How to Breathe When Practicing Yoga
Nowadays, people's conditions for horizontal exercises are getting better and better, and everyone is paying more attention to health. Most ladies choose to contact yoga in their leisure time. Yoga not only helps us maintain a slender figure, but also enhances our temperament and gives us a healthy body. When practicing yoga, there are also many precautions. If the method of practicing yoga is not correct, it will affect the exercise effect, and may also have the opposite effect.
People breathe autonomously from birth, and breathing is a natural ability. Therefore, when practicing yoga, we should also learn to breathe, and adjusting our breathing can help us practice yoga more smoothly. Breathing is very important for yoga, let's take a look at how to breathe when practicing yoga.
Inhale-exhale principle
Principle 1: When performing expansive movements, inhale; when contracting and twisting, exhale. Previously said, when both hands are upward and extended, it is accompanied by inhalation; when the body is folded and bent down to the ground, it is accompanied by exhalation.
Principle 2: Emphasize a specific part of the posture, and combine deep breaths while holding the pose. For example, when doing downward-facing dog pose, push the hips up to the apex, and both hands and feet are stretched on the ground. Take four deep breaths from the side, strengthening the muscle lines of the back and legs.
Principle 3: When performing difficult movements, breathing can be faster. Emphasize balanced poses with deep breathing. Compared to shoulder stand and tree pose, the breathing in shoulder stand is quicker, while the breathing in tree pose is more gentle.
Breathe according to your condition
For beginners, simply remembering the key points of the posture is already a great achievement. If you can notice the change in breathing, it is also a good thing. But if you are an experienced yogi, you must pay attention to the breathing in each posture, especially to ensure that you can coordinate with abdominal breathing in each action. Because in deep and slow breathing, you can inhale more oxygen, relax your body, and face more difficult poses, use deep breathing to challenge yourself.
Please remember that softness in yoga is partly innate, but a larger part is 'the combination of body, mind, and breath.' Softness is not the most important part of yoga, but it is indispensable. And breathing is one of the most important parts of yoga, practice it anytime and anywhere, and you will gradually understand its great use.
Breathing, breathing, the emphasis is on both inhalation and exhalation, and practice good breathing according to the breathing principles introduced above, then you can better practice yoga. Yoga is a healthy way to exercise the body, it will not cause sudden exercise injuries, nor will it lead to rebound or rapid weight gain, so yoga has become a popular leisure fitness activity for more and more people.
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