The types of yoga breathing, what is the emphasis on practicing yoga breathing?
What's so particular about practicing yoga breathing?
Focus, put awareness on breathing, inhale and open your chest, feel the air fill your abdomen, exhale slowly, and feel that all the fumes and turbid air are slowly exhaled out of your body.
Breathe evenly, exhale and inhale for as long as possible. Whether it is abdominal breathing or laryngeal breathing, you should pay attention to the problem of uniform breathing.
Different breathing methods have different details, but the most basic thing is to pay attention to your awareness, concentration, and evenness in one breath after another.
Yoga breathing is a method of effectively massaging the internal organs through a variety of different breathing methods (determined according to the physical and mental condition of the individual). It can effectively massage the internal organs, stimulate the benign secretion of various physiological glands, activate the potential power of pulse and chakra (which may also be equivalent to what traditional Chinese medicine calls meridians and acupoints), and better clean up the body, thus laying the foundation for more advanced spiritual cultivation and spiritual development.
When can I practice?
Breathing, like many exercises in yoga, can run through life. The generally recommended age for learning breathing is 8 to 10 years old, and you can begin to take a moderate approach to deep breathing exercises. However, the practice of suspending yoga does not begin until after the age of 14. Adults can start practicing yoga breathing at any age, with no age limit. Breathing method has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of asthma, arthritis, diabetes, digestive system disorders, depression and other diseases.
With different genders, does breathing practice have any effect?
Breathing is equally useful for men and women. Some people might say that breathing is more effective for women than for men. This may be because women exercise less than men than men, and most of their activities are indoors. So women are more likely to lack exercise, breathe more shallower, and get faster and more obvious results from breathing. For women, abdominal and pelvic exercise is more important. Breathing training can promote blood circulation and strengthen muscles, which is of great help in the treatment of menstrual disorders, uterine displacement, the formation of natural birth and the improvement of health.
In what environment do you go down to practice?
The environment in which ancient practitioners practice yoga is difficult for modern people to find. The best environment should be in nature, without interference, in a quiet place, directly under the guidance of the yogi, to absorb the energy nurtured in the pleasant environment. If it is difficult to find such an environment, it is best to make sure that the practice area is not disturbed by noise, visitors and other factors, and that it is peaceful, clean and ventilated. According to the current environment and conditions, it may be the home that can meet the above requirements. Sometimes, you can enjoy breathing exercises in peaceful places such as riverbanks, parks or temples. If the room is crowded, it is best to choose a yoga institution where the environment can meet the requirements of the practice. Of course, if conditions permit, the office can also become a place to practice yoga. When traveling, you can also practice breathing on trains, buses and airplanes.
What's the point of dressing?
When practicing breathing outdoors, clothing should ward off cold and keep warm. When the weather is fine, especially when practicing indoors at home, underwear is enough. When the weather is very hot, the clothes can be shorter. The clothes should not be too thick or too thin. A general principle is to avoid feeling uncomfortable because the clothes you wear are too tight, too much, and too little.
Specific practice time and frequency?
For general purposes, breathing training can be done once a day, sooner or later. At night, after finishing the day's work, the brain is relaxed and the muscles and joints are no longer tense, so choose a breathing posture and hold it steadily for the required length of time. In the morning, the joints are tense, and if you do breathing training, you need to do some postural exercises to soften the stiff body. However, there may be out activities in the evening, and the rules of practice are easy to be disrupted. From this point of view, morning is a better time to practice. In addition, when practicing breathing, the stomach must not have a heavy burden, which is a very important point. The stomach is empty before breakfast, so it is more suitable to practice breathing in the morning (2 hours before meals and 4 hours after meals are better). Usually, it takes 20 to 30 minutes to practice breathing; on busy days, if you have too much work, just 10 minutes of practice can make you feel good.
From three to five, after drinking a small amount of water, find a comfortable sitting position to start candlelight meditation, first practice your glasses (up and down), then look at the object in front of you, candle or draw a black circle of three centimeters on the wall, stare until the glasses cry, close your eyes and see the candle or white circle, keep him meditating, disappear and start again. After bending the middle finger and index finger, plug the left and right nostrils with the little finger and thumb, pay attention to all closed when closed, and half open when opened, starting from the right, right, left, left and right. Repeat nine to twelve cycles. This is the method of clearing meridians and regulating breath. It is best to use a fixed sitting position to adjust the breath. It is best to kneel in the perineum and abdomen, limited to your own ability, for the first 20 minutes, and then it can be longer and longer. This exercise must be practiced on an empty stomach. Just a little gaze once a day, perineum, abdominal contraction, throat breathing can be integrated into life every day, cleaning meridian tricks because you can find a fixed time to practice with gestures.
Let me show you what the teacher in our yoga studio said about abdominal breathing for more than ten years.
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