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Yoga breathing

Our body is a real tool, capable of the worst as well as the best for our health. Many people use it to increase their well-being through, for example, breathing exercises, relaxation of the rib cage, or simply through yoga exercises. Yoga exercises allow us to combine sport and breathing, without forgetting meditation, in order to make our breath work as well as possible.

Because yes, we do not always know how to manage our breath well. For example, researchers estimate that 30% to 45% of adults are regular snorers, and all of this is due to poor breath management, which can be a concern for a yoga teacher and student. Between dirty lungs, mouth breathing, plexus contraction or perfect oxygenation, how can one control one's yogic breathing? Let's find out right now!

 

The Importance of Linking Yoga and Breathing

Even though yoga is a discipline that is more and more popular among the French, slowly but surely, we are slowly learning how to apprehend it. Between breathing techniques, stretching and full consciousness, the practice of yoga implies a precise knowledge of oneself, especially of one's breath.

It is essential to know how to master this breath, in order to be as efficient as possible in your movements, and to be able to give your yoga postures more presence. Thoracic cage, abdominal muscles, breathing rhythm, spine, all these elements will be put to the test in order to breathe well.

Because, precisely, "good" breathing requires being attentive and listening to your body, its sensations, its pains (abdominal or not) and to calm down and breathe deeply, you must be aware of the efficiency of your own breath. Because yes, the breath is a tool, and sometimes even a weapon against anxiety, stress, and a conscious breath will help to calm down, to soothe the nervous system, all this thanks to the air in our nostrils.

Being less stressed, performing postures at their best, making them even more effective, these are the objectives of a good breath control in yoga. In full consciousness, it is up to us to know how to relax the sternum, to breathe in through the nostrils, to breathe out through the mouth, for optimal stress management, to relearn thoracic breathing, to ease muscular tension. It's up to you!

 

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Learn to breathe better in yoga by listening to your body

Learning how to breathe well is the opportunity to listen to your body, which will allow us to learn how to control our breath, our inspiration, our expiration, our deep breathing finally! Because yes, we sometimes forget too much, but our body and our metabolism are very good indicators of our overall health, and the way we treat it. To feel less stress, anxiety, or have more positive thinking, let's think about breathing!

When we are in pain somewhere, in our collarbone, back, foot, or any other part of our body, it's a good idea to know how to ease and calm the pain with breathing. Listening to your body tell you that it is not going well, that it needs time for itself, it also requires a good inhalation, a good exhalation, effective at making you feel better. Because despite everything we think, knowing how to breathe starts there in yoga!

Between stretching, meditation, concentration, sitting, standing, many are the daily acts that our body performs and that require an adapted breathing. It's up to us to know how to understand it, to know how to observe our body which tells us that everything is fine or, on the contrary, that it's hurting somewhere. Breathing through the nostrils, a bit like Darth Vader, will promote calm and decompression, to ward off bad stress in dark times.

 

Follow the postures for good breathing in yoga

By consciously emptying one's nostrils of all air, one can manage one's breathing through awareness, and by doing so, one will be able to perform the different yoga postures in the best possible way. However, some of them require a very particular breath, it is at this moment that he still knows how to show observation and an unparalleled ability to adapt.

A series of postures can quickly tire us, so it is at this moment that we will try to follow the movement of the exercises, and simply let ourselves be carried by the energy and common sense from which the breath will flow. Because most yoga postures are designed to make us work a very specific part of our breathing, we must then know how to seize this opportunity and take advantage of it to deepen it.

To deepen it because, indeed, there is nothing like a sequence designed for the breath, to work on what is and has always been a real support of life, sport and energy: the breath. Mastering your breath means mastering your vision of the world, your lifestyle, and yoga postures are a very good support to do so. Between a greeting to the sun, a dog position and a nestra, everything is brought together to work the breath in a complete way.

It is therefore based on the principle that each posture is beneficial for our breathing, and that the benefits of yoga are no longer to be demonstrated that we will learn to let go, to give our whole body to dedicate it to the realization of yoga exercises. Letting go will result in a much lighter body, much more fluid, and, in fact, a less panting breath, since the exercises are precisely designed to relieve us.

Teaching us how to breathe is one of the teachings of yoga, which, thanks to the various and varied exercises, will give the image of a discipline that almost saves us from many ills. By bending our back, we will then adopt one breath, sitting, another, standing, yet another, for, in the end, a total control of our body and our breath!

 

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Listen to the yoga teacher's tips for breath control

All these elements allow us to control our breathing as much as possible, but if we practice a yoga class, individual or collective, there is a good chance that the teacher can help us on the path to good breath control in yoga.

Indeed, the teacher, if he is a teacher today, has inevitably encountered the same problems as you do, when it comes to relaxing and understanding your body and breathing in the best possible way. We must then give him total confidence, so that our exercises are well done, but also that they make us progress. A clever mix of teaching and well-being!

Whatever his ambition, learning to master one's breathing in yoga is not the path of the fighter, and the teacher is there to show us the path to follow, to be in the most total adequacy with oneself and with one's body. Because our vital energy also passes through there, and we too often forget it unconsciously.

This is however there all the interest of a muscular reinforcement, a warm-up, a practice of meditation or sophrology: to avoid us panic attacks, and to make us manage stress and become aware that we have a breath since our birth, and that this last one is there to maintain us alive. That we can use it to do yoga, therefore to learn how to "better" live, without pain or anxiety.

Thus, even if yoga seems to have become a simple and accessible discipline, it turns out that it is much more than that. It allows us to think of our body differently, as a set of building blocks of our being, starting with breathing. We will then learn, thanks to different elements, to master it, to be more efficient, but also and above all to know how to behave better on a daily basis.

To behave better in front of others, in front of events, crisis situations, stress, but also in front of ourselves. To tell ourselves that we are gifted with intelligence, and capable of using our breath as a strength, not as a weakness. All this, and much more, yoga teaches us, for our greatest pleasure. One, two, three, breathe!

 

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