For the problem of breathing and breathing in yoga practice, many students have been confused: when should I breathe in? When should I exhale? Some teachers may have taught you to inhale upward and exhale downward, but they are not accurate enough
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For abdominal breathing, we have three common breathing states: inhale; suspend; exhale; when inhaled, stomach bulges, upper body slightly backward; when exhaled, stomach adducts, upper body slightly forward
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Note: new students can ignore the practice of hanging air
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In postural practice, there are eight body states: forward, backward, left, right, left, right, up and down
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Forerunner represents the main postures, such as standing forerunner, sitting forerunner and so on
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In the precursor position, we mainly exhale
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Exhalation helps to narrow your stomach when you inhale, which is more conducive to the precursor
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Imagine if your stomach inhales like a yoga ball, you can’t be a good precursor, because your bulging stomach prevents you from leaning forward
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Whether it is slight backward bending, such as snake type, standing arm extension backward bending, locust type, or heavy backward bending, like wheel type
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In kyphosis, the body is bent backward with the back infinitely close to the back of the thigh? In the back bend, we mainly inhale
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Inhale helps to enlarge your stomach, activate the core muscles and keep your body stable
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Imagine how the core can tighten when your abdomen is relaxed? The upper body is protected by the core muscles, not the spine
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The left and right side bending represents the posture of sitting or standing, and the body bends to one side on a horizontal plane, such as the wind blowing tree style, the sitting side stretching style, etc
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In the left and right side bending, we mainly stretch our side waist and back, while the other side has a sense of squeezing
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Whether we inhale or exhale, as long as the abdomen remains tight and the body is stable
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In practice, whether it’s exhalation or inspiration, the stretch feeling of side bending and back, and the squeeze feeling of opposite side are basically the same
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Left and right twist represents sitting or standing posture, and the body twists to any side, such as sitting twist, triangle twist, side corner twist, etc
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In the twist type, the purpose is to stretch the abdomen, side waist and deep muscle groups
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We mainly inhale
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When we inhale, we exhale and the abdomen is already stretched
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Second stretch in asana to enhance the feeling of core stretch
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Upward body from low to high dynamic transition, such as right angle into mountain style
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In the upward posture, we mainly inhale
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When we inhale, our stomach bulges and becomes tight, and our body helps to keep stable
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The dynamic transition of downward body from high position to position, such as mountain style to right angle style
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In the downward position, we mainly keep exhaling, reduce the abdominal volume, and make the body center of gravity fall better
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In fantasy, submarine sinking needs less buoyancy to increase weight
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In asana, if you inhale and bulge your stomach, there will be a lot of inconvenience in downward asana
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In Hatha Yoga practice, each posture maintains more breaths
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We often hear the teacher’s guidance: “with each breath, make your” forward / backward / left / right lateral / left / right twist “step closer and more thorough.” If a pose holds 10 breaths, we are not here to hold our breath and wait
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Instead, keep your breathing rhythm
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According to the breathing principles described above, relax and deepen with each exhalation / inhalation
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