How to breathe while practicing yoga

How should we breathe when we practice yoga? Many people know that if we have difficulty breathing when practicing yoga, we will often feel uncomfortable. This is caused by many people not paying attention to breathing when exercising. If you are too tired when doing yoga, you will be very tired if you don’t know how to breathe. When practicing yoga, breathing is a good way to get the effect of yoga. So how should we breathe when practicing yoga?

How to inhale

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.

In short, you must remember that if you are serious about practicing yoga, then breathing is very important. You should also pay attention to holding your breath when practicing yoga, but it should be natural and smooth. If you don’t know how to breathe, then you can use the above tips to breathe evenly when practicing yoga, which will have better results.