The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So what does this mean? This means that breathwork itself can be a form of meditation, and meditation can involve breathwork, but one should know that the more deliberate and unnatural that pattern of breathing is, the less you will be able to focus on other things.
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We are very much of the belief that a breathwork practice itself can be meditative, a meditation practice can include breathing, but the more that that meditative practice focuses on the breathing itself, the more interoceptive-biased it will be.