In this instructional video, Bill from Beyond Fitness Online demonstrates a specific breathing exercise designed to alleviate dizziness, dampen vertigo symptoms, reduce stress, and enhance extension movements such as backbends or shoulder openings. He explains that the technique targets the pons—a region of the brainstem involved in vestibular function and extension control—by using slow, deep nasal inhalations lasting about ten seconds, followed by relaxed exhalations. Viewers are instructed to test an extension movement, perform six cycles of the breath (approximately one minute), then retest to notice improvements in flexibility, balance, or reduced stress. The exercise can be used as a warm‑up or cool‑down, and Bill encourages viewers to share results in the comments and subscribe for weekly updates.
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Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online. Today I want to show you a trick with your breathing that can really help alleviate dizziness. It can help dampen some vertigo symptoms. It can help reduce your stress and really help with any kind of extension movement, anything where you're opening up the body. That is going to become more powerful and more flexible. So the Key here is understanding what part of the brain we're actually trying to get to. Now, if you have a vestibular issue, that nerve actually goes into the middle of the brainstem, which is called the pons. The pons helps the body to also go into extension more freely. So we are stimulating the pons by breathing a certain way. Now, the way we get to that part of the pons is to do slow, And extremely deep inhales. So we're going to be breathing about 10 seconds of an inhale and filling the lungs as much as we possibly can. And you're going to want to try to do this through the nose, not through the mouth. So you can use this as a warm-up or as a cool-down, and it will be great for trying those movements. So first, test yourself in an extension movement. Maybe you try to do a backbend, Maybe you try to see how far you can extend your shoulder this way. So just try different things, figure out a couple different movements. And then what you're going to do is just take a slow inhale through the nose, filling the lungs as big as you possibly can, but also slowly. And then just do a relaxed exhale. Don't force the air out when you exhale, just relax. Do that about 6 times, should take you about a minute. Then retest your extension movement and you will see a difference. And if your balance was the issue, you should start to feel a little bit better. If you're feeling a ton of stress, this is also a great tool because this will lower your sympathetic tone as well. So give this a try. Let me know in the comments below how this worked out for you. And if you haven't already, please subscribe to my channel. I post new updates every Friday. And until next time, live healthy.
