I have practiced the Wim Hof method off and on for a few years but never really understood what it was doing. This motivates me to pick up the practice again. Thanks!
Thank you for all of these lovely and informative videos! I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in describing all the different aspects of the Wim Hof Method, without the hype-y style of so many other UA-camrs. It's helped me more fully incorporate the practice into my life, making me a better husband, father, and a more wholehearted person overall. Many thanks & blessing!
Love the in depth explanation Kitaro! Understanding why/ how something works is the key to doing something effectively. The effects of my breathwork sessions improved dramatically because of your content, so thank you for that :)
Super erklärt,super Typ..Danke.Bin 53 Jahre und mache die Atmung seit ca.2 Monaten mit großartigen Ergebnissen, beginne jetzt auch mit Kalt Duschen und möchte noch ganz tief in dieses Wissen eintauchen. DANKE nochmal für deine Erläuterungen👍🤘
I trained as a Rebirther 30 years ago. Thanks for your explanation of Physiology of Breathkng. ❤ i love this method, its quick and can be enjoyed any time of day.
Fantastic information. I'm so thankful to have found your channel. Lots of good information. I'm an acting and singing coach and have always done pranayam but didn't fully understand about Win Hof and now I'm committed to practice it daily. I have always had challenges with sensitivity to cold, and So Cal has been crazy damp cold this year. So the ice baths sound a little terrifying because the pain involved with them for me is extreme. I was born with neurasthenia and nerve sensitivies but can def. see huge life changes with dedication to breath work. And due to that I haven't taken western medical in nearly 20 years. I do Chinese herbs, acupuncture, cupping, yoga and I also believe in eating an organic plant based diet. I can't wait to watch all your videos. Thanks again . Namaste.
Well made! , looking forward to the icebath video aswell 👍 Breathwork and cold showers are starting to become a habit for me.. im gonna buy a outdoor tub of some sort soon ❄️❄️.
Please answer if you can how Wim Hof manages to stop his body temperature from getting dangerously low and instead get warm again before getting a bit cold again and makes that loop/"loop" and didn't make him want to get out of an Ice chamber filled up to his neck with ice while naked(or just wearing shorts)until 117 minutes had passed. Really confusing because most people would die of hypothermia.
Correct me if wrong, but I recall that exercise cases a transient increase in ROS and inflam markers like IL-6. So it seems that we would not want to immediately follow an exercise session with breathing that activates the sympathetic system and reduces inflammation and IL-6. On the other hand I don't how long it takes for IL-6 and inflam reduction to occur with a bout of this kind of breathing. Same would hold for routinely doing ice baths after exercise as it might reduce the benefit of transient increased ROS and inflam markers.
sounds interesting... do you have a source for this? I regularly exercise before breathing or ice bathing for about a year now. I can't see any benefit to my health so far. In fact, I seem to get sick more easily than I used to.
I've noticed my body automatically doing the short inhales to relax when I am stressed. I wasn't sure what it was but I took it as a cue I am almost exhausted because it always proceeded a period of severe burnout. Now I'll take it as a cue to engage in more breathwork relax.
Thank you for your explanations of the breathing. I love knowing the science behind it. I also was wondering if you would know why I can hold my breath longer in the morning than when I do the exercises at night?
They say that cortisol is higher in the morning, often this hormone allows you to ignore painful or limiting sensations, but no idea, it's just a conjecture.
Nice to see your channel growing. Quality content as usual. Here is one thing i wonder: Your pace of the breathing is relatively fast, actually i've never seen it elswhere that fast and even the WH videos have a way slower breathing pace. Whilst i tend to breath faster aswell, it's not near as fast as you do it and i wonder if i should do it faster. And the other one is, in a previos video and in the end of this one you mention the 15 inhales, i don't really get it, does it mean without exhaling? Can you please elaborate on that? Thanks!
