How to Practice Circular Breathing

Circular breathing is helpful when playing a wind instrument.

Circular breathing is a focused kind of breathing that involves taking air in through your nose, and breathing out using stored breath in your mouth. Circular breathing is useful when practicing yoga or playing a wind instrument. Learning to do this type of breathing properly taking time and practice. Once you learn how to do it, however, it will begin to come to you naturally.

Instructions

1. Close your mouth, and take in a deep breath through your nose.

2. Let out the breath through your mouth.

3. Repeat steps one and two, but this time save a little bit of breath in your mouth and hold it in.

4. Force the air saved in your mouth out through your lips.

5. Take air back into your mouth, and try squeezing the breath out through your lips while simultaneously taking a breath in through your nose.

6. Practice step five over and over until the circular breath comes naturally.

References

• Saxophone Players: Circular Breathing
• Didjbusker: Circular Breathing