Respiration

Renowned singer and vocal coach Maria Papageorgiou will launch a monthly seminar on Wednesday at the B&E Goulandris Foundation (13 Eratosthenous), offering a holistic approach to diaphragmatic breathing, orthophony and vocal resonance. The seminar integrates vocal exercises and art observation to promote self-harmony and mental balance.

In 2007, Linda Stone, a former Microsoft executive, realized that even though she did breathing exercises every morning, when she sat down at her laptop and opened up her inbox, it all went out the window. "I would be like, 'Huh, I was just breathing, but I'm not breathing anymore,'" she said. Her inhales and exhales became barely detectable and shallow, she noticed.

Almost two-fifths of Turks who died in 2016 perished due to diseases of the circulatory system, according to a study by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK).

Some 39.8 percent of the 408,782 deaths in 2016 occurred due to circulatory diseases, followed by cancer at 19.7 percent and respiratory diseases at 11.9 percent.