Room to Breathe

Spotted a breathing workshop on your yoga studio schedule? I do that all day for free, you think. But here’s the truth: breathing is such strong medicine that a growing number of wellness studios want to teach you to put your lungs to work in a more intentional way. And experts are totally down. “You can completely shift the functioning of the autonomic nervous system [ANS] just by how you breathe,” says Dr Mimi Guarneri, a specialist in integrative holistic medicine.

Here’s how it works. Your ANS has two parts. One is