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My routine is quite a long list of exercises. It took me around 40 minutes per day to do them. I can't really explain most of the exercises via chat. It would be much better to show you on camera via discord. I am part of the Stuttering Support Group discord server and actively hold voice calls where I give advice to anyone who joins. I would love to delve deeper into this topic with you on there. Fortunately, I can easily explain the breathing section of the exercises: * Breathing (7 repetitions per exercise) 1. Left Nostril 2. Right Nostril 3. Nose - Nose 4. Nose - Mouth 5. Mouth - Nose 6. Mouth - Mouth You breathe in fully and as slowly as possible, you pause, and then you exhale again, as slowly as possible. The goal is to train your lungs to increase their air capacity(cardio exercise is crucial for this, as well. I run every Sunday for 5 km). When you breathe in through a nostril (the first two exercises), you block the other one with your finger. When there are combinations (i.e. Nose - Mouth), you breathe in through the nose and exhale through the mouth. You use the same logic for the other breathing exercises. After the breathing section, there are sections for neck and shoulder exercises (relaxing the neck muscles and the shoulders), speech exercises (training your mouth to be more flexible, which helps when you get stuck in blocks. It also makes you not tire as easily from talking - you don't put that much strain on yourself when talking), vowel prolongation exercises (helps battle feared vowel sounds in words) and reading aloud from a dictionary and book(builds a habit of automatically breathing correctly when reading and helps dispel the notion of "feared words"). These exercises helped me a lot! As I said, my routine doesn't include any fluency-shaping techniques and I don't use any to talk. I talk normally. The routine can be done alone at home. I would love to demonstrate it to you on discord. Hope to see you there!