Hubert Godard: A first step would be to forget that you are breathing. The air is already in you, you just have to open yourself to the middle, there is no need to take it.

Lucien: How difficult it is for me to hear “There is no need to take it”. Because, in my imagination, I associate the fact of not taking inspiration with suffocation. To have confidence…

Hubert Godard: Yes, there is a question of trust at the heart of breathing.

Lucien: But what is breathing then?

Hubert Godard: Life! Finally, you can see life at work, a rare moment when you witness its unfolding. Something is breathing inside you, quietly.

This booklet recounts a work session during which the practitioner and theorist, Hubert Godard, shares with a patient his living approach to breathing. He delivers here the fruit of his passionate research on the springs of human movement.

With the collaboration of Charlotte Hess and Claudia Righini.

Une respiration, extract from pages 20 and 21