Let’s start with the exhalation first!

1. Deep sighing: expel all of your breath to complete emptiness. Let that emptiness be what pulls your next breath in, filling your lungs completely. Continuing, exhaling with an audible sigh.
2. Adding a reach: On the inhale, reach your arms over head. Let the exhale “yawn” out of you, as you release your stretch.
3. Engaging to release: Continue breathing deeply, but engage your body muscles as you exhale. Squeeze fists and abdominal muscles as you empty out, and the release that muscular engagement, letting air rush back in.
4. Stretching the neck: Look up as you inhale, then bring chin-to-chest as you exhale.
5. Now through the nose! Try all of those exercises without breathing through your mouth.