“Yoga Breathing”

You will find a new sense of awareness and a feeling of physical cleanliness when you add yoga breathing to your practice. Don’t be surprised if yoga breathing draws your attention to meditation too.

Yoga breathing is about control. Yoga breathing is sort of like the difference between anaerobic and aerobic exercise accept there are three different ways to breathe instead. Those are diaphragmatic, intercostal, and clavicular. Yogic breath combines all three when mastered. Since oxygen is literally considered the life force and one of the major principals is focusing on distributing oxygen to the entire body more deeply yoga breathing is very important and offers fabulous physical rewards.  If you want to read more check out The Little Book of Yoga Breathing .

It’s funny how sometimes the most simple things in life can make one feel so much better. Funny that we spend tons of money on special pills or drinks to achieve what one can with yoga breathing and stretching. A good book about how this will help medically is Dr. Yoga .There are poses that will help you master your yoga breathing and of course yoga breathing exercises specifically designed to aide in your learning. Yoga breathing exercises are called Pranayama. One may perform many of these exercises while completing routines, meditating, or sitting still. The study is always flexible as you will also become with practice.

Since the world is an ever-changing place as they say, “The only constant is change”; it is good to learn to accept change and fluidity on as many levels as possible. Anyone will find this as they learn about the principals of the study. A great well rounded introduction to the practice is Yoga Zone's Premiere DVD Collection (4-DVD Set) which also covers breathing. Although yoga breathing is only one aspect of the whole experience it is vitally important. Just like it’s vitally important to breath all the time to stay alive yoga breathing is the same because you are stretching your muscles. As you become more limber you blood vessels will be able to pump blood to the same muscles you are stretching much more quickly. So you need to increase your yoga breathing to keep your blood oxygenated as you become better at your practice. One might say being in an intense state of work out combined with yoga breathing is a lot like an adrenaline rush. So it’s sort of a natural high, which is the best and should arguably be the only kind. So enjoy and start focusing on your yoga breathing