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Yoga Breathing and Pranayama #yogateachertraining #breathing #breathwork

20 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional video, the speaker emphasizes that many yoga practitioners misunderstand proper breathing. He explains that authentic yogic breath should be taken exclusively through the nose, arguing that nasal inhalation and exhalation activate the parasympathetic nervous system and suppress the sympathetic (fight‑or‑flight) response, leading to calm. Conversely, mouth breathing prevents parasympathetic activation. The video concludes with a call to follow the channel for more yoga content.

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Breathing is everything is a popular mantra in yoga, but there's a huge piece of that puzzle that everyone is missing. You see, people don't even know how to breathe in yoga. Yogic breath is in and out through the nose. Why? Because breathing in and out through the nose gets us out of the sympathetic nervous system, which is our fight or flight response, and it moves us into our parasympathetic nervous system so that we can experience calm. When you're mouth breathing, your parasympathetic nervous system never has a chance to turn on. Follow for all the yoga.