Pranayama breathing

Meditation is a challenge for me. I close my eyes and then the thoughts come leaping into the frontal lobes of my brain creating ideas, scenarios and shopping lists. I am truly at my worst when it comes to bedtime, I close my eyes and suddenly thoughts from the days over and the day ahead [...]

Ujaiya Pranayama for Calm and Energy!

How You Can Use Some Yoga Philosophy to Bring Calm Into Your Life! It almost sounds too good to be true.  Did you think to yourself that you were far too busy, or that it seemed too self indulgent to spend time on yourself when you had so much to do?  We tend to put [...]

Pranayama

How did I ever live my life, all those times, without exploring all the different techniques of breathing?!!! I asked myself that question as I’m beginning to experience the different types of Pranayama. For a long time, before my chance came upon yoga, it’s always been the shallow breathing for me. Simply unaware of how [...]

Pranayama

    Breathing is a natural reflection of the people, but not everyone knows how to breathe to maximize the ability of the respiratory organs. Most of us breathe incorrectly, often bearting shortness and exhausted, should not fill the lungs. Many  studies have shown that that many of us use only one third or half the [...]

Kapala Bhati

Sit in easy pose Sit down + extend legs in front (dandasana) Flex knee to chest Rotate hips externally Supination of both feet External rotation of right knee (put right knee on left thigh) Back straight (erectus spinae muscles eccentric contraction) + hands on knees   Inhale Abdomen relaxes, diaphragm contracts (external intercoastal muscles contracts) [...]

How Not to Breathe and The Dangers of Holding Your Breath

A fascinating view of breathing is obtained by watching those who are healthy and the contrasting your findings with those who are unhealthy. When you watch an infant sleeping, it is easy to determine that it breathes using primarily the diaphragm by watching the abdomen rise and fall. Two scientist, Alan Hymes M.D and Phil [...]

Pranayama and its benefits

After practicing Yama, Niyama and Asana one should go for Pranayama. Pranayama is made of two words “prana” and “yama”. Prana means energy or vital force and yama means control. Breath and Pran are two different things altogether. But we cannot see them apart from each other. Breath is Sthula (gross) and Prana is Suksham [...]

The benefits of regularly practicing Pranayama

The word ‘Prana’ means breath life force and the word ‘yama’, means control or discipline. The word ayam means ‘expansion’. The goal of Pranayama is to increase the quantum of this life force (prana) so that it can reach out to ‘hidden’ recesses of the brain. This helps in expanding the human faculties and slowing [...]

Pranayama

Pranayama where prana means life force, and yama means to suspend or restrain. Prana is found in all forms of life, from mineral to mankind, where its force controls and regulates every part of the body. Prana is in the air, but it is not oxygen. Food, water and air are only the media through [...]

Calming the Rajasic Mind with Ujjayi Breath

One of the reasons I started practicing yoga regularly is the effect that I noticed yoga has on me in terms of helping me relieve stress. No matter what stress burdens I carry into the yoga practice, I always come back from svasana feeling more centered and calm. Always. When we experience high levels of [...]