A Guided Soft Belly Breathing Meditation to Quiet the Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Soft Belly breathing brings immediate relief. Try it for yourself with this downloadable audio.
You owe it to yourself to take some time out to breathe. Your whole being will thank you.
Soft Belly breathing is the foundation of all the techniques I teach my clients. It’s a form of concentrative meditation because you are focusing on the rise and fall of the belly.
It’s unpretentious and nondenominational.
It’s not something you need to practice in order to get ‘good’ at - you will feel the benefit immediately
It changes your physiology while you are doing it.
Anyone can do it!
Simply use the player below and press ‘play’…
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"Soft Belly Breathing" Meditation — Lead by Janie Loubser (6 mins)
How I discovered the Soft Belly Breathing Technique
I learned Soft Belly from James Gordon MD, a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, when I studied at his Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. I completed the Center’s Professional and Advanced training in 2020 to equip myself with evidence based skills in trauma treatment. I’ve done Soft Belly ever since and it’s usually the first technique I teach my clients.
You can feel the benefits of Soft Belly the first time you do it. It brings me so much joy when my clients respond with relief and hope after their first experience with this simple technique. According to James Gordon, seventy to eighty percent of those who do it - even those who have lost family member, or are mourning a lost relationship or struggling with cancer - report positive changes. I can confirm that almost all of my clients enjoy soft belly breathing and contain ue to practice it on their own.
Here is what you may experience: tight shoulders relaxing, heart rate slowing down, calming of disturbing thoughts. Afterward, my clients say they feel calmer, happier, more stable, more present, and more hopeful.
I recommend you begin by doing Soft Belly once or twice a day for about ten minutes each time. As you get familiar with it, you can vary the amount of time, practicing more or less time and doing it once or several times a day, depending on your need and then time available. It’s good to have a least one regular time - I look forward to my evenings, knowing that I can rely on Soft Belly to help me relax before I go to bed.