Russell Brand asks yoga followers to mimic breathing ‘like a crack addict’

He credits the practice of yoga and meditation with helping him overcome addiction. 

And Russell Brand is helping other people learn his techniques in a series of bizarre YouTube videos – including one that encourages followers to mimic their breathing to that of a crack addict. 

While dressed in nothing but a white blanket, the comedian, 43, demonstrated how to breathe through a Kundalini Yoga excersise, and also related the techniques to smoking weed.

Bizarre: Russell Brand, 43, asked yoga followers to mimic breathing ‘like a crack addict’ during strange YouTube excersise

Demonstrating the energetic routine, Russell wildly swung his arms around while breathing in quick and sharp breaths. 

Upon finishing the lively display, the Rock Of Ages star flung his arms high in the air, and asked his followers to hold in their breath. 

Russell no doubt raised some eyebrows with his comments after he likened the action to being a crack addict, explaining said: ‘Pull in the breath hard, if you’ve ever been a crack addict or you like your weed you’ll know how to pull that breath in hard’.

Odd: While dressed in nothing but a white blanket, the comedian demonstrated how to breathe through a Kundalini Yoga excersise, and related the breathing  to smoking weed

Odd: While dressed in nothing but a white blanket, the comedian demonstrated how to breathe through a Kundalini Yoga excersise, and related the breathing  to smoking weed

Strange: Upon finishing the lively display, the Rock Of Ages star flung his arms high in the air, and asked his followers to hold in their breath

Strange: Upon finishing the lively display, the Rock Of Ages star flung his arms high in the air, and asked his followers to hold in their breath

Teaching: Russell has previously credited the practice of yoga and meditation with helping him overcome addiction

Teaching: Russell has previously credited the practice of yoga and meditation with helping him overcome addiction

Despite the odd routine and choice of phrasing, fans appeared to love Russell’s eccentric techniques, with followers complimenting the star on his lesson. 

One fan commented: ‘”If you like you’re weed you’ll know how to pull the breath in.” These are great, I am a teacher of yoga and these are fantastic techniques for energy management’, while another wrote: ‘This speaks volumes about Russell Brand, he’s simply sharing something with all of us that has clearly benefited him.’

Russell had a well-publicised battle with Class A substances back in 2002, resulting in more than a dozen brushes with the law – including a high-profile arrest by the Metropolitan Police for stripping off during an anti-capitalist Mayday protest in London’s teeming Piccadilly Circus.

Giving advice: Russell raised some eyebrows after he said: 'Pull in the breath hard, if you've ever been a crack addict or you like your weed you'll know how to pull that breath in

Giving advice: Russell raised some eyebrows after he said: ‘Pull in the breath hard, if you’ve ever been a crack addict or you like your weed you’ll know how to pull that breath in

Supportive: Despite the odd routine and choice of phrasing, fans appeared to love Russell's eccentric techniques, with followers complimenting the star on his lesson.

Supportive: Despite the odd routine and choice of phrasing, fans appeared to love Russell’s eccentric techniques, with followers complimenting the star on his lesson.

The star has now been clean from drugs for fifteen years, and even penned a book to help others overcome their demons, titled Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions, in October last year.

Russell has previously credited overcoming his drug addiction with the help of yoga and transcendental meditation – which even his ex wife, Katy Perry, thanked him for after introducing the technique to her during their two-year marriage in 2010.

Meanwhile, Russell’s elaborate yoga lesson comes after the news that he was set to become a father for the second time.

New dad: Meanwhile, news that Russell was set to become a father for the second time came to light last month - with wife Laura Gallacher, 31, spotted with a rounded stomach

New dad: Meanwhile, news that Russell was set to become a father for the second time came to light last month – with wife Laura Gallacher, 31, spotted with a rounded stomach

In an image obtained by The Sun, the funnyman was spotted out with wife Laura Gallacher, 31, who was sporting an extremely rounded stomach at the The Catherine Wheel Pub, close to their home in Henley-On-Thames. 

The couple, who became doting parents for the first time after welcoming daughter Mabel in November 2016, were hit with reports of a second child in February before she was spotted with her eye-popping bump in June. 

Russell and Laura, who is the younger sister of TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher, looked every inch the delighted expectant couple as they strolled along.

The pair married in a romantic ceremony in Henley-on-Thames in August 2017 with the great and good of showbiz watching including Noel Gallagher and David Baddiel.

Smitten: The pair married in a romantic ceremony in Henley-on-Thames in August 2017 with the great and good of showbiz watching including Noel Gallagher and David Baddiel

Smitten: The pair married in a romantic ceremony in Henley-on-Thames in August 2017 with the great and good of showbiz watching including Noel Gallagher and David Baddiel



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