How to breathe while practicing yoga? Yoga breathing explanation

Nowadays, people pay special attention to physical health and beautiful body shape, especially women who often do yoga. Regular yoga practice can greatly improve our psychological, physiological, spiritual, and emotional aspects. Yoga practice can also accelerate our body's metabolism and better eliminate waste substances in the body. This can not only repair the body, but also beautify the skin. I have found that people who practice yoga regularly will have a good temperament, look more elegant, and have a flexible body. There are many ways to practice yoga, the most important of which is yoga breathing. Yoga breathing can massage our internal organs very well. Let’s take a look at the specific movements below.

1. Method of Inhalation

1. Sit in the position that makes you most comfortable.

2. Lift your chest, floating ribs and navel, and straighten your spine.

3. Lower your head as much as possible to make your neck soft. Then perform the chin bandha mantra.

4. The source of human emotions is between the navel and the heart. The spine must always be in contact with this source of emotion. The front of the body should also always be in contact with it. At the same time, lift and expand the chest upward and to the sides.

5. During inhalation, as the chest expands upward and to the sides, do not tilt forward, backward, or left or right.

6. Do not tense the diaphragm. Breathe the air deeply into the base of your diaphragm. You can imagine that you start inhaling from under your ribs and around your waist. This is the secret to deep breathing.

7. In order to successfully receive the inhaled energy, it is important to be in a passive state beforehand. In particular, it is important to synchronize the rhythm inside the lungs with the flow of incoming air.

8. It's like pouring water into the bottom of your lungs.

9. People with underdeveloped lungs must carefully and little by little increase their lung capacity before their lungs can fully function.

10. The bronchi branch off from the trachea and connect to the peripheral blood vessels of the lungs, where they further divide into bronchioles. It is important to observe how the air reaches the bronchioles.

11. Just as water is absorbed by the soil, you should also feel it being absorbed by the cells in your body. While feeling this absorption process, you should also feel that the energy of the universe (prana) is also being absorbed, permeating the body, and bringing a sense of "happiness".

12. The inhaled energy enters the body through the nose and is absorbed by the body's spirit. As you inhale, your awareness rises from your navel to the upper chest. The practitioner must always feel that the physical, mental, psychological, intellectual, physiological and other aspects are one with the rising consciousness. In this way, the body, breath, consciousness and the inner God are united.

13. Every pore of the skin should play the role of eyes and ears for absorbing prana.

14. If you feel tense during inhalation, the skin of your hands will become rough. Please observe the skin of your hands to regulate your breathing.

15. During the inhalation process, you cannot raise your shoulders, otherwise the upper lungs will not be fully expanded and the back of the neck will become tense. If you observe carefully, you will find that after the shoulder is lifted, it falls immediately. In order to avoid lifting your shoulders, you can lift your chest beforehand.

16. Relax your throat and place your tongue flat on your lower jaw, but not so much as to touch your teeth.

17. Close your eyes and relax. You need to make your eyes sensitive in advance so that they can look inward. When you inhale, your eyeballs will always be accustomed to turning upwards. You need to pay attention to this.

18. The ears, facial muscles and forehead skin should also be relaxed in advance.

19. Correct breathing can remove laziness, stimulate the body and mind, and enhance vitality.

2. Exhalation Method

1. Adjust your posture. Refer to points 1-4 of inhalation for the method.

2. Exhale slowly. To do this, the intercostal muscles and floating ribs that are lifted during inhalation must not be allowed to relax. Otherwise, it will be difficult to exhale smoothly and slowly.

3. Start exhaling from the upper chest. So don't take this part back. Exhale slowly until your navel contracts and all the air is out. At this time, the body merges with the spirit.

4. Before exhaling, lift up the spine and its left and right sides to make the whole body as stable as a tree rooted in the ground.

5. Do not shake your body, otherwise it will disrupt the activities of nerves and spirits.

6. Do not retract your chest, exhale slowly and smoothly. If the breath becomes rough and rapid, it is because the chest and back are falling back and you are not paying attention to the flow of the breath.

7. During the inhalation process, the skin on the upper body tends to tense. But as you exhale, relax the skin on your upper body. Don't let the inside of your back sink, though.

8. The skin of the arms and chest should not touch each other under the armpits. But you don't have to stretch your arms outwards, just leave a little space under your armpits.

9. Exhalation calms the nerves and brain, so people become humble and no longer insist on their own opinions.