations, movement education, rehabilitation and home-care guidance. Rather than focusing only on “deep breathing”, it helps patients understand how breathing can involve the ribs, diaphragm, abdominal wall and pelvic floor as part of a coordinated body system. At the centre of the chart, The Breath–Body Connection explains why breathing practice matters. It introduces breathing as something that can influence rib movement, diaphragm function and pressure control through the trunk. Around this central section, the chart combines practical exercises with patient-friendly explanations of how controlled breathing may support relaxation, easier movement and improved body awareness. The exercise modules include quiet nose breathing, 360° rib breathing, side-rib breathing, back-body breathing, crocodile breathing, long exhale breathing, pelvic floor release breathing and exhale-on-effort. Each exercise is paired with a simple “how” and “why” explanation, making the chart easy for practitioners to use during consultations, rehabilitation sessions or patient education. The top section of the chart introduces three key outcomes of breathing practice: a calmer breathing rhythm, easier inhalation and easier exhalation. This helps patients connect the exercises to what they may feel in their own body — less unnecessary effort, better awareness of rib and diaphragm movement, and greater control during breathing and movement. As a stand-alone chart, Breathing Exercises works well in physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, pelvic health, Pilates, rehabilitation, wellness and multidisciplinary clinic settings. It can support conversations around shallow breathing, tension, breath-holding, rib restriction, pressure control, pelvic floor awareness, posture and movement confidence. Available in a Breathing Mechanics and Exercises Set. As part of the Breathing Mechanics and Exercises Set, it becomes the practical companion to The Mechanics of Breathing. The first chart explains how the diaphragm, ribs, airway, trunk pressure and pelvic floor work together during a breath. This chart then gives patients simple ways to practise those same concepts through accessible breathing exercises. Together, the set creates a clear educational flow: understand the system, then practise the movement. Free customisation with your clinic’s name. For this chart we offer to add your clinic’s name (or website address) for free! The name will go instead of the current sub-headline on the artwork; view an illustration of this in the image gallery. View this chart here on YouTube. Black Edition. This chart is available to order in a special black edition, which can be previewed in the image gallery. 🇬🇧 View more details of the English version. 🇮🇹 Vedi i dettagli della versione italiana. 🇪🇸 Ver detalles de la versión en español. 🇩🇪 Details zur deutschen Version anzeigen. 🇫🇷 Voir les détails de la version française. 🇳🇱 Bekijk details van de Nederlandse versie. 🇵🇹 Veja mais detalhes da versão portuguesa. 🇸🇪 Se fler detaljer om den svenska versionen. 🇳🇴 Se flere detaljer om den norske versjonen. 🇩🇰 Se flere detaljer fra den danske version. Make it part of your clinic! ⬇ Order here.