I have suffered ibs for years mostly likely stress related , since I started Wim hof my digestive issues have almost completely disappeared , and my stress is greatly reduced,
Hi I have rheumatoid arthritis. I do the beginning wim hof breathing. I also do full body cryotherapy. Do you have a daily regimen I can do to help my arthritis? I had a short remission with my arthritis.Breathing helps a lot and a cold shower. I want to feel better. Thank you peace be with you. 😊
Thanks for the very useful informations. Isn't breathholding a kind of stress for the body, also activating the sympathetic system? I liked that you mentioned that it should compensate the breathing part with parasimpathetic activation. But I've been practicing the WHM breathing for a few weeks now and I am feeling my basal anxiety level throughout the day higher than before. During the practice, when I am holding my breath I do feel many moments of relaxation but I also feel a kind of soft panic in many moments, specially if I am trying to go a bit longer.
This is such a great explanation, thank you. My longest hold is 2mins. I can't seem to get past this but I think it's because I need help with breath techniques. Have you got any videos on this? I really love your content and use your 4rounds guided breath work daily. My aim is to get to the 2:45min retention 😊
I totally understand the basic method and have been practicing it for a few months now. I still get confused as to when to use the breathing where you retain your breath during the holds. Is that for increased strength or what you use to get deeper into a stretch? It seems like I’ve read about five breaths and holding the breath at the end and five breaths and exhaling, but I don’t understand when to use them for what.I’m reading his book right now, and I’m still not getting any clarity on that. I would love a simple explanation of which type of breathing to do for what circumstance that covers it all. Maybe you could cover it all in one video like this one, but skip the details about the physiology involved. Thanks!
Thank you for the video. Can you please explain again when to do which type of breathing? Fast and intense Breathing = energizing more slowly breathing = relaxing? Also: Why is it good to increase adrenaline? I always thought it is recommend to keep it low. Does it have to do something with cortisol levels as well? Thank you very much
I find when I do this, I really can't hold my breath after expelling it all, even after three rounds. I still can't get past 1 min 30 seconds. However, I've done it when I've taken air in and held my breath and I can increase this from 1 min 30 seconds all the way to over 3 minutes. Do you have to expel all your air and hold it or can you hold it after breathing in?
Hi Kitaro I am an ex coal miner for 20 years which has left me with sarcoidosis , chronic bronchitis ,asthma and COPD have you any advice for me please by the way I’ve just been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia
Hey Terry, thank you for your comment. As I'm not a doctor I can't give you any medical advice. I know of two reports from two participants of a Wim Hof Method workshop who had Fibromyalgia and could dramatically improve their life with daily WHM breathwork and cold showers. But I don't know about the combination with your other deseases and how the effect would be. I would suggest talking with your doctor about it first.
I am not a doctor, but I have experience with asthma and chronic bronchitis. If your doctor approves you to try this method, I will just share what I found different from the average experience I read online. I usually have to start the breathing through my nose and at first I could only breathe through my nose or I would trigger a coughing fit. I also could not breathe very rapidly at first and I needed to do shorter holds than any of the youtube guided videos for beginners because I just could not hold my breathe for long. I also could not jump straight into tap cold showers and instead needed to ease in for a long time because the cold would trigger an asthma attack. The difficulties made me think the method would never work because I wasn't doing it like everyone else, but eventually I decided that doing something is better than nothing and worst case I can think of it as a level 0 to build into doing the method "for real". It worked though. After 6 months I progressed to being able to walk into a cold shower without an asthma flare and I was able to follow beginner guided videos without coughing. I've seen the most benefits from the reduction in my day to day stress levels (which has decreased some of my daily symptoms) as well as the improvement in my experience of the chronic pain condition I've had for years (endometriosis). It isn't a radical change like some testimonies I read, but I see significant enough results to keep practicing. I wish you health whether you find it through this or anything else.
Weyyy! I have only one fear: so the worst thing that could happen to me is to faint without knowing because my blood still has oxygen but my CO2 is very low and it does not reach the gasping efect while i am conscious and it does by putting me to sleep and then automatically i breed and while i am there fainting my blood goes to normal and after a while i woke up perfectly ok????? Thank you! PS: nice touch with the duck in the water 😎
If Wim Hof method is so great for one's health, why did I come down with severe asthma after practicing it daily for almost three years. Someone answer this.
