Pursed Lips Blowing

In this exercise, I exhale through my mouth with a slow and steady airflow. The exercise slows my breathing and silently expels the negative.

When I first learned this exercise, I engaged my lip muscles as if I were about to whistle. Later on, I moved to visualize, trying to flutter a feather or gently bend a candle flame.

Pursed lips exhaling is ‘whistling the sound of silence.’ It’s a slow, gentle, and quiet exercise. It peaks when my diaphragm returns to its neutral dome shape, and my lips gently seal.

The breath-hold allows indication. If I exhale slowly enough, post the breath-hold I reach ‘air hunger start’ more rapidly.