I am so glad that you brought it here. We read so much about fibro. It is the first time I see this mentionned. Having practice yoga since ....(hum...) won't say for how long, it might say my age, breathing  is the corner stone of our body. Even if I know about it and used to teach breathing techniques, I catch myself so often holding it. Breathing helps me get over the hump of pain for long enough to bypass breakthrough pain meds very often. I realized over the years that, that kind of pain may pass, it only takes something to get my mind off the pain and breathing is the only way for me.

I just went through a very stressful time were the pain could have eat me raw. if it was not for breathing I don't know what I would have done.

  Thank you so much for bringing this.

Marie

I am not sure how/if this relates but when I was younger, it seemed like my body resisted breath training.  I had a very hard time with singing correctly when younger due to breath problems.  When I tried to learn yogic breathing, I would just get dizzy and my breathing would get very disrupted. [I still haven't learned though I do keep trying.]   I still find myself occasionally having a hard time "catching my breath" or just forgetting to breath. This isn't asthma, the doctor said. Also, when I am depressed, I sigh a lot, as do other depressed people.   Personally, I believe there is some damage to part of the control center in my brain(stem?).  I have come to believe that this is yet another symptom of damage done to the brain by something in the environment that leads to fibromyalgia.