Sorry dude, but I had to switch this video off as your high tempo dialogue was too stressful to listen to. Seriously. Usually your vids feel quite chilled and give time to digest the content. This one feels like a racing commentary... I did try adjusting the playback speed to .75 but that was a little too weird. As I say, usually great content but you lost me on this one. Peace 🙏🏻
I have practiced the Wim Hof method off and on for a few years but never really understood what it was doing. This motivates me to pick up the practice again. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
Thank you!
Thank you for all of these lovely and informative videos! I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in describing all the different aspects of the Wim Hof Method, without the hype-y style of so many other UA-camrs. It's helped me more fully incorporate the practice into my life, making me a better husband, father, and a more wholehearted person overall. Many thanks & blessing!
What a wonderful comment! I'm honored and you are very welcome, my friend!
Been doing wim hof breathing for two weeks straight two times per day every morning before cold shower and before the bed. It is life changer.
5 weeks now, how is it? :)
@@Araragification Great, still doing everyday now 3 minutes in cold shower, planning to do cold plunge in the lake.
Love the in depth explanation Kitaro! Understanding why/ how something works is the key to doing something effectively.
The effects of my breathwork sessions improved dramatically because of your content, so thank you for that :)
Super erklärt,super Typ..Danke.Bin 53 Jahre und mache die Atmung seit ca.2 Monaten mit großartigen Ergebnissen, beginne jetzt auch mit Kalt Duschen und möchte noch ganz tief in dieses Wissen eintauchen. DANKE nochmal für deine Erläuterungen👍🤘
These explanations are really motivating to learn to use the method more and more subtly. Thank you
One of your BEST videos, greetings from Spain!
Great content! Thanks for breaking down the science and hacks on how to leverage on each portion of the Wim Hoff breathing method.
Thank you for this wonderful explanation. It's SO HELPFUL! Much appreciation and good wishes to you Kitaro.
Great content! Your explanations are spot-on and I have learned a lot! Thank you very much!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I’m enjoying these videos covering the Wim Hof breathing and learning a lot too. Thank you.
I trained as a Rebirther 30 years ago. Thanks for your explanation of Physiology of Breathkng. ❤ i love this method, its quick and can be enjoyed any time of day.
Fantastic information. I'm so thankful to have found your channel. Lots of good information. I'm an acting and singing coach and have always done pranayam but didn't fully understand about Win Hof and now I'm committed to practice it daily. I have always had challenges with sensitivity to cold, and So Cal has been crazy damp cold this year. So the ice baths sound a little terrifying because the pain involved with them for me is extreme. I was born with neurasthenia and nerve sensitivies but can def. see huge life changes with dedication to breath work. And due to that I haven't taken western medical in nearly 20 years. I do Chinese herbs, acupuncture, cupping, yoga and I also believe in eating an organic plant based diet. I can't wait to watch all your videos. Thanks again . Namaste.
Great video. I love the idea of more breath work. I will try more. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for sharing all this knowledge. It is very helpful.
Fantastic presentation. Very inspiring. Thank you
Excellent explanation of the physiology.
Great stuff!
Thanks!
Clear explanation
Thanks for watching 🤗
Well made! , looking forward to the icebath video aswell 👍
Breathwork and cold showers are starting to become a habit for me.. im gonna buy a outdoor tub of some sort soon ❄️❄️.
Coming soon!😉
Thank you for sharing this information with us!!!
Any time!
Thank you for the very informative AND well made video. I very much look forward to the coming video about cold exposure.
thank u for the great work. i want to become an instructor someday so getting different videos on the science is really nice 🙏
Very interesting. I'm a big fan of your channel and content. ❤the WHM.
Excellent video!
Keep up this content! I see your channel growing very fast, very soon
Please answer if you can how Wim Hof manages to stop his body temperature from getting dangerously low and instead get warm again before getting a bit cold again and makes that loop/"loop" and didn't make him want to get out of an Ice chamber filled up to his neck with ice while naked(or just wearing shorts)until 117 minutes had passed. Really confusing because most people would die of hypothermia.
