So I have one exercise for you today that I would love you to try. And this is an exercise that, helped me a lot with my breathing.  I don’t have asthma, but of course, we all have to improve our breathing!

And this was one of my favorite ones.  Some years ago, when I was training to be a Qigong instructor, I did a training in Qigong for breathing, and this is where I found this exercise.

 So the exercise I want to show you today.    It’s an exercise that you can practice every day while you go for a walk and it goes like this:

We’re going to practice it without the singing for today to improve your exhaling capacity, which will help you with your singing as well. It  goes like this:

1. Go for a walk  
2. Inhale in two footsteps 
3. Count how many footsteps takes you to exhale.   
4. Continue inhaling in two footsteps and exhaling in the same amount of footsteps that you counted previously.
5. When you are ready, start increasing the number of footsteps it takes you to exhale by one footstep at a time.

So if it is comfortable for you to inhale in two footsteps and exhale in four footsteps, then you can walk your way up to five steps, then six steps. seven steps, eight steps, and so on.  

Of course, start slowly! Don’t worry about doing 20 footsteps to exhale on the first day.

This is an exercise that will strengthen your exhaling capacity and your overall breathing capacity. You can do this exercise every day when you go for a walk … and if you don’t go for a walk, then it’s a really good excuse to start going for walks!  Which is also very beneficial for singing.

This, of course, is an exercise that you need to regularly practice (at least three times a week) to have results quickly. Don’t just do it once!