Once you get into the pose, bend forward at the hips for a greater stretch and opening. Once youâre there, close your eyes and breathe. Hold it for 30 seconds to a minute or longer, taking slow, deep breaths. As you release and move into the opposite side, congratulate yourself on accomplishing cow face, and smile.
Shallow breathing combined with rapid breathing, more that about 16 breaths per minute for an adult, is called tachypnea. Tachypnea can be a symptom of a serious or life-threatening respiratory condition. These include pneumonia acute bronchitis, bronchiolitis, asthma, COPD, pulmonary embolism and pulmonary edema.
Shallow water blackout. Shallow water blackout is a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath-hold dive in water typically shallower than five metres (16 feet), when the swimmer does not necessarily experience an urgent need to breathe and has no other obvious medical condition that might have caused it.