How-To Breathe Properly During a Stretch

In this How-to, Yoga Instructor Shahada Karim shows you the proper way to breathe during a stretch. It's the key to a good stretch and making sure that your inhales and exhales match makes all the difference. The easiest way to do this is to simply count how long your inhales are and match your exhales. Watch Shahada's How-to for more.

Shahada Karim is a Yoga Teacher and Movement Therapy Guide. Shahada’s self-imposed mission is to help every human she meets, fall in love with themselves. Over the past decade, she’s earned multiple certifications in Yoga, Ayurveda, Nutrition, and Fitness to help facilitate that mission. Previously she dedicated more than two decades to a career in Journalism and Communications. Today she brings that expertise to teaching and participating in health and wellness on both physical and digital fronts. She designed the NOURISH plans around the Ayurvedic principle, with the help of a Nutritionist and Nurse Practitioner, to make it accessible to anyone interested in taking the journey no matter what their current physical and energetic state.