I would say that I first truly started to pay attention to my breathing was when my good friend and roommate brought me to my first ever yoga class sometime around 2011 or 2012. Yoga is what led me to find awareness in my body, to literally seeing myself about to enter a fit of road rage and deciding I didn’t need to get mad about someone cutting me off in traffic; something I’ll never forget. From yoga I found meditation, where I learned to use breath to go even deeper into awareness of myself and the world around me. Those years were some of the most transformational times of my life.