Relaxation Position in Hatha Yoga

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So, please watch and I will demonstrate the yoga breathing. I will first demonstrate your yoga relaxation position on the floor, which is also a very powerful position. Yoga relaxation position on the floor, feet are open wider than your hips, arms are open a little bit wider than your feet, palms up. Now to bring yourself into alignment you lift your head up, you bring your chin into your chest, and then you roll the neck down. So this will bring your body into alignment and allow you to benefit mostly from your breathing exercises. So the first part of this breath, starts in your lower abdominals, is a three-part breath, then it moves up to the rib cage, and it moves up, holding it for a split second and then we exhale the breath down. So the breath is inhaled up and exhaled down. And as I showed you before, the breath comes from a muscle in the back of your throat called the glottis muscle, so your mouth is closed, your tongue moves to the roof of the mouth which is a very natural way to breathe and if you notice your, your mouth is probably in that position anyway only you’re just not totally aware of it. So I’m going to start this breath and a good way to feel this breath, and learn this breath, is first you place your hand, fingers touching, right around where your belly button is, and so the first part of the breath, taken in the lower abdominals, you push your abdominals out as you take the breath. So it looks like this. Did you see how my fingers came apart? So this is where I would like you to try also, lying down on the floor, getting in your nice alignment, yoga relaxation position, placing fingers, tallest fingers touching and you’re going to, as you inhale, you push it out, that breath is down here whether you realize it or not, that breath is starting down here.

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