Correct breathing is essential to the practice of yoga. Combined with proper diet, relaxation, asana or exercise, and meditation, these five principles create the basis of a well-rounded yoga practice.
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Master Your Mood With Yogic Breathing
Yogic breathing techniques, or Pranayama, is addictive. It is easy to misjudge the power of your breath by dismissing this practice as sitting and doing nothing. It’s a deceptively simple-looking and subtle practice, from the outside. But within, you are working with a world of wonderful possibilities that can help you map and chart your mood.
Working The 4 Corners of Your Breath
It’s easy to take breathing for granted. Our yoga practice teaches us to watch and listen to our breath, to be awake to the flow of life force inside us. If you watched your breathing, very carefully, you might notice that the breath has 4 distinct parts. The inhale and its pause builds energy and heat, while the exhale and its transitional pause creates a soothing and cooling effect on the body and mind.
How to De-Stress Using Yogic Breathing
If I were to do only one yoga practice for the rest of my life, it would be pranayama, or breath-control. Yogic breathing techniques are incredibly powerful. They can transform stress and anxiety into calming surrender, and they can energize a lethargic mind and body.
Yoga: Are you breathing properly?
Here are the steps to proper yogic breathing, which will benefit you immensely, on and off your yoga mat.