Sentences with phrase «beginning pranayama»

For beginning pranayama students, it's best to focus only on the inhales and exhales.

Beginning pranayama students may have some difficulty holding their raised arm in position for the length of the practice.

That first exhalation — the cleansing breath — begins your pranayama practice.

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Held in a open, architecturally - designed space heated to 37 degrees — the temperature thought to dissolve the sensation of separateness from one's surroundings — each 60 minute class begins and ends with breathing exercises known as pranayama, gradually adding depth and complexity with each sequence and progressing to deeper stretching and strengthening in the energizing standing series.

I stood in the corner, suit, heals, pearls and all, and began some subtle yoga pranayama, or breathing exercises, in attempts to calm my mind through my breath (i.e. the essence of yoga).

After centering and pranayama, the asana practice begins.

Toward the beginning of practice, experiment with this pranayama either sitting or standing while holding the neutral spine you've created.

Ujayi pranayama slows down and evens out the breath so that inhale and exhale begin to smooth out in to one long cycle of breathing.

«Since the Ashtanga practice is very breath - oriented, in a sense you're doing a kind of pranayama from the moment you begin the practice,» says Tim Miller, who has been teaching this approach to yoga for more than two decades.

«I always begin my classes with 10 to 15 minutes of pranayama,» says Yoganand Michael Carroll, former director of advanced yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts.

To utilize Pranayama, begin by sitting comfortably with you legs crossed.

The classes usually begin with pranayama exercises and gentle stretches followed by asana practice and ending with final relaxation.

Through yogic practices and philosophy — asana, pranayama (breathwork), meditation — we begin to look at the world anew and experience the union of ourselves with everything.

Under his tutelage she began teaching asanas, pranayama, and meditation at yoga retreats in 1974.

From Mountain Pose, begin several rounds of Ujjayi Pranayama, with a slight constriction in the back of the throat.

It was fun for the most part Every morning would begin with Shatkarma (yogic cleansing practices), pranayama and meditation.

Placing your pranayama at the beginning of the practice is less effective since neither the body nor the breath are prepared for it adequately.

In Western contexts, diaphragmatic breathing is the most commonly known breathing technique but new scientific research is beginning to shed light on other pranayama techniques and their benefits.

It's a tale you hear over and over with yogis who have practiced for many years - the story of starting with the physical practice (asana) along with the breath (pranayama), then beginning to feel like something was missing or there was more to learn, so naturally moving towards education and observation of other limbs of the yogic tradition like meditation, and the yamas and niyamas.

If yoga to you is just a class every now and then (or every day for that matter) that is just a series of fun physical postures designed to burn some calories for the day, then challenge yourself to find a consistent, disciplined practice, complete with pranayama and quietness of your mind and see how you can begin to become more of a holistic yogi.

It wasn't until then that I began to practice pranayama and meditation more seriously — more because I didn't have a choice than because of a true calling.

This oneness begins with the asanas, postures that are practiced along with a meditative focus and carefully controlled breathing, or pranayama.