Music for breathing
To help you perform the breathing exercise, you can use the music on this page. Each song is about 10 min long and contains breathing cues telling you when to inhale and exhale. Furthermore, each song is available in six versions, corresponding to six different breathing speeds (4,5 – 5 – 5,5 – 6 – 6,5 – 7 breaths/min). If you don’t know your optimal breathing speed, you can first do the breathing test below.
These are the breathing instructions you should follow when doing resonance frequency breathing:
- Please find a comfortable position, either lying or sitting, with your arms and legs uncrossed.
- Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. We recommend pursing your lips during exhalations because it will help you reduce the air flow.
- Breathe continuously, without any pauses or holds between inhalation and exhalation.
- Use abdominal breathing (i.e. your upper chest doesn’t move, and the air that you inhale goes down into your belly).
- You don’t need to breathe deeper than usual. This is a slow breathing exercise, not a deep breathing exercise.
Songs:
Hint: If you want to save a specific song to your own device (e.g. for off-line use), you can download all the songs from these links:
Garden of peace
Rainy tranquility
Seashore
Echoes
Garden of peace
Major key, 10 min, breathing ratio: 40/60 (longer exhalations). Composer: Jutta Toivonen.
Rainy tranquility
Minor key, 10 min, breathing ratio: 40/60 (longer exhalations). Composer: Jutta Toivonen.
Seashore
Major key, 10 min, breathing ratio: 50/50 (equal inhalation and exhalation). Composer: Olga Kolari.
Echoes
Major key, 10 min, breathing ratio: 40/60 (longer exhalations). Composer: Olga Kolari.
Material progressed
Material progressed