How to Low Breathe

Low breathing in yoga refers to breathing that takes place primarily from the abdomen. Learn about the benefits of low breathing in yoga in this video.

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Sit comfortably
Lengthen spine & lift head
Close eyes
Expand abdomen on inhalation
Tone the abs

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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. When we speak of low breathing in yoga we're speaking of abdominal breathing and it's exactly that just breathing from the lower third section the abdominals. To practice that we're going to have [PH] Faith demonstrate the low breathing. She's seated in a nice comfortable position you want to make sure you're getting a position that you could sit in for several minutes at a time. You want to be comfortable don't worry about getting fancy with your pose. She's going to route her sits bone right down into the earth. Lengthen up through her side body. Lengthen through the spine the heart open the shoulder blades press down the back. Back of the neck lengthen and she reaches right at crown of the head. She's going to allow her eyes to soft and close. As she inhales in, she's going to draw the breath all the way down into the deepest part of her lungs allowing the diaphragm to expand and push the belly out. As she exhales, she's going to draw her bellybutton into the spine to get read of all that stagnant still energy. Again inhaling, feeling the belly, and letting it expand and then exhaling, drawing the bellybutton into spine. Not only does this tone the belly, it teaches you how to do low abdominal breathing so we're not just up here in our chest with our fight or flight mode breathing all the time we learn to bring it all the way to the deepest part of your lungs. So sit in a comfortable position allow your eyes to soft and close and breathe only from the abdominal section of your lungs.

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