Namaste and Welcome to Namaste Yoga.
My name is Surbhi. I am a Yoga Teacher.
The Goal of my Channel is to tell you
all those little tips and tricks that
many Yoga teachers know
but somehow in class setting
they do not get conveyed to the students.
As summers are here and sometimes it can be really hard
to control our body temperature.
People feel hot, if the A/C is not available.
Its really hard for everyone to keep up
with cooling ourselves down.
So today's video is going to be
about how we can control our body temperature.
Either hot or warm.
Our body has an amazing mechanism of
controlling our body temperature.
When we breathe, we do not breathe from both of the nostrils at the same time.
Our body automatically switches from left to right.
If you just keep your finger underneath your nose,
and, breathe out or exhale.
You will feel that one of the nostril is dominant than the other.
The right side of our body is Sun,
and the left side is Moon.
In yogic principles, the right side is Pingala,
and the left side is Ida.
So when we breathe from our right nostril,
our body temperature rises.
And when we breathe from our left nostril,
our body temperature cools down.
So we can use the Pranayama techniques
to control our body temperature.
Breathing from the right nostril is really useful during winters,
or diseases like cold, asthma,
arthritis, bronchitis.
In all of these diseases, if we breathe from our right nostril,
it will really help to increase our body temperature.
Now, there is a special technique on how to do that. I will be showing you now.
Hold on to your left nostril, close your left.
And breathe in from your right, count to 4 or to 10,
however much you are comfortable with. So inhale 2-3-4
then hold your breath and count to 8.
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
Then exhale from your right and count to four 1-2-3-4.
Now inhale count to four 1-2-3-4.
Hold count to 8. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
Exhale count to 4. 1-2-3-4.
In 2-3-4, Hold 2-3-4-5-6-7-8.
Out 2-3-4, In 2-3-4.
Hold 2-3-4-5-6-7-8.
Out 2-3-4.
So this is the technique that you inhale
then you hold your breath longer than the time you inhale.
Approximately double the time, and then you exhale.
So, continue this from your right only,
for 8-10 times.
It will definitely increase your body temperature.
And the same thing when we want to activate our Moon side, or Ida side.
When we breathe from our left nostril, we cool our body temperature down.
This is very helpful when you have fever.
So same technique, inhale for 4 to 10,
however long you can inhale for
Then hold your breath longer than the time you inhale.
And exhale from your left.
So hold your right nostril,
And do the same technique that I showed you
Inhale 2-3-4.
Hold 2-3-4-5-6-7-8.
Out 2-3-4.
In 2-3-4
Hold 2-3-4-5-6-7-8.
Out 2-3-4.
During summer if you have sun stroke or fever,
Breathe in from the left nostril using the same technique
and your body will cool down.
Breathing can also be controlled by lying down.
In India we say that after having your lunch
or dinner, lie down on your left.
Which means that your left hand is at the bottom
So lie down on the your side, on your left,
It will activate the sun side, which is the nostril.
And when we breathe right nostril,
our body temperature increases,
helping us to digest our food better.
So when you are lying down, you don't have to do the practice per say
just lie down for 10-15 minutes,
and it will help you to digest your food.
And the same thing when you are lying down on your right side,
When you have fever it is really helpful
to lie down on the right side.
So it cools down your body temperature
because it activates your Ida side or moon side
which is the left side of the body.
Whenever next time you feel like you need to cool your body down.
Or you need to warm up your body, use these tricks
and let me know if they were really helpful.
I hope you enjoyed the video today.
I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Day.
Namaste.