We're born knowing how to breathe, but learning to maintain the quality of your inhalations and exhalations can improve your ...

Yoga Journal’s archives series is a curated collection of articles originally published in past issues beginning in 1975. This article first appeared in the March-April 1983 issue of Yoga Journal.

The lungs are the silent engines of vitality. They breathe life into every cell of the body, yet most people hardly give them the attention they deserve. In today’s fast-paced, polluted environments, ...

Lung exercises can increase lung capacity and help people control their breathing. They are helpful for people with lung problems such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. When a person breathes, ...

You arrive for a difficulty-breathing emergency. The patient is alert and oriented and complaining of difficulty breathing. The patient appears to be mildly distressed and slightly anxious, but vitals ...