Yoga Breathing Exercises

Breathing Exercise is also known as Pranayama. Pranayama is an aspect of Yoga, that deals with breathing. Pranayama is a method of controlling prana or life force through the regulation of breathing. It is the breathing process or the control of the motion of inhalation, exhalation and the retention of vital energy. You can also watch the following Breathing exercises video's by Swami Ramdev

Following Pranayama exercises can be practiced everyday:

1. Kapal-Bhati Pranayam
   Procedure: Push air forcefully out. Stomach will itself go in.
   Duration: Start with 30 times or 1 min. increase upto 5 mins min. upto 10 mins max.
   Benefits: aabha, tej, obesity, constipation, gastric, acidity, Croesus(liver), hepatitis B, uterus, diabetes, stomach problems, cholesterol, allergic problems, asthma, snoring, concentration, and even cancer and AIDS.
   Tips: heart and high BP patients, and weak people do it slowly.

2. Anulom Vilom Pranayam
   Procedure: Hold your right nasal with thumb, breathe in from left. Now open right nasal and close left nasal with middle and ring finger and breathe out from right nasal. Now breathe in from right nasal. Now close right nasal and open left and breathe out and in from left nasal. and so on.
   Duration: atleast 10 mins.
   Benefits: heart, high BP, heart blockage, vat-cuf-pit, arthritis, cartilage, bent ligaments, sinual fluid reduced, parkinson, paralysis, neural related, depression, migraine pain, asthma, sinus, allergy
   Tips: breathe into lungs not to stomach. no organ in stomach absorb oxygen. Do not hurry. Do it slowly. Rest whenever needed (in any pranayam).

3. Bhramri Pranayam
   Procedure: Close ears with thumb, index finger on forehead, and rest three on base of nose touching eyes. Breathe in. And now breathe out through nose while humming like a bee.
   Duration: 10 mins
   Benefits: tension, hypertension, high BP, heart, heart blockage, paralysis, migraine pain, confidence, concentration.
   

4. Udgeeth Pranayam
   Procedure: Breathe in deeply, and chant 'Om'kar. OOOOm ( long O and small m )
   Duration: 10 mins or more
   Benefits: Meditation.
   

5. Bhastrika Pranayam
   Procedure: Take deep breaths and then completely breathe out.
   Duration: 2 mins atleast. 5 mins max.
   Benefits: heart, lungs, brain, depression, migraine, paralysis, neural system.
   

6. Baharya Pranayam
   Procedure: Breathe air out, touch chin to chest, squeeze stomach completely and hold for a while. then release chin, breathe in slowly.
   Duration: 3 times to 5 times normally. max upto 11 times. and extremely max upto 21 times (in winters).
   Benefits: stomach(udar), hernia, urinal, uterus
   Tips: not for heart and high BP patients