That breath you’re holding right now isn’t just a party trick or swimming pool challenge, it’s actually one of the most accurate predictors of your overall health, vitality, and how many years you ...

Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Try something right now: hold your breath for 5 seconds. Probably easy, right? Now, take a deep breath and double it: hold your breath for 10 seconds. Then 20. If you practice holding your breath a ...

Within yoga, there are cleansing practices known as Kriyas. Traditionally, Kriyas are used as a way to shift stagnant energy and enhance the flow of prana, the life force, through the body. These ...

Vitomir Maricic, a freediver from Croatia, did something incredible on June 14: He held his breath for 29 minutes and three seconds, shattering the previous world record by nearly five minutes. For ...