How To Do The Citta Breathing Exercise Video

Breathing techniques are an important part of any yoga exercise routine. Learn how to do the Citta breathing exercise in this video clip about yoga positions and moves.

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Get into sitting position
Relax hands on knees
Breathe properly

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this clip Faith is going to help me demonstrate the tip to conscious breathing. So, when you come into breathing, you want to have a long spine. You want to sit comfortably because you're going to breathe for quite sometime, usually for meditation. So you want to sit comfortably with your seat bones, rooting down into the earth, lengthening up through the spine, through the crown of the head. Good. You're going to allow your eyes to softly close and you're just going to focus for a moment on your breath. Now, you can take your palms down towards your hand in a calming mudra or your hands can come up the way Faith's were, receiving more energy from the universe. So you're just going to focus on your breath. Feel the air as it comes into the body, travels all the way down your nasal passageways to the deepest part of the lungs, coming up through your ribs, all the way up to the highest part of your lungs, and then as you exhale, exhaling in the opposite direction, becoming so aware and so alive that you can feel each air as it touches your skin. Feel the air as it enters through the rings around the nostrils and goes all the way down into the body. Feel the warm air warmed by your body as it returns. According to the yogis, the breath is the most important part of life. Without breath, there is no life. If you only half breathe, you only half live, so it's important to sit comfortably, become aware of your breath, and breathe consciously.

How to Do the Citta Breathing Exercise Video

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