Correct me if wrong, but I recall that exercise cases a transient increase in ROS and inflam markers like IL-6. So it seems that we would not want to immediately follow an exercise session with breathing that activates the sympathetic system and reduces inflammation and IL-6. On the other hand I don't how long it takes for IL-6 and inflam reduction to occur with a bout of this kind of breathing. Same would hold for routinely doing ice baths after exercise as it might reduce the benefit of transient increased ROS and inflam markers.
sounds interesting... do you have a source for this? I regularly exercise before breathing or ice bathing for about a year now. I can't see any benefit to my health so far. In fact, I seem to get sick more easily than I used to.
I've noticed my body automatically doing the short inhales to relax when I am stressed. I wasn't sure what it was but I took it as a cue I am almost exhausted because it always proceeded a period of severe burnout. Now I'll take it as a cue to engage in more breathwork relax.
Beautiful! ❤️
But sped up videos also activate fight or flight, haha, keep it in mind!
Great video. Thanks for putting in the effort. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Nice beard btw 😉
Thank you for your explanations of the breathing. I love knowing the science behind it. I also was wondering if you would know why I can hold my breath longer in the morning than when I do the exercises at night?
They say that cortisol is higher in the morning, often this hormone allows you to ignore painful or limiting sensations, but no idea, it's just a conjecture.
@@rioli.6503 thank you. I’ll look until that.
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Nice to see your channel growing. Quality content as usual. Here is one thing i wonder: Your pace of the breathing is relatively fast, actually i've never seen it elswhere that fast and even the WH videos have a way slower breathing pace. Whilst i tend to breath faster aswell, it's not near as fast as you do it and i wonder if i should do it faster. And the other one is, in a previos video and in the end of this one you mention the 15 inhales, i don't really get it, does it mean without exhaling? Can you please elaborate on that? Thanks!
I have suffered ibs for years mostly likely stress related , since I started Wim hof my digestive issues have almost completely disappeared , and my stress is greatly reduced,
just discovered u! whats your diet bro? hey from nyc!
Hi I have rheumatoid arthritis. I do the beginning wim hof breathing. I also do full body cryotherapy. Do you have a daily regimen I can do to help my arthritis? I had a short remission with my arthritis.Breathing helps a lot and a cold shower. I want to feel better.
Thank you peace be with you. 😊
Thanks for the very useful informations. Isn't breathholding a kind of stress for the body, also activating the sympathetic system? I liked that you mentioned that it should compensate the breathing part with parasimpathetic activation. But I've been practicing the WHM breathing for a few weeks now and I am feeling my basal anxiety level throughout the day higher than before. During the practice, when I am holding my breath I do feel many moments of relaxation but I also feel a kind of soft panic in many moments, specially if I am trying to go a bit longer.
This is such a great explanation, thank you. My longest hold is 2mins. I can't seem to get past this but I think it's because I need help with breath techniques. Have you got any videos on this? I really love your content and use your 4rounds guided breath work daily. My aim is to get to the 2:45min retention 😊
What an Awesome video. I was breathing all wrong 😂🙏🏾
How many rounds of Wimhof breathing i should do at least for the Benefits?
Thankyou ♥️
You’re welcome 😊
Has the Pace of your Videos been sped up? I remember them being much slower and calm.
I totally understand the basic method and have been practicing it for a few months now. I still get confused as to when to use the breathing where you retain your breath during the holds. Is that for increased strength or what you use to get deeper into a stretch? It seems like I’ve read about five breaths and holding the breath at the end and five breaths and exhaling, but I don’t understand when to use them for what.I’m reading his book right now, and I’m still not getting any clarity on that. I would love a simple explanation of which type of breathing to do for what circumstance that covers it all. Maybe you could cover it all in one video like this one, but skip the details about the physiology involved. Thanks!
Thank you for the video.
Can you please explain again when to do which type of breathing?
Fast and intense Breathing = energizing
more slowly breathing = relaxing?
Also: Why is it good to increase adrenaline? I always thought it is recommend to keep it low. Does it have to do something with cortisol levels as well?
Thank you very much
I would recommend listening to the early episodes of Andrew Huberman, where he talks about the nervous system and stress.
Very informative video. You covered everything in 11 minutes. 💙💦🥶🤍❄️💙🧊
Am I right in thinking I need the SLOWER breaths to decrease an elevated autonomic nervous system?
Or the faster ?
Great - I’ve been told to only do breath work WH one or two times a week - do u do it everyday ?
I find when I do this, I really can't hold my breath after expelling it all, even after three rounds. I still can't get past 1 min 30 seconds. However, I've done it when I've taken air in and held my breath and I can increase this from 1 min 30 seconds all the way to over 3 minutes. Do you have to expel all your air and hold it or can you hold it after breathing in?
How many times per day should one do after a long period of stress to avoid getting sick ?
Hi Kitaro I am an ex coal miner for 20 years which has left me with sarcoidosis , chronic bronchitis ,asthma and COPD have you any advice for me please by the way I’ve just been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia
Hey Terry, thank you for your comment. As I'm not a doctor I can't give you any medical advice. I know of two reports from two participants of a Wim Hof Method workshop who had Fibromyalgia and could dramatically improve their life with daily WHM breathwork and cold showers. But I don't know about the combination with your other deseases and how the effect would be. I would suggest talking with your doctor about it first.
I am not a doctor, but I have experience with asthma and chronic bronchitis. If your doctor approves you to try this method, I will just share what I found different from the average experience I read online. I usually have to start the breathing through my nose and at first I could only breathe through my nose or I would trigger a coughing fit. I also could not breathe very rapidly at first and I needed to do shorter holds than any of the youtube guided videos for beginners because I just could not hold my breathe for long. I also could not jump straight into tap cold showers and instead needed to ease in for a long time because the cold would trigger an asthma attack. The difficulties made me think the method would never work because I wasn't doing it like everyone else, but eventually I decided that doing something is better than nothing and worst case I can think of it as a level 0 to build into doing the method "for real". It worked though. After 6 months I progressed to being able to walk into a cold shower without an asthma flare and I was able to follow beginner guided videos without coughing.
I've seen the most benefits from the reduction in my day to day stress levels (which has decreased some of my daily symptoms) as well as the improvement in my experience of the chronic pain condition I've had for years (endometriosis). It isn't a radical change like some testimonies I read, but I see significant enough results to keep practicing. I wish you health whether you find it through this or anything else.
How do you incorporate the breathwork with the cold
Weyyy! I have only one fear: so the worst thing that could happen to me is to faint without knowing because my blood still has oxygen but my CO2 is very low and it does not reach the gasping efect while i am conscious and it does by putting me to sleep and then automatically i breed and while i am there fainting my blood goes to normal and after a while i woke up perfectly ok?????
Thank you!
PS: nice touch with the duck in the water 😎
I have been wanting to know the answer to this too
@@naannacarla ua-cam.com/users/shortsPKoexAiTwqA?feature=share
9:50 🦆💛
My companion 🙂
If Wim Hof method is so great for one's health, why did I come down with severe asthma after practicing it daily for almost three years. Someone answer this.
I wish I could do the icebath ☹️
Does the Wim Hoff method make everyone not care about their appearance anymore?
"giving myself permission" is a powerful sentence. Great that you found a rhythm that work for you
🙏🏻☺️👍🏻
Thanks
The breath hold influences spleen thus increase blood new white and red cells that’s how is works😵💫
Coincidence that this video is 11 mins? I think not. ;)
Sorry dude, but I had to switch this video off as your high tempo dialogue was too stressful to listen to.
Seriously.
Usually your vids feel quite chilled and give time to digest the content.
This one feels like a racing commentary...
I did try adjusting the playback speed to .75 but that was a little too weird.
As I say, usually great content but you lost me on this one.
Peace 🙏🏻
sorry for that
@@KitaroWaga no worries my brother.
As I say, I usually enjoy your approach.
And thank you for your understanding and gracious reply 🙏🏻