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# 4-7-8 Breaths (Power Breaths)
- URL: https://www.meditationcourse.live/courses/breathwork-for-stress/breathwork-4-7-8-breaths/
- Published: 2026-08-09T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-09T17:02:28.000Z
- Description: Short in, long hold, longer out. A pranayama practice, and not the place to start.
- Author: RobertMitchell
- Tags: Breathwork for Stress, #lessons-col

**Short in, long hold, longer out**

In for four, gently hold for seven, gently breathe out for eight. A pranayama practice, which I learned through kung fu training before there was an internet, which seems to have claimed it.

- In for four, gently.
- Gently hold for seven.
- Slowly out for eight.
- The long hold and the long out breath do the work.
- Not the place to start. Get comfortable with 4-6 first.