Yoga Breath Blog

A practice of yoga breath exercises and yoga postures can help you if you suffer from back pain. It is unfortunate how many people suffer from backaches regularly.  It can limit your ability to move and impair your enjoyment of life.  Too little exercise can cause an increase in back pain, which in turn causes [...]

Here are some instructions for a yoga breath exercise called the “Deep Yoga Breath.”
As with all pranayama yoga sessions, you should prepare yourself by eliminating as many distractions as possible.  Go to the bathroom if you need to.  Put on a sweater if you are chilly.
When you are ready, sit in a comfortable [...]

Here is an easy way to bring quiet and calm into your daily routine.
Slow down. Just stop rushing.
Slow down and breathe.
It is easy to get wrapped up in the bustle of life, especially if you live and work in a city.  You take on the stresses and urgency of others and you become stressed and [...]

Yoga means “union” and refers to the union of body and mind.  The practice of yoga has benefits both for the body and the mind and improves both physical and mental health.
First of all, the practice of yoga relieves stress.  Many diseases experienced in modern day America are caused or influenced by stress.  So [...]

One reason people give for not having an active practice doing the yoga breath, or pranayama yoga, is that it takes too much time.  Well, the exercises that I suggest in my free mini-course only take a couple of minutes to do at first.  But putting aside those couple of minutes takes some commitment.  And [...]

Part of the practice of yoga breath includes physical exercises to strengthen the body so that you can engage in pranayama yoga and meditation without fatigue.  The Sun Salutation  is a classic physical exercise of yoga. It is a great way to start the day.  I do the Sun Salutation three or four times when [...]

Breathing is an involuntary function of the brain stem.  You don’t have to think about it.  You just do it.  That may be why so many of us do it mindlessly.  The yoga breath, or pranayama yoga, aims to bring mindfulness to your breathing.
The aim of pranayama yoga is, first, to become conscious of your [...]

Before I practiced pranayama yoga, I would often feel stressed or anxious.  Sometimes (but only sometimes) it would occur to me to stop and take a few deep breaths.  A sense of centered calmness would start to embrace me almost immediately.  I think now that I was so detached from my breath that even the [...]

Have you ever heard of pranayama yoga, or the yoga breath, and wondered what it was?
Pranayama yoga, or the yoga breath, is the type of yoga that is dedicated to breath control.  The word “pranayama” is a compound word consisting of two Sanskrit words, “prana” and “yama.”  “Yama” means “control.”  So, “prana” must mean “breath,” [...]