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And... breathe

Our first attempt at breathing comes early in life as we enter the world and gulp in some air. So how come, many decades later, it seems I’ve been doing it wrong?

‘The diaphragm is such a huge muscle that if we get it to move optimally it has a massive influence on the whole body,’ Liz Surmon of Studio rEvolve in Paarl explained to the group of us attending a conscious breathing class during a wellness weekend. Together, we inhaled to a count of

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