Tag Archives: breathing techniques

Abdominal Exercises – Why We breathe Out While Lowering The Legs

By Patricia | May 15, 2009

Breathing Techniques For Abdominal Exercises
Yoga means perfect union, and the exercises of yoga bring about perfect union of body and mind. Pranayama is an essential part of all yoga exercises. Pranayama focuses on correct breathing techniques.
These techniques are important for many reasons. Correct breathing allows maximum intake of oxygen, which then reaches all parts of [...]

Yoga For Weight Loss: Lose Weight With Breathing Techniques And Yoga Poses

By Patricia | April 28, 2009

Yoga for weight loss - The simplest yoga posture for weight loss
Yoga can help you to have and maintain a trim and healthy body. The various breathing techniques of Pranayama and the yoga poses, are very beneficial in helping you to shed extra weight, especially in the abdominal area, and also to keep your weight [...]

Anusara Yoga Poses: Progressive Set of Postures While Performing Breathing Exercises

By Patricia | April 17, 2009

Anusara Yoga - What is Anusara yoga? How to perform it? Is there any special teacher for Anusara yoga?
Yoga is an ancient discipline of the body and mind that began in India 3000 years ago. Since then, it has gained widespread popularity and spread across the Western world as well. Yoga has developed several sub-branches [...]

Kapalabhati Pranayama:Benefits Of Breathing Exercises

By Patricia | February 13, 2009

How to do KAPALABHATI PRANAYAMA

This is one of the pranayama breathing techniques, which is supposed to have several benefits.

Meaning: Kapalabhati is divided into two words: In Sanskrit, Kapal means forehead; while, Bhati means shining. Yoga gurus say that those who practice kapalabhati everyday will have a shining face and radiate energy. This is a high [...]

Yogic Breathing Facilitate And Energize Greater Alertness To Mind And Body

By Patricia | February 6, 2009

How Can Yoga Help My Breathing
Breathing is our first act on coming into this world and the last, when we exit. On an average a person inhales and exhales more than 20,000 times a day. However, most folks tend to take rapid and shallow chest breaths. They don’t get enough oxygen, necessary to maintain the [...]