Experience a powerful yet simple breathing method to relax the body, gather energy, and live with greater clarity, connection, and coexistence.
One morning, while quietly recharging myself through breathing and observing within, I had an urge to break free from old patterns. I could see it was time for something new if both I, the people around me, and the rest of the world were going to thrive.
This was not a dramatic realization, but a steady one. For years, I had been speaking, teaching, and creating practices to help people live more consciously, more freely. And yet, despite our best efforts, the world feels more chaotic than ever. It is not just the suffering of individuals that troubles me—it is that the systems and habits we rely on are no longer serving us. Even well-intentioned routines can become cages if we don’t stop to question them.
In that moment of quiet clarity, I felt not just frustration, but determination. I wanted to become lighter, freer, and more real. I wanted to do something that felt completely natural and completely now. Green Breathing was born from that space.
Why We Need to Breathe Differently
Breathing is something we do all day without thinking, yet it has a powerful effect on how we feel. When we are anxious, our breath becomes shallow and tight. When we are calm, it deepens and slows. But many of us are living in a way that keeps our breath—and our energy—stuck in our chest. We may not even notice how much this drains us until we try something different.
Our breath reflects our state of mind, and it also shapes it. When we breathe in a way that is shallow and restricted, we reinforce feelings of disconnection—not just within ourselves, but also from others and from nature. Over time, this disconnection affects how we relate to the world. But when we breathe deeply, with awareness, we restore connection. We return to our center, and from that center, we can relate to the people and environment around us with more care and clarity.
Green Breathing helps our breath return to its natural flow—down to our lower abdomen, where our energy center, or dahnjon, resides. From this place, we can begin to feel grounded, clear, and connected in body, mind, and spirit.
How to Practice Green Breathing
Green Breathing has three basic steps, each designed to clear the mind, relax the body, and awaken energy within. This practice can be done seated or standing, ideally in a quiet space where we can focus without distraction. There’s no need to wait for the perfect moment—we can begin wherever we are.
Step 1: Align and Open
- Begin either sitting or standing. Align your body vertically and horizontally, making your spine tall and your hips and shoulders level, imagining a center line running through the body.
- Inhale through your nose in five segments as you turn your head gently to the left (inhale 1… 2… 3… 4… 5…). Return your head to the center, then exhale through your mouth in five segments as you turn your head gently to the right. As you breathe, feel the stretch in your neck and shoulders. With each successive twist, gently squeeze out your tension as if wringing out a wet towel. Repeat this left-and-right pattern—one full breath—for at least five rounds.
- Then, with one hand on the chest and one on the lower abdomen, inhale through your nose in five segments as you stretch your chest and neck upward, opening your chest. As you exhale through your mouth in five segments, contract your torso. Since the chest is often tight, you can breathe into the chest for the first three segments, then into the lower abdomen on the fourth and fifth. Continue until your body feels more relaxed. Then allow the breath to move directly in and out of the abdomen. After five rounds, feel your body relax and awareness settle into the lower abdomen (the dahnjon), the body’s core energy center.
- Continue to breathe in this 5–5 pattern as you shake your head, neck, shoulders, spine, and hips to loosen your joints and release tension. Shake your entire body forward, backward, left, and right freely to your own rhythm.
Step 2: Breathing and Tapping
Slowly stop shaking and moving, but continue the 5–5 breathing. Then use loose fists to tap your lower abdomen—about two inches below your navel, over your dahnjon. This exercise helps gather energy into the body, particularly in the lower abdomen, and quiets the mind. Keep breathing and tapping for three to five minutes.
Step 3: Breathing with Dance
Now, for another three to four minutes, stand up and dance freely. Continue to breathe in and out in five segments. Move to music that brings you joy—shake your hips, stomp your feet, swing your arms, and smile. You can make sounds and even scream. Let your body express whatever it’s holding. This is not about looking graceful; it’s about shaking loose stagnant energy and opening the chakras. Let the breath guide your rhythm. Just a few minutes of this can release heavy emotions and leave us feeling light, energized, and clear.
This simple method can help us feel more focused and refreshed throughout the day. And when practiced regularly, it not only helps us return to ourselves—it also helps us relate to others and the world with more ease and openness. By harmonizing our inner rhythms, we become more attuned to the people and planet around us. As always, if you are under medical care or have any health concerns, consult a healthcare provider before beginning a new breathwork or movement practice.
The Deeper Meaning Behind Green Breathing
Green Breathing is more than a wellness technique. It is a simple yet deeply restorative way to clear the mind, strengthen the body, and gather our energy. As we move and breathe with awareness, tension melts away and the flow of energy naturally returns. Our chakras begin to awaken. Our internal systems reset. What once felt heavy starts to feel light again.
This practice gives us a chance to return to a more natural state—one where our breath is no longer just automatic, but alive with purpose. When we breathe like this, we quiet the thoughts that pull us in different directions. We open space to hear what our bodies and spirits have been trying to tell us. From this calm clarity, we can begin to live with greater strength and joy.
The name “green” reflects a connection to nature and to our true essence. Our bodies are living, breathing expressions of the Earth. When we breathe consciously, we restore the natural flow between body and mind, self and spirit. We start to heal from the inside out in alignment with who we truly are.
A Quiet Step Toward a New Humanity
We are at a moment in history where true transformation is not only possible, it is necessary. But that transformation doesn’t begin with grand ideas. It begins with small, grounded acts of awareness and intention—like deciding to breathe with purpose.
Green Breathing is one way to take that step. It invites us to stop, feel, and choose something more natural and clear. It shows us how even a few mindful breaths can calm the mind, energize the body, and point us back to what matters most.
This is not just a tool for personal benefit. It is a way of creating new rhythms—ones that ripple outward. The more we take care of ourselves, the more we can show up with sincerity and generosity. When we share what brings us healing, we multiply its power. As I’ve said before, love, health, and happiness are not things to possess—they’re things to circulate. When we give them away, they come back to us in new and unexpected ways.
Let us keep choosing the small, steady acts that awaken the best in us. Let us breathe—not just to survive, but to take back our brains, restore our spirits, and live in deeper coexistence: with our bodies, with one another, and with the Earth itself.