Deep Breathing

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Sat Nam Clover:

 

Correct breathing takes time and practice. The key is to breath

using your diaphram or abdomen. To see if you are doing this, put

one hand on your navel and one hand on your chest. Then take a deep

breath. Your chest should not move much if at all.

 

Deep breathing should actually be a relaxed thing. The diaphram

should do all the work. I think of it as blowing up a balloon in

your abdomen. You relax and expand the abdomen. If you feel a

tension in your chest or at the base of your neck, try to relax those

areas and maybe don't breath quite so deeply. I suggest you practice

breathing this way for five minutes each day. To increase your

capacity, expand the abdomen more, not the chest.

 

It actually took me years of trying to breath deeply with the

diaphram. But it was an on and off processes. I experienced the

same thing you do and then quite for a while. Now I do this type of

breathing always. It is just natural to me. I think the key is to

not try to breath too deeply too soon. It will take time and

practice. Hopefully it won't take you as long as it did me.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Rick

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Might I also add this tip: When inhaling, fill the lungs from the bottom to the

top. When exhaling, empty the lungs from the bottom to the top as well. This

goes along with the statements below about using the diaphram, which is key.

 

In regard to pranayama, it is very important to ensure that all of the air is

evacuated from the lungs on the exhale, if this means bending the body over, so

be it. Do not sacrifice total evacuation in order to maintain a straight spine,

that will come later. It is also good to fill the lungs completely on the

inhale. By doing this one can increase lung capacity as well as strengthen the

muscles associated with breathing.

Sat Nam

Marzipan

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Sat Nam Clover:

 

Correct breathing takes time and practice. The key is to breath

using your diaphram or abdomen. To see if you are doing this, put

one hand on your navel and one hand on your chest. Then take a deep

breath. Your chest should not move much if at all.

 

 

 

 

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Re: Deep Breathing:

There is a little more detail, that I can offer, on this exercise. I

learnt it in a Yoga group. Begin by expanding the diaphragm and filling

the lower part of the lungs, then the middle part of the chest, finally

the upper part (this feels as if you lift your shoulders). The exhale is

in the same order, lower, middle, upper lungs.

Regards,

Jenny

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Sat Naam

 

The 3-part breath is considered the complete Yoga Breath. It is called

Dirgha Swasana in Sanskrit.

 

The traditional way to practice it is this: You inhale first into the

belly, then the low lungs, then the upper lungs. Exhale in the reverse

order, so you are emptying the belly lastly and completely by pulling the

navel in and up. Inhaling upwards, Exhaling downwards.

 

 

Krishnamacharya does teach the 3-part breath in the opposite order however,

so that is probably why some of you have learned it this way and there is

confusion. This is his own modification of the original practice. He is the

teacher who is credited for developing many of our modern styles of yoga,

and also is known for the evolution of yoga as therapy and health care. If

I remember correctly, his reasoning for the reversal of the 3-part breath

was to bring more breath and focus to the upper lungs, which is where the

most shallow breathing occurs. The belly breath is naturally deeper and so

it tends to take up more than its share of the beginning of the inhalation,

then less is available by the time to bring it up into the top lungs. I

guess this just wasn't an issue for the yogis who mastered the practice

through years of silent service and pranayamic training under the guidance

of an enlightened Guru but Krishnamacharya saw that it was a problem for

most of his students and that was his solution.

 

 

Sat Prem, Prem Naam

 

ranjit k

 

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