译者：极力推荐詹姆斯·内斯特（James Nestor）的《呼吸》

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在他去世之前，卡尔留下了一份继续他的工作的“候选人名单”。 我很荣幸是其中的一员。

卡尔·斯托（Carl Stough）不为世人所知。 现在，在畅销书作家詹姆斯·内斯特（James Nestor）的帮助下，斯托的工作和天才得到了更广泛的受众。

横幅——“‘呼吸教父’到访！”——1968 年春天，呼吸专家卡尔·斯托在走进耶鲁大学的运动场时，这条横幅在向他打招呼。斯托来到耶鲁是为了与田径队一起训练，以确定改善呼吸是否可以提高运动表现 。他成功了！这一成功促使他与参加 1968 年奥运会的美国运动员一起训练。

外号“呼吸教父”（The moniker “Dr. Breath”），是一位富有创造力的耶鲁大学本科生授予他的，但斯托夫并不是一名医生。 他是一名合唱指挥，有着一双敏锐的耳朵，对身体、横膈膜、呼吸、和声音有着直观的理解。 他在 20 世纪 60 年代初期治疗重症肺气肿患者方面的发现彻底改变了医学对横膈肌的理解；呼吸协调的斯托方法（the Stough Method of Breathing Coordination）成为医学上认可的治疗严重呼吸系统疾病的做法。

斯托少为人知。 他不太关心营销。 相反，他专注于呼吸和呼吸力学的研究。 我们这些找到他的人之所以这样做，是因为我们通过同事听说了他的工作。 现在，多亏了詹姆斯·内斯特（James Nestor）的《呼吸》一书，斯托夫的工作和天才已经吸引了更广泛的受众。

夺回我们失去的东西（Regaining What We Lost）

呼吸协调整合了所有呼吸肌肉的运动，包括不自主和自主的运动。 这是我们出生时的呼吸方式，但在我们两岁的时候就消失了。 其他呼吸“技术”侧重于呼吸的随意肌，但真正的呼吸肌肉——横膈膜和腰肌——是不随意肌。 在斯托夫之前，医学上的假设是，一旦呼吸的不随意肌被削弱，它们就无法重新发育。斯托则证明事实并非如此。1962 年《纽约时报》在其文章《音乐家为肺病患者设计援助》中（in its article “Musician Devises Aid in Lung Cases”），承认了斯托为严重肺气肿患者所做的工作。

呼吸协调需要触觉的力量——我们自己的和老师的。 在我的开放中心的课堂上，我们致力于重建呼吸肌的协调性，但是你可以使用这个简单的工具来一直帮助自己。将一只轻柔、不强硬的手放在胸骨上。 你能感觉到手下的呼吸运动以及胸骨如何在吸气时稍微向外移动并在呼气时向内移动吗？ 如果没有任何反应，请稍微按摩一下胸肌，并轻轻拍打胸骨以唤醒横膈肌（这在你躺下时做，非常有益）。 以这种方式放松胸部是重建呼吸协调的开始。

卡尔·斯托 (Carl Stough) 于 2000 年去世，但他的工作得以保存。 在斯托去世之前，他留下了一份继续他的工作的“候选人名单”。斯托允许教授他的方法的人，全球一共不到十几位。 我很荣幸成为其中之一。

‘Dr. Breath’

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Prior to his death, Carl left a “shortlist” of people to carry on his work. I am honored to be one of them.

Carl Stough was the world’s best-kept secret. Now, thanks to bestselling author James Nestor, Stough’s work and genius have reached a wider audience.

The sign—“Dr. Breath Is Here Today!”—greeted breathing expert Carl Stough as he walked into the field house at Yale University in the spring of 1968. Stough had come to Yale to work with its track team, to determine whether improved breathing could lead to enhanced performance. It did, and that success led to his work with the US athletes of the 1968 Olympics.  

The moniker “Dr. Breath” was bestowed on him by an inventive Yale undergraduate, but Stough was not a physician. He was a choral conductor with a great ear and an intuitive understanding of the body, the diaphragm, breathing, and voice. His discoveries in the treatment of severely ill emphysema patients in the early 1960s revolutionized medicine’s understanding of the diaphragm, and the Stough Method of Breathing Coordination became a medically approved practice for the treatment of severe respiratory disorders.

Stough was the world’s best-kept secret. He cared little for marketing. Instead, he was singularly focused on his research on breathing and respiratory mechanics. Those of us who sought him out did so because we had heard about his work through our colleagues. Now, thanks to James Nestor’s book Breath, Stough’s work and genius have reached a wider audience.

Regaining What We Lost

Breathing Coordination integrates the movement of all the muscles of respiration, both involuntary and voluntary. It is the way we breathed when we were born but lost by the time we were two. Other breathing “techniques” focus on the voluntary muscles of breathing, but the true muscles of respiration—the diaphragm and the psoas—are involuntary muscles. Before Stough, it was a medical assumption that once the involuntary muscles of breathing were weakened they could not be redeveloped. Stough proved otherwise, and in 1962, the New York Times acknowledged his work with sufferers of severe emphysema in its article “Musician Devises Aid in Lung Cases.”

Breathing Coordination demands the power of touch—our own and that of a teacher. In my class at The Open Center, we work to reestablish coordination of the respiratory muscles, but you can go a long way in helping yourself with this simple tool. Place a light, non-imposing hand on your breastbone (sternum). Can you feel the movement of breath under your hand and how the sternum moves out a bit in inhalation and moves in on exhalation? If nothing is happening, do a little massage of your pectoral muscles and some gentle tapping on your sternum to awaken your diaphragm (this is very beneficial to do when you are lying down). Relaxing your chest in this way is a start reestablishing your breathing coordination.

Carl Stough died in 2000, but his work survives. Prior to his death, he left a “shortlist” of people to carry on his work. I am honored to be one of fewer than a dozen people worldwide Carl allowed to teach his work. 

For more information on Jean McClelland and her class at The Open Center, visit JeanMcClellandVoice.com.