Namaste and Welcome to the Namaste Yoga.
My name is Surbhi. I am a Yoga Teacher.
First of all I would like to apologize
for my surroundings today. Because of the
Covid-19, all the kids are home
and this is the only area I could find
to shoot my video. In today's video I'm
going to talk about Ujjayi Breath.
Ujjayi Breath is very very effective for lots of
problems, if you have any thyroid problem
indigestion problem, if you have
migraine problem or low hemoglobin, even
if you snore at night regular practice
of Ujjayi Breath can help you in all of
these problems. The only thing is
sometimes Ujjayi Breath can be
difficult to get. It takes a lot of
practice to understand and start to do
this breath properly. So today we are
going to dissect Ujjayi Breath. So first
of all, how to do Ujjayi Breath. When you
breathe in Ujjayi, the breath should sound
like a Darth Vader or ocean sound or
sound of a breeze. So it will be
like this...
Now just making the sound is not the
whole part of breath. Where exactly
in the throat the air or the prana
is touching that is very important. So in
our throat we have a Glotus and
Ujjayi Breath actually strengthens
our Glotus muscle. So if you open your
mouth and breathe, there's a certain area
you should feel a little cold or you
should feel that the breath is touching
there. So just open your mouth and
breathe, so wherever you feel that area
where the breath is touching that is where
you should feel it, when you are
breathing in Ujjayi with closed mouth.
Because Ujjayi is not done with open
mouth, it should be done with closed mouth.
So once you get that where it should
touch the another important is: keep your
tongue behind your upper teeth. Like
that. So close your mouth and keep your
tongue behind the upper teeth and then
start to breathe. Like so
making that sound. You can adjust your
tongue sometimes it can be little higher,
it can be little lower based on whether
or not you are feeling it to that part
of the throat. The another important part
for Ujjayi Breath is that the breath should
not be taken quickly. Like..... No, it has to
be really slow, as long you can make it
as possible.
Try filling in your tummy first and then
go up towards your lung. It will increase
your breath or the time you take
the breath.
So I'm gonna show this to you
one time. I know it's really hard to show
it on video. Close your mouth, keep your
tongue behind your teeth and you have to
make sure that it touches a certain part
of your throat. So how slow you want
to go is like this........
That is one round of Ujjayi Breath. I would
recommend if you are practicing every
day, please you should do at least seven
to eleven rounds. Twice a day when you
are starting, so it starts taking effect
right away. If it is not possible for you
to do it twice a day, at least once a day
seven to eleven times. It is always a
good idea to do Ujjayi Breath after you
do your Kapalbati
and Bhastrika pranayama. I have made a
video before on both of these pranayamas.
I will put the link in the description below,
so you can check out how to do Kapalbati
and Bhastrika. But always do Ujjayi Breath
after those two pranayama. Because
then your body is prepared and your mind
is set into the breath. Because when you
are doing Ujjayi Breath it's really
important that your focus is on the
breath. I hope you enjoyed today's video